What Is Your Legacy?

What will your legacy be?

Maybe it will be how successful you were in your career. Or maybe it will be how much you loved your family.

In today’s episode, host Yael Eckstein turns to the Bible to show how we can leave behind a strong legacy of faith. When we prioritize doing good deeds and supporting the people in our lives in positive ways, we create a lasting impact that reaches far beyond our own lifetime.

Every day is a chance to create a legacy of faith that will impact generations to come—and today’s episode will show you how.

And listen to more of Yael’s Bible teachings on her new podcast, The Chosen People.

Episode Notes:

On today’s podcast, Yael focuses on one particular Bible verse—Genesis 49:33:

“When Jacob had finished giving instructions to his sons, he drew his feet up into the bed, breathed his last and was gathered to his people.”

Here we read about Jacob’s death—even if the word “death,” which is usually used in the Bible to describe someone’s passing, doesn’t appear in the verse at all.

Even though Scripture describes Jacob’s death, the deeper truth is that even after he died, Jacob lived on through the legacy he left to his children and to future generations.

In this episode, Yael looks to her father—Fellowship Founder Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, of blessed memory—as an example of what it means to leave behind a legacy of faith. She shares how he is still very much alive in her heart—whether it’s seeing him in the faces of her own children, or in the ministry he left behind in The Fellowship.

The same can be true for each of us. Even after we leave this world, we continue to be a part of it through the lives that we touch while we are here.