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muman613:
Shalom JTF Members,

This week has gone by so quickly. Today I took the day off for a dentist visit and feel a lot better now. It has been a busy week and yet I strive to start studying the weekly portion by Wednesday (although it is the custom to learn an aliyah each day during the week).

This week's portion contains many memorable events including the dream of Jacob, of the angels descending and ascending on a ladder into the heavens. The story of the duplicity and trickery employed by the wicked Laban, tricking Jacob into marrying Leah when he worked for seven years to marry Rachel. He was then required to work another seven years to marry his true love, Rachel. This entire episode teaches us about our relationship with the women in our lives, our wives.

The story of the development of the 12 tribes of Jacob, who will be renamed Israel by the angel which he wrestled with. The story of the birth of Joseph is important in the furthering of Jewish history.


Chabad's Parsha in a Nutshell :

http://www.chabad.org/parshah/article_cdo/aid/3191/jewish/Vayeitzei-in-a-Nutshell.htm


--- Quote ---Jacob leaves his hometown of Beersheba and journeys to Charan. On the way, he encounters “the place” and sleeps there, dreaming of a ladder connecting heaven and earth, with angels climbing and descending on it; G‑d appears and promises that the land upon which he lies will be given to his descendants. In the morning, Jacob raises the stone on which he laid his head as an altar and monument, pledging that it will be made the house of G‑d.

In Haran, Jacob stays with and works for his uncle Laban, tending Laban’s sheep. Laban agrees to give him his younger daughter, Rachel—whom Jacob loves—in marriage, in return for seven years’ labor. But on the wedding night, Laban gives him his elder daughter, Leah, instead—a deception Jacob discovers only in the morning. Jacob marries Rachel, too, a week later, after agreeing to work another seven years for Laban.

Leah gives birth to six sons—Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar and Zebulun—and a daughter, Dinah, while Rachel remains barren. Rachel gives Jacob her handmaid, Bilhah, as a wife to bear children in her stead, and two more sons, Dan and Naphtali, are born. Leah does the same with her handmaid, Zilpah, who gives birth to Gad and Asher. Finally, Rachel’s prayers are answered and she gives birth to Joseph.

Jacob has now been in Charan for fourteen years, and wishes to return home. But Laban persuades him to remain, now offering him sheep in return for his labor. Jacob prospers, despite Laban’s repeated attempts to swindle him. After six years, Jacob leaves Charan in stealth, fearing that Laban would prevent him from leaving with the family and property for which he labored. Laban pursues Jacob, but is warned by G‑d in a dream not to harm him. Laban and Jacob make a pact on Mount Gal-Ed, attested to by a pile of stones, and Jacob proceeds to the Holy Land, where he is met by angels.
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Let us start with a new video posted by Rabbi Finkelstein of Congregation Anshe Sefard Beth El Emet...

muman613:
Now let us hear Rabbi Richman's talk on this portion:

muman613:
I love to hear what Rabbi Machlis in Jerusalem says on the Torah portion.

muman613:
Our honorable leader of JTF, Chaim Ben Pesach's incredible dvar Torah on Vayetzei...

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Rabbi Shlomo Katz has been giving a lecture on the weekly portion for WebYeshiva... Here is his latest posting.

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