Parshat VaYetzei One of the famous scenes in this week’s Torah reading is Yakov’s dream of the Angels ascending and descending a ladder placed on the ground and whose top is somewhere in the heavens. And one of the most famous interpretations of this dream is provided in the Midrash: The angels represent different nations, [...]
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Was Yakov and Accountant?
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Back to the Future: Why Row Row Row Your Boat Sounds Better in Hebrew
Posted in Torah Portions, tagged toldot, yakov, yitzchak on Friday, December 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Torah tells us that Yitzchak re-dug many of the same wells that his father Avraham had dug in his lifetime, an act necessitated by the fact that these earlier wells were filled in by the local inhabitants in the interim. The Torah seems to emphasize the importance of these acts by having Yitzchak actually [...]
