Vayeitzei: For Love of Leah
The love between Jacob and Rachel was love at first sight. This is revealed love: Rachel is “beautiful of form and beautiful of appearance”, and...
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Gematria Shorts for Vayeitzei 5783
The value of the names of the four holy cities of the Land of Israel—Yerushalayim, Hebron, Tzefat, and Tiberias (יְרוּשָׁלַיִם חֶבְרוֹן צְפַת טְבֶרְיָה)—is 1644, which...
Never Fear
Jacob’s response to his dream of the ladder is fear: “And he was afraid and he said, how awesome is this place” (Genesis 28:17)....
Leaving the land of Israel: The patriarchs and the land of Israel
Leaving the land of Israel A Chassidic insight on the Torah portions of Vayeitzei and Vayishlach The Lubavitcher Rebbe spoke many times of the...
Parashat Vayeitzei: Jacob’s Two Wives
Rachel and Leah represent two different perspectives. Jacob needed both to build his home. Excerpted from the soon-to-be-published book by Rabbi Ginsburgh, "The Inner Dimension."...
Parshat Vayeitzei: Hamakom
Hamakom Let us continue to focus on the word “in the place” במקום , but this time we will begin with a theological perspective. One of the...
Parhsat Vayeitzei: The Place
In this article, we will take a look at a number of mathematical findings related to the three instances of “in the place” במקום that appear at...
Parshat Vayeitzei: Worlds, Souls, and Divinity in the Parshah
Worlds, Souls, and Divinity The second word of the second verse is “in the place,” במקום . We have already mentioned that this place was where Isaac...
Parshat Vayeitzei: The Torah's Seventh Parshah
The Firstborn Tribes Parshat Vayeitzei is the seventh parshah in the Torah and all sevenths are endeared. In our parshah we read about the birth of 11 of the 12 sons...
