Torah Portion Week 11 & 12 – Vayigash and Vayechi (24-25)
Gen 44:18-50:26
Last week: joseph rises to power, the 10 go to Egypt to buy food, joseph tests them, then places the cup in benjamin’s sack – they return to egypt
44)
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45)
45:1-3 (Optional) Read Jasher account 53:31 – 54:73 (read 54:55-73 livestream)
45:5-7 – Testament of Benjamin 3:6-4:5
- Forgive and you’ll be forgiven (mercy) Matt 6:14-15
45:8 – Turning a purpose of evil for good Gen 50:20
- Even if the world comes against us, what is to fear? (Ps 3, Is 8, Rev 17, Sirach 2)
45: End – Jasher 54:91 – 55:1
46)
46:4 – Think of all those years Jacob prayed to Yahuah about Joseph (going unanswered)
– Luke 18
- “I will go down with you”!! Is 46
46:29 – Jasher 55:8-15
- The reception of Jacob – Isaiah 55 & Zeph 3
47)
47:9 – Hard life – Book of the Natsarim 10:44 (pg 107)
3:19-20 (pg 37)
3:49-50 (pg 43)
4:28-30 (pg 48)
9:56-63 (pg 96)
47:12 – Think of the famine and migration into America, end times Egypt. 2 Esdras
- Famine of the word brought men and women into this country
47:20 – Take a lesson from this, be prepared Proverbs 27:12
47:26 – The same law exists today in Egypt
47 Week 12
Jasher 56:1-4 https://sacred-texts.com/chr/apo/jasher/56.htm
48)
48:15 – Matt 6:33
48:16 – Angel who redeems – Many verses
48:19 – Meloha Goyim – Fullness of the gentiles – Rom 11:25
49)
Reuben – Targums 49:3-4
Simeon & Levi
- Levi was scattered throughout the land of inheritance
Judah
- Judah didn’t have the greatest start (but finished well).
- YHWH selected him to be king even with his faults
- Jasher 56:8-9 (cross reference with 2 Sam 1:18)
“Kings shall not cease from the house of Jehuda, nor sapherimteaching the Torah from his children’s children, until the time that the KingMashiak shall come, whose is the kingdom, and to whom all the kingdoms ofthe earth shall be obedient. How beauteous is the King Mashiak, who is toarise from the house of Jehuda” – Aramaic
Zebulon
Issachar
Dan – Sampson (16) and warfare tactics (17)?
Asher
Naphtali
Joseph
- Why a fruitful branch? Ps 1
- Testament of Joseph 1:5-17
Benjamin
“Benjamin I will liken him to a ravening wolf. In his limits will the
sanctuary be built, and in his inheritance the glory of the Presence of Yahuah
will dwell. In the morning will the priests offer the continual lamb and
its oblations, and at the going down of the sun will the priests offer the
continual lamb and its oblations, and at evening divide the offerings of the
sons of Yashar’El” – Aramaic
End, read Jasher 56:10-14
50)
50:21 – Forgiveness – Matt 6
Read Jasher 58:1-13 & 30, 59:20-end
(Jasher 57 wars between Esau and Jacob in Egypt – Setting the stage for the future)
Culminating Genesis: This is our true origins and history lessons. Where we came from and how the world was created – sin, the flood, idolatry, wickedness and the consequences thereof.
