Torah Portion Week 7 – Vayetze “and he left” (24/25)
Jacob’s dream (ladder), Jacob marries Leah and Rachel, The trials with Laban
Gen 28:10-32:3
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28:10-17 – The Ladder
Gate of Heaven Enoch 9:1-2, 10
- Book of the luminaries describe 12 gates to heaven (much like N.J.)
- Enoch 104:1-6
- 3 Maccabees 6 (philopator king of the Seleucids)
- Ascending/Descending (John 1:51)
- (Aramaic) Says ‘beneath the throne’ Ezekiel 5:5
Dreams (in general) – Num 12, Deut 13 & Others
It’s interesting YHWH appeared to Jacob right after the ‘stolen’ blessing and had zero reproof for him.
28:18 – Stones set up, oil poured
- Verses
- Valuable, a sign of sacrifice to YHWH (2 Kings 4:1-7)
- What does YHWH want from us?
28: End – Jacob fulfills this vow in Gen 35
- Vows – Ecc 5:4-6
- Serving YHWH and provisions (Matt 6:25-33)
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29:1-4 – The well imagery again (last week refresher) – verses
- Natsarim 9:16-19 (pdf pg 89) (flame/well parallel)
29:12 – I love this man of YHWH, so passionate!
29:13 – “Told him all these things” Jasher 30:9-11
- What Eliphaz did (Jasher 29:31-40)
- (Robbed by Eliphaz)
- This is why Jacob came with nothing and had to work in servitude for his wife
- This is why Jacob came with nothing and had to work in servitude for his wife
29:17 – They were twins! Jasher 28:28
29:20 – Value of a righteous wife (Sirach 25 & 26)
29:24 – The switch; read Jasher 31:1-10
29:25-26 – Jacob didn’t refuse Leah (knew Torah)
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30:1 – Be careful of what we speak (Matt 12 & Pro 18)
30:2-3 – Much like Sarah with Hagar (hasty?)
- Anger and envy are in the home
30:14-16 – Mandrake story – Issachar 1:3-23
30:22 – Rachel’s womb opens – Jasher 31:19-21
30:30 – Just like the USA blessed by his people (just like Egypt in times past)
30:33 – He’s chosen the speckled and spotted once again in the last days
- Speckled and spotted less desirable (white wool)
- Jacob over Esau,
- Joseph over older brothers,
- Ephraim over Manasseh,
- David over taller brothers.
- Verses
- Reestablishing verses
- Reestablishing verses
30:37 – Commentary reads that what they fixated their eyes on during copulation, their seed would bear the resemblance.
- Deeper spiritual concept behind this for our generation
30:39 – This is the increase from YHWH – (Matt 5:36)
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31:11-13 – Who is this? (Angel of YHWH article)
- Quick references – verses
31:19 – Teraphim (idol gods)
31:29 – Psalm 91, YHWH has his people
31:32 – Remind about words (especially from a prophet)
31:35 – Why she stole the images – Jasher 31:40-44
- Laban, grandfather of Balaam? Jasher 30:18
- From the same region – link
31:39 – Torah releases a man of this responsibility, yet Jacob goes above and beyond
(Exo 22:10-13) – Much like eye for an eye, yet we can be even more gracious to each other.
31:47 – Yegar Sahadutha – Witness heap
- Galeed – Heap of witness
32:2 – Mahanaim – Two camps
- We will find out that Laban betrays Jacob by sending for Esau right after this covenant.