Torah Portion Week 7 Vayetze Study notes 2022

ah Portion Week 7 – Vayetze “and he left”

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 https://sacred-texts.com/bib/boe/boe012.htm

• Book of the luminaries describe 12 gates to heaven (much like N.J.)
• 104:1-6 https://sacred-texts.com/bib/boe/boe108.htm
• 3 Maccabees 6 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=3+maccabees+6%3A1-30&version=RSV (philopator king of the Seleucids)

Ascending/Descending(John 1:51) https://classic.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=john+1%3A51&version=KJV

Targums 28:13-17 https://parableofthevineyard.com/wp-content/uploads/Torah-Targums-Genesis-Final.pdf

• Beneath the throne? Jerusalem is the center of the nations https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=eze+5%3A5&version=NASB

Dreams: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=num+12%3A5-6%2C+deut+13%3A1-5%2C+jer+23%3A16-32&version=KJV

• Sirach https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=sirach+34%3A1-7&version=RSV

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29:12 – Reflect on 20:12 –  (Look ahead to 29:15) https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2020:12&version=KJV

• Jasher 9:1-3 https://sacred-texts.com/chr/apo/jasher/9.htm

29:13 – “Told him all these things”  Read Jasher 30:9-11

https://sacred-texts.com/chr/apo/jasher/30.htm

• Targums 29:13

29:17 – They were twins! Jasher 28:28 https://sacred-texts.com/chr/apo/jasher/28.htm

29:20 – Value of women (not an afterthought) 1 Esdras 4 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+esdras+4%3A13-41&version=RSV

29:24 – The switch; read Jasher 31:1-10

https://sacred-texts.com/chr/apo/jasher/31.htm

29:25-26 – Jacob didn’t refuse Leah (knew Torah)

29:29-30 – Jubilees 28:8-10 http://www.pseudepigrapha.com/jubilees/28.htm

Targum: 29:9-10, 12, 22, 31,

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30:1 – Be careful of what we speak https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=gen+31%3A32%2CGenesis+35%3A16-18%2C+matt+12%3A36-37%2C+pro+18%3A21%2C+&version=KJV

• Yahuah honors the words that come from the prophet’s mouth (Elijah, Noah etc..)

30:2-3 – Much like Sarah with Hagar (hasty?)

30:14-16 – Mandrake story – Issachar 1 https://sacred-texts.com/bib/fbe/fbe281.htm

30:22 – Rachel’s womb opens – Jasher 31:19-21 https://sacred-texts.com/chr/apo/jasher/31.htm

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 would be fewer in number and not as desirable

30:37 – Commentary reads that what they fixated their eyes on during copulation, their seed would bear the resemblance.

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31:29 – https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=ps+91%3A1-4&version=KJV

31:32 – Remind about words

31:35 – Why she stole the images – Jasher 31:40-44 https://sacred-texts.com/chr/apo/jasher/31.htm

Targums: Read 4^th Paragraph,

31:55 – Read Jasher 31:53- 64

Laban, grandfather of Balaam? Jasher 30:18 https://sacred-texts.com/chr/apo/jasher/30.htm

• https://www.blueletterbible.org/search/search.cfm?Criteria=balaam+pethor&t=KJV&ss=1#s=s_primary_0_1

32:2 – Mahanaim – Two camps