In the previous parashah, we talked about how the people asked Moshe to be an intermediary between them and the Almighty. Moshe went up Mount Sinai and stayed there 40 days and nights. In the parashah of Terumah (“Offering”), we read the instructions that the Almighty gave to Moshe concerning the
The second book of the Torah, Shemot, “Names,” talks about the stay of the descendants of Yaakov in Egypt, which lasted 210 years. During the last
Yaakov returns to his native land. Here, he will meet with his twin brother Eisav—and Yaakov has every reason to believe that Eisav wants to kill
The parashah of Vayeitzei (“And [Yaakov] departed”) begins with Yaakov heading to Charan, to Lavan the Aramean, the brother of his mother Rivkah, in
