Vayishlach
Wajischlach (Hebrew וישלח, "And he = Jacob sent " ) refers to a reading portion ( Parasha or Sidra called ) comprises the Torah and the text gene / Bereshit 32.4 to 36.43.
It is the Sidra of the 2nd or 3rd Sabbath of the month of Kislev.
Gist
- The messengers that Jacob sent to Esau contrary, report that Esau contrary pulls him with 400 men.
- Jacob, plagued by fear, pray for salvation, sends Esau to appease gifts in excess exceeds the river Jabbok, fighting all night with a celestial beings and therefore receives the name Israel ( " warriors of God ").
- As a result of a blow to the acetabulum lags Jacob.
- Reconciliation with Esau and Weiterzug to Shechem, where his daughter Dinah is raped by Shechem, son of a prince who wants to take it with Jacob's consent legitimate by morning gift to wife
- Jacob's sons, the circumcision of all males the condition, which is also met.
- Nevertheless, Simon and Levi killed three days later to Shechem, and all the boys and men of the city, which they then looted completely empty, which aroused anger of Jacob
- Jacob again in Bet -El
- On the way to Ephrath ( Bethlehem ), Rachel died at Benjamin's birth.
- Isaac dies at the age of 180 years.
- Listing of the descendants of Esau or Edom, and of the kings that reigned in Edom, " before a king reigned in Israel "
Haftorah
The corresponding Haftorah is by Ashkenazic rite Hosea 11.7 to 12.12, after sefardischem rite Obadiah 1.1 to 21.