Wajechi

Jacob blesses Joseph's sons (after a painting by Rembrandt , 1656)

Wajechi ( Biblical Hebrew וַיְחִי 'And he lived' - to be added: Jacob in the land of Egypt) denotes a reading section (called Parascha or Sidra) of the Torah and includes the text Genesis / Bereschit 47.28–50.26 (47.28–31 BHS , 48 BHS , 49 BHS , 50 BHS ).

It is the cider of the 2nd or 3rd Shabbat in the month of Tevet .

Essential content

Jacob urges Joseph to be buried with his fathers in Canaan , apologizes for burying his mother Rahel on the way, blesses him in his descendants and determines that these grandchildren will be put on an equal footing with his sons, with the result that the tribe Joseph falls into two tribes.
Jacob stipulates the blessing in Israel as follows: "God make you like Ephraim and Menashe " and thus places the younger above the older.
Jacob blesses each of the sons before his death and rebukes Reuben , Simon and Levi .
Jacob's body is embalmed and buried in the Machpelah cave .
After the father's death, the brothers fear Joseph's vengeance, but Joseph promises them to provide for them and their children permanently.
Joseph dies at the age of 110 after imploring his brothers that their descendants should take his body with them when they leave Egypt .

Haftara

The associated Haftara is 1 Kings 2 : 1–12 BHS .

literature

David Sander: Wajechi . In: Jewish Lexicon . tape IV / 2 . Jewish publishing house, Berlin 1927, Sp. 1283 .
Sidratext Bereschit / Genesis 47.28-50.26. after the Codex L . In: tanach.us. Retrieved October 7, 2017 .
Haftaratext 1 Kgs 2,1-12. according to the Codex L. In: tanach.us. Retrieved October 7, 2017 .

Web links

Konstantin Pal: Wajechi. Little brother - great inheritance. In: ark.de. General Rabbinical Conference, January 5, 2018, accessed April 28, 2018 .
Elisa Klapheck : Wajechi. Father-Daughter Relationships - Mother-Daughter Relationships. In: ark.de. General Rabbinical Conference, December 21, 2013, accessed April 28, 2018 .
Salomon Almekias-Siegl: Wajechi. The place of the grave. In: ark.de. General Rabbinical Conference, December 21, 2018, accessed December 21, 2018 .

Individual evidence

↑ Hanna Liss: Tanach - Textbook of the Jewish Bible . 3. Edition. Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH, Heidelberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-8253-5904-1 , p. 55 (414 pp.).

[1] Hanna Liss: Tanach - Textbook of the Jewish Bible . 3. Edition. Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH, Heidelberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-8253-5904-1 , p. 55 (414 pp.).