Wajera

The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah ( John Martin's painting ) , 1852

Wajera ( Biblical Hebrew וַיֵּרָא 'And it appeared' - to be added: God) designates a reading section ( Parascha or Sidra) of the Torah and comprises the text Genesis / Bereschit 18–22 (18 BHS , 19 BHS , 20 BHS , 21 BHS , 22 BHS ).

It is the cider of the 3rd Shabbat in the month of Marcheschwan .

Essential content

Three angels entertained by Abraham announce the birth of a son to Sarah
Abraham asks to spare the city of Sodom and bargains with God
The two angels who come to Lot in Sodom and are hospitable there are to be handed over to the Sodomites
Lot, his wife and two daughters flee before the city is destroyed by the fiery sulfur rain
Lot's wife looks back and freezes to the pillar of salt
In the cave of Zoar, Lot, intoxicated by the wine of his daughters, fathered a son with each daughter: Moab and Ammon , the ancestors of the tribes of the same name
In the land of the Philistines , as in Egypt , Abraham presents Sarah as his sister
Isaac's birth, circumcision, and weaning
The Hagar and their son Ishmael are expelled at Sarah's request
In the desert, an angel shows Hagar a well, from which she is watering the child who is dying of thirst
Alliance of the Philistine King with Abraham
After the number seven - Abraham gives Abimelech seven lambs for the well - the city is named Be'er Scheva (play on words with "Siebenbrunnen" and "Oathbrunnen")
To put Abraham to the test, God commands him to sacrifice his son Isaac in the land of Moria (" Akeda ")
An angel of the Lord intervenes and prevents the sacrifice
List of the descendants of Nahor , the brother of Abraham

The associated Haftara in the Ashkenazi region is 2 Kings 4.1–37 BHS . In the Sephardic Rite, 2 Kings 4 : 1–23 BHS is read.

David Sander: WAJERA . In: Jewish Lexicon . tape IV / 2 . Jewish publishing house, Berlin 1927, Sp. 1285 f . ( uni-frankfurt.de ).
Sidratext Bereschit / Genesis 18.1-22.24. after the Codex L . In: tanach.us. Retrieved October 7, 2017 .
Haftaratext 2 Kings 4.1–37. according to the Codex L. In: tanach.us. Retrieved October 7, 2017 .

Salomon Almekias-Siegl: Wajera - fruits of selflessness. In: ark.de. General Rabbinical Conference, November 24, 2017, accessed April 28, 2018 .
Daniel Alter: Wajera - goodness or violence. In: ark.de. General Rabbinical Conference, November 25, 2016, accessed December 21, 2018 .
William Wolff : Wajera - Serious Concerns. In: ark.de. General Rabbinical Conference, November 14, 2014, accessed December 21, 2018 .
Moshe Navon: Wajera - hardening to disillusionment. In: ark.de. General Rabbinical Conference, January 18, 2013, accessed December 21, 2018 .
Tom Kučera: Wajera - buy time. In: ark.de. General Rabbinical Conference, November 7, 2015, accessed December 21, 2018 .

↑ Hanna Liss: Tanach - Textbook of the Jewish Bible . 3. Edition. Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH, Heidelberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-8253-5904-1 , p. 38 (414 pp.).