Wajigasch

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Joseph is recognized by his brothers (Léon Pierre Urbain Bourgeois, 1863)

Wajigasch ( Biblical Hebrew וַיִּגַּשׁ 'And he = Judah stepped over' ) denotes a reading section (called Parascha or Sidra) of the Torah and includes the text Genesis / Bereschit 44.18–47.27 (44.18–34 BHS , 45 BHS , 46 BHS , 47, 1-27 BBB ). It is the cider of the 1st or 2nd Shabbat in the month of Tevet .

Essential content

  • Judah points out the suffering that would affect the father Jacob if Benjamin , the youngest brother, did not return to him, and asks to be allowed to serve Joseph instead of him as a slave .
  • Josef lets all strangers leave the room and, while crying loudly, reveals himself to his brothers, whom he, richly endowed with presents, lets go home to fetch their father.
  • Jacob comes to Egypt with his extended family, is received by the king and blesses him.
  • Jakob and his family received the land of Goschen as their place of residence.
  • During the famine against grain, Joseph purchases Egyptian land for the Pharaoh , and a fifth of the income is to be given to the Pharaoh. Only the priests retain their property.

Haftara

The associated Haftara is Ezekiel 37.15-28  EU .

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Individual evidence

  1. Hanna Liss: Tanach - Textbook of the Jewish Bible . 3. Edition. Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH, Heidelberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-8253-5904-1 , p. 54 (414 pp.).