Wajischlach

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Jacob's battle with the angel, depicted by Gustave Doré (1855)

Wajischlach ( Biblical Hebrew וַיִּשְׁלַח 'And he = Jacob sent' ) denotes a reading section (called Parascha or Sidra) of the Torah and includes the text Gen / Bereschit 32.4–36.43 (32.4–33 BHS , 33 BHS , 34 BHS , 35 BHS , 36 bras )

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

Essential content

  • The messengers that Jacob sends to Esau report that Esau is going to meet him with 400 men.
  • Jacob, plagued by fear, prays for salvation, sends the Esau gifts in abundance to appease him, crosses the river Jabbok , fights all night with a heavenly being and is therefore given the name Israel ("warrior of God").
  • Jakob limps as a result of a blow to the hip socket .
  • Reconciliation with Esau and on to Hivite Shechem , where his daughter Dina is raped by the prince's son Shechem, who, with Jacob's consent , wants to legitimately take her as his wife through a morning gift
  • Jacob's sons make the circumcision of all males a condition, which is also fulfilled.
  • Nevertheless, three days later , Simon and Levi slain Shechem and all the boys and men in the city, who they then plundered completely, which arouses Jacob's anger
  • Jacob again in Bet-El
  • Rachel dies at Benjamin's birth on the way to Efrata ( Bethlehem ) .
  • Isaac dies at the age of 180.
  • List of the descendants of Esau or Edom as well as the kings who ruled Edom "before a king ruled in Israel "

Haftara

The associated Haftarah after Ashkenazic rite Hosea 11.7 to 12.12 (11.7 to 11 EU , from 12.1 to 12 EU ), according sefardischem rite Obadiah 1.1 to 21  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. 50 (414 pp.).