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 .
literature
- David Sander: WAJISCHLACH . In: Jewish Lexicon . tape IV / 2 . Jewish publishing house, Berlin 1927, Sp. 1288 f . ( uni-frankfurt.de ).
- Sidratext Bereschit / Genesis 32.4-36.43. after the Codex L . In: tanach.us. Retrieved October 7, 2017 .
- Haftaratext Hosea 11.7-12.12. according to the Codex L. In: tanach.us. Retrieved October 7, 2017 .
- Alternative Haftaratext Obadja 1. according to the Codex L. In: tanach.us. Retrieved October 7, 2017 .
Web links
- Konstantin Pal: Wajischlach - The messenger is coming. In: ark.de. General Rabbinical Conference, December 8, 2017, accessed December 21, 2018 .
- Gesa Shira Ederberg : Wajischlach - demons of the past. In: ark.de. General Rabbinical Conference, December 12, 2014, accessed December 21, 2018 .
- Jonah Sievers : Wajischlach - self-examination. In: ark.de. General Rabbinical Conference, December 7, 2012, accessed December 21, 2018 .
- Moshe Navon: Wajischlach - Forgiveness is the condition for revelation. In: ark.de. General Rabbinical Conference, November 29, 2013, accessed December 21, 2018 .
- Boris Ronis: Wajischlach - role model for big brother. In: ark.de. General Rabbinical Conference, December 28, 2016, 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. 50 (414 pp.).