Torah Classes

Chp. 27 verse 39 -46 Chp. 28 verses 1 -9: Esau receives his blessing from his father. Rivkah warns Yaakov about Esau's intention to kill him. She tells him to flee to her brother Lavan. Chp. 28, Yitzhok tells Yaakov to go to Padan Aram and to take a wife from the daughters of Lavan. Esau sees what his father told Yaakov so he too takes a new wife from the daughters of Yishmael.

Chp. 26 verse 23 - Chp. 27 verse 10: Yitzhok makes a treaty with a king. Esau marries and Yitzhok prepares to bless Esau.

Chp. 25 verses 19 - 23: Introduction, begins with the genealogy of Yitzhok. He marries Rivkah. She is barren, they pray to Hashem and she becomes pregnant. She finds the pregnancy difficult and so she goes to prophet to inquire about her situation. He tells her that she is pregnant with twins, and that the older one would serve the younger one.

Chp. 24 verses 21 - 49: Continues with the story of Eliezer finding a wife for Yitzhok.

Chp. 24 verses 50 -67: Continues with the story of Eliezer bringing Rivkah to Yitzhok as a wife.

Chp. 24 verses 4 - 21: Eliezer the servant of Avraham sets out on his mission to find a wife for Yitzhok. He stops at a well and prays to Hashem to show him the girl who would be chosen to be Yitzhok's wife. He proposes certain test to prove she would be the one. Rivkah appears immediately and begins to fulfill all of the tests that he had proposed to Hashem/

Chp. 25 verses 1 - 18: Avraham marries Keturah, she bears him six sons. He sends them to the east with gifts. However, to Yitzhok he leaves all that he owns. He dies at the age of 175. He is buried by Yitzhok and Yishmael in the Machpelah with Sawra. Continues with the genealogy of Yishmael, and his death at the age of 137.

Chp. 23 verse 8 - Chp. 24 verse 3: Avraham purchases the Cave of the Macpelah and buries Sarah. Chp. 24 Avraham gives Eliezer his servant the mission of finding a wife for Yitzhok.

Chp. 23 verses 1-7: Introduction, Sara dies in Hebron and Avraham begins the funeral arrangements to bury her.

Chp. 21 verses 6 - 34: Continues with the weaning of Yitzhok. Next the test of sending away Yishmael. Chp. ends with the treaty with Avimelech.