Torah Classes

Chp. 29 verse 17 - chp. 30 verse 13. Continues with description of Rachel and Leah and that Yaakov agrees to work for 7 years to marry Rachel. Lavan tricks him and gives him Leah instead, he complains. Lavan gives him Rachel but for another 7 years work. Hashem sees Leah's pain and gives her four sons. Chp. 30 begins with Rachel complaint to Yaakov that she has no children. She gives him Bilah as a wife and she bears him two sons. Leah then does the same with Zilpah and she also bears two more sons to Yaakov.

Chp. 28 verse 20 - chp. 29 verse 17. Yaakov makes a vow to tithe everything he owns if Hashem will take care of his needs. He comes to the well in Haran where he meets Rachel introduces himself and waters her sheep. He meets uncle Lavan and he goes to work for him tending his sheep. Ends with a description of Leah and Rachel.

Chp. 33 verse 4-9: Yaakov now on his way back to Canaan, sends messengers to his brother Esua with gifts, hoping to avoid a battle with his brother. Esau is coming to meet him with 400 men. Yaakov is afraid and distressed and he divides his family and possessions into two camps in the hope that one will survive.

Chp. 32 verse 9-18: Yaakov prays to Hashem for help. He then sends gifts to Esau.

Chp. 32 verse 31 - Chp. 34 verse 14: Yaakov and Esau meet and they kiss and weep. Yaakov introduces his family to Esau. Esau offers to travel with Yaakov but he declines the offer, they separate peacefully. Yaakov goes to Schechem where he buys a parcel of land. Chp. 34 begins the story of the rape of Dinah and the beginning of the discussion between the brothers and her rapist, Schechem.

Chp. 35 verse 20 - end of chp. 36: : Yaakov buries Rachel on the road to Beth Lechem and puts a marker on her grave. Ruevain has relations with Bilhah. Yitzhok dies at the age of 180. Chp 36 tells us about the genealogy of Esau's family.

Chp.34 verse 15 - Chp. 35 verse 20: The brothers devise a plan to have the Schechemites' circumcise themselves. They agree and on the 3rd day Shimon and Levi kill all the men in the city and save Dinah. Yaakov and family leave Schechem and comes to Luz and he builds an alter to Hashem. Hashem changes his name to Israel. Rachel gives birth to Binyamin and dies in childbirth.

Chp. 32 verse 19-31: Yaakov instructs the messengers what to say to Esau when they present him with the gifts. He has a fight with Esau's angel who injures him in his thigh, but Yaakov is victorious.

Chp. 31 verses 22 -30: Finishes off the prophecy of the future sins. So Moshe wrote the song of Ha'azinu on that day and taught it to the people. He commanded Yehoshua to be strong and that Hashem would be with him. He finished writing the words of the Torah. He then commanded the Levites to place the Torah next to the Ark so that it could be a witness against them, because he knew that they would rebel against Hashem. Then Moshe was told to assemble the people to teach them the passages of Ha'azinu, which would again remind them of the consequences of turning against Hashem.

Chp. 31 verses 1 - 21: Introduction, Moshe tells the people that he would not be taking them into the the land but that it would be Yehoshua. He told them not to fear since Hashem would be with them as with Og and Sichon. He spoke to Yehoshua in front of all the nation and told him to be strong and courageous. He then wrote a sefer Torah and gave it to the Kohanim and the elders. He commanded that the king read from the book of Devarim at the end of every seventh year. Everyone was to attend men, women, and children. Hashem then told Moshe that he was about to die and to bring Yehoshua to the Tent. Hashem told them the sins that the nation would commit in the future.