Parsha Facts

PARSHA FACTS

Concepts

• Birth of Yaacov and Esav
• Yaacov buys the birthright from Esav
• Yaacov takes Esav’s blessings
• Yitzchak instructs Yaacov to flee
• Esav marries the daughter of Yishmael

People

• Yitzchak
• Rivkah
• Yaacov
• Esav

Places

• Beer-Sheva
• Gerar
• Land of the Phlistines

Year from Creation
Timeline

• Yitzchak and Rivkah daven for children ... Eisav and Yaacov are born
• Eisav and Yaacov grow up.
• Eisav goes hunting ... returns exhausted after murdering Nimrod ...
• Avraham dies ... Yaacov buys the birthright from Eisav.
• Yitzchak sends Yaacov to the Yeshivah of Shem and Eiver.
• Yitzchak involved with Avimelech and the wells.
• 2148 Eisav at age forty, marries Yehudis and Bosnas.
• Eisav and Yaacov and the Berachos ... Yaacov returns to the Yeshivah of Shem and Eiver ... Elifaz, Eisav's son, takes all his possessions ... Eisav marries Yishmael's daughter, Machalas ... he dies the same year.

Sedra-Stats

• 6th of the 54 sedras; 6th of 12 in Sefer Bereshis
• Written on 171 lines in a Sefer Torah; 37th of 54
• 4 parshios: 3 open, 1 closed
• Comparison to the other sedras:
  105 pesukim – 32nd of 54 (11th of 12 in Bereshis)
  1402 words – 37th of 54 (11th of 12 in Bereshis)
  5314 letters – 36th of 54 (11th of 12 in Bereshis)
• Mitzvos: no Mitzvos in this Parsha