Parsha Facts

PARSHA FACTS

Concepts

• Yaacov’s confrontation with Eisav
• Dinah’s abduction
• Yaacov’s name is changed
• Binyamin is born; Rachel passes away
• Yitzchak passes away
• Esav’s descendants

People

• Yaacov
• Eisav
• Dinah
• Shechem
• Shimon and Levi
• Rachel
• Yitzchak

Places

• Land of Canaan

Year from Creation Timeline

Yaacov fights with the angel...Yaacov's confronts Eisav ... the parting of their ways ... Yaacov in Sukos.

B’nai Yisrael arrive in Sh'chem and he builds a Mizbeach ... Dinah and Sh'chem and Chamor ... Shimon and Levi kill Sh'chem ... Devorah, Rivka's nurse dies, and so does Rivkah ... Yaacov's name is changed to Yisrael ... He travels to Beis-E-l and fulfils his promise to set up the stone at the House of G-d.

Binyamin is born (on the 11th Cheshvan) ... Rachel dies ... Yaacov arrives home in Chevron, after 36 years.
2228 Yitzchak dies ... the generations of Eisav, and the kings of Edom.

Sedra-Stats

• 8th of the 54 sedras; 8th of 12 in Sefer Bereshis
• Written on 237 lines in a Sefer Torah; 11th of 54
• 9 parshios: 6 open, 3 closed
• Comparison to the other sedras:
  153 pesukim – 4th of 54 (1st of 12 in Bereshis)
  1976 words – 6th of 54 (4th of 12 in Bereshis)
  7458 letters – 6th of 54 (4th of 12 in Bereshis)
• Mitzvos: one negative Mitzvah in this Parsha (3th of 613)
  3. Not to eat the Gid haNasheh