Parshas Vayeitzei

פרשת ויצא

Parsha Stumpers / Something to Thing About

1. Where is there a ראיה in this week's parsha that one should wear a shtreimel?

2. Three types of people are called “dead” even while they are alive. All three appear in this week's parsha. What are they and where do they come up in the parsha?

3. How could Yaakov avinu come into a foreign land and start bossing around the shepherds and telling them that, as Rashi writes, “If you are hired workers, you have not yet completed the day's work. And if the animals are yours, there is still time in the day...”?

4. Eliphaz was sent by Eisav to kill Yaakov.

a. Why is this included in kibud av?

b. What did Yaakov do to get out of the situation?

c. Why did this satisfy Eliphaz?

5. There are two times other then the episode with the shepherds by the well that Yaakov seems to go on a rant, so to speak, and “lose his cool”. What is the connection between these three times?

6. Who named the shevatim?

7. Why did Leah only name her fourth son Yehuda? Was she not thankful for the first three?

8. Why did Yaakov curse the one who took Lavan's idols?

9. What is the significance of eating in this week's parsha? (continuing the theme from last week)

10. Where do you see in this week's parsha that “stealing” could be said in reference to intangible things which “can't be paid back”?

11. What was the difference between the way Lavan and Yaakov each named the גל?