Torah Parasha Summary
Book by Book Summaries of the Torah, Scriptures
Sefer Bereishit
Sefer Bereishit is divided into twelve parashiyot (weekly readings). The first two parashiyot cover 1,948 years of history and twenty generations. The third and fourth parashiyot focus only on one hundred years of Avraham's life. The message is - what Avraham stood for is what Creation is all about - what Avraham represented is what concerns the Torah. The Torah therefore dwells on the lives of the forefathers.
The balance of Sefer Bereishit (eight week parashiyot) is devoted to following the course of Avraham's descendants - Yitzchak, Yaakov, and the Twelve Tribes - as they further develop the philosophy and approach to live of their ancestor, Avraham. The ideology developed by Avraham becomes the basis for a unique nation, the further evolution and progress of the nation is presented in the following sefer - Shemot.
Sefer Bereishit not only describes the origin of the Jewish people, but traces the origins of all peoples of mankind.
Parashat -
Bereishit
- Six days of creation
- The mistake of eating from the Tree of Knowledge
- Expulsion from Gan Eden
- Kayin kills Hevel
- Decree of destruction
Noach
- The Flood
- The Covenant
- Curse of Kenaan
- The Tower of Bavel
- Ten Generations to Avraham
Lech Lecha
- Avram journeys to Kenaan
- Pharaoh takes Sarai
- Avram battles the kings
- The Covenant with G-d
- The birth of Yishmael
- Avram's & Sarai's name change
- Circumcision
VaYera
- Sedom destroyed
- Sarah and Avimelech
- Sarah gives birth to Yitzchak
- Covenant with Avimelech
- Binding of YItzchak
- Rivkah is born
Chayei Sarah
- Sarah dies
- The purchase of Machpelah
- Yitzchak and Rivkah
- Avraham dies
- Descendants of Yishmael
Toldot
- The birth of Yaakov and Esav
- Yaakov buys Esav's birthright
- Yaakov takes the blessing of Esav
VaYetze
- Yaakov's ladder
- Yaakov meets Rachel
- Yaakov marries
- Birth of the eleven Tribes
- Yaakov's journey home
VaYishlach
- Confrontation with Esav
- Rape of Dinah
- Yaakov becomes Yisrael
- The birth of Binyamin
- Yitzchak dies
- Esav's and Seir's descendants
- Kings of Edom
VaYeshev
- Yaakov settles in Kenaan
- Yosef's dreams
- Yosef sold into slavery
- Yehudah and Tamar
- Yosef imprisoned in Egypt
Miketz
- Yosef interprets Pharaoh's dreams
- Yosef becomes the viceroy
- Famine strikes
- Yosef's brothers are accused as spies
- Binyamin arrested
VaYigash
- Yosef reveals himself to his brothers
- Yaakov brings his family to Egypt
- Yisrael settles in Goshen
- Effects of the famine on Egypt
VaYechi
- Yosef's promise to Yaakov
- Yaakov's blessing of Efrayim and Menashshe
- Yaakov's blessing of the Twelve Tribes
- Yaakov's death
- Yosef's death and promise
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