The weekly Torah portion of Vayigash (Genesis 44:18-47:27)
Questions tagged [vayigash]
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How did Yakov know the wagons are connected to Egla Arufa?
As we know, Yakov was 100% sure that Yosef was alive when he saw the wagons that Yosef sent. Rashi there explains that the wagons , Agola, are the same words as Eglah (as in Egla Arufa) and that was the last topic Yosef and Yaakov were learning when…
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Why weren’t the Egyptians mad that Joseph was favoring his family?
In parshat Vayigash, it explicitly says Joseph settles his family in Goshen and provides them with bread to survive the famine (as that was their whole reason for coming down). And then it talks about how the Egyptians ran out of food and basically…
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