Ilustration Credit: Elad Lifshitz, Dov Abramson Studio
In This Week’s Parashah: מָה בַּפָּרָשָׁה
Full Parashah Reading: Bereishit 44:18-47:27
- Yehudah begs Yosef to release Binyamin, and offers himself as a slave instead.
- Yosef can no longer keep his identity secret. He orders all of the Egyptians out of the room and reveals his true identity to his brothers.
- Yosef tells his brothers to go home, get their father, and come back to מִצְרַיִם (Mitzrayim, Egypt).
- God tells Yaakov not to be afraid of going to Mitzrayim, and that his descendants will return to אֶרֶץ יִשְׂרָאֵל (Eretz Yisrael, the Land of Israel).
- Pharaoh meets Yosef’s brothers and Yaakov. He gives them permission to settle in the land of Goshen.
- The famine in Mitzrayim worsens. The Egyptians use all of their money, animals, and land to buy food from Yosef.
- Yaakov’s family prospers in Goshen.
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