Ilustration Credit: Elad Lifshitz, Dov Abramson Studio
In This Week’s Parashah: מָה בַּפָּרָשָׁה
Full Parashah Reading: Bereishit 47:28-50:26
- After 17 years in מִצְרַיִם (Mitzrayim, Egypt), Yaakov feels his life coming to an end.
- Yaakov blesses Yosef’s two sons, Menasheh and Efrayim. Yosef places Yaakov’s right hand on Menasheh, the older son, and places Yaakov’s left hand on Efrayim, the younger son. Yaakov switches his hands, saying that Efrayim will be greater than Menasheh.
- Yaakov gives a final message to each of his children.
- Yaakov instructs his children to bury him in the Makhpelah cave in Hevron, back in אֶרֶץ כְּנַעָן (Eretz Canaan, the Land of Canaan). This is where Leah, his parents, and his grandparents are already buried.
- Yaakov dies. His family mourns for him, and they bury him as he asked.
- Yosef’s brothers are afraid that Yosef will take revenge against them. Yosef calms them down and says that it was part of God’s plan for him to come to Mitzrayim so he could save the family from famine.
- Yosef lives to see his great-grandchildren. He makes his family swear to take his bones with them when they eventually leave Mitzrayim, and then he dies.
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