vayeitzei

Question 1

what happens when a tzadik leaves a town ?

Answer 1

he leaves a void ‘‘makes a roshem’’

when he is in the city he is the praise splendor and beauty -when he leaves those things do also

Question 2

where did yaakov go from and to where ?

Answer 2

Baer sheva to charan

Question 3

why did yaakov leave baer sheva ?

Answer 3

the cannanite girls were bad in yitzchaks eyes so he went to yishmael

Question 4

why is parshas vayeitzei a stuma ‘‘closed’’ parsha ?

Answer 4

to allude to how yaakov left silently (baal haturim)

Question 5

what does ‘‘vayifga’’ mean ?

Answer 5

rashi -he davened

Question 6

what teffila did yaakov daven ?

Answer 6

maariv

Question 7

why did the torah use the language of vayifga and not vayitpalel if that what it means ?

Answer 7

vayifga has a double connotation

1) he davened
2) he had a h’ hastened the way ‘‘kiftzas haderech’’

Question 8

where did yaakov lay down ?

Answer 8

Har hamoria

Question 9

what happened to the sun when yaakov got to har hamoria and how do we know?

Answer 9

(rashi)-the sun went down immediately

we know this from the fact it said ‘‘vayolen sham ki va hashemesh ‘’ and not ‘‘vayavo hashemesh vayilon sham’’

Question 10

what did yaakov do with the stones when he lay down ?

and why ?

Answer 10

he put them around his head as protection

he was afraid of wild animals

Question 11

what did the stones do under yakkov’s head ?

Answer 11

they began to fight with each other each wanted to go under yaakovs head
h’ made them into 1 stone