EPISODE · Dec 28, 2023
Finding Life in Egypt
from Weekly Torah Commentaries · host Russ Resnik
Our parasha begins, Vayechi Yaakov, “Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years.” The language of this opening line is somewhat unexpected. Why say that Jacob lived in the land of Egypt? In English translation it’s unremarkable, but there are other verbs that might have worked in Hebrew.
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