Haftarah: Parshat Vayera (5786)
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About this lesson
A lesson in English on the haftarah of Parshat Vayera, a portion of the Book of Bereshit (Genesis).
The haftarah is the passage from the Prophets read in synagogue on Shabbat after the Torah reading.
It belongs to the series “Haftarah lessons – 5786 (English)” (lesson 2 of 30).
Lesson summary AI-generated
- A haftarah lesson for Parshat Vayera: the story of the woman of Shunam, Elisha and Gehazi.
- Discusses the soul as “widowed” or concealed, yet still crying out from within the body and longing to be close to Hashem.
- Notes that Gehazi pointed out that she had no son and that her husband was old, and how this was said carefully so as not to embarrass her.
- Connects the promised child to the idea of an embrace, and to the embrace we are meant to give Hashem.
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- Parshat Vayera
- Haftarah
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