{"id":7155,"date":"2025-11-24T04:47:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T10:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/?p=7155"},"modified":"2025-11-24T04:48:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T10:48:57","slug":"parashat-vayetzei-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/parashat-vayetzei-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Parashat Vayetzei Podcast&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2391 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/ladder3.jpg?resize=141%2C158&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"141\" height=\"158\" \/>In our Torah portion this week (<a href=\"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/Scripture\/Parashah\/Summaries\/Vayetzei\/vayetzei.html\">parashat Vayetzei<\/a>), it is written that Jacob \u201ccame to a certain place and stayed there that night\u201d (Gen. 28:11). The Hebrew text, however, indicates that Jacob did not just happen upon a random place, but rather that \u201che came to the place\u201d &#8212; <em>vayifga ba&#8217;makom<\/em> (\u05d5\u05b7\u05d9\u05bc\u05b4\u05e4\u05b0\u05d2\u05bc\u05b7\u05e2 \u05d1\u05bc\u05b7\u05de\u05bc\u05b8\u05e7\u05d5\u05b9\u05dd). The sages therefore wondered why the Torah states <em>ba&#8217;makom<\/em>, \u201cthe place,\u201d rather than <em>b\u2019makom<\/em>, \u201ca place\u201d? Moreover, the verb translated \u201che came\u201d is <em>yifga<\/em> (from <em>paga\u2019<\/em>: \u05e4\u05bc\u05b8\u05d2\u05b7\u05e2), which means to encounter or to meet, suggesting that Jacob\u2019s stop was a divine appointment. Indeed, as we shall see, this special dream or vision revealed the very truth of the Messiah &#8211; the Meeting Place of God &#8211; to our father Jacob.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium_large wp-image-2393\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/vayetzei.jpg?resize=768%2C576&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/vayetzei.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/vayetzei.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/vayetzei.jpg?resize=210%2C158&amp;ssl=1 210w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/vayetzei.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-7155-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/shavuah-tov-Vayetzei.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/shavuah-tov-Vayetzei.mp3\">https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/shavuah-tov-Vayetzei.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our Torah portion this week (parashat Vayetzei), it is written that Jacob \u201ccame to a certain place and stayed there that night\u201d (Gen. 28:11). The Hebrew text, however, indicates that Jacob did not just happen upon a random place, but rather that \u201che came to the place\u201d &#8212; vayifga ba&#8217;makom (\u05d5\u05b7\u05d9\u05bc\u05b4\u05e4\u05b0\u05d2\u05bc\u05b7\u05e2 \u05d1\u05bc\u05b7\u05de\u05bc\u05b8\u05e7\u05d5\u05b9\u05dd). The sages [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,11,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays","category-h4c-podcast","category-torah"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7155"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7157,"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7155\/revisions\/7157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}