Sefer Bereishit - Yediot Klaliot Quiz - Popper

Beraishit:

- Creation,

- Adam/Eve -> Cain and Abel

Noach:

- Flood/mabul,

- מגדל בבל/tower of Bavel

Lech Lecha

- Avraham leaves for Canaan,

- Brit Milah

- Name changes:

Avram -> Avraham

Saraii -> Sarah

Vayera

- Avraham invites 3 angels into his tent

- Akeidat Yitzchak

- destruction of Sedom

Chayei Sarah

- Sarah dies

- Avraham sends Eliezer to find a wife, Rivka, for Yitzchak

- Me'arat HaMachpelah (Sarah's burial cave)

Toldot

- Yaakov & Esav born

- Birthright feud

Vayetzei

- Yaakov's 4 wives: Rachel, Leah, Bilhah, Zilpa

- 12 sons: Reuven, Shimon, Levi, Yehudah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Joseph, and Benjamin. + Dina

Grandchildren: Joseph's two sons, Ephraim and Menashe.

- ladder dream

Vayishlach

- Name change: Yaakov --> Israel after wrestling with the angel

- Returns to Canaan

- Rachel dies

Vayeshev

- dreams

- Yosef is Yaakov's favorite child, gives him a technicolor dreamcoat

- Ends up being sent away by his brothers to Egypt, later jailed

Mikaitz

- Yosef ends up becoming second in command in Egypt, a famine happens, Yosef's brothers come down

Vayigash

- Yosef reveals himself to his entire family that ends up coming to Egypt

Vayechi

- Yaakov blesses his children + Ephraim and Menashe, then dies

Name of Avot and their wives:

Avraham - Sarah

Yitzhak - Rivka

Yaakov - Rachel/Leah (Bilhah/Zilpah)

Why was each son named their name?

EXTRA CREDIT: Reuven

Reuven: "G-d has seen my affliction" / "Now my husband will love me." G-d saw Leah's sadness from not being loved as much as Rachel was by Yaakov.

EXTRA CREDIT: Shimon

Shimon: G-d heard that Leah was still unloved and gave her this son as well.

EXTRA CREDIT: Levi

Levi: Leah thought this time Yaakov would be attached to her since she gave him three sons.

EXTRA CREDIT: Yehuda

Judah: Leah wanted to praise G-d.

EXTRA CREDIT: Dan

Dan: G-d judged in Rachel's favor, giving her a son through her maid, Bilhah.

EXTRA CREDIT: Naphtali

Naphtali: Rachel felt she struggled and won against her sister by having another son through Bilhah.

EXTRA CREDIT: Gad

Gad: Leah felt lucky for having another son through her maid, Zilpa.

EXTRA CREDIT: Asher

Asher: Zilpa bore a second son for Leah, and Leah declared, "What fortune!"

EXTRA CREDIT: Issachar

Issachar: Leah felt rewarded by

G-d.

EXTRA CREDIT: Zebulun

Zebulun: Leah bore a sixth son and hoped Yaakov would exalt/honor her. (Leah later had her final child, a daughter, Dinah.)

EXTRA CREDIT: Joseph

Joseph: G-d heeded Rachel and gave her a son, Rachel named him and said, "G-d has taken away my disgrace" / "May G-d add another son for me"

EXTRA CREDIT: Binyamin

Binyamin: As Rachel was taking her last breath during a hard child birth, she named him Benoni "son of my sorrow" but Yaakov called him Benyamin "son of my right hand"