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Parashat Vayera

This is an archive of Torah and Haftarah readings for Parashat Vayera (Genesis 18:1-22:24), the fourth parashah in Sefer Bereshit according to the annual Torah reading cycle.

The haftarah reading for Parashat Vayera is 2 Kings 4:1-37.

Parashat Vayera is preceded by parashat Lekh Lekha (Genesis 12:1-17:27). Parashat Ḥayyei Sara (Genesis 23:1–25:18) follows it.

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💬 Haftarah Reading for Parashat Vayera (2 Kings 4:1-37): Chantable English translation with trōp, by Len Fellman

The haftarah reading for Parashat Vayera in English translation, transtropilated.

Categories:

Parashat Vayera, Melakhim (Kings)

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Cantillated readings in English, English Translation, הפטרות haftarot, transtropilation

Contributor(s):

the Mesorah (TaNaKh) and Len Fellman (translation)

📜 פָּרָשַׁת וַיֵּרָא | Parashat Vayera (Genesis 18:1-22:24), color-coded according to its narrative layers

The text of parashat Vayera, distinguished according to the stratigraphic layers of its composition according to the Supplementary Hypothesis.

Categories:

Sefer Bereshit (Genesis), Parashat Vayera

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31st century A.M., 8th century B.C.E., annual Torah reading cycle, mythopoesis, פרשת השבוע Parashat haShavua, פרשות parashot, redaction criticism, פרשת וירא parashat Vayera, supplementary hypothesis

Contributor(s):

Tzemaḥ Yoreh, the Mesorah (TaNaKh), the Mesorah (Masoretic kernel 'E'), the Mesorah (Masoretic layer 'J'), the Mesorah (Masoretic layer 'P'), the Mesorah (Masoretic layer 'B') and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

📜 Torah Reading for Parashat Vayera (Genesis 18:1-22:24): Chantable English translation with trōp, by Len Fellman

The Torah reading of Parashat Vayera in English translation, transtropilated.

Categories:

Sefer Bereshit (Genesis), Parashat Vayera

Tags:

21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Cantillated readings in English, English Translation, transtropilation

Contributor(s):

the Mesorah (TaNaKh) and Len Fellman (translation)

שָׁנְנוּ לְשׁוֹנָם | Shan’nu L’shonam — an ahavah piyyuṭ for Shabbat Vayera, by Rabbi Shmuel bar Avraham haLevi

An ahava piyyut for Shabbat Vayera, recited in the old Nusaḥ Polin (Eastern Ashkenazi) rite, written (according to Davidson) by R. Shmuel bar Avraham haLevi. Shmuel bar Avraham haLevi (1165-1216, according to Graetz) was a poet and scholar of the ibn Ḥasdai family of Barcelona, and the father of the noted Maimonidean translator Avraham bar Shmuel ibn Ḥasdai. This piyyuṭ takes God’s fateful instruction to Abraham — “Take, please, your son, your only one, whom you love,” and, in a shocking bit of poetic ḥutzpah, reframes it a request that God takes back Israel!

Categories:

Parashat Vayera

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12th century C.E., 50th century A.M., acrostic, Acrostic signature, אהבה רבה ahavah rabbah, combating anti-Jewish oppression, Jewish-Christian relations, Minhag Polin, Nusaḥ Ashkenaz, particularism and universalism, פיוטים piyyuṭim, polemic, פרשת וירא parashat Vayera

Contributor(s):

Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut) and Shmuel bar Avraham haLevi

💬 “A Parable Against Persecution,” a pseudepigraphal text written by Benjamin Franklin (1755)

Written by future founding father Benjamin Franklin in 1755, “A Parable Against Persecution,” also known as “the 51st Chapter [of Genesis],” is an example of what is often called ‘pseudo-biblicism,’ a trend from the 1740s to the mid-19th century of writing modern events in the already-archaic style of the King James Bible. More strictly, “A Parable Against Persecution” is an example of pseudepigrapha in that it is meant to be read as part of the book of Genesis, telling a story of Abraham facing a non-coreligionist, acting rashly, and learning a lesson about religious tolerance. Already in 1755 we can see Franklin’s radically liberal religious views.

Categories:

Midrash Aggadah, Parashat Vayera, Modern Miscellany, 🇺🇸 Independence Day Readings

Tags:

18th century C.E., 56th century A.M., the Enlightenment, Hebrew translation, interfaith tolerance, liberty, pseudepigrapha, tolerance and intolerance, tolerance of difference

Contributor(s):

Benjamin Franklin and Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation)

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