 Parshat Vayishlach
Explanations of this week's ParshaPix - The bow can represent the gifts to Eisav, and can also be a play on words to the word spelled the same but pronounced rhyming with how now brown cow. It refers to the excessive bowing to Eisav by Yaakov and family. The little urns/flasks/whatever stand for that which Yaakov went alone to retrieve. The SOLD over the FOR SALE sign refers to Yaakov's purchase of land in the Shh'chem area for 100 K'SITA. Ironic, is it not, that the two areas in Israel that were actually purchased, for money - Hebron and Sh'chem, were among the first to be "given" into alien hands, against the wishes of the original owners, most of their heirs, and Avinu She'ba'shamayim. Then there is the tree in the lower right corner. There are tears falling from it over the grave of Devora, the nursemaid of Rivka. The tree was called ALON BACHUT, the crying tree. A Weeping Willow, perhaps? The bee (between the half and the sword) is also a reference to D'vora. In line of the comments on the significance of names and the significance of the lack of a name (in Eliezer's case, Parshat Chayei Sara), it is interesting that when Rivka was sent with Eliezer to Yizchak, D'vora is only referred to as MEINEKET. When she dies and is buried, she is identified by name. In fact, another question is, why does the Torah tells us about her dying? The half refers to Yaakov's diving of his people etc. into two camps. The sword is that of Shimon and Levi. The baby carriage is for Binyamin, the only child of Yaakov's not to have been born in Vayeitzei, and the only one to have been born in Eretz Yisrael. [The ParshaPix Index][The Vayishlach Homepage] |
