Pshats For Shots Parashah Sheet Up For Vayishlah
This week’s Pshats for Shots parashah sheet for Parashat Vayishlah is now available.
Considering Ya’akov’s innovation in Wine-Libation on a Pillar
We read of Ya’akov setting-up a מצבה stone-pillar towards the beginning of last week’s parashah (Gen. 28.18), as well as later on in the parashah (Gen. 31.51-52). In this week’s parashah, we see him doing so a third time, yet he introduces an innovation into his stone-pillar setting-up: “וַיַּצֵּב יַעֲקֹב מַצֵּבָה, בַּמָּקוֹם אֲשֶׁר-דִּבֶּר אִתּוֹ–מַצֶּבֶת אָבֶן; […]