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Yoseph Viel's Adventures in Gensis 

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	Watch/hear the Lesson on the 42 Journey Pattern
	The Value of Learning Hebrew
Torah Lessons
	1. The 4 Rivers of Eden
Theme A	2. Noah and Babylon - A Lessons common to both of them
	3. Lek Leka - The Call of Abraham and Israel - a look into the purpose of the call of Israel
Theme B	4. Vayera - How the promise of Isaac and the stories of Sodom, Gomorrah and Hagar symbolize the Gospel of Salvation
	5. Chayah Sarah - The Call of the Bride
	6. Toldot - How Jacob and Esau symbolize the struggle between a man's nature and the nature of the flesh .
	The Wheat and the Tares - Matthew 13 7. Vayetse - The Jacob marries Leah and Rachel - The purification of the human heart and the fruit produced
	8. Vayishlach - Part 2 of the story of Jacob - Breaking attachments to the flesh and the first 42 Journey Pattern.
Story of Joseph	9. Vayeshev (Gen 37-40) - Joseph goes to Egypt.
	10. Miqetz (Gen 41-44) - Pharoah's dream and the great famine.
	11. Vayigash (Gen 44:18-47:27) - The brothers come near to Joseph to Egypt
	12. Vayechi (Gen 47:28-50) - All of Israel comes to Egypt - The Blessings on the tribes and 42 Journeys to bury Israel in Canaan

 

There's an underlying theme to the stories of Noah, Babylon and Abraham that each story shares in common.

	Noah	Babylon	Abraham
בן	Built (בנה) an ark	Built (בנה) a tower	Promised a son (בן)
שם	"men of name (שם)"	Let us make a name (שם) for ourselves"	I will make your name (שם) great"
	Left a place (שם="there")	Left a place	Left a place
	Left heaven (שמים) for earth	Trying to leave earth for heaven (שמים)	Abraham promised descendants as many as stars in the heavens (שמים) and dust in the sand (earth).
Word-play that summarizes theme	"I repented (נחם) that I made them, but Noah (נח) found grace (חן)"	"they used brick (לבנה) for stone (אבן) and asphalt (חמר) for mortar (חמר)	לך לך = "Lek Lekah" = "Go for yourself"
	One man against many	Many acting as one man	One man producing many

Once the thematic connection is made between these three stories , it becomes easy to see that the events of Noah and Babylon are the reason why God called Israel to be a nation through Abraham.  This connection is made through the teachings on these three stories in their respective two Torah Portions.

Theme B

Like the stories of Noah, Babylon, and Abraham, there are thematic connections made in the next several Torah portions as well that tie each together as telling the story of the Gospel message and how God saves and disciples each one of us. 

• The stories of Isaac's birth, Sodom and Gomorrah, Hagar and Abimelech all speak to us about the new birth experience that someone goes through when they embrace the Gospel.
• When Abraham sends his servant  to find a wife for his son, this story spiritually symbolizes how God calls his own bride, and this lesson explores the spiritual parallels between that story and God's calling his spiritual bride.
• The struggle between Jacob and Esau symbolizes the struggle between the old man and and the fleshly nature after the new birth, which is explored in the teaching on this Torah portion.
• The story of Jacob and his wives symbolizes how the struggle between the old man of sin and the new man of the spirit affects the bride of the Messiah and the purification of the human heart and the fruit that is produced from that.
• The story of Jacob and his wives symbolizes the work G-d does on the human heart and how it effects the essence of man.