Parshas Vayeitzei 5786: Daven for Others - Creating Keys to Unlock the Chests
Torah Parallels Parshas Toldos לעילוי נשמת האדא בת מרדכי Daven for Others – Creating Keys to Unlock the Chests The Torah ( 30:20-21) relates that after Leah had giv en birth to six of the shevatim and Bilhah and Zilpah each ha d two shevatim , Leah was pregnant with yet another child . She gave birth to a daughter and named her Dinah. Rashi writes based on C hazal that Leah named her Dinah , from the root word “judgement ” , because of the judgement she made for herself. She knew from Ruach HaKodesh that 1 2 shevatim were destined to be born to Yaakov . Originally, it was assumed that the distribution would be equal across Rachel, Leah, Bilhah and Zilpah , but at this point with Leah already having six and each of the maidservants having two, that only lef...