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<td>While Avraham is blessed before he leaves, Yaakov receives Hashem's reassurance only en route.</td> | <td>While Avraham is blessed before he leaves, Yaakov receives Hashem's reassurance only en route.</td> | ||
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| + | <td>Both Avraham and Yaakov are  blessed by Hashem with success and wealth in their new abodes.</td> | ||
| + | <td>While Avraham's success  earns him respect from his neighbors, Yaakov's  successful shepherding lead to Lavan's enmity.</td> | ||
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Version as of 01:32, 13 November 2015
Avraham and Yaakov
Introduction
Content Parallels
| Parallels | Contrasts | |
| Leaving Home | ||
| Uprooting | Both Avraham and Yaakov are forced to uproot from their families and country. Avraham travels from Charan to Canaan, while Yaakov makes the opposite trek, from Canaan to Charan. | While Avraham leaves upon the command of Hashem, Yaakov's departure is in essence a flight from his brother, Esav. |
| Blessing | Both departures are accompanied by a blessing, the first revelation of Hashem to each of these patriarchs. | While Avraham is blessed before he leaves, Yaakov receives Hashem's reassurance only en route. |
| Success | Both Avraham and Yaakov are blessed by Hashem with success and wealth in their new abodes. | While Avraham's success earns him respect from his neighbors, Yaakov's successful shepherding lead to Lavan's enmity. |
| Coming to Canaan | ||
| Route taken | When Avraham enters Canaan, he stops first in Shechem and then in Beit El, eventually making his way to Chevron. When Yaakov returns to Canaan, he takes the same path. | While the verses suggest that Avraham merely passed through Shechem, Yaakov buys a plot of land there. |
| Altars | In both Shechem and Beit El, both grandfather and grandson build an altar for Hashem. | --- |
| No room | Avraham and Lot decide to separate, since the "land could not contain both of them", leading Lot to move to Sedom. Esav leaves Yaakov and moves to Edom for the same reason. | |
| Wives | ||
| Barren wife | Both Avraham and Yaakov have one barren wife. | |
| Giving of maidservants | Both Sarah and Rachel/Leah give their maidservants in marriage to their husbands so they can bear children in the wives' stead. | While Avraham ends up banishing Sarah's servant, Hagar, Bilhah and Zilpah remain married to Yaakov. |
| Source of strife | The multiple wives are a source of conflict in the family. | |
| Children | In each family, one son (Yitzchak/ Yosef) is favored over the others. | In Avraham's case, this leads to the expulsion of Yishmael, whereas In Yaakov's story, all the sons are chosen in the end. |
Literary Allusions
Analysis
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