Vayetze | Back to Gerar (The Parenthetic Statement)

KMTT - the Torah Podcast · Nov 28, 2025 · 31m

Vayetze | Back to Gerar (The Parenthetic Statement), by Rav Yitzchak Etshalom

How do we explain the references to Avraham having passed away in Beresheet 26 if, as proposed, this narrative cycle took place before Yaakov and Esav were born (i.e. well before Avraham passed on).

As a follow-up to our shiur about Gerar and my argument that the events described in Bereishit 26:1-33 took place during the twenty years of Yitzchak and Rivka's childlessness, several thoughtful and pointed challenges were raised by podcast listeners and participants in the shiur. By surveying and classifying the…