5780-06-Parashat VaYeitzei

This week’s Torah portion is VaYeitzei. As its name implies, it is a parasha about departure, about going out. The parasha describes how Yaakov Avinu goes out into the world.  It’s a journey where he institutes arvit (the evening prayer), dreams the “Jacob’s ladder″ dream, marries Leah and Rachel, establishes a family with many children, works for Lavan, his father-in-law, and then returns to Eretz Yisrael.