Audio of Friday Night Shabbat Songs

Below are songs sung in traditional Bene Israeli tunes of friday night shabbat songs:

Deror-Ekra

Ki-ish-mey-ra-Shabbat

Yonah-Matzah-Bo-Manovah

After struggling with Esau's guardian angel, why did Jacob ask the angel his name?

Question:

In Parasha Vayishlach After struggling with Esau's guardian angel, Jacob asks him : what is your name? What prompted him to ask this question at that time and not a question like: why did you fight with me?

Answer:

An Angel is an emissary of G-D sent on a mission and his "name" is a reflection of his mission. By asking the angel his name, Jacob was wanting to find out the nature of the angel's mission.

Angels do not have fixed names. They take the name based on the mission they are sent for. When an Angel is sent to bring healing, it is called Rifa-EL, which means "G-D Heals". Many names of angels has EL as suffix. The word "EL" is a name of G-D. Some names of Angels are Rifael, Mikhael, Gavriel, Uriel.

What food did our Patriachs eat?

Answer:

If you want to know what Food our Patriachs ate, here are some mentioned in the book of Genesis alone.

1. Bread,
2. Dairy items like Cream and milk,
3. Calf Meat,
4. Lentils,
5. Honey,
6. Pistachio nuts,
7. Almonds.

Was Isaac alive when his grandson Joseph was sold into slavery?

Answer:

Isaac (Yitzhak) was very much alive when his grandson Joseph (Yosef) was sold into slavery. Isaac lived to be 180 years, but his death is recorded much earlier in the Book of Genesis (in chapter 35 verses 28 and 29 ). Joseph was sold into slavery at age 17 and at that time Jacob was 108 years old and Isaac was 168 years old. Per the timeline, it seems that Issac would have died 12 years later, one year before Joseph was elevated to be the Prime Minister of Egypt.

Joseph was 30 years old when he became the Viceroy of Egypt. Joseph was 39 years old (30 plus 7 years of plenty plus 2 years of famine) and Jacob was 130 years old, when Jacob went to Egypt and settled in Gorshen.