Yaakov begins to share his final messages with his sons.

Yaakov gives a bracha to Efraim and Menashe.

Yaakov gives the land of Shechem to Yosef.

Q: If Efriam was destined to be greater, shouldn’t that be a reason to give Menashe the greater bracha?

Yaakov lives 17 years in Egypt, and realizes he’s going to die soon.

Yosef swears to bury Yaakov in Canaan.

Yaakov gifts Yosef by splitting up his tribe into two tribes through Menashe and Efraim.

Yaakov blesses Yosef.

Yaakov and his family settles in the land of Goshen.

The Egyptians become serfs to Pharoah when they exhaust all their possessions in order to buy food.

Yosef seems to have his brother’s benefit in mind even before he’s able to forgive them. How was able to do this?

Yosef convinces Pharoah to give Yaakov and his sons the land of Goshen.

Yosef introduces his father Yaakov to Pharoah.

Yaakov and his entire family travel down to Egypt in wagons.

Pharoah sends the brothers back to Canaan with wagons in order to transport the rest of their families down to Egypt in a comfortable fashion.

The brothers return to Canaan and inform their father Yaakov of the great news that Yosef is still alive.

Q: The Medrash says that Yaakov knew Yosef was alive when he saw this wagons - a hint to the last topic they discussed before they departed: Eglah Arufah. What’s the significance of this mitzvah in the context of their departure from each other?

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Yosef and Pharoah instruct the brothers to return to Canaan and bring down Yaakov and the rest of their families

Q: What’s the purpose of exile? Why couldn’t we become a nation in the land of Israel?