A simple understanding of the crossing of the Yam Suf would be that this body of water was in between Egypt and Eretz Yisroel (and/or

Although the Children of Israel lived in ארץ גשן, when they left Egypt, they left from רעמסס (Shemos 12:37). The land they lived in when

When the new Pharaoh came onto the scene (Shemos 1:8), his expressed fear was that if a war breaks out, “the nation of the Children

When Moshe fled from Pharaoh, he went to ארץ מדין (Shemos 2:15). Since מדין was one of the sons Avraham had with Ketura (Bereishis 25:2),

When Yaakov was brought to חברון to be buried, they stopped at גרן האטד, which is described as being בעבר הירדן (Bereishis 50:10). However, to

“And [Yosef] went up to greet his father, to Goshen” (Bereishis 46:32). It would seem obvious that when traveling from the Egyptian capital (where Yosef

Yosef recognized his brothers, but his brothers didn’t recognize him (Bereishis 42:8). Why they didn’t recognize him is discussed (see Rashi), but what about the

When Yehuda’s third child, שלה, was born, he, and/or the birth, was in כזיב (Bereishis 38:5). There is much discussion about why the Torah includes

Yaakov’s return trip from חרן to חברון was quite eventful. He was chased by his father-in-law, Lavan, who caught up with him at הר הגלעד

Yaakov Avinu is described as a “tent dweller”(Bereishis 25:27), which Rashi tells us refers to the tent of Shem and the tent of Eiver. But

“And he called it שבעה; therefore the name of the city is באר שבע till this very day” (Bereishis 26:33). The implication is that because

Although the bulk of the parsha is about Eliezer finding a wife for Yitzchok, it ends by telling us where the descendants of Yishmael lived,