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Parashat Vayeshev (וישב – And he settled down), Genesis 37:1-40:23

Genesis 39:1
וְיוֹסֵף, הוּרַד מִצְרָיְמָה; וַיִּקְנֵהוּ פּוֹטִיפַר סְרִיס פַּרְעֹה שַׂר הַטַּבָּחִים, אִישׁ מִצְרִי, מִיַּד הַיִּשְׁמְעֵאלִים, אֲשֶׁר הוֹרִדֻהוּ שָׁמָּה
Joseph was taken to Egypt. Putiphar, Pharaoh’s officer, chief executor, an Egyptian,
 bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there.

Joseph’s business.
The Shaar HaChamaïm (Gate of Heaven) synagogue in Cairo was built between 1905 and 1907 and financed by the neighborhood’s Cairo families. The building was imagined in an Egyptian historicist style by the architects Edward Matasek and Maurice Yossef Cattaui, The latter was the nephew of Joseph Aslan Cattaui Pasha, businessman, Egyptian politician and president of the Jewish community of Cairo from 1924 to 1942. In 1980, it was restored with funding from the Sephardic Jewish community in Geneva. It is the largest synagogue in Cairo.

Parashat Vayishlach (וַיִּשְׁלַח – And he sent), Genesis 32-4, 36-43.

The haftarah is read in the book of Ovadia (עֹבדיה – the one who the servant of Lord).
This book consists of only 21 verses, making it the shortest Torah scroll. He foretells the revenge that the children of Israel will take on the kingdom of Edom.
Kaliningrad, formerly Königsberg in East Prussia, is a city located in the Russian territorial enclave, between Poland and Lithuania.
The Synagogue was destroyed by the Nazis during the Kristallnacht (November 9-10, 1938 – Cheshvan 16, 5699). Rebuilt, it was inaugurated on November 10, 2018. It has regained its splendor (hadar – הדר – splendor, majesty. Hadar is also the name of the last king of Edom, Genesis 36-39).