Parshas Vayigash – Bilhah and Zilpha the Shefachos
Download as Word The subject of the other two wives of Yakov Bilhah and Zilpha, who begin as shefachos – maidservants, is fascinating. In a machshava sense why are they needed? What do they contribute to the construction of Klal Yisrael in their unusual relationship to their other Imahos and their marriage to Yakov? And…