Parshah • November 2025
Toldot – Reason or Commitment
Why circumcise a child at 8 days? Should we not wait till the child attains the age of reason and make decisions then? Commitment goes beyond reason. It is the…
Parshah • November 2024
Toldot – Casinos and Houses of Prayer
There is a saying, out of sight out of mind. Never did this adage apply more than with pregnancy. For so long we believed that the child’s is only influenced…
Parshah • November 2023
Toldot – Divergent Children
Perfect families are hard to come by. Inevitably we find instances where children go astray and others in the same family toe the line. So it was with Yitzhak’s family…
Parshah • November 2021
Toldot – Out of Sight & Mind
There is a saying, out of sight out of mind. Never did this adage apply more than with pregnancy. For so long we believed that the child’s is only influenced…
Parshah • November 2018
Toldot – See Your Strengths
Two more sons with contrasting characters is the theme of this week’s Parsha, Toldot. Yaakov and Eisav are as different from each other as two brothers can be. One is…
Parshah • November 2017
Toldot – You Have the Power of Choice
Jacob and Eisav were two very different natures and personalities – one a larrikin and one a serious-minded achiever. Was that predestined? No. We are given absolute freedom to choose…
Parshah • November 2016
Toldot – Painful Pregnancy
Rivkah’s painful pregnancy is also a metaphor for our conflicted lives where we must choose between truth and temptation.
Parshah • November 2015
Toldot – The Struggle Between Self-Concern and Altruism
Rivka is pregnant with twins and she senses a mighty battle taking place within her womb between her two babies to be. Kabbala explains this as pointing to the conflict…