Parshah • November 2022
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…
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…
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…
Inevitably we find instances where children go astray and others in the same family toe the line. So it was with Yitzhak’s family – he had a Yaakov but he…
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…
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…
Rivkah’s painful pregnancy is also a metaphor for our conflicted lives where we must choose between truth and temptation.
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…