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Parshat Toldot tells us rather explicitly why the Jews have suffered for over 2000 years. It does not make one feel any better about it, but it is “Torah from Sinai.” It does not excuse those who ...
Esav could have been a great spiritual leader, an important partner in the building of the Jewish People. But it was not to be. Due to Esav’s misdiagnosis of his own spiritual potential, he gave up on ...
The story is told of a young man at an airport who bought a bag of cookies to enjoy while waiting for his flight. An older man who sat down next to him began helping himself to the cookies that lay ...
The unlikely twins Yaakov and Esav are locked in a struggle that began while they were as yet in Rebecca’s womb. What is this struggle all about? What are they fighting over, and how does this effect ...
In Parashat Vayishlach, Ya’akov is returning home. Twenty years earlier, he tricked his father, stole the blessing from his brother, Esav, and ran away. For 20 years he has held onto the hope that, ...
In Parshat Toldot, we encounter the remarkable event described in Genesis 27, as Yitzhak prepares in blindness to confer an eternal blessing on one of his twin sons. He wants to extend that blessing ...
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