Would You Steal From a Blind Husband? (Aleph Beta, Rabbi Fohrman) In the story of Rebecca in the bible, her choices seem perplexing: She seems to participate, even to initiate, a plan with her son Jacob to flat-out deceive her aging husband Isaac. The goal, more or less, was to steal a birthright intended for […]
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Texts: Genesis 25:19 – 28:9 || Malachi 1:1-2:7 (Haftarah) NOTE: Kol HaTor, in its commentaries on the weekly Parashot, endeavours to search for and accentuate the Torah Messages contained in the Parashot as applicable to the main Theme of Tanach of the Return of the House of Israel, i.e. the Lost Ten Tribes of Northern Israel […]
Rabbi Meir Schweiger The Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies (www.pardes.org.il) In this podcast, Rabbi Meir Schweiger focuses on one of the parallels: Avraham has two sons – Ishmael and Isaac; Isaac has two sons – Esau and Jacob. Rabbi Schweiger examines how the tensions between each pair of sons ultimately leads to the falling apart of […]
Introductory observation by Kol Hator: The Haftarah commentary that we feature here below sheds great Light on the deadlock impression that many of us would have experienced in contemplating on Parashat Toldot which deals with the Family strife that the Patriarchs of Israel experienced – that is between Isaac and Ishmael and between Jacob and […]