In a 1980 lecture on Parshat Vayishlach, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik explored the idea that just as each holiday’s Torah reading has its own special motif, so, too, each parsha in the Torah has its ...

Look at Joseph and his brothers as a model. The spark of holiness within every Jewish soul can bring people back together no ...

with golf pants and no particular direction. And he went out from an angry brother and was saved by divine intervention. And I never wanted to go, but tweens have no choice in the matter. And he went ...

In this week’s haftara, the prophet Malakhi opens his prophecy with an expression of divine scorn for Israel’s older twin: “Is Esav not a brother to Yaakov? So says the Lord: Yet I loved Yaakov and ...

Why did Eisav not keep his favourite clothes in his own home? This fascinating detail emerges in Parshat Toldot, from the fact that when Rivka was preparing her son Yaakov to see Yitzchak his father, ...

In the Torah portion of Toldot, we encounter one of the most human and profound scenes in the entire Torah – a meeting between two brothers, Jacob and Esau, which reveals how powerful the desires ...

Parashat Toldot: Directing our natural inclinations This is humanity’s eternal challenge: Not to give in to impulses and the desire for immediate gratification but to steer it toward a higher purpose.

Parashat Toldot: A call for impassioned Jewish renewal If the parasha is a saga of inheritance, of blessings fought over and destinies forged, then the haftarah is its echo, reminding us that a ...

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