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Covenant & Conversation — nt and convo — Toldos 5784

Выпуск: Covenant & Conversation — nt and convo — Toldos 5784. Темы: family_education. Поисковые термины: воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה. He would ask him, “Father, how should one The boys grew up, and Esau became a skilful tithe salt and straw?” Consequently, his father hunter, a man of the open country, while Jacob was believed him to be strict in observing the a quiet man, staying among the tents. And here is Rashi’s comment on were born, the pains Rebecca felt were so great that the phrase that Isaac loved him “because entrapment “she went to inquire of the Lord.” This is what she was was in his mouth”: told: The midrashic explanation is that there was “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples entrapment in the mouth of Esau, who trapped his from within you will be separated; one people will father and deceived him by his words. Esau Sages: reciprocated the love, but remained Esau, the hunter, Rabbi Shimon ben Gamliel said: No man ever the man of the field, not the man to carry forward the honoured his father as I honoured my father, but I demanding covenant with the invisible God and the found that Esau honoured his father even more. Can we really take literally the proposition that Isaac loved Esau because “he had a So the classic answer is that Isaac loved Esau because he taste for wild game,” as if his affections were simply did not know who or what Esau was. For an interactive, multi-generational study, check out the full edition at www.RabbiSacks.org/covenant-conversation-family-edition/toldot/yitzchak-love-eisav/ Why Did Isaac Love Eau? TOLDOT • ‫תלדות‬ With thanks to the Schimmel Family for their generous sponsorship of Covenant & Conversation, dedicated in loving memory of Harry (Chaim) Schimmel. 2:4-5 It may be that Isaac loved Esau not blindly but with open And later still Moses commands the Israelites: eyes, knowing that there would be times when his elder “Do not abhor an Edomite [i.e. “Well then,” Rav Kook replied, “Now love him “Give the people these orders: ‘You are about to even more.” pass through the territory of your brothers the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. a descendant of son would give him grief, but knowing too that the Esau], for he is your brother.” moral responsibility of parenthood demands that we do not despair of or disown a wayward son. In the early twentieth century someone brou

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Covenant & Conversation

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17 ноября 2023 г.

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Темы: family_education