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Выпуск: The Yeshiva.net — hiva.net — Toldos 5781. Темы: parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: недельная глава, парша, parsha, פרשה, פרשת השבוע. While Esau goes off to hunt for his father's favorite food, Rebecca – the mother -- dresses Jacob in Esau's clothes, covers his arms and neck with goatskins to simulate the feel of his hairier brother, prepares a similar dish, and sends Jacob to his father with the food. The Abrahamic covenant must surely pass through Jacob, the "wholesome man, a dweller in the tents." Jacob's descendants became the nation of Israel, who granted the world the vision of ethical monotheism; while Esau fathered the Edomite nation and ultimately the Roman civilization with its culture of ruthless power and great material achievement[4]. The moment Rebecca dressed her son Jacob in Esau’s clothes to receive Isaac’s blessings, she ensured that the spark of Judaism, the essence of the Jewish soul, the fountain of Jewish faith, would remain embedded in the heart of every single Jew forever, even the Jew that so many others dismiss as merely an Esau. Externally he may be dressed a bear, but if you listen carefully, you might hear the “Baruch Atah Hashem…” Jewish Traitors This above Chassidic insight is subtly expressed in a perplexing Talmudic interpretation of this story of Jacob dressed up like Esau to obtain his father’s blessings. Since in the Torah scroll there are no vowels, you can read the story as “Isaac smelled his traitors and proclaimed: ‘See, the aroma of my son is like the aroma of the field blessed by G-d.’" Isaac, the Talmud is stating, smelled the traitors of the Jewish people and enjoyed their fragrance. While Jerusalem was engulfed in flames, Jews were being massacred by the hundreds of thousands, and the Temple about to be destroyed, this man had the audacity, the chutzpah, to join the enemy ranks, assist the Romans and remove the menorah from the Temple for his personal exploit! In a Shtible Lest one claim that this power is unique to the Beis HaMikdash, to the Jerusalem Holy Temple, lest one claim that today there exists nothing comparable which can so instantaneously turn an alienated individual into a passionate Jewish soul, I will tell you a story. He was a prolific author and a great philosopher but living in Germany in an age when modern philosophy and science presented themselves as a rational alternative to the sha

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5 ноября 2021 г.

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