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Meshech Chochma — h-chochmah toldos 2023 5784

Выпуск: Meshech Chochma — h-chochmah toldos 2023 5784. Темы: family_education, health_mind, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה, здоровье, психология, стресс, health, mental, בריאות, נפש, недельная глава, парша, parsha, פרשה, פרשת השבוע. Rabbi Immanuel Bernstein 2023 / 5784 MESHECH CHOCHMAH Parshas Toldos Refining the Jewish People .’‫וַ יִ ּתְ רֹ צֲצּו הַ בָ ּנִים בְ ּקִ ְרבָ ּּה וַתֹ ּאמֶ ר אִ ם כֵ ּן לָמָ ּה זֶ ּה ָאנֹ כִ י וַתֵ ּלְֶך לִ ְדרֹׁש אֶ ת ה‬ .‫וַ יֹ ּאמֶ ר ה' לָּה שְ ׁנֵי גוֹ יִם בְ ּבִ טְ נְֵך‬ The children agitated within her, and she said, “If so, why am I thus?” and she went to inquire of Hashem. What exactly does Rivkah mean by asking “If so, why am I thus?” The Venom that Came with the Fruit To understand the background to all of this, the Meshech Chochmah refers us to a statement of the Gemara elsewhere,2 that at the time of the sin with the Etz Hada’as, the snake injected a venom into Chava, and hence into mankind. (Meshech Chochmah ibid.) Rabbi Immanuel Bernstein Parshas Toldos - Refining the Jewish People 2 Hashem informs her that “there are two nations in your womb,” which the Gemara interprets as a reference to the two great personalities of Rabbi Yehuda Hanassi and Antoninus, the former being descended from Yaakov and the latter from Esav. What Hashem is doing is explaining why she is carrying Esav as well, for although he himself is impure, he nonetheless carries within him certain pure personalities who will be his descendants – represented here by Antoninus, who, as the Gemara describes,6 was an extremely moral person who held Rabbi Yehudah Hanassi in the highest esteem.7 It is in consideration of future pure descendants such as these that Rivkah carries not only Yaakov, but also Esav!8 6 See e.g. Recognizing the conflicting nature of her two children, she then asks “Why is it thus with me?” What she means to ask is, why is she carrying both the pure and the impure child, unlike the first generation where the two were carried by different mothers? Hashem said to her: “Two nations are in your womb.” (25:22-23) Chazal1 explain Hashem’s words to Rivkah as alluding to two great personalities who would be descended from her: Rabbi Yehudah Hanassi from Yaakov and Antoninus of Rome from Esav. This was the question plaguing Rivkah, for as we know, the agitation of her child

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Meshech Chochma

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17 ноября 2023 г.

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Темы: family_education, health_mind, parsha_commentary