Shabbat Shalom - Parasha Toldot (Generations) - The Battle for Blessing !!!
Welcome to Toldot (Generations), this week’s Parasha (Torah Portion). This is the portion of Scripture that will be read
in synagogues around the world during the Shabbat (Saturday) service. Please read along with us; we know you will be blessed !
“And these are the generations [toldot] of Yitzchak [Isaac], Avraham’s [Abraham] son: Avraham begat Yitzchak.” (Genesis 25:19)
In our last Parasha (Torah portion), the son of Sarah and Abraham, Yitzchak (Isaac), carried on the legacy of his parents’
faith and obedience to Adonai. After his mother died, Abraham sent his servant to bring home a wife for Yitzchak from
among Abraham’s kinsmen. At the well where the women of the town would soon appear, the servant prayed for God’s
help in locating the perfect wife for Yitzchak. Just then, Rivkah (Rebecca) arrived at the well to provide water for him and
his camels. Yitzchak was 40 when he married her.
Prayer Brings Blessings - “Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife, because she was childless.
The LORD answered his prayer [atar], and his wife Rebekah became pregnant.” (Genesis 25:21)
In this week’s Parasha, we discover that Rivkah is barren; in fact, according to Jewish tradition,
she was born without a womb. She is one of seven women in the Torah who have difficulty conceiving
but finally come to bear children by the grace of God, in this case, in answer to her husband’s prayer.
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And Isaac intreated the Lord for his wife, because she was barren: and the Lord was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
Genesis 25:21 KJV
Shabbat Shalom - Parasha Toldot (Generations) - The Battle for Blessing !!!
The Hebrew text of the Torah
Shabbat Shalom !
Welcome to Toldot
(Generations),
this week’s Parasha (Torah Portion).
this week’s Parasha (Torah Portion).
This is the portion of Scripture that will be read in
synagogues around the world during the Shabbat (Saturday)
service. Please read along with us; we know you will be
blessed!
Parasha Toldot
(Generations)
Genesis 25:19–28:9; Malachi 1:1–2:7; Luke
3:1–18
“And these are the
generations [toldot] of Yitzchak [Isaac], Avraham’s [Abraham] son: Avraham begat Yitzchak.” (Genesis
25:19)
In our last Parasha (Torah portion), the son of Sarah
and Abraham, Yitzchak (Isaac), carried on the legacy
of his parents’ faith and obedience to Adonai.
After his mother died, Abraham sent his servant to bring
home a wife for Yitzchak from among Abraham’s kinsmen.
At the well where the women of the town would soon
appear, the servant prayed for God’s help in locating the
perfect wife for Yitzchak. Just then, Rivkah (Rebecca)
arrived at the well to provide water for him and his camels.
Yitzchak was 40 when he married her.
Reading the Torah at the Bimah in the synagogue
Prayer Brings
Blessings
“Isaac prayed to the
LORD on behalf of his wife, because she was childless.
The LORD answered his prayer
[atar], and his wife Rebekah
became pregnant.” (Genesis 25:21)
It is traditionally believed that he prayed for 19
years. Moreover, it is also believed that he prayed in
unity with Rivkah.
Just because we
pray once and do not receive an answer does not mean we
should not continue praying! God wants us to bring our
requests to Him in the unity of faith.
The Hebrew expression used in Genesis 25:21 for prayer (atar עָתַר),
which can also mean to dig,
is related to the Hebrew word for pitchfork (eter). The
Talmud (Jewish Oral Law) explains the connection: “As a
pitchfork turns the sheaves of grain from one position to
another, so does the prayer of the righteous turn the
dispensations of the Holy One, blessed be He, from the
attribute of anger to the attribute of mercy.”
Yitzchak’s prayer penetrated the foundation of heaven,
and just as grain is turned over with a pitchfork, so too
was God’s judgment of barrenness upon Rivkah “turned over”
and reversed by God’s mercy because of prayer.
A Jewish man prays at the Western (Wailing) Wall.
Of course, the Bible makes it clear that we are to be
fruitful and multiply; however, though seed is sown,
it is God who opens the womb.
it is God who opens the womb.
“Behold, children are a
heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb is a reward.
Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, so are the children
of one’s youth. Happy is the man who has his quiver full
of them; they shall not be ashamed, but shall speak with
their enemies in the gate.” (Psalm 127:3–5)
Sarah, Abraham’s wife, came up with her own solution for
her barrenness—she suggested a surrogate mother—Hagar. In
her own efforts, she received Ishmael. Hannah, another
barren woman, went to the Temple and cried out to the Lord
for a child and she received the prophet Samuel.
Rikvah did neither. Instead, she turned to her husband who
was her spiritual covering to entreat the Lord on her
behalf, and God answered Isaac’s prayers
for the miraculous gift of new life. Rivkah found herself
pregnant with not just one child—but twins—a double portion
!
Birthright Bring
Blessings
“And the boys grew; and
Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob
was a quiet man, dwelling in tents.” (Genesis 25:27)
The twin boys grew up with distinctive character traits,
which are reflected in their names. Yaacov (Jacob’s Hebrew
name) is related to the word eikev
means the heel of the foot.
He was so named because he grabbed his brother’s heel at
birth. This shows Jacob’s tenacity to win the
birthright and carry forward the spiritual blessings that
God promised to his father Abraham.
Esau, however, was named Esav, from the Semitic root, seir,
meaning thick-haired.
He was also nicknamed Adom,
the Hebrew word for red,
since he was born “red and hairy.” Adom is also related to
dam (blood)
which conveys Esau’s love of hunting and thirst for blood.
The Mess of Pottage,
by James Tissot
While Jacob had a quiet, seemingly spiritual-minded
nature, Esau’s had a carnal one, as shown in the way he so easily trades
something of eternal spiritual value (his birthright)
for something that satisfies his physical hunger (a bowl
of lentils). To him, they were equal.
“'Look, I am about to die
[of hunger],’ Esau said. ‘What good is the birthright to
me?’” (Genesis 27:32)
Birthrights come with responsibilities as well
as blessings, and Jacob receives great blessings
bestowed upon him by his father Isaac, coupled with
leadership of the nations.
“May God give you heaven’s
dew and earth’s richness—an abundance of grain and new
wine. May nations serve you and peoples bow down to you.”
(Genesis 27:28–29)
Esau, however, receives curses:
“Your dwelling will be
away from the earth’s richness, away from the dew of
heaven above. You will live by the sword and you will
serve your brother.” (Genesis 27:39–40)
Through all the drama and even
trickery, it is Jacob who received his
father’s firstborn blessing; for it was pre-ordained
according to God’s will who said, “Jacob have I loved; but
Esau I hated.” (Romans 9:13)
A 13-year-old boy prays at the Western (Wailing) Wall before reading
the Torah.
The Descendants of
Curses Bring More of the Same
Just as Cain’s jealousy turned into a murderous
plot to kill his brother, Abel, Esau plotted to kill
Jacob, but without success.
This struggle between the brothers did not suddenly
appear. Even in Rivkah’s womb, the boys jostled with each
other. Rivkah sought
wisdom from the Lord, who revealed to her a truth that
continues to this day:
“Two nations are in your
womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated;
one people will be stronger than the other, and the older
will serve the younger.” (Genesis 25:23)
Rabbis over the centuries have compared the
jealous, hate-filled character of Esau to the perpetual
struggle between the descendants of both brothers.
Jacob’s descendants were birthed out of obedience to his
father Isaac who told him not to marry a Canaanite woman,
and he did not.
Esau, on the other hand, married two Canaanite women.
One of Esau’s Canaanite offspring was Amalek who became an
archenemy of pre-state Israel by attacking Moses and the
Israelites while in the wilderness (Exodus 17). They also
invaded Israel during the time of the Judges:
“Whenever the Israelites
planted their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites and other
eastern peoples invaded the country.”
(Judges 6:3)
(Judges 6:3)
Reading from the Torah scroll
Many try to link the genealogy of Esau and the
Amalekites to the modern enemies of Israel. While this
might be accurate to some degree, the truth is that
the spirit of Esau and the Amalekites to destroy the heirs
of blessing has remained alive among many nations.
We saw this hatred in modern pre-state Israel in the
expulsion of Jews from England, the tortures of the Spanish
Inquisition, and the genocide of six million Jews in the
Holocaust.
We saw its vibrancy
continue as surrounding nations invaded the newly-formed
modern Israel in 1948, again in 1967, and most
recently with terrorist groups that vow to claim the
land “from the river to the sea” for their own
birthright.
Orthodox Jewish children pray at the Western (Wailing) Wall.
While half of the Jewish population has been
wiped out in recent decades and specific plans to
remove us from the land circulate today, ultimately the Lord
will uphold His vows to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and their
descendants:
“I am the Lord, the God of
your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you
[Jacob] and your descendants the land on which you are
lying. Your descendants will be like the dust of the
earth, and ... all peoples on earth will be blessed
through you and your offspring.” (Genesis 28:13–14)
Those who attack
God’s everlasting plans through Jacob are, in fact,
placing curses over their own land.
Isaac prayed over Jacob, “May
those who curse you be cursed” (Genesis 27:29),
and God assures us through the Prophet Ezekiel that this
continues to be true.
“Because
you have had an ancient hatred, and have shed the blood of
the children of Israel by the power of the sword at the
time of their calamity, when their iniquity came to an
end, therefore, as I live,’ says the Lord God, ‘I will prepare you for blood, and blood shall pursue
you; since you have not hated blood, therefore blood shall
pursue you.’” (Ezekiel 35:5–6)
Christians stand with Israel at a rally in London.
The focus of this Parasha is not really curses, but
blessings.
The Hebrew word for blessed
(baruch) is significant in this
Parasha: out of 106 verses, baruch appears 34 times!
This word, baruch, comes from brachah (blessing), but with a small
change in vowel, it becomes breicha—a
wellspring of water or
even a pool.
Today we see that God has kept His promise to
turn the barren places of this land into wellsprings and
pools of water:
“I will make rivers flow
on barren heights, and springs within the valleys. I will
turn the desert into pools of water, and the parched
ground into springs.” (Isaiah 41:18)
Children at Eshbah farm in Israel's Negev Desert
(Photo: Go Israel /Tal Glick).
Inheriting the
Blessing
During the saga of Jacob and Esau, a famine came over
the Land. While Abraham went down to Egypt for food
at times of famine, the Lord instructed Isaac to stay.
“The Lord appeared to
Isaac and said, ‘Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land
where I tell you to live.’” (Genesis
26:2)
Like Abraham, Isaac obeyed the Lord and, indeed, was
blessed by God for it.
“Sojourn in this land, and
I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee,
and unto thy seed, I will give all these lands, and I will
establish the oath which I swore unto Abraham thy father.”
(Genesis 26:3)
(Genesis 26:3)
This shows us the
wisdom of seeking the Lord for solutions to our problems
and not necessarily repeating what our father before us
did, or what seems the logical answer.
God may ask us to stay in a situation when everything is
telling us to get out—fast!
If God is instructing us to stay, then even in a famine
we can “bloom where we are planted.”
An injured Israeli child
As the jealous and hateful spirit of Esau rises
up in Jerusalem and Israel at large, there is a temptation
to think we here in Israel should escape and “go down to
Egypt” or perhaps to
the US or Canada.
But if the Spirit of God tells us to stay, then we can
know that He will protect us and establish the oath He swore
unto our forefathers to give us this Land.
"For My thoughts are not
your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways," declares
the LORD.” (Isaiah 55:8)
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“Isaac reopened the
wells that had been dug in the time of his father
Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after
Abraham died, and he gave them the same names his father
had given them.” (Genesis 26:18)
Why are these wells significant? They were vital
sources of water in a harsh, dry desert land. But here we
see that these life-giving water holes had been
intentionally filled with dirt. This can only be interpreted as a
barbaric act, done to discourage and even endanger life,
in order to prevent Isaac from accessing his father’s
wells.
We see similar discouragement from lack of water when
the children of Israel camped in the wilderness after their
exodus from Egypt. When they finally came to a well, they
sang praises to Adonai:
“From there they went to
Beer, which is the well where the LORD said to Moses,
‘Gather the people together, and I will give them water.’
Then Israel sang this song: ‘Spring up, O well! ...’” (Numbers
21:16–18)
An ancient well outside the city gates of Beer Sheva (Photo: Go Israel)
Abraham had purposefully named these wells
after God, to remind people that He is the source of all
life. It is with joy today that we draw from
deep wells of living water.
“With joy you will draw
water from the wells of salvation.”
(Isaiah 12:3)
(Isaiah 12:3)
When Yeshua ministered to the Samaritan woman at a well,
He made the bold claim of being the Jewish Messiah. There,
He proclaimed Himself to be the source of living waters that
leads to eternal life.
“But whoever drinks the
water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I
give them will become in them a spring of water welling up
to eternal life." (John 4:14)
The ultimate heirs of blessing are the heirs of the
promised Messiah, Yeshua HaMashiach, who became the final
sacrifice for all who trust and believe that He is that
promise.
This salvation is a free gift that 99% of Jewish People
do not yet know about because no one has explained to them
how the Hebrew Scriptures reveal Yeshua as their promised
Messiah.
Nevertheless, the
Bible promises that in these last days, as the Times of
the Gentiles come to a close, all of Israel will be
saved.
"I do not want you to be
ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that
you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a
hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles
has come in, and in this way all of Israel will be
saved."
(Romans 11:25–26)
(Romans 11:25–26)
You can be part of this end-time move of God by
helping Bibles for Israel bring the Good News of Yeshua to
the Holy Land.
"You will again
have compassion on us; You will tread our sins
underfoot and hurl all our iniquities into the depths
of the sea." (Micah 7:19)
"Hear the word of the
LORD, you nations; proclaim it in distant coastlands:
'He who scattered Israel will gather them and will
watch over His flock like a shepherd.'"
(Jeremiah 31:10)
(Jeremiah 31:10)
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