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Kislev 1, 5776 - November 13, 2015
This is the portion of Scripture that will be read in synagogues around the world during the Shabbat (Saturday) service.
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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.
“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), Yitzchak (Isaac), the son of Sarah and Abraham, 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 and provided water for him and his camels. Yitzchak was 40 when he married her.
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Shabbat Shalom - Parasha Toldot - Power of the Father's 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!
TOLDOT (Generations)
Genesis 25:19–28:9; Malachi 1:1–2:7; Romans
9:6–29
“And these are the
generations [toldot] of Yitzchak [Isaac], Avraham’s [Abraham] son: Avraham begat Yitzchak.”
(Genesis 25:19)
(Genesis 25:19)
In our last Parasha (Torah portion), Yitzchak (Isaac), the
son of Sarah and Abraham, 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 and
provided 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)
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.
It is traditionally believed that he prayed for 19 years.
Moreover, it is also believed that he prayed in unity with
Rivkah.
What a lesson for us
today! Just because we pray once and do not receive an
answer does not mean we should stop 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)
(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 adamah (land)
and dam (blood)
which conveys Esau’s love of living off the land, hunting and
thirst for blood.
The Mess of Pottage, by James Tissot
While Jacob had a quiet and seemingly spiritual-minded
nature, Esau 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 27:24)
Birthrights come with responsibilities as well as
blessings.
Even though Jacob was not the firstborn, he receives great
blessings bestowed upon him by his father Isaac, coupled with
the responsibility to lead 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, who is the firstborn son 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)
Jacob received his
father’s firstborn blessing because it was pre-ordained
according to the will of God 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 during the
expulsion of Jews from England (1290), the tortures of the
Spanish Inquisition (1478–1834), and the genocide of six
million Jews in the Holocaust (1941–1945).
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 curse
continues to hold 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. Although 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 and
everyone 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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Ultimate Blessing to the Promised Land
“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)
As God tested Abraham's faith, Isaac likely suffered some
post traumatic stress from being tied up by his father and
almost sacrificed. But in this Parasha, we see that Isaac
is a man of Godly character with Godly vision who continues
to carry on his father’s business by re-digging the
wells Abraham had dug on his way to Beer Sheva.
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
21:16–17)
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
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