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e-TiM Parshat Shavua 5781 with Rabbi Michael Whitman: Parshat Toldot

Rabbi Michael Whitman

Audio
Nov 20, 2020

The Haftarot: How to Profit from the Prophets, Parshat Toldot

Dr. Moshe Sokolow

Audio
Nov 19, 2020

Parshat Toldot: The Next Generation

Rabbi Jay Kelman

Audio
Dec 5, 2019

Toldot: The Strength of Yitzchak

Rabbi Jay Kelman

Our Sages identified each of our patriarchs and matriarchs with the character traits that they best exemplified. Avraham, the master of hospitality, is the exemplar of chesed, loving-kindness. Yaakov, who learned the effects of mistruth the hard…
Article
Nov 29, 2019

Toldot: A Second Famine

Rabbi Jay Kelman

“And there was a famine in the land, aside from the first famine that was in the days of Avraham...And G-d appeared to him [Yitzchak] and said: Do not go down to Egypt, dwell in the land that I will tell you” (Breisheet 26:1-2). It is…
Article
Nov 9, 2018

Toldot: All My Children

Rabbi Jay Kelman

It is hard to imagine a more disparate couple than Yitzchak and Rivka, the quiet contemplative husband who would "meditate in the fields" (24:63), and the worldly, independent-thinking wife who “ran again to the well” (…
Article
Nov 17, 2017

Toldot: Pray for Others

Rabbi Jay Kelman

“Rabbi Yitzchak said: ‘Yitzchak our forefather was barren, as it is written ‘and Isaac entreated the Lord lenochach, alongside, his  wife’” (Breisheet 25:21, Yevamot 64a). The word lenochach is often translated as…
Article
Nov 21, 2014

Toldot: And He Grew Up

Rabbi Jay Kelman

"Vayigdal Haish, and the man grew up and grew more and more, until he became very big" (Breisheet 26:13). At first glance, this is a very strange verse. The Torah has just described Yitzchak's and Rivka's move to Gerrar (…
Article
Nov 1, 2013

Toldot: Blind Love

Rabbi Jay Kelman

How sad when parents do not understand their children, and are unaware of what they’re up to. Either through purposeful ignorance or just plain being clueless, it is not uncommon for parents to be unaware that their children are drinking, on drugs,…
Article
Nov 16, 2012

Toldot: Raising Children

Rabbi Jay Kelman

There is no greater challenge than that of raising refined children. It is a task with so many variables and fraught with such difficulty that many a wonderful home produces children who do not follow in the paths of their parents.Ironically (but…
Article
Nov 9, 2007