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Toldot: Great Food

Rabbi Jay Kelman

When discussing the themes of Sefer Beresheit one would not necessarily place food high on the list. Yet it could be argued that many of the major transition points in the book occur around food. Our expulsion from gan eden was…
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Parshat Shavua 5782 with weekly guest speaker (Toldot)

Rabbi Yitzchak Etshalom

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Toldot: A Wonderful Sin!

Rabbi Jay Kelman

"When Eisav heard his father’s words he let out a most loud and bitter scream" (27:34). Our Sages sensitive to even minor failings of our Biblical heroes, coupled with their keen textual analysis saw a parallel between this verse and…
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e-TiM Parshat Shavua 5781 with Rabbi Michael Whitman: Parshat Toldot

Rabbi Michael Whitman

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

Dr. Moshe Sokolow

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Parshat Toldot: The Next Generation

Rabbi Jay Kelman

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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…
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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…
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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” (…
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Scholar in Residence: Dr. Yonatan Feintuch

Dr. Yonatan Feintuch

Join us as the Or Chaim Minyan welcomes another distinguished Scholar in Residence for Shabbat! Dr. Yonatan Feintuch teaches Talmud, Midrash and Tanach and Jewish Education at Yeshivat Har Etzion Beit Midrash for Women in Migdal Oz, Herzog College…
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