Toldot: A Story of Tension Toldot tells of Yitzchak and Rivkah, their children, and choices that shaped our destiny. Yitzchak ...

As we consider this week's Torah portion, we might also consider our own situations as present-day custodians and witnesses ...

Devorah Tucker-Fick is a Cantorial student at ALEPH. Our parsha is Toldot. In this parsha, two twins, Esau and Jacob, have complicated relations. Esau is beloved by his father, Jacob by his mother, ...

Young religious Zionist Torah scholars connect Eretz Yisrael to the parasha. In Parashat Toldot, the Malbim explains that the ...

Yet I loved Yaakov and hated Esav, so I made his mountains desolate and gave his inheritance over to desert jackals” (Malakhi ...

בראשית כו:יח וַיָּ֨שָׁב יִצְחָ֜ק וַיַּחְפֹּ֣ר ׀ אֶת־בְּאֵרֹ֣ת הַמַּ֗יִם אֲשֶׁ֤ר חָֽפְרוּ֙ בִּימֵי֙ אַבְרָהָ֣ם אָבִ֔יו… Isaac dug anew the wells which ...

This week’s Parshah, Parshat Toldot, primarily highlights the story of Yitzchak and his initial selection of Esav to receive the Berachot, only for Rivkah to initiate the process whereby Yaakov in ...

If the parasha is a saga of inheritance, of blessings fought over and destinies forged, then the haftarah is its echo, ...

Our guest this week is Rabbi Aderet Drucker, leader of the B'nai Shalom congregation in Walnut Creek, CA. Rabbi Drucker received her rabbinic ordination from The Jewish Theological Seminary in New ...

As Jacob leaves his parents’ home at the behest of his mother, Rebecca, the Torah declares that Rebecca was the mother of both Jacob and Esau (Genesis 28:5). At first blush, this seems to be an ...

In the aftermath of the Union army’s terrible defeat at the battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia, in December 1862, Abraham Lincoln felt compelled to relieve General Ambrose Burnside of command of the ...

Standing before his father Isaac, Jacob claims that he is his brother Esau (Genesis 27:19). While some commentators rationalize Jacob’s behavior, others insist that, for the rest of his life, he is ...