by Rabbi Tuly Weisz | f 5, 2021 | Toldot, Mourning
Esau returned home from the field to find Jacob cooking lentil stew. Famished from a tiring day of hunting, Esau demanded that Jacob give him some lentil stew to eat, Jacob agreed on the condition that Esau would sell him his birthright. Feeling that he had no use for...
by Rabbi Tuly Weisz | f 4, 2021 | Toldot
Yaakov said, “First sell me your birthright.” And Esau said, “I am at the point of death, so of what use is my birthright to me?” But Yaakov said, “Swear to me first.” So he swore to him and sold his birthright to Yaakov. Yaakov then gave Esau bread and lentil stew;...
by Rabbi Tuly Weisz | f 3, 2021 | Toldot
Although they were twins, Jacob (Yaakov) and Esau couldn’t have been more different. Esau was a skillful hunter, an outdoorsman while his younger brother Jacob was a meditative and thoughtful man who “dwelled in tents.” As a forefather of the Jewish people, Jacob...
by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 14, 2016 | Toldot
In 1897, after the First Zionist Congress, an American Evangelical pastor named William E. Blackstone sent Theodor Herzl a bible marking all the references to the Jewish people’s right to the Land of Israel. Blackstone’s fervent campaign for the Jewish return to...
