{"id":2302,"date":"2016-03-01T01:43:22","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T01:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=2302"},"modified":"2016-03-02T01:01:28","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T01:01:28","slug":"toldot-5766","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=2302","title":{"rendered":"Toldot (5766)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Drash Cards for Toldot (5766)<\/strong><\/p>\n

by Marc Mangel<\/p>\n

\u2022 We have lots to learn from Ch 28, v5 \u00a0“Mother of Jacob and Esau”. Rashi says that he does not know what this means (there are 76 places where he says this), which implies that our exegesis is still incomplete.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Nitziv teaches that Yitzchak thought Esau ~ physical blessing, Jacob ~spiritual blessing<\/p>\n

\u2022 But Rivka thought — No, both spirituality and physical power are needed (although the Rashbam is not clear why she favored Jacob). \u00a0Harold Kusher reminds us that one message of the Shoah is the folly of powerlessness — that is, how spot on Rivka was.<\/p>\n

\u2022 From this, Rashi says that just as Sarah was a greater prophet than Abraham, so Rivka is greater than Yitzchak.<\/p>\n

\u2022 AB Yehoshua taught that after 2000 years of powerlessness, Jews have yet to balance the archetypes of mind and body, morality and power, and that we would do well to remember that the brothers were twins in the womb.<\/p>\n

\u2022 This is the 10th anniversary of the assassination of Rabin, who was teaching that Israel is now strong (compared to the situations in 1967 or 1973, which were existential threats) and must be moral.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Chazal see Esau as a wasted opportunity because he and Yaakov were raised exactly in the same way, but of course children never are.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Mishle 22:6 says “Train the youth in accordance with his way” about which Hirsch teaches all human development depends upon the coordination of innate qualities and the way he is educated.<\/p>\n

\u2022 In summary — we need both spiritual and physical strength. \u00a0The way this is achieved is different for each of us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Drash Cards for Toldot (5766) by Marc Mangel \u2022 We have lots to learn from Ch 28, v5 \u00a0“Mother of Jacob and Esau”. Rashi says that he does not know what this means (there are 76 places where he says this), which implies that our exegesis is still incomplete. \u2022 The Nitziv teaches that Yitzchak … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":51,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2302","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2302"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2304,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2302\/revisions\/2304"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}