{"id":2312,"date":"2016-03-09T01:14:37","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T01:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=2312"},"modified":"2016-03-09T01:14:37","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T01:14:37","slug":"vayeitze-5761","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=2312","title":{"rendered":"VaYeitze (5761)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Drash Cards for VaYeitze (5761)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>by Marc Mangel<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 This year &#8212; of big sweeping issues (Christian year 2000) &#8212; I want to discuss mothers and sons.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 First point: mothers have ambitions for their sons. \u00a0For example, Sarah and Isaac in Ch 17, v 19; Ch 21, v 9; Ch 21, v 12-13<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Second point: mothers have preferences among their children (vs 27, 28). The Madras tells us that Rivka and Yitzchak were in dispute about who will carry on the covenant. But she\u00a0<strong>knew<\/strong> and hence had to trick him.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Now we come to Leah, Rachel, Bilah, and Zilpah. \u00a0Hirsch tells us that we learn from Leah how to deal with humiliation without revenge and how she trusted in HaShem.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 There is an interlude of Rachel&#8217;s prayer (Ch 30, v 1). Is she a petulant rich little girl? Does she have a superficial understanding of God?<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Compare Jacob&#8217;s response with Abraham&#8217;s hearing the voice of a barren Sarah.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 But in the end God harkened to the voices of Rachel and Leah.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Overall &#8212; Mothers were essential to the success of the project of the Jewish people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drash Cards for VaYeitze (5761) by Marc Mangel \u2022 This year &#8212; of big sweeping issues (Christian year 2000) &#8212; I want to discuss mothers and sons. \u2022 First point: mothers have ambitions for their sons. \u00a0For example, Sarah and Isaac in Ch 17, v 19; Ch 21, v 9; Ch 21, v 12-13 \u2022 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=2312\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-2312","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2312","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=2312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2313,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2312\/revisions\/2313"}],"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=2312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}