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Parshat Toldot

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2 Kislev 5776 14 November 2015

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The Parasha not only tells us in no uncer-

give unreservedly to someone else, irre-

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tain terms about the many differences

spective of what they give back to you or

between the twin brothers, Yaakov and

how they make you feel about yourself.

Chayim Arukim

to all those who have Yahrzeit this week as follows ‫שבת‬

The Greatest Love Of All

Esav, but it also tells us that their parents loved them unequally and in different

In fact, children need a mixture of both kinds of love from their parents in order

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Jimmy Attias

Mother

ways.

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Aryeh Gradel Paul Nathan Mark Saperia

Father Father Wife

Yitzchak loved Esav and Rivka loved Yaakov

the unconditional love that comes with no

Nigel Esterkin Mother & Father Eugene Esterkin Mother & Father Ann Rosenfield Father

(Bereshit 25:28) but their affection is

conditions or expectations - psychologists

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described in different ways. The Kli Yakar

call this ‘mother-love’, although it can

Thurs

Joan Middleweek Father Angela Chalkin Husband

(Rabbi Shlomo Ephraim Lunschitz - 1550-

come from either parent. But they also

1619) points out that Yitzchak’s love for

need to receive conditional love, to teach

Esav is expressed in the past tense and

them how to cope with the demands of

attributed to the meat that he killed and

other people, with expectations and with

prepared for him, while Rivka’s love for

rules.

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Matthew Davies Father Sonya Bower

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Mazaltov Michelle & Simon Bloch on the birth of a son.

Alan Becker on the birth of a great grandson.

Jonathan Cohen on the occasion of his engagement to Charlotte Sapier.

Angela & Anthony Cohen on the occasion of Jonathan’s engagement to Charlotte Sapier.

Caroline & Charles Levine on the birth of a grandson.

Linda & Barry Price on the birth of a granddaughter.

Rosalind & Eddie Price on the birth of a great granddaughter.

Yaakov is expressed in the present tense as continuous, and was unconditional affection.

Pirkei Avot (Ethics of the Fathers 5:16)

to flourish. They need to feel secure with

The need for balanced parenting can be seen clearly from the sibling rivalry in the Parasha and is as relevant to us today as it was then.

Rabbi Joel Portnoy

teaches us that conditional love dies when the condition on which it depends vanishes, but unconditional love is endless. The Hebrew word for love – ahava comes from the root hav, meaning to give, because real love is based on the wish to

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Parsha

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First Aliyah - 21 verses After struggling to conceive, Isaac and Rebecca pray to have children and are gifted with twins. After a difficult pregnancy, Rebecca gives birth to Esav and Jacob.

Esav became a hunter, and Jacob became an honest Torah scholar.

Esav exchanges his birthright for a bowl of stew.

Second Aliyah - 7 verses Isaac settles in Philistine. Fearful that he would be killed, he tells the townspeople that Rebecca is his sister. Avimelech notices that she must be his wife and decrees that no one may touch him. Isaac grows a lot of food there.

Third Aliyah - 10 verses Isaac becomes extremely wealthy, and the Philistines become envious of his wealth. Isaac leaves by their request and settles in Gerar.

There, he digs three new wells; two are contested over, and one is not.

Fourth Aliyah - 7 verses G-d appears to Isaac and blesses him, assuring him that He would always be with him. Avimelech requests to enter into a peace treaty with Isaac.

Fifth Aliyah - 33 verses Isaac agrees to the peace treaty.

In his older age, Isaac asks Esav to fetch him some food and he would bless him. Rebecca overhears and insists Jacob dress up like his brother, in order to get the blessing instead.

Sixth Aliyah - 23 verses Jacob is blessed with the “dew of the heaven and the fat of the earth”, and is granted mastery over his brother. When Esav learns of this, he is furious, and decides to kill Jacob. To prevent this, Rebecca asks Isaac to send Jacob away to Charan to find a wife.

Seventh Aliyah - 5 verses Isaac sends Jacob to Lavan, his brother-in-law’s home in Charan, to marry one of his daughters.

Esav marries again, this time to Machlat, the daughter of Yishmael.

Esav was born and hairy, bearded, of t se with a full teeth!

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Delve into the deeper side of Judaism This week we focus on the relationship between Jacob and Esav

This World Ain’t Big Enough For The Both Of Us After praying for children for twenty years, Rebecca finally became pregnant.

However, her pregnancy was unusual. She found the pains to be so excessive that she could hardly endure them. She felt as if two forces were battling in her womb, attempting to kill each other.

Whenever she passed a synagogue or study hall, she felt like the baby was trying to escape. When she came across a temple of idolworship, she had the same feeling.

Even though Jacob and Esav were unborn and did not yet possess minds of their own, their natural inclinations already manifested themselves even before birth.

Rebecca visited the study hall of Shem, Noach’s son, to inquire why her pregnancy was so strange.

Shem received a prophecy from Hashem concerning Rebecca. “Hashem says that you are carrying twins. He has told me to reveal to you secrets of future history which you are not to communicate further to any other

person: you will become the mother of two great nations. You carry both together, yet once they are born, even the entire world will be too small to contain them together in peace. How then can you expect them to coexist peacefully in your womb?”

Both nations will strive towards different goals.

One will be proud of its

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Once they are born, the world will be too small to contain them together in peace.

Torah while the other will pride itself on its wealth.  Both nations will produce mighty emperors - King Solomon, who will build the Temple, and Hadrian, who will destroy it.  From one nation will descend the Jewish sage and leader, Rabbi Judah the Prince, and from the other, the emperor Antoninus.

Shem prophesied further “The two nations you will

bear will not become great simultaneously. The rise of one will depend on the downfall of the other. They will continue to wrestle until the time of Moshiach, but in the end, the older will serve the younger.”

When Rebecca’s pregnancy came to an end, she gave birth to twins. The first of the twins was unusual. He did not look like a newborn baby, but rather emerged hairy, bearded, and with a full mouth of teeth. They named him ‘Esav’, meaning ‘the ready made one’, since he was so developed.

We are also told that if Esav had conquered his evil inclinations, he would have also devoted his strength to Hashem’s service, and they would have shared the Jewish leadership together, each contributing six tribes; Jacob, with his wife Rachel, and Esav would have married Leah.

Based on ‘The Midrash Says’

by Rabbi M. Weissman

Parsha Stats Toldot is the 6th of 54 sedras 6th of 12 in Bereshit Written on 172.7 lines in a Torah (ranks 36th) 106 verses - ranks 29th (9th in Bereshit) 1432 words - ranks 34th (10th in Bereshit) 5426 letters - ranks 33rd (10th in Bereshit)

Did You Know There are 17 Parshiyot in the Torah that do not contain a single mitzvah. Toldot is one of them. However there are plenty of lessons about developing character.

The person who told Rebecca that she was expecting twins was Shem, Noach’s son! He even outlived Abraham!

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Jacob was preparing a lentil stew for Isaac as a traditional mourner’s meal, because Abraham had just died.

Esav married at the age of 40, in an attempt to be like Isaac who also married at that age.

Read through the Parsha in English and find answers to the questions.

LOLLIPOPS WILL BE AWARDED TO ANYONE WHO READS THROUGH IT, AND TELLS RABBI NICK THE CORRECT ANSWERS!

How old was Isaac when he got married?

How old was Isaac when Jacob and Esav were born?

How old was Esav when he got married?

What were the names of the wells that were dug?

Where was Jacob told to flee to when Rebecca heard Esav wanted to kill him?

If Jacob is known as the Man of Truth, how could he deceive his father?t

Just For Fun Question: Who was the first doctor in the Torah?

Answer: Jacob.

He knew how to heel.

L EDUCATION

KING AHEAD SAVE THE DATE

In The Spotlight Leah Simon

This week’s Kiddush is hosted

by Rebecca and David Simon to mark the birth of their daughter, Leah.

Relevance Shiur

MITZVAH DAY

‘The Binding of Isaac, and Yishmael’ Do the Biblical and Quranic stories of fratricide provide new paradigms for Muslim-Jewish engagement?

Rabbi Natan Levy Monday 16th November - 8.15pm At the home of Sarah and Simon Ellenbogen Meerbrook, Alan Drive, WA15 0LR

YOUTH Tuesday Dinner & Discussion - 7.30pm Years 7-13 Thursday Cholent & Chill - 8.00pm Years 11-13 For more details on all events visit www.halehype.com, or contact youth@hale-community.org.uk If you would like to sponsor an edition of ‘Something For Everyone’, in honour of a simcha or for a yahrtzeit, or for any reason, please contact the Shule office on 0161 980 8846 or admin@hale-community.org.uk

Leah was born nearly six months ago, on 27th April 2015, and is Rebecca and David’s third child. She has two older brothers - Jacob (5), who is in Year 1 at North Cheshire, and Joshua (2), who is at Hale Nursery. Her parents make sure the boys are always behaving, because Leah is a keen observer, and watches everything that is going on!

Leah will be spending this special Shabbat with her proud grandparents Gillian and Stephen Cohen, and Claire and Mike Simon, who join us from Whitefield. We thank them for their hospitality, and we wish Leah a very happy and healthy future.

Kiddushim 14 November Rebecca & David Simon 21 November Community Kiddush 28 November Lady Beryl Steinberg