“Why does Isaac Choose Esau rather than Jacob?” — Rabbi Shlomo Riskin’s insights into Parshat Toldot
Rabbi Shlomo Riskin
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Day: November 12, 2017
“Parsha to the Point” – Toldot 5778
Parshat Toldot (Genesis 25:19-28:9) Rabbi David Stav “It came to pass when Isaac was old, and his eyes were too dim to see…” [Gen. 27:1]. Why did Isaac go blind? Was this an ailment of old age? Or perhaps was it an accident that led to this condition? The Torah does not provide an explicit answer, but …
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Parshat Toldot (Genesis 25:19-28:9) Rabbi Shlomo Riskin Efrat, Israel — “Now Isaac loved Esau, because the hunt was in his mouth, while Rebecca loved Jacob” [Gen. 25:28]. The watershed moment in Jacob’s life—the repercussions of which surface in every subsequent generation of Jewish history—is the act deceiving his father, Isaac, in order to wrest the …