blank_970_500 blank_345_230
blank_970_500 blank_345_230
November 18, 2014

5775 – Parashat Toledot with Rabbi David Silber

Rabbi David Silber

Rabbi David Silber

David Silber is the founder and dean of Drisha Institute for Jewish Education in New York and Israel. Rabbi Silber received ordination from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. He is a recipient of the Covenant Award, for excellence in innovative Jewish education, and is the author of A Passover Haggadah: Go Forth and Learn (Jewish Publication Society 2011), For Such a Time as This: Biblical Reflections in the Book of Esther (Koren Publishers 2017), and Malkhut Adam: Iyunim Bsefer Shmuel (Maggid 2021). He is also a nationally acclaimed lecturer on the Bible. Rabbi Silber is married to Dr. Devora Steinmetz. They have eight children and live in New York City.

Click here to access other recorded classes by David Silber.

icon Audio
icon Transcript
icon Video

Looking for thoughts on this week’s Torah portion to share with friends and family around the Shabbat table? Rabbi Silber presents some quick words on Parashat Toledot to help start meaningful conversations.

Thoughts on the Parashah is a series of shortform remarks on the weekly Torah portion, presented by a range of speakers.

This episode was originally recorded on 11/18/2014

Thoughts on Parashat Toledot

Transcript
because there is only one speaker, you can format the transcript as paragraph text - create line breaks when you are switching to Hebrew, and use standard Biblical source notation, e.g. (Genesis 1:1)

this week’s parsha para todos begins by
describing first you suck and then rifka
vo todo dia sluttin avrohom Romilly it
it’s luck this is the story of years
avrohom began yet stuck please luck
without my yaya dacosta with car but
it’s well army me padharo what LaVon
Harvey will be shocked if book was 60
years old was 40 years old when he took
rifka the door of the to hell the
aramean from madonnarama the sister of
LaVon dia and out the aramean as a wife
the Italian suckish an ANOVA is Toki
acaba he is looking treated God
concerning his wife when she was buried
my aunt LOL and God wasn’t treated of
him got tired of koshto and his wife
Rebecca conceived by rota to Havana Cuba
fat Umbreon kendamas Nov but Taylor’s
pedroche Hashem the children strolled
within her she said if so why why am i
that she went to inquire of God we have
her a picture of two people couple i
might say a loving couple his look is
praying for his wife everyone did I pray
for Sarah to have a child it’s the
praise for his wife Rebecca and the
Torah describes them in his corpse who
came in the following way you thought
was the son of Abraham Abraham begat
instruct his cart is Abraham’s
covenantal child his caucus Adrian’s son
in as much as he sees himself in the
text as carrying on a bronze tradition
in this week’s portion he digs up the
same wealth and his father had dug up it
was stopped up by the Philistines he
gives them the same
James and his father had given those
wells he’s very connected to his father
he’s very connected to God by Italian
/em he entreats God via Todd by a
cocktail of wash em God isn’t treated of
Isaac one gets the sense as he speaking
God’s already answering him he’s so
unbelievably close when it comes to
rifka the Torah tells us something
different about Africa here’s what Mary
rifka the door with the pechu el dr amin
the aramean from pardon aram the sister
of luck on the aramean rebecca the
aramean rifka let us not forget he will
his love on sister and that employs many
things later in the pouches she will
instruct her son Yakov to deceive his
blind father the aramean and there’s
something else about coming from Arad
she travels a long distance to come to
the land of Canaan she into it that’s
what God demands of her she’s going to
make that leap of faith she’s not born
with Abraham as our Father she’s lavon’s
sister she’s the aramean and being the
aramean being of on sister she doesn’t
have easy access to God when this is
trust children struggling insider at a
larochette passion she goes to be
delaesh to seek out an answer the answer
is not there she’s a seeker and a
searcher and there’s a strength against
luck and there’s a strength of terrific
up it’s like us firmly rooted in his
condition any struggles his struggles
are done maintaining the past being
loyal to the past but if there’s a
different struck
to search and to find the answer is not
there you have to search it and in this
parsha in the beginning of the Pasha the
answer to her search the dro chicaza
snake ended nayef she’s told of the
children insider that the greater shall
serve the younger she’s told the piece
of information and in this week’s cetera
Isaac does not have one of the main
lessons with enter this week cetera is
that sometimes those that have to seek
and search they have to expend an effort
but often they arrive and information
and understandings insights that the one
who was born with it the one who is
firmly rooted cannot obtain cannot see
so you thought plays a very important
role in this week cetera in terms of
maintaining tradition in terms of his
connectedness to the lands and rivka has
the intuition the insight and the
understanding how the blessing is to
proceed it may be true that her message
of the methods of levada but the insight
is a very true one she wasn’t yet look
understands how the covenantal blessing
of Aram is the past three years luck to
her son Yakov tomorrow