How did Jacob cheat his father?

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This week's para is called tolot or an Ashkanazic pronunciation tollos and um it means somewhere there it means um descendants or history and this is the story of Yeitzka the son of Abraham. So we spent three paras talking about Abraham's story and now we move on. uh we have Abraham dies at the end of last week's para and now we move on and we begin to talk about um Yitzk Isaac Abraham's son and his wife Rebecca Isaac Abraham's son and his wife Rebecca it begins by saying that um they do not have children for many years for 20 years they don't have children they're married without children they pray to Hashem and finally um Rifka is pregnant however her pregnancy is very painful and so she goes to seek out a prophet Our sages say the only prophet in those days was um the son of Noah who was still alive. His name was Shane who lived in Jerusalem and he was a prophet. So she went to him and he told her that she's going to have two nations that are she's going to have two nations that are going to battle each other and the younger one is going to um control or um rule over the the older one. And then the uh then it continues to tell us that there was a famine in the land. Yitzkak, his wife and his sons went to the land, the Philistine land. Um, Abraham had previously lived in Philistine land where his his wife Sarah had been kidnapped. Yitzk was afraid that his wife would be kidnapped and if they knew that she was married, they would just kill him. So, um, he tasked

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1. 0:33This week's para is called tolot or an Ashkanazic pronunciation tollos and um it means somewhere…
2. 5:43And um [clears throat] in the Kabad calendar, it's an important date because u the Rebi…
3. 11:54and bless me." And Yitzkak says, "But you were just here. I just Who was the…
4. 17:38Hashem chooses as the continuation of that legacy rejecting all the other children. Now when Hashem…
5. 23:13at this time. He still is has time to get married and have at least 13…
6. 28:47Asab. He's the wrong one." Well, she didn't want to tell him that Asa was bad.…
7. 33:56sacrifices and that is what he did. So here hashem is advising Samuel to use deception…
8. 39:39open up from underneath him. And so he recognizes that Yakov is the righteous one and…
9. 45:27was first pregnant with Yakov and Asaf she goes to the prophet Shane and the prophet…
10. 51:13of Yakov is a story of dealing with one challenge after the next and how he…

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