2025 Parashat Toledot - The Clash of Two Worlds (Zera Shimshon 1)

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Yitzchak Sakhai’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

with friends and family. The in says and these are the offsprings of Isaac the son of Abraham. Now that should already kind of put a question mark for us as to why the Torah has to tell us these are the offsprings of the son of Abraham. just tell us these are the offsprings of and then rashi makes it even more interesting. Rashi usually tells us what we would not Rashi usually tells us what we would not know otherwise meaning try to find a problem and resolve it for us. But here rashi on this p is very strange or at least to our eyes rashi says on these same words that it says Abraham and these are the offsprings of the son of Abraham. Rashi says this is referring to this is referring to and that are spoken about in this para. So you have to ask yourself what do you mean? I don't rashi to tell me who were the offsprings of it. We're reading the para. The next pesukim are going to tell me who's who were children, Jacob and that's what the whole para talks about, right? Why do I need Rashi to come and tell me, oh, you know what offsprings the Torah is talking about? Jacob and Asav that talking about? Jacob and Asav that you're about to read about right now. It's it's about to tell you in the next why Rashi that's not Rashi's job. That's not what Rashi does ever to point out the obvious. So whenever, which doesn't happen that often, whenever in the commentary of Rashi, you see something that to you or to us it's obvious, it means there's something Rashi is trying to bring out that you might not see on your own.

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1. 0:33with friends and family. The in says and these are the offsprings of Isaac the son…
2. 4:10the greatest commentator on the entire Torah comes and comments on a puk it means there…
3. 8:15children how could it be that this para says and these are what do those have…
4. 12:40Why? Because through those children through those children, those sparks of holiness found a way to…
5. 16:49And if you don't have a friction to work against, then you're not going to have…
6. 21:00You know, October 7th happens. Like we said so many times, how many people have become…
7. 25:13now gimm in Hebrew means great like gonim great [snorts] rashi right there catches that rashi…
8. 29:55the children of Ben Abraham just Just like Abraham was a sadik. Even though Abraham, which…
9. 34:09Um, when when when you sleep at night and everybody's asleep at night, who protects the…
10. 38:25children of Isav and how Esav's children also became sadikim and righteous and great people. So…

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