Toledot: The Partnership | Rabbi Ariel Mizrahi

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Okay, good morning everyone. Thank you for joining us on this beautiful Thursday morning as we are studying together to do. Of course, the paras is very famous for the episode of wanting to bless his son and he calls him over and of course the switcheroon happens where instead of giving the blessings, [snorts] his brother comes in and he makes believe that he's and he takes the blessings. Of course, this was not done on Yakov's own. Uh he didn't do not done on Yakov's own. Uh he didn't do it through himself, but his mother instead it was at her behest. She encouraged him to do this. She maybe even demanded that he do this. And what whatever ends up happening is uh is the rest of the para and of course we read this every year and we need we have a lot of questions. We need to understand what exactly is going on. I mean first and foremost let's just start with the beginning of the story. wants to bless. So the obvious question is why So the obvious question is why you know we sometimes think that was this old blind man when maybe he lost it he didn't know the truth and shalom I mean it's hard to talk like that about the [snorts] soak was aware was he understood what was going on so what was he thinking why did he want to bless is Isav's the wrong kid. Isav's not the one.

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3. 5:45within the [clears throat] Jewish people. We know what ended up happening is Hashem chose the…
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5. 11:22stops growing. So coral is not a fully a plant but it's not fully a stone.…
6. 14:33about Hashem. not think spiritual in this blessing. He's not picking the future. He's not choosing…
7. 17:42So both end up losing is worried. So what does do of you calls over and…
8. 20:20was that personality who can study, who can live a life of spirituality. He was Tom.…
9. 23:28till now we read of Yakov Au who is a very shy studious in the tent…
10. 26:33Rifka was calculating. It says in the end of time, the land will be full of…

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