Parsha: Toldot

Spanish: Toldot – Family Edition 5780

29th November 2019

Click Here to Download: SPANISH TRANSLATION OF TOLDOT 5780: FAMILY EDITION ________________ For the Main Edition of this … Read more

26th November 2019

Click on the image below to download this week’s Family Edition of Covenant & Conversation for Toldot. The Family Edition … Read more

25th November 2019

Download the accompanying Family Edition here! It’s a haunting question. Why did Isaac love Esau? The verse says so explicitly: … Read more

5th November 2018

TOLDOT: THE COURAGE OF PERSISTENCE Covenant & Conversation: Family Edition is a new and exciting initiative from The Office of … Read more

30th October 2018

There is a strange passage in the life of Isaac, ominous in its fore- shadowing of much of later Jewish … Read more

13th November 2017

Why Isaac, not Ishmael? Why Jacob, not Esau? These are among the most searing questions in the whole of Judaism. … Read more

28th November 2016

Even before they were born, Jacob and Esau struggled in the womb. They were destined, it seems, to be eternal … Read more

9th November 2015

“The boys grew up. Esau became a skilful hunter, a man of the outdoors; but Jacob was a mild man who … Read more

19th November 2014

Was Jacob right to take Esau’s blessing in disguise? Was he right to deceive his father and to take from … Read more

29th October 2013

In an earlier Covenant and Conversation I quoted the Netziv (Naftali Zvi Yehudah Berlin, 1816-1893, dean of the yeshiva in … Read more