Tag: a father’s love

Isaac and Esau (Toldot 5780)

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

11th February 2019

It is interesting to note the absence of Moses from the parsha of Tetzaveh. For once Moses, the hero, the … Read more

10th December 2018

It is one of the great questions we naturally ask each time we read the story of Joseph. Why did … Read more

29th October 2018

The language of the Torah is, in Erich Auerbach’s famous phrase, “fraught with background.” Behind the events that are … Read more

30th October 2017

The stories told in Bereishit chapters 21 and 22 – the sending away of Ishmael and the binding of Isaac … 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