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Parshat Toldot - and Tikun Hatzot
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Parshat Toldot - and Tikun Hatzot
Prayers connect us all
ׂׂAnd I hope I wrote a correct interpretation of this one
Tikun Hatzot is supposed to be an important prayer
Said at night
TIKUN MEANS REPAIR
One great rabbi told me that this "repair" even fixes problems with contractors who do your renovations!
So I sometimes read this prayer and this morning (around 430 AM) I saw something interesting
We ask the Holy One, blessed be He, to "look from heaven and see ׁ(OUR ACTIONSׂ)...for you are our father...
Abraham we did not know...and Israel (Jacob)will not know us...
and pray for deliverance"
Complicated enough - But where is Isaac- the middle forefathers?
- his name does not appear!
So on one foot it seems to me to interpret:
that Yitzchak (ISAAC) was the true tzaddik from birth to the end
The others lived sometimes challenged lives among pretty wierd folks - even for those days
so maybe Yitzchak -Isaac- was wrong to bless Esau? who turned BAD?
My thought is:
we know there are blessings from the now, and there are blessings for generations passing
and then there are blessings for the future .
For approaching the time of redemption
We see Yitzchak in our parsha - as he tries
to give blessings to a wayward son- his blessings being for all these periods !
and he tries with all his mighty blessings to bring his son "back home"
So is it possible that he didn't see the real Esau?
He probably saw that every generation of Esau
could be coaxe a little towards
Repentance- and a return to good -
Despite influences in the wider world,
which you really can see in every generation - their blindness to the truth
May God have mercy on us all
AE
and from Reb Shlomo Carlebach on Parshat Toldot
When Yitzchak was praying for children it says the most beautiful thing.
It says “Vaye’aser lo Hashem” (Bereishis 25:11).
the Ropshitzer Rebbe says, “Vaye’aser lo Hashem,” Yitzchak’s praying for children so strong that even God began praying that Yitzchak should have children!
Do you know how deep this is?...
It’s the deepest depths there is.
...
Do you see here what Yitzchak is showing us? Yitzchak brought down into the world that God’s answer to my prayer for children is not just that I’m asking for children and he says, “Okay, I’ll send some orders for the merchandise.”
It mamesh (truly) becomes God’s prayer.
It's funny but-
You can ask me for a glass of water, and suddenly I truly want you to have a glass of water in the strongest way.
When this happens I taste the depths of your soul, and then we are friends forever.
Good Shabbos!