Shabbat

Portion Toledot - Overcoming ALL AntiSemitism and Hatred

 Portion Toledot - Overcoming ALL AntiSemitism and Hatred

 

What must we learn from those freed hostages?

Is Anti Semitism just hatred ? Or are the two things Basic Human Flaws?

In our portion Esau- Esav - wants to kill Jacob

(and for the next couple of Portions).

 Did Jacob really "steal" the birthright –firstborn rights or privilege - from Esav? And

Can you steal a BLESSING? And

Why couldn’t Rebecca and Isaac spend more time talking about training their twin boys to cooperate better?

So 

Did G-d create Anti-Semitism from the time of Abraham?

Didn't the Dialogue  later in the Torah between Moses and G-d  create the healing process of 

Mercy "RachumVchaNun" … 

 in this Portion we can learn

 

That Abraham has passed on

Isaac's Twins are growing up - and apart

And they are marrying or setting off to find a worthy or proper  spouse for the next generation 

So-

Is there a G-dly Gift called  Parenting versus Grand-Parenting?

See today 

So who is bankrolling anti-Jewish campus unrest and threatening demonstrations outside Synagogues? Is it Qatar?  Bernie Sanders? Soros? Crypto accounts of Iran??

 

Latest Statistics show that in Israel a third of the population is  youngsters. Do they relate to their grandparents?

Most of the last surviving hostages were young too.

One recent video shows a released hostage saying:

"I started to  pray in my captivity. And I nudged my captors to get me a prayerbook.

Eventually they gave me one.

 And I prayed. And after some time I said to myself

It seems odd to say Shabbat Prayers and not keep Shabbat. So

I started to keep Shabbat – there in the tunnel?"Yes!

 

Our portions teach us that

To End the Jewish holocaust- it will require multiple generations

MAYBE BRINGING GRANDCHILDREN TO ISRAELhelps!

MAYBE even sometimes stopping shopping SOME  Saturdays

 

 Why should so many people say they are concerned with anti-semitism.

And do nothing but contribute to museums - mausoleums of the once VIBRANT Jewish Spirit? 

Last week's portion ends with Rebecca falling off her camel while her

Future husband Isaac was praying "in the field"

 (a metaphor maybe for the whole of history?)"

 In Hebrew the sages taught

Ma a saysay Avot Siman l Banim –and OUR  PORTIONS PROVE THE

GENERATIONAL MODEL OF SAVING OUR GRANDCHILDREN FOR G-D'S TRUTH

As for evil and hatred 

While German auctioneers tried to sell

Letters and. Index cards from Concentration Camp Inmates but

Were stopped

BUT

Who are the

Collectors they sell to?

And who will stop them the next time if we don't teach our grandchildren

AND ALL THOSE GREEDY FOOLISH PEOPLE DEMONSTRATING AGAINST ISREAL

About the gifts of

 Shabbat and Israel  and October 7th and the holocaust

?

Russia and Ukraine and Iran and Iraq will murder millions until their peoples wake up to the

Positive Contributions of the people of Israel

Not just in medicine and high-tech but in 

SPIRIT AND HOLINESS

and we need to be present there with our next generations 

Shabbat Shalom

Rabbi Andy Eichenholz