{"id":2506,"date":"2022-11-27T07:31:34","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T14:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2506"},"modified":"2022-12-13T22:23:42","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T05:23:42","slug":"parsha-toldot-teaching-from-shabbat-shalom-mesa-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2506","title":{"rendered":"Parsha \u201cToldot\u201d teaching from Shabbat Shalom Mesa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This week Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship takes a two-part look at the parsha which essentially covers the life of Yitzak\/Isaac, and introduces his two sons Esau and Yaakov. That alone makes it vital to our understanding, but &#8211; no surprise, of course &#8211; there&#8217;s far more here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s also one of the more controversial, perhaps even unsettling, of the stories in Genesis; how is it that the man (Yaakov) so often associated with &#8220;truth&#8221; seems to get started via a lie? And what do we make of that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sequence again begins with the Erev Shabbat reading:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/SSM-11-25-22-Toldot-teaching-podcast-x.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There are definitely some troubling aspects to this parsha. But certainly a lot of things that should sound quite familiar, too. Aren&#8217;t most AmeriKans taught to &#8220;despise their birthright&#8221;?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But there&#8217;s something here that we do NOT see anymore in most of &#8216;the world&#8217; now, either. &#8220;Jacob I have loved, Esau I have hated,&#8221; says Malachi. But at least Esau honored his word! Consider: Even if he later thought he had been tricked, he didn&#8217;t do what virtually every Swamp Creature politician does today, by taking an oath and then lying about it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And they ALL seemed to understand the power of WORDS. Particularly His Word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And especially blessings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;Toldot: Blessings &#8211; and the Power of Words&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/WT-CooH-11-26-22-Toldot-Power-of-Words-podcast-xx.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The combined two-part podcast is <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/mark-call-parsha-toldot-teaching-from-shabbat-shalom-mesa-5\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/strong>, via Hebrew Nation Radio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship takes a two-part look at the parsha which essentially covers the life of Yitzak\/Isaac, and introduces his two sons Esau and Yaakov. That alone makes it vital to our understanding, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2506\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,4,11,1698],"tags":[727,442,1777,729,1776,730,1462,104,208,1466,1775,212,1774,1778,1773,318,101,723],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2506"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2516,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506\/revisions\/2516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}