{"id":2907,"date":"2025-11-23T11:13:45","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T18:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2907"},"modified":"2025-11-23T11:13:45","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T18:13:45","slug":"torah-teaching-for-parsha-toldot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2907","title":{"rendered":"Torah Teaching for Parsha \u201cToldot\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Join Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship for a two-part look at parsha &#8220;Toldot,&#8221; Genesis 25:19-28:9)\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Erev Shabbat reading &#8211; and thus the title of the parsha &#8211; begins with &#8220;These are to &#8216;toldot&#8217;, or generations, of Isaac\u2026&#8221;<br>\u2026but it is really the beginning of the story of Yakov, or Jacob, and the father of the nations, Israel:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/SSM-11-21-25-Toldot-teaching-podcast-xx.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Mark&#8217;s Sabbath Day midrash is a deeper look at what has been called &#8220;enigmatic.&#8221; There are certainly elements, of this story in particular, that have been regarded as &#8220;problematic,&#8221; even, in terms of things done by characters we might be inclined to emulate. For example, why does Rivkah (Rebeccah) decide to deceive her husband? Why does Yiztak\/Isaac apparently FALL for it? Or even merit possibly BEING deceived? And, why is Yakov accused to being a &#8216;supplanter,&#8217; or even &#8220;stealing&#8221; the birthright?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of those questions are certainly easier with the benefit of hindsight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But there are others that, even in being asked, give us a greater insight into what is REALLY happening than we might otherwise imagine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;Toldot: What&#8217;s With Isaac?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/WT-CooH-11-22-25-Toldot-Whats-with-Isaac-Enigmatic-until-hindsight-podcast-xxx.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The combined two-part reading and Sabbath <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/mark-call-torah-teaching-for-parsha-toldot\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/mark-call-torah-teaching-for-parsha-toldot\/\" target=\"_blank\">midrash<\/a><\/strong>, via Hebrew Nation Radio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesea&#8217;s 2025\/26 Torah cycle teachings for parsha &#8220;Toldot&#8221; (Genesis 25:19-28:9) and related (Malachi 1, Romans 9) Scripture. <a href=\"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2907\">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":[5,69,4,9,11,1865,12],"tags":[46,28,88,729,63,2210,612,1340,104,2212,725,155,212,2211,318,2209,101],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2907"}],"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=2907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2908,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2907\/revisions\/2908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}