{"id":2911,"date":"2025-12-07T06:32:56","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T13:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2911"},"modified":"2025-12-07T06:32:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T13:32:56","slug":"torah-teaching-for-parsha-vayishlach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2911","title":{"rendered":"Torah Teaching for Parsha \u201cVayishlach\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Join Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship for a two-part look at parsha &#8220;Vayishlach,&#8221; Genesis 32:4 through chapter 36) the story of Yakov\/Jacob as he finally returns to Beit El, and a &#8216;reunion&#8217; with his estranged brother, Esau.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Erev Shabbat reading:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/SSM-12-5-25-Vayishlach-teaching-podcast-xxx.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>That story has lessons enough, but there is an extended genealogy of Esau&#8217;s side of the family that might seem out of place, given the reminder that &#8220;Yakov I have loved, Esau I have hated,&#8221; says YHVH. And there are certainly a number of prophecies &#8211; arguably yet to be fulfilled &#8211; about the ultimate demise of the descendants of that line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So who, or what, is Esau? As Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa documents in the midrash, there are no shortages of opinions on that score. But we have certainly been warned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Vayishlach: &#8216;The Long Genealogy of Esau &#8211; and Two Houses&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/WT-CooH-12-6-25-Vayishlach-Two-houses-and-Edom-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-vayishlach\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/mark-call-torah-teaching-for-parsha-vayishlach\/\" target=\"_blank\">midrash<\/a>, <\/strong>via Hebrew Nation Radio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship for a two-part look at parsha &#8220;Vayishlach,&#8221; Genesis 32:4 through chapter 36) the story of Yakov\/Jacob as he finally returns to Beit El, and a &#8216;reunion&#8217; with his estranged brother, Esau. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2911\">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":[5,1742,69,35,11,1698],"tags":[46,2219,88,2220,2221,2216,2218,63,2217,104,2222,739,212,1124,51,203,1319,318,101],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2911"}],"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=2911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2912,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2911\/revisions\/2912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}