{"id":2468,"date":"2015-11-12T18:48:19","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T18:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/?p=2468"},"modified":"2015-11-12T18:48:19","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T18:48:19","slug":"1314-nov-parsha-toldot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/services\/this-shabbat\/1314-nov-parsha-toldot\/","title":{"rendered":"13\/14 Nov: Parsha Toldot"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Shabbat comes in 3.59pm; goes out 5.03<\/div>\n<div>______________________________________________________________<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">This week&#8217;s portion tells of Isaac\u2019s special love for Eisav and Rebecca\u2019s special love for Jacob. One wonders how Isaac could have been so naive to prefer his son Eisav more than Jacob. After all, Eisav was merely a hunter while Jacob was a thoughtful young man.<\/span><\/span>Perhaps he thought that Eisav would defend the Jewish people against all attacks while Jacob would be the spiritual heir. Eisav would be the leader for the \u201cbody\u201d while Jacob would be for the \u201csoul\u201d.<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><br \/>\nRebecca did not see things that way. She insisted that there could only be one heir. The body and the soul should not be separated. The soul needs the body to exist in this world, and the body needs the soul to give meaning and direction to its existence. <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Rav Ahron Soloveitchik, points out, that Rebecca pushes Jacob to have courage by insisting that he challenge Eisav by taking the blessing from him and putting his life on the line. We know that\u00a0Jacob eventually learns this lesson for later in his life he successfully wrestles with a mysterious man, and is given an additional name-Yisrael, which means one who is able to fight and be strong.<\/span><\/span>Shabbat Shalom<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Rabbi Paul Arberman<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shabbat comes in 3.59pm; goes out 5.03 ______________________________________________________________ This week&#8217;s portion tells of Isaac\u2019s special love for Eisav and Rebecca\u2019s special love for Jacob. One wonders how Isaac could have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-shabbat"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2468"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2471,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468\/revisions\/2471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}