http://www.sefer-torah.com/blog/2008/11/27/parsha-toldos-5769-addition-rifka-and-application-of-nurture-lshem-shemayim/ The Implications and Consequences of Expulsion for the Jewish People Wed, 23 May 2012 22:16:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 http://www.sefer-torah.com/blog/2008/11/27/parsha-toldos-5769-addition-rifka-and-application-of-nurture-lshem-shemayim/#comment-115252 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:01:54 +0000 http://www.sefer-torah.com/blog/2008/11/27/parsha-toldos-5769-addition-rifka-and-application-of-nurture-lshem-shemayim/#comment-115252 [...] In last week’s Parsha Toldos, we learned about Rivka, who rose above an evil environment while internalizing it’s insights and was thus well positioned to urge Yaakov to claim the Bracha, and about Yaakov, the “Ish Tam”. We learn that Yaakov was “totally honest, a man of great integrity” but was also master over the trait of being “tam”, a “‘plain man’, … without trickery. This means that Yaakov did not allow this “Ish Tam” character trait to dominate him. He knew when and where to act otherwise. We knew that from his demand for the birthright from Eisev in exchange for the lentil soup. These traits surely seemed inculcated to Yaakov as a result of Rivka Imeinu’s nurturing. [...] […] In last week’s Parsha Toldos, we learned about Rivka, who rose above an evil environment while internalizing it’s insights and was thus well positioned to urge Yaakov to claim the Bracha, and about Yaakov, the “Ish Tam”. We learn that Yaakov was “totally honest, a man of great integrity” but was also master over the trait of being “tam”, a “‘plain man’, … without trickery. This means that Yaakov did not allow this “Ish Tam” character trait to dominate him. He knew when and where to act otherwise. We knew that from his demand for the birthright from Eisev in exchange for the lentil soup. These traits surely seemed inculcated to Yaakov as a result of Rivka Imeinu’s nurturing. […]

]]> http://www.sefer-torah.com/blog/2008/11/27/parsha-toldos-5769-addition-rifka-and-application-of-nurture-lshem-shemayim/#comment-111398 Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:12:14 +0000 http://www.sefer-torah.com/blog/2008/11/27/parsha-toldos-5769-addition-rifka-and-application-of-nurture-lshem-shemayim/#comment-111398 [...] For we learn from the nuture of Rifka Immeinu (here and here ) how she rose above the common derech of Lavanite society and thus merited to be zivug to Yitzchak. [...] […] For we learn from the nuture of Rifka Immeinu (here and here ) how she rose above the common derech of Lavanite society and thus merited to be zivug to Yitzchak. […]

]]> http://www.sefer-torah.com/blog/2008/11/27/parsha-toldos-5769-addition-rifka-and-application-of-nurture-lshem-shemayim/#comment-37538 Sat, 29 Nov 2008 20:09:03 +0000 http://www.sefer-torah.com/blog/2008/11/27/parsha-toldos-5769-addition-rifka-and-application-of-nurture-lshem-shemayim/#comment-37538 [...] In last week’s Parsha Toldos, we learned about Rivka, who rose above an evil environment while internalizing it’s insights and was thus well positioned to urge Yaakov to claim the Bracha, and about Yaakov, the “Ish Tam”. We learn that Yaakov was “totally honest, a man of great integrity” but was also master over the trait of being “tam”, a “‘plain man’, … without trickery. This means that Yaakov did not allow this “Ish Tam” character trait to dominate him. He knew when and where to act otherwise. We knew that from his demand for the birthright from Eisev in exchange for the lentil soup. These traits surely seemed inculcated to Yaakov as a result of Rivka Imeinu’s nurturing. [...] […] In last week’s Parsha Toldos, we learned about Rivka, who rose above an evil environment while internalizing it’s insights and was thus well positioned to urge Yaakov to claim the Bracha, and about Yaakov, the “Ish Tam”. We learn that Yaakov was “totally honest, a man of great integrity” but was also master over the trait of being “tam”, a “‘plain man’, … without trickery. This means that Yaakov did not allow this “Ish Tam” character trait to dominate him. He knew when and where to act otherwise. We knew that from his demand for the birthright from Eisev in exchange for the lentil soup. These traits surely seemed inculcated to Yaakov as a result of Rivka Imeinu’s nurturing. […]

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