Weekly Torah Portion – Toldot (Generations) – Genesis 25:19–28:9; Malachi 1:1–2:7

Have you ever experienced a moment when a familiar text suddenly seemed completely new to you, as if an inner light had dawned and an old verse revealed an unexpected depth?

That’s exactly what happened to me this week as I reread Parashat Toldot. Every once in a while, while studying, I suddenly find myself sitting there open-mouthed, goosebumps all over, swept up in a deep inner rapture—a true intoxication of the senses. That’s precisely what hit me this time as I began writing about this week’s portion…

I’ve read this text countless times, immersed myself in it, written about it—yet what I saw this time I had never noticed before. It was like a revelation, a moment when I felt God’s Spirit breathing new insight into me. By the way, this was the very portion my husband Aviel read from the Torah scroll at his Bar Mitzvah when he was 13. That, to me, is Torah—the teaching of life. It always surprises,...

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