Toldos - The Deeper Meaning Of Food | Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

hi this is D lowski welcome to the par and five where we give you a five minute thought on the paraa suitable for framing or sharing with your friends or putting up on your WhatsApp status yeah par has told us an amazing thing yeah ASV comes in and he sees Yakov is cooking something and he looks inside and says oh give me some of that red stuff and yakob says a very strange thing sure me your Birthright that seems like a little extreme I come say m what are you making cookies I'll have one sure sell me your Kahuna that's a strange thing to say and he agrees that's even stranger so uh what tipped off Yakov that ASA was not going to take this too seriously he looks inside of the pot and he says oh give me some of that red stuff yeah says Rashi what was that red stuff it was red lentils and why was it lentils because abrah had just died and he was preparing the sudra that you bring to a morner the first meal that you bring to the mner and they were knowing to give lentils because lentils are round and lentils don't have an opening and that's why we give eggs okay let's try that again says Rashi he gave him lentils cuz lenos are around and lenos don't have an opening and that's why we eat eggs shouldn't the be and that's why we eat lentils why does it say eggs many times I've asked this question and I always get the same answer because no one likes lentils okay that's one answer but how do you explain it in Rashi that's why Rashi decided that asov should be called Edom the Torah I should say decided that ASA should be called Edom why CU he looks in the pot and he's a smart guy and he should say to himself why is Yakov doing the cooking cing yakob doesn't do the cooking around here Mom does let me look in the pot red H what's red lentils why would yakob suddenly be cooking lentils well lentils around lentils don't have an opening oh my gosh that's what you give to a mner it must be Z that died I better run to Aba and be instead he looked at it and said looks good smells good probably tastes good I'll have some he didn't look into the deeper meaning of it so he says uh sh it to you summon your Birthright he goes what he says well you want to be a Cohen you want to work in the Bas of MD you want to do the avod we have to keep all of your thoughts pure and you have to keep all your focus if you have the wrong thought for a corbon to be become pagle you can mess it up you can do all kinds of bad things he's like yeah okay just give me some of that red stuff because all he saw was the externality and he didn't see the Kusa that was inherent inside of it we understand that it's not the lentils that are the issue it's not the red stuff it's something round that has an opening and so Rashi says it doesn't matter whether it's lentils or it's eggs I don't know why when I was an American I was sitting shiver for my father almost 30 years ago everybody kept bringing Bagels they say they're round but they have an opening they have a big hole in the middle I don't know if anybody's noticed Pas should bring biis but anyway I never understood that but um in fact by the end of shiv I couldn't look at a bagel for another four years until I was able to to recover from that b experience but um but the the fact is that um when we look at Food the Jewish people look at Food on a deeper level there are several places where the explains why we eat certain foods on certain holidays each one of them has a significance it's not just by chance we don't just eat things that we eat have significance and have meaning soem as we go into the shabas we will remember to be madesh what we eat and how we eat it that everything we do should be with that correct intention not the externalities of Edom but that kadus of B Isel chabas