Rabbi Minkowicz Weekly Torah Lesson Parsha Toldot 5779

welcome to this week's Torah lesson this week's Torah portion is precious told us the question of the week is why the double blessing so in this week's Torah portion we learn about the famous story when get stock is going getting ready to bless his children now specifically he was planning a blessing Esau however his wife had another idea that Jacobs to get the blessing there was a rift who was the firstborn we know what the first one was but who sold the first one right to Jacob music was planning on giving to Esau rifka wanted Jacob to get blessing the blessings and it turns out that sure enough Jacob shows up for the blessings now it's what blesses Jacob with the famous blessing which we say till today every single Saturday after Shabbat in the Torah it says via Taylor Hall hello Kim God should give you now the Hebrew word for giving is eating to give but the Torah uses Vigny Cain and he shall give so what's the extra love even though it's one letter what's the extra love because he gave him a double blessing so what is a double blessing and he's God should give and give again but why did he double blessing if there's one blessing is a blessing you don't need a second one and there's something wrong with the first one then why give the first one but obviously there's two different blessings that took place here so what are the two blessings so there'll be explains phenomenal that if you give a look the verse before when Jacob walked in to his father Yitzhak so he tells him like this ray give a look ray ebony the fragrance of my son Correia casada like the fragrance or feel I should Baraka a sham that God blessed him and derbe explains based on this afree that says as follows ray ebony is referring to Bini is a son which means follows my footsteps spiritually is referring to the temple ray affinity look at the blessings of the temple when everything's neat built and the sacrifice is going to be there and life is gonna be great for the Jewish people then you have rare house under when the temple is destroyed and can be leveled to a plain field and that's unfortunately referring to when the Jewish people sinned and we lost a temple but then it says Chabert Hashem after the destruction it's much greater and much much bigger so in other words the - blood - - blessing was what was for the temple the second one was when we going through the process of sinning and we need an extra blend a blessed thing to do chuhwa and to repent so the answer the question why did all blessing so the first blessing is for the great song when life is great you got a blessed thing you're doing wonderful but the double blessing the second blessing is when you're going through a struggle when you're going through a difficult time when you're rebelling maybe against God so you took gave us a blessing and whoever is going through a tough time everywhere is going through a challenge wherever you can sinning against God is gonna be blessed to do Tuvan repent and afterwards they'll reach greater heights so the second blessing is extremely important because that is for the people that need it most as they are going through their difficulties the second blessing isn't the strength and the hope to return to God thanks for joining us this week's Torah lesson is dedicated in the memory of Barack Benari Lee and Ben Yosef may their souls be elevated by the Torah was studying in their memory for more information please see our website