Shnayim Yomi - Toldot - D'var Torah

[Music] this week we explored together parashat toledot as we walk into shabbat i wanted to share with you advantage on the entire parasha but before i do i wanted to thank the shania project for the opportunity to participate doing shania mikra is it's easy but it's fundamental and allows us as the ham had intended to walk into shabbat prepared knowing the parashat and also having our questions on the parasha which is important for the dinner table for our questions for our children for our families but also to keep us constantly engaged with the torah so i want to thank this project for allowing me to to participate and give me the opportunity to share with you words of torah and i hope that you will share them with your family and that you'll enjoy them sheet is a book about legacies and we read that in the opening pasuku of the parasha elite the word appears 13 times in the torah 11 of them in sephir bereshit the word toledo basically saying this is a book about legacies and as we move from one of one m to the next we see that legacy being passed down from generation to generation rabbi norman lamb shalom has a fascinating insight into understanding based on the text what the legacy of each person in the story is and essentially he says look at the word right after the word toledot and that tells you what the legacy of that person was as an example at the end it says this is the legacy of essa was the father of edom a dome coming from red in this week's panasa right he took the soup which was red red is love red is passion red is blood isabe's legacy was an inclination for physical desires he marries all of these women he's issued outside he's a hunter by trade his legacy was physical desires was all things read passion and murder and and love and lust if we go back he was himself no the greatest thing that lo noah does is he saves the world from the flood but where he failed was he didn't move on after that borehole told him procreate but he doesn't want to understandably so given the context noah's legacy was noah himself he saved himself and his family so that we could move on but essentially his legacy was preserving the present yaakov what is ya'akov's legacy look at the next word yosef his legacy was the future was the shiva team was investing in his children all 12 of them the ideas ideals and values of monotheism and as he wanted to see them move into fruition and become a nation his legacy is yosef what is itzhak's legacy we've been alluding to it all week i'll read the pasuk again legacy was preserving his father's inspiration preserving the work that his father did the next word is ben abraham he's the son of abraham and he would make that known he re-digs the wells that his father dog because he wants to make sure the footprint of monotheism is there he go all the things that his father did he copies you know sometimes we ask where does this hack fit in the in the scheme of things happen ham is the initiator yeah kobe is the developer so to speak but his hack is the link in the chain i don't get to develop what was initiated if it's not still there it's hot's legacy was preserving what was started and making sure that what began at point a got to point b and it's important for all of us as the pasuk says we have to understand that we have to be a link between the past and the future it's not just about moving forward it's also about preserving what was because if we don't preserve what was given over to us there will be nothing to give over to move forward in the future ishaq lays the groundwork for the fundamental task that we as yehudim have preserve tradition preserve torah preserve our roots make sure they are intact and in a world that is new that is attacking all of those values make sure you preserve them and give them over to your children so that they too can preserve them and give them over to the next generation if there's anything to learn from his avinu it is a commitment to what was so that we can also have the ability to move on to what will be thank you for joining me in learning parashat shabbat shalom [Music] you