Shnayim Yomi - Toldot - D'var Torah

[Music] this week we explore together par to as we walk into Shabbat I wanted to share with you on the entire par but before I do I wanted to thank the shn mikra project for the opportunity to participate doing shn mikra is it's easy but it's fundamental and allows us as theim had intended to walk into Shabbat prepared knowing the parasha and also having our questions on the parasha which is important for the dinner table for our questions for for our children for our families but also to keep us constantly engaged with the Tor so I want to thank the shn M project for allowing me to to participate and giving me the opportunity to share with you words of Torah and I hope that you will share them with your family and that you enjoy them is a book about legacies and we read that in the opening of the the word appears 13 times in the Torah 11 of them in the word to 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 Al 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 toot and that tells you what the legacy of that person was as an example at the end it says this is the legacy of Esa who was the father of adom adom coming from Red in this week's par right he took the soup which was red red is love red is Passion red is blood esa's Legacy was an inclination for physical desires he marries all of these women he's he's a hunter by trade his legacy was physical desires was all things red passion and murder and and love and lust if we go back what was Noah's Legacy Noah's Legacy 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 b 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 what is y's Legacy look at the next word y his legacy was the future was the shim was investing in his children all 12 of them the ideas ideals and values of monotheism in as he wanted to see them move into fruition and become a nation his legacy is y what Do's Legacy we've been alluding to it all week I'll read the again Abraham at is is's Legacy was preserving his father's inspiration preserving the work that his father did the next word is Ben he's the son of Abraham and he would make that known he red digs the wells that his father dug 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 isak fit in the in the scheme of things Abraham is the initiator yob is the developer so to speak but isak is the link in the chain I don't get to develop what was initiated if it's not still there is'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 not just about moving forward it's also about preserving what was cuz if we don't preserve what was given over to us there will be nothing to give over to move forward in the future is lays the groundwork for the fundamental task that we as Yim 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 ISU 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 parot shabbat shalom [Music]