Shnayim Yomi - Toldot - Rishon - #1

[Music] introduces us to yov and the new saga of sibling rivalry that will take us through the next few of the par opens with the news that is going to give birth after many many years of being Barren and after Many Many Tears shed in for the that she couldn't have children she finally gets the news that she is pregnant and she recognizes initially that the pregnancy is not not what she would have expected she feels that there's something going on in her womb and the pasuk tells us very clearly she feels these pains in her stomach and she's told by Bor that that is in fact because she's having twins and these boys are going to be at odds essentially from the very beginning not only physically are they very different but philosophically they're going to be very very different the two boys are born of course esav is born as the eldest and right behind him holding on to his heel is yov his younger brother and each of them is described in a different fashion the boys grow up and they are each described by the Pim yov is time he's learning he's innocent he's and is he's a hunter and he is very charismatic he he knows how to speak he knows how to use the power of speech at which point the parasha bring us to the very famous episode of esav coming back from a day in the field he's tired he's hungry he's exhausted he sees yov cooking this soup and he wants to sell his Birthright for a taste of the soup which yov offers to him in response for his right to the birthright and the tells us gives top eats and he drinks and he gets up and he leaves he despises the and it's very telling of who esav is certainly that he is very much attracted to the physical pleasures of the world and there is a distaste so to speak for any kind of spiritual Pursuits the alah continues with going down toed where he's going to meet with a which will take us into the next Aliyah one point I wanted to make rash notes that Yakov and were essentially almost identical up until they became teenagers at which point they went both went in very different directions and I think what ASI is trying to tell us a very powerful message is that we look at esav at the end we know what he becomes but we don't consider esav where he was at the very beginning and that is he was walking Toe to Toe with yov and I think the message that Ashi is trying to get across as he sees it through the pisuk is that everybody has potential everybody has the ability to be great everybody has the ability to do wonderful things it's the choices that we make in life that end us end up pushing us on the path that we end up taking but we should take note it that the choices that we make is where we end up in life but we have the potential to do great things [Music]