Parasha Toldot- Rabbi Toby
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Principle: Don’t let the enemy deceive you into thinking that a shortcut to grasp G-D’s blessing on your life will end well for you.
Parasha Toldot
Isaac prayed to Adonai on behalf of his wife because she was barren. Adonai answered his plea and his wife Rebekah became pregnant.
But the children struggled with one another inside her, and she said, “If it’s like this, why is this happening to me?” So she went to inquire of Adonai.
Adonai said to her: “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from your body will be separated. One people will be stronger than the other people, but the older will serve the younger.”
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When the boys grew up, Esau became a man knowledgeable in hunting, an outdoorsman, while Jacob was a mild man, remaining in tents.
Now Isaac loved Esau because he had a taste for wild game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.
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So now, my son, listen to my voice, to what I am commanding you.
Go now to the flock and bring me two good young goats from there, so that I may prepare them as a delicious meal for your father—that he’ll love.
Then you’ll bring it to your father to eat, so that he may bless you before his death.”
But Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “Look, my brother Esau is a hairy man, but I’m a smooth man.
Perhaps my father will touch me, and he’ll take me for a mocker, and I’ll bring upon myself a curse and not a blessing.”
Then his mother said to him, “Let your curse fall on me, my son. Just listen to me, and go, get them for me.”
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So David and Abishai approached the troops by night. Behold, Saul was lying asleep within the barricade with his spear stuck in the ground at his head, and Abner and the troops were sleeping around him.
Then Abishai said to David, “God has delivered your enemy into your hand today. Now let me pin him to the ground with a single thrust of the spear. I will not have to strike him twice.”
But David said to Abishai, “Don’t destroy him! For who can lay his hand on Adonai’s anointed and be guiltless?”
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Principle: Don’t let the enemy deceive you into thinking that a shortcut to grasp G-D’s blessing on your life will end well for you.
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Do not honor yourself in the king’s presence, and do not stand in the place of great men.
Better for him to say to you, “Come up here,” than for you to be humiliated before a nobleman. What your eyes have seen,
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And calling them over, Yeshua said to them, “You know those recognized as rulers of the nations lord it over them, and their great ones play the tyrant over them.
Yet it is not this way among you. But whoever wants to be great among you shall be your servant,
and whoever wants to be first among you shall be slave of all.
For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.”
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Now Stephen, full of grace and power, was doing great wonders and signs among the people.
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Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, so that He may lift you up at the appropriate time.
Cast all your worries on Him, for He cares for you.
Stay alert! Watch out! Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, searching for someone to devour.
Stand up against him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being laid upon your brothers and sisters throughout the world.
Parasha Toldot
Principle: Don’t let the enemy deceive you into thinking that a shortcut to grasp G-D’s blessing on your life will end well for you.
Parasha Toldot