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Jacob Meeting Esau

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Getting Healthy

By Baruch Epstein

Esau is born red and as hairy as an adult, and so he remains—red, intense, driven, violent. Jacob is born with his issues as well. Timid, a bookworm, Mama’s boy. Yet he is willing to acknowledge and confront Esau...

Learning & Values » Parshah (Weekly Torah) » Bereishit - Genesis » Toldot » Parshah Columnists » Guest Columnists

The Cosmic Twins a parshah overview

By Yanki Tauber

The Kabbalists see Esau and Jacob as the embodiments of the primordial world of Tohu (“Chaos”) and our present reality-process of Tikkun (“correction”)

Learning & Values » Parshah (Weekly Torah) » Bereishit - Genesis » Vayishlach » Chassidic Masters

Kiss or Curse?

By Yossy Goldman

How many Jewish Rothschilds are left in the world? G-d knows we could have used them...

Learning & Values » Parshah (Weekly Torah) » Bereishit - Genesis » Vayishlach » Parshah Columnists » Weekly Sermonette

A Woman’s Persuasion

By Naftali Silberberg

Where Abraham, Isaac and Jacob failed, a young girl could have succeeded

Learning & Values » Parshah (Weekly Torah) » Bereishit - Genesis » Vayishlach » Parshah Columnists » Parshah Messages

The Smallness of Jacob Why does success evoke arrogance in some and humility in others?

By Rochel Holzkenner

What is the key to graciously accepting blessings in life while not growing callous because of them? Rabbi Schneur Zalman offers the answer, through a study of the words of Jacob, the archetypal beneficiary.

Learning & Values » Parshah (Weekly Torah) » Bereishit - Genesis » Vayishlach » Parshah Columnists » Living through the Parshah

Action - Not Surveys

By Yitschak Meir Kagan

Jacob when seeing his brother Esau ready to confront him, he prepared for the war in three ways. A timely message on the immediate response Jacob prepared for Esau.

Learning & Values » Parshah (Weekly Torah) » Bereishit - Genesis » Vayishlach » Parshah Columnists » A Thought for the Week

Why Does Esau Hate Jacob?

By Yanki Tauber

Is there lover in the world who loves with the intensity that a hater hates? Evil exists because it is so much more powerful than good

Learning & Values » Kabbalah, Chassidism and Jewish Mysticism » Chassidic Thought » Insights & Readings » By Yanki Tauber

Jacob Returns to Canaan Book

Jacob Leaves Laban, Laban Instigates Esau to Make War on His Brother, Jacob’s Strategy, Jacob Wrestles with an Angel, Jacob’s Reconciliation with Esau, Jacob’s Arrival in Canaan, Rachel’s Death

Learning & Values » Jewish History » A Brief Biblical History

How to Fight a War How to Study Torah - Vayishlach Video

By Mendel Kaplan

How Jacob prepared for a potentially deadly confrontation with his murderous brother, Esau. Discover the Torah’s “rules of engagement” in a time when we’re forced to wage war rather than make peace.

Jewish.tv » Torah Classes » How to Study Torah

The Cup is Half Full Parshat Vayishlach

By Stacey Goldman

A man with tens of millions, the owner of several homes around the world and a private jet, related wistfully of a colleague who built his own landing strip...

The Jewish Woman » Spirituality and the Feminine » Women on the Weekly Torah Portion

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