Toledot

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Toledot, Toldot, or Tol'doth (Hebrew for “line” or “story”) is the sixth weekly parshah or portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading. It constitutes Genesis [25:19–28:9.] Jews in the Diaspora read it the sixth Sabbath after Simchat Torah, generally in November or early December.

Contents

1 Summary

1.1 Esau and Jacob

2 Commandments
3 Haftarah
4 External links

Summary

Esau and Jacob

After being married for 20 years, Rebekah had twins by Isaac: Esau, who became a hunter, and Jacob (Ya'akov: "will follow"), who became a herdsman. Jacob persuaded Esau to sell him his birthright, for which Esau did not care. God appeared to Isaac and repeated promises that He had made to Abraham. Rebekah, whom Isaac represented as his sister, was endangered in the country of the Philistines, but King Abimelech himself averted disaster. In spite of the hostility of Abimelech's people, Isaac was fortunate in all his undertakings in that country, especially in digging wells. God appeared to Isaac at Beersheba, encouraged him, and promised him blessings and numerous descendants. And Abimelech entered into a covenant with him at the same place. Esau married Canaanite women, to the regret of his parents.

Rebekah persuaded Jacob to dress himself as Esau, and thus obtain from his blinded-by-old-age father the blessing intended for Esau. So that Isaac would escape Esau’s vengeance, Rebekah arranged for Isaac to send Jacob to Rebekah’s brother Laban in Padan-aram, to find a wife there. Realizing that the Canaanite women displeased his parents, Esau took to wife Mahalath, daughter of Ishmael.

Commandments

According to Maimonides and Sefer ha-Chinuch, there are no commandments in the parshah.

Haftarah

The haftarah for the parshah is:

for Ashkenazi Jews and Sephardi Jews: Malachi [1:1–2:7]
for Karaite Jews: Isaiah [65:23–66:18]

External links

[Parashat Toldot]
[Masoretic text and 1917 JPS translation]
[Commentaries] from the Jewish Theological Seminary
[Torah Insights] from the Orthodox Union
[Commentaries] from Chabad-Lubavitch
[Commentaries] from the Union for Reform Judaism
[Commentaries] from Reconstructionist Judaism

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