{"id":2431,"date":"2004-11-15T17:03:07","date_gmt":"2004-11-15T22:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2004\/11\/15\/2431.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:47:26","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:47:26","slug":"parshah-toldot-wrapup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2004\/11\/15\/parshah-toldot-wrapup\/","title":{"rendered":"Parshah Toldot wrap-up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So, on Saturday, we talked about Parshah Toldot, Genesis 25:19<\/a>-28:9. It was a fun discussion, very lively, although now I find there wasn’t much memorable about it. I do remember our ardent feminist saying that if Rebecca had told Isaac about the Lord’s prophecy, Isaac would have attributed it to hormones. And, of course, the terribly vivid dreams that pregnant women often do have puts a new light to me on this whole annunciation business generally. Not that the vivid dreams aren’t real oracles, rather that perhaps that particular bit of hormonal whatsit is more holy than I had previously surmised.\n

Other points that were brought up were, let’s see, the bad example provided by the Lord. The whole repetitive brother-favoritism thing with Cain and Abel, Isaac and Ishmael, Jacob and Esau, Joseph and Benjamin and the boys. Also the heredity gullibility; you’d think it would be harder for his sons to fool Jacob. There was generally a feeling that Esau got a bad rap, although there was also some sentiment that Esau wasn’t right for the head-of-tribe job. Oh, and how nice it would have been if the Lord had said the whole family will share, and had brought in a family therapist.\n

Speaking of family therapy, next week is Vay’etze (Gen 28:10<\/a> \ufffd 32:3), Jacob’s ladder, the Leah-Rachel business, the totally bizarre polyandry with multiple surrogates, the whole speckled-goat trick, the Mystery of the Missing Teraphim, and Laban’s final farewell. Frankly, I can’t make heads or tails of it.\n

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So, on Saturday, we talked about Parshah Toldot, Genesis 25:19-28:9. It was a fun discussion, very lively, although now I find there wasn\u2019t much memorable about it. I do remember our ardent feminist saying that if Rebecca had told Isaac…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[207],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scripture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17201,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431\/revisions\/17201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}