Toldot - 2026

Chevre, this week’s parsha is Toldot (תולדות). This week we have the birth of Esav and Yaakov. All of their family troubles including the sale of Esav’s birthright and Yaakov stealing Esav’s blessing from Yitchak. And it ends with, an apparently disillusioned Esav, marrying Yishmael’s daughter. I want to double-click on the story of the selling of Esav’s birthright. He comes home from the field and is famished. Yaakov has some food (lentil stew) and agrees to sell some of it to Esav for the birthright.