Shabbat Toldot (Generations)

2 Kislev 5783

Shabbat Shalom!

Today's Saturday portion is called: Toldot (Generations): Jacob, Esau and the Purchased Birthright

This is a late post because I was meeting someone very important this day on a blessed Sabado and so I was not able to take time to write like I want to when I am just resting at home on a usual Saturday.

I will only include the verses that really spoke to me, otherwise you can read the other scriptures that I didn't copy paste the entire context.

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Genesis 25:19–28:9; Malachi 1:1–2:7

“And these are the generations [toldot] of Yitzchak [Isaac], Avraham’s [Abraham] son: Avraham begat Yitzchak.”  (Genesis 25:19)

 Haftarah Tol’dot: Mal’akhi (Malachi) 1:1–2:7

1 A prophecy, the word of Adonai to Isra’el through Mal’akhi:

² “I love you,” says Adonai.
But you ask, “How do you show us your love?”
Adonai answers, “‘Esav was Ya‘akov’s brother.
Yet I loved Ya‘akov ³ but hated ‘Esav.
I made his mountains desolate
and gave his territory to desert jackals.”

B’rit Hadashah suggested readings for Parashah Tol’dot: 

Romans 9:6–29; Messianic Jews (Hebrews) 11:20; 12:14–17;

Romans 9
6 But the present condition of Isra’el does not mean that the Word of God has failed.
For not everyone from Isra’el is truly part of Isra’el; 7 indeed, not all the descendants are seed of Avraham;^[a] rather, “What is to be called your ‘seed’ will be in Yitz’chak.”^[b] 8 In other words, it is not the physical children who are children of God, but the children the promise refers to who are considered seed. ⁹ For this is what the promise said: “At the time set, I will come; and Sarah will have a son.”^[c] 10 And even more to the point is the case of Rivkah; for both her children were conceived in a single act with Yitz’chak, our father; ¹¹ and before they were born, before they had done anything at all, either good or bad (so that God’s plan might remain a matter of his sovereign choice, not dependent on what they did, but on God, who does the calling), ¹² it was said to her, “The older will serve the younger.”^[d] 13 This accords with where it is written, “Ya‘akov I loved, but Esav I hated.”^{[e] 14} So are we to say, “It is unjust for God to do this”? Heaven forbid! ¹⁵ For to Moshe he says, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will pity whom I pity.”^[f] 16 Thus it doesn’t depend on human desires or efforts, but on God, who has mercy. ¹⁷ For the Tanakh says to Pharaoh, “It is for this very reason that I raised you up, so that in connection with you I might demonstrate my power, so that my name might be known throughout the world.”^[g] 18 So then, he has mercy on whom he wants, and he hardens whom he wants.¹⁹ But you will say to me, “Then why does he still find fault with us? After all, who resists his will?” ²⁰ Who are you, a mere human being, to talk back to God? Will what is formed say to him who formed it, “Why did you make me this way?”^[h] 21 Or has the potter no right to make from a given lump of clay this pot for honorable use and that one for dishonorable? ²² Now what if God, even though he was quite willing to demonstrate his anger and make known his power, patiently put up with people who deserved punishment and were ripe for destruction? ²³ What if he did this in order to make known the riches of his glory to those who are the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory — ²⁴ that is, to us, whom he called not only from among the Jews but also from among the Gentiles? ²⁵ As indeed he says in Hoshea,“Those who were not my people I will call my people; her who was not loved I will call loved 26 and in the very place where they were told,‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called sons of the living God!”^[i]27 But Yesha‘yahu, referring to Isra’el, cries out,“Even if the number of people in Isra’el is as large as the number of grains of sand by the sea, only a remnant will be saved. ²⁸ For Adonai will fulfill his word on the earth with certainty and without delay.”^{[j] 29} Also, as Yesha‘yahu said earlier, “If Adonai-Tzva’ot had not left us a seed, we would have become like S’dom, we would have resembled ‘Amora.”^[k


Hebrews 12:14-17
Complete Jewish Bible
14 Keep pursuing shalom with everyone and the holiness without which no one will see the Lord. 15 See to it that no one misses out on God’s grace, that no root of bitterness[a] springing up causes trouble and thus contaminates many, 16 and that no one is sexually immoral, or godless like Esav, who in exchange for a single meal gave up his rights as the firstborn. 17 For you know that afterwards, when he wanted to obtain his father’s blessing, he was rejected; indeed, even though he sought it with tears, his change of heart was to no avail.