To•lᵊd•otꞋ 1st Eve (Mo•tzâ•eiꞋ Shab•âtꞋ Beginning Week)
To•lᵊd•otꞋ: Yi•tzᵊkhâqꞋ's Family Tree
These are the descendants of Yi•tzᵊkhâqꞋ Bën-Avᵊrâ•hâmꞋ.
Yi•tzᵊkhâqꞋ was 40 years old when he took Ri•vᵊq•âh Bat-Bᵊtu•eilꞋ (the A•ram•iꞋ from Pa•danꞋ A•râmꞋ, sister of Lâ•vânꞋ the A•ram•iꞋ) for his woman.
Ri•vᵊq•âh Gives Birth To Twins
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And Yi•tzᵊkhâqꞋ petitioned ä' in the presence of his wife, for she was barren; and ä' was petitioned effectively, for his woman Ri•vᵊq•âh conceived. And there was such a jostling inside her womb that she wondered what was wrong. So she went to ask ä'.1
And the Words of ä' to her were:1 "Two goy•imꞋ are in your belly, and two nations shall be separated from your bowels. One nation shall become stronger than the other nation: and the rav shall serve the younger."
When her time came to deliver, she gave birth to twins. The first twin to appear was a•dᵊm•on•iꞋ, he was like a hairy cloak all over. So they named him Ei•sauꞋ. Then his twin brother was pulled out holding onto Ei•sauꞋ's â•qeivꞋ, so they named him Ya•a•qovꞋ. Yi•tzᵊkhâqꞋ was 60 years old when the twins were born.
Ei•sauꞋ Sells His Inheritance For A Bowl of A•dum•otꞋ Lentil Stew
As the youths grew up, Ei•sauꞋ became an outdoorsman specializing in trapping, while Ya•a•qovꞋ was wholesome, settling in tents. Yi•tzᵊkhâqꞋ loved Ei•sauꞋ for the delicious meals prepared from his game, but Ri•vᵊq•âh loved Ya•a•qovꞋ.
One day, as Ya•a•qovꞋ was simmering a pot of lentil stew over the fire, his older brother, Ei•sauꞋ, came in dead-tired and ravenously hungry from an unsuccessful trapping trip in the outdoors. "Please, a mountain of the â•domꞋ for me," Ei•sauꞋ implored his younger brother, pointing at the lentil stew, "this â•domꞋ, 'cause I'm dead-tired." (So Ya•a•qovꞋ nicknamed his hairy, a•dᵊm•on•iꞋ, older brother "Ë•dōmꞋ".2)
One would expect the younger twin to rush to offer a meal to his senior twin. However, the younger brother seemed to sense the opportunity for payback for years of his big brother's rugged outdoorsman tyranny over him, exacerbated by his father's blatant preferential treatment toward his rugged outdoorsman, older son — and how that made Ya•a•qovꞋ unsure of his own inheritance. "Today's price for â•domꞋ," Ya•a•qovꞋ replied, "is your double-portion inheritance rights as the eldest son."
"Look," replied Ei•sauꞋ, "I, myself, was going to die without any inheritance. So why should this double-portion preferential treatment be mine?"
"Swear to me today!" Ya•a•qovꞋ insisted. So Ei•sauꞋ swore to him selling his birthright. Then Ya•a•qovꞋ gave Ei•sauꞋ bread and the lentil stew. So Ei•sauꞋ ate and drank, then got up and left.
Thus, Ei•sauꞋ discounted the eternal spiritual significance of his inheritance.
Optional parental preparation:
- Have some kind of red-lentil soup or stew with chicken or beef in advance of this story.
- Note 2 – As Ei•sauꞋ is better known — patriarch of the land of Edom and the "Edomites,"; also called "Idumeans" (including Herod the Great); and Ei•sauꞋ's grandson: A•mâ•leiqꞋ, patriarch of the "Amalekites".
Questions you might anticipate that your child might raise and be prepared to discuss:
- Note 1 – How do you ask ä' a question? He provided His answers to all important questions for us by communicating the principles to Mosh•ëhꞋ — Tor•âhꞋ. Ri•vᵊq•âh lived before Mosh•ëhꞋ wrote down the Tor•âhꞋ. So she had to go ask a nearby Nâ•viꞋ of ä' to explain His pertinent teaching. Nowadays, because we know that ä' is the Omniscient (Author of Logic and Science) Creator-Singularity, we can consult His Tor•âhꞋ directly and apply logic, historical documentation and science to derive His correct interpretation.
- What's a lentil?
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