Toledot

Isaac gives Jacob the blessing ( Jusepe de Ribera , 1637)

Toledot ( Biblical Hebrew תּוֹלְדֹת ' Genders ' = descendants of Isaac ) denotes a reading section (called Parascha or Sidra) of the Torah and includes the text Genesis / Bereschit 25.19–28.9 (25.19–34 BHS , 26 BHS , 27 BHS , 28.1 -9 BHS ).

It is the cider of the 5th Shabbat in the month of Marcheschwan or the 1st Shabbat in the month of Kislew .

Essential content

Birth of Esau and Jacob
Esau, who returns home exhausted from the hunt, sells Jacob the birthright because he assumes that he will not survive his father.
Isaac wants to move to Egypt because of the famine , but remains at God's behest in the land of the Philistines , where he presents Rebekah as his sister.
Isaac stays in Gerar , quarrels with the Philistines, treaty with King Abimelech
Esau married two Hittite women at the age of 40 .
At Rebekah's instigation, Jacob obtained the firstborn blessing from Isaac, albeit reluctantly.
Esau swears vengeance on his brother and wants to kill him.
Rebekah sends Jacob to her brother Laban in her homeland and justifies this with her dislike of Jacob marrying a Canaanite woman .
In this way Jacob receives his father's blessing again.
Esau believes that he is acting in the best interests of his father if he also marries a daughter of Ishmael .

Haftara

The associated Haftara is Malachi 1.1–2.7 (1.1-14 BBB , 2.1-7 BBB ).

literature

David Sander: TOLEDOT . In: Jewish Lexicon . tape IV / 2 . Jewish publishing house, Berlin 1927, Sp. 973 ( uni-frankfurt.de ).

Sidratext Bereschit / Genesis 25.19-28.9. after the Codex L . In: tanach.us. Retrieved October 7, 2017 .

Haftaratext Malachi 1.1–2.7 . according to the Codex L. In: tanach.us. Retrieved October 7, 2017 .

Web links

Gesa Shira Ederberg : Toldot - weakness is allowed. In: ark.de. General Rabbinical Conference, November 28, 2014, accessed April 28, 2018 .
Gesa Shira Ederberg: Toldot - brotherly quarrel and favorite children. In: ark.de. General Rabbinical Conference, November 20, 2015, accessed December 21, 2018 .
Salomon Almekias-Siegl: Toldot - For all skins. In: ark.de. General Rabbinical Conference, November 24, 2012, accessed December 21, 2018 .
Elisa Klapheck: Toldot - Isaac's fear. In: ark.de. General Rabbinical Conference, December 9, 2016, accessed December 21, 2018 .
Elisa Klapheck: Toldot - Jakob and Esau ... In: ark.de. General Rabbinical Conference, November 8, 2013, accessed December 21, 2018 .

Individual evidence

↑ Hanna Liss: Tanach - Textbook of the Jewish Bible . 3. Edition. Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH, Heidelberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-8253-5904-1 , p. 44 (414 pp.).

[1] Hanna Liss: Tanach - Textbook of the Jewish Bible . 3. Edition. Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH, Heidelberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-8253-5904-1 , p. 44 (414 pp.).