Names, names, and more names. What’s in a name? Perhaps nothing, at least in secular society where a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. But in Jewish tradition, names carry within them tremendous meaning. So, while we often gloss over those verses in Torah that trace genealogy and seem to be merely lists of names, these verses contain hidden secrets of the Torah that only our highly learned and holy sages are privy to. This is the case with the last passages in Parshat Vayishlach where the Torah lists the princes and kings descended from Esau for eight generations, before a king reined over Israel, along with the cities over which they ruled. These verses contain 300 halachot, Jewish laws that the great Tana Rabbi Yochana Ben Zakai revealed only to his two top disciples, writes Rabbi Dov Yoffo in Leovdecha B’emet.
Click here for Summary by Channie Koplowitz Stein.
Wednesday, December 17, 2014
NAALEH.COM and YU TORAH Parshas Vayishlach 5775 Edom's Enigma By: Mrs. Shira Smiles
Names, names, and more names. What’s in a name? Perhaps nothing, at least in secular society where a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. But in Jewish tradition, names carry within them tremendous meaning. So, while we often gloss over those verses in Torah that trace genealogy and seem to be merely lists of names, these verses contain hidden secrets of the Torah that only our highly learned and holy sages are privy to. This is the case with the last passages in Parshat Vayishlach where the Torah lists the princes and kings descended from Esau for eight generations, before a king reined over Israel, along with the cities over which they ruled. These verses contain 300 halachot, Jewish laws that the great Tana Rabbi Yochana Ben Zakai revealed only to his two top disciples, writes Rabbi Dov Yoffo in Leovdecha B’emet.
Click here for Summary by Channie Koplowitz Stein.
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