NAALEH.COM and YU TORAH Embryonic Experience By: Mrs. Shira Smiles

With Parshat Toldot the Torah begins tracing the offspring of Avraham Avinu that will eventually give rise to Bnei Yisroel. However, Rivka is concerned about her pregnancy, for she feels strange “runnings” within her. She goes to the Beit Medrash of Shem and Ever to seek an answer to her questions and reassurance from Hashem. Hashem responds that two nations and two regimes are within her, that the might shall pass from one to the other, and that the elder shall serve the younger. How does this response calm Rivka and allay her fears? Click here Summary by Channie Koplowitz Stein.