Toldot Excerpts
תולדות
Shabbat Shalom
The Plishtim couldn't handle Yitchak's success. His live flock bothered them. He had success, unlike any member of this congregation. Which is why we cannot pay for the water damage, caused by this week's snow storm...
The success bothered them so much that they even punished themselves (26:15) They blocked the wells that Avraham's servants dug...They clogged them up.
How did that help them?
Kind of like when there were three months without a kiddush in this shule, in protest of the worst Bar Mitzvah kiddush ever. Just because you had a meal, it doesn't make it right to serve kichel and sponge cake, Merv....
Plishtim- Philistines...Now there is another group in Israel, known as the 'Palestinians'...I came up with that....
Terror. How does that help? You kill yourself to make sure that the Jews don't have a decent life in Israel.
They make stuff worse for themselves. They cannot use it. They cannot use the well they clogged up.
It comes from jealousy. (26:14) 'They became jealous.'
It helps when you are a jealous person. When you look to others for your own feelings. Yes. Life here stinks. I have shut out the rest of the world. I have had to shut out the rest of the world. If I didn't I would be jealous of every other rabbi in the world that has a congregation that is not full of Apikorsim...And heretics that don't even donate money. Usually it is the heretics who are giving money. It makes them feel better about themselves...This congregation is full of heretics who live a life of jealousy.
Avimelech was a good leader. He cared enough to tell Yitzchak to leave. He understood his people were messed up...I would have told anybody thinking about moving to this community to not do so. Because you are all jealous. No Kiddush for the past three months due to jealousy. Due to one kiddush where Merv could chew the food.
Then the shepherds of Gerar cause problems. Covering up another hole that Yitzchak dug.
(26:22) It was finally in Rechovot that they dug and nobody bothered them. Called Rechovot because now 'H' expanded for us the land and 'pareenu' and now we can be fruitful in Israel.
Now that we have a place and can settle down. How many of you people have settled down in this shule? If the section back there can please raise your hands. None of you have paid dues...You have all settled quite nicely into seats and dug a little hole to contour your tush...Nobody has settled in with payment. Nobody has settled in, making this shule a home, with some decent food for kiddush. Merv has settled down over here. If somebody can wake him up...I am talking Merv...
Unkules uses the word 'ניפוש' from the root soul. Even though it is Aramaic and probably means something totally different, I like this. Your soul can only be fruitful and find its space when you are connected to it. When you do a little digging. When you help out every once in a while. When you make a kiddush. Put in a little sweat and enjoy the food that you can chew and not just swallow with saliva...We must get past the Stephanawitz Kiddush episode...Even if the help is useless, like our sisterhood. Kol Hakkavod to the sisterhood for their effort in whatever they do...
When you can live somewhere, you have your soul.
I find it so painful to live here, with all of this jealousy. The amount of makeup in the women's section represents the amount of hatred in this town. You are hiding your frown...You only hurt yourself with jealousy.
It is hard to have a soul in this town. A town where we punish ourselves with sponge cake. Not living...
Shabbat Shalom
The Plishtim couldn't handle Yitchak's success. His live flock bothered them. He had success, unlike any member of this congregation. Which is why we cannot pay for the water damage, caused by this week's snow storm...
The success bothered them so much that they even punished themselves (26:15) They blocked the wells that Avraham's servants dug...They clogged them up.
How did that help them?
Kind of like when there were three months without a kiddush in this shule, in protest of the worst Bar Mitzvah kiddush ever. Just because you had a meal, it doesn't make it right to serve kichel and sponge cake, Merv....
Plishtim- Philistines...Now there is another group in Israel, known as the 'Palestinians'...I came up with that....
Terror. How does that help? You kill yourself to make sure that the Jews don't have a decent life in Israel.
They make stuff worse for themselves. They cannot use it. They cannot use the well they clogged up.
It comes from jealousy. (26:14) 'They became jealous.'
It helps when you are a jealous person. When you look to others for your own feelings. Yes. Life here stinks. I have shut out the rest of the world. I have had to shut out the rest of the world. If I didn't I would be jealous of every other rabbi in the world that has a congregation that is not full of Apikorsim...And heretics that don't even donate money. Usually it is the heretics who are giving money. It makes them feel better about themselves...This congregation is full of heretics who live a life of jealousy.
Avimelech was a good leader. He cared enough to tell Yitzchak to leave. He understood his people were messed up...I would have told anybody thinking about moving to this community to not do so. Because you are all jealous. No Kiddush for the past three months due to jealousy. Due to one kiddush where Merv could chew the food.
Then the shepherds of Gerar cause problems. Covering up another hole that Yitzchak dug.
(26:22) It was finally in Rechovot that they dug and nobody bothered them. Called Rechovot because now 'H' expanded for us the land and 'pareenu' and now we can be fruitful in Israel.
Now that we have a place and can settle down. How many of you people have settled down in this shule? If the section back there can please raise your hands. None of you have paid dues...You have all settled quite nicely into seats and dug a little hole to contour your tush...Nobody has settled in with payment. Nobody has settled in, making this shule a home, with some decent food for kiddush. Merv has settled down over here. If somebody can wake him up...I am talking Merv...
Unkules uses the word 'ניפוש' from the root soul. Even though it is Aramaic and probably means something totally different, I like this. Your soul can only be fruitful and find its space when you are connected to it. When you do a little digging. When you help out every once in a while. When you make a kiddush. Put in a little sweat and enjoy the food that you can chew and not just swallow with saliva...We must get past the Stephanawitz Kiddush episode...Even if the help is useless, like our sisterhood. Kol Hakkavod to the sisterhood for their effort in whatever they do...
When you can live somewhere, you have your soul.
I find it so painful to live here, with all of this jealousy. The amount of makeup in the women's section represents the amount of hatred in this town. You are hiding your frown...You only hurt yourself with jealousy.
It is hard to have a soul in this town. A town where we punish ourselves with sponge cake. Not living...
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