Venue: Aish Gesher Aish Gesher

Parsha:

Toldot 

Collections: R' Yoni Miller The Torah of America

Description

Rav Yaakov Kamenetsky wonders, why would Yitzchak avinu want to bless eisav? Yaakov was too holy! The brachos needed to go to one who would be engaged with this world! Another lengthy idea from Yaakov, Yaakov avinu had to get the bracha through lying and deceit which were the polar opposite of his nature. Stealing the bracha was his Akeida! The Lubavitcher rebbe reveals the missing years of Yitzchak avinu's life when he transcended into olam haba. We all can transcend this world and taste a limitless spiritual reality (but then we must come back!)