TOLDOS
- (25,19)
- Why
did
Yitzchok wait until forty to
get married?
- (25,20)
- Why
was the
age of forty the right
time to marry Rivkah?
- (25,21)
- What
was the
content of Yitzchok’s
and Rivkah’s prayers?
- (25,21)
- What
does the
phrase “opposite his
wife” mean?
- (25,21)
- Why
did the
Rivkah suffer greatly
during her pregnancy?
- (25,22)
- What
was
Rivkah’s query concerning
her
difficult pregnancy?
- (25,22)
- Why
did Rivkah
think that she had
prayed for the wrong thing?
- (25,23)
- If
Hashem has
stated that "the elder
will serve the younger", does this not take away their freewill?
- (25,26)
- Why
was it
necessary that Ya’akov and
Eisav be born together?
- (25,27)
- Question 10 not yet
translated Why
was Ya’akov not afraid of Eisav when he took the birthright and
blessings from him?
- (25,28)
- Question 11 not yet
translated Why
did Yitzchok love Eisav?
- (26,2)
- Question 12 not yet
translated If
Yitzchok was not allowed to go to Egypt because Hashem wanted him to
stay in Eretz Yisrael, why was he told to the Land of the Plishtim?
- (26,2)
- Question 13 not yet
translated Why
did Hashem think that Yitzchok was planning to go to Egypt?
- (26,3)
- Why
did Hashem repeat that He was giving Eretz Yisrael to Yitzchok’s
descendants?
- (26,10)
- Question 15 not yet
translated What
argument did Avimelech use to show that Ya’akov had been wrong to say
that Rivkah was his sister?
- (26,12)
- Question 16 not yet
translated Why
did the Torah not change the order and write that “Hashem blessed him
and he found (the yield) the yield of that year to be a hundred times
more than he had estimated”?
- (26,28)
- Question 17 not yet
translated Since
Avimelech had already made a covenant with Avrohom, why did he need to
make a new one with Yitzchok?
- (26,29)
- Question 18 not yet
translated Why
did the people of Gerar think that they had caused Yitzchok to become
wealthy?
- (27,9)
- Question 19 not yet
translated How
did Rivkah allay Ya’akov’s fear that the blessing might cause him
spiritual harm?
- (27,9)
- Question 20 not yet
translated What
did Rivkah mean when she told Ya’akov to take two "good" young goats?
- (27,19)
- Question 21 not yet
translated Why
was buying the birthright of Eisav only necessary until the giving of
the Torah?
- (27,39)
- Question 22 not yet
translated In
Yitzhok’s blessing to Eisav, what is the connection between dwelling
prosperously and living by the sword?
- (27,42)
- Why
would killing Ya’akov be a consolation for Eisav?