Toledot

Toledot (Hebrew תולדות, " gender " = descendants of Isaac ) denotes a reading portion ( Parasha or Sidra called ) comprises the Torah and the text gene / Bereshit 25.19 to 28.9.

It is the Sidra of the 5th Sabbath in the month Marche swan or the first Sabbath of the month of Kislev.

Gist

• Birth of Esau and Jacob
• The exhausted returning from the hunt Esau sold Jacob his birthright because he assumes that he will not survive his father.
• Isaac wants to move because of the famine in Egypt, but remains at the behest of God in the land of the Philistines, where he spends Rebekah as his sister.
• Isaac stay in Gerar, disputes with the Philistines treaty with King Abimelech
• Esau marries two Hittite women at the age of 40 years.
• Jacob surreptitiously on Rebekah's instigation, but only reluctantly, the birthright of Isaac.
• Esau the brother swears revenge and wants to kill him.
• Rebekah sends Jacob to her home to her brother Laban, and justifying this by their aversion to a marriage of Jacob with a Canaanite woman.
• Jacob obtained in this manner again the paternal blessing.
• Esau believes to act on behalf of his father when he marries a daughter of Ishmael additionally.

Haftorah

The corresponding Haftorah is Malachi 1.1-2.7.