Toldos

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Toldos

What is more important?

A birthright or a bracha?

Why would Esav spurn the one,

And cry about the other?

And Yaakov shows no interest,

In the bracha from his father,

He only goes to seek it,

On the urging of his mother.

In Rivka’s eyes he needed both,

To bring him to fruition,

Twinning ruchnius and gashmius

Was crucial to his mission,

The ruchnius is vital,

It’s the light that G-d reveals,

The gashmius essential,

It’s the vessel that conceals.

So the birthright he acquired,

Is to cast illumination,

And the bracha that’s bestowed,

The very kli that forms a nation.