Parashas Toldos

Our Parsha this Shabbos is Parashas Toldos.
The word 'Toldos,' means ' Offspring,Descendants and Generations.'
Our Parsha starts by saying "Ve Eileh Toldos Yitzchak Ben Avraham Avraham Holid Et Yitzchak," - "And these are the offspring of Isaac son of Avraham, Avraham Begot Yitzchak ." 
When a Parsha starts with a 'Ve' - 'And' , it denotes that it is a continuation of the words before and what was happening before. Before this, the Torah stated the other children of Avraham's son Yishmael through Hagar and Avraham's other sons through Keturah. So now, Torah continues to discuss this line of Avraham, the one that comes through his beloved Sarah, the line, the offspring, the generations that would be the Jewish people.
At the time, people did not believe that Yitzchak could possibly be Avraham and Sarah's son and said that it must be the child of Abimelech and Sarah. So , at the beginning of this Parsha, HaShem Makes it clear that this precious son Yitzchak is truly Avraham's biological 'Toldot'- 'Offspring.' To ensure that all doubts were squashed at the time, HaShem Made sure that Avraham and Yitzchak looked physically alike so that there would be no doubt that Yitzchak was truly the 'Toldos'- 'Offspring,' of Avraham .
Next, we are told that Yitzchak is forty years old when he took Rivka , daughter of Bethuel, the Aramean from Paddan Aram, sister of Lavan, the Aramean , as a wife.Here, Torah mentions twice that Rivka is from a family that were Arameans.This is to show, how ingrained the family were away from HaShem and followed Idols, yet this one sweet rose among the thorns- Rivka , came out holy and faithful and pure , to HaShem .The word 'Paddan Aram, 'means 'The Field of 'Aram,' - Paddan being the Arabic name of a field,and the word Aram, is part of the word Armon which means 'Palace,' suggesting a field in a Palace, the showing of the high opinion Lavan and his family had of themselves at the time .Lavan and his family were well known at the time as leaders of this area (now in our times, in the area of Syria ) and were well known idolworshipers and people who delved into negative things and negative forces. It was out of the family of Lavan, that Bilaam came, who tried to curse the Jewish people. 
So it was out of this area and family of idolworship that Rivka came. If we remember, that before Rivka left with Eliezer and her wet-nurse Devorah, to go meet Yitzchak, her family wished her to be come 'myriads,' and the wish of blessing of negative people can have a negative effect. Both Yitzchak and Rivka pleaded with HaShem for Rivka to have a child and finally, HaShem relented and gave them children in honor of the Righteous Yitzchak and his righteous Father Avraham.
But when Rivka was carrying them within her, the pain was excruciating and she needed to inquire of HaShem , why she was this way.
The Torah says that the two children she was carrying 'Vayit'rotzetzu,' - 'Agitated' within her. Within the word 'Vayit'rotzetzu,' is the word 'Ratz,' which means 'Run,' for within her, when she would pass by a House of Holy Learning,' Yaakov would want to run to it and when she would pass by a house of idol-worship,' Eisav would want to run to it. It was already in the Womb, that these two forces of Good and Evil were already at loggerheads.It was actually Yaakov who was to be the first-born, but within the womb, Eisav continued to push him aside. When Rivka went to the Learning centre of Shem and Eiver, Shem told her what would be from these two forces she carried. When she gave birth , Eisav came out with a complete head of hair and Yaakov came out holding onto his heel. When Eisav was born, he scratched and damaged the insides of his own Mother to ensure she would not have any more children. Yaakok was actually the first-born,from his Father Yitzchak's first drop of seed,yet even in the womb, good and evil were fighting to gain the upper hand and by Yaakov emerging holding onto Eisav's heel, we learn that at the End of Days, so will Yaakov's descendants pull down and finally destroy their enemy Amalek. We can kind of understand now how the Birthright and Blessing belonged to Yaakov, a man who dwelt in tents of Holy Torah Study. 
It was on the day Eisav had been hunting and had killed the son of the Nimrod who had built the tower of Bavel, whose name was also Nimrod,and stolen back the coat that the first Nimrod had used, to hunt animals that was originally Adam's,given in Gan Eiden, that Eisav came in and saw Yaakov cooking lentils in honor of the sad passing of Avraham who had just passed away,yet Eisav was not mourning his grandfather but was killing another man. Avraham passed away just before seeing Eisav turn really bad,thus Avraham was held from seeing this hurt.
When Eisav came in and saw the redness of the lentils like the color of the blood he was so used to seeing as a hunter and killer , he asked Yaakov for some of it . It was here that Eisav showed his worth and true colors , for he was prepared to give up an entire Birthright for a bowl of pottage. Eisav proved he was a man of physicality and lived for the moment's desires-not a man who deserved to be the continuation of our holy Jewish people .So he said to Yaakov ,'of what use will it be to me anyway,' as he knew, by his behavior ,that he wouldn't have a spiritual future,to enjoy it anyway. So he sold the birthright to his brother, even though it was his brother's to begin with. 
It says in Torah that Rivkah loved Yaakov but Yitzchak loved Eisav,"For game was in his mouth." This referred to Eisav's mouth for Eisav showed physically that he was good but inwardly he was an evil man.Yitzchak hoped to influence his son Eisav to the better, for Eisav would try to deceive his Father that he was learning, even though he only would listen to a lesson from outside and afterwards come and tell his Father he attended and ask copious questions of his Father to make it look as though he had gone and learnt. 
When the time came for Yitzchak to Bless his sons, it was here that on Rivka's plan, Yaakov took his place while Eisav was busy hunting.
After Yaakov , who inwardly thought this could be Yaakov he was Blessing, went ahead anyway and Blessed Yaakov . Eisav unable to catch the animal he wanted for his Father, ended up killing and cooking the family dog. By the time Eisav came to his Father, Yaakov had already gone. Eisav never forgave Yaakov, for something that was actually Yaakov's in the first place and Eisav passed on his hatred to his son Elifaz and then onto his son Amalek, from where the dreaded Amelekites come .
Rachel quickly sent Yaakov away to Rivka's family to find a wife, with the permission of his Father , who again ratified the previous Blessings by blessing Yaakov again. Eisav also married , but he married idolworshipers as well as the daughter of Yishmael,Machalat.
So, here we have two lines of split in a family. The one who chose to follow HaShem's Ways and the other who chose murder,killing and idolworship and the pagan ways of the rest of the World .
But out of two holy people, Yitzchak and Rivka, how could such a son as Eisav come? We know that Rivka came from Lavan's family, so this part of the family had to separate itself from the Jewish people as a thorny branch removes itself from the sweet holy branch that is to flourish in purity so that there will be no taint to the branch of Avraham's 'Toldot' - 'Offspring,' and so, this split had to occur so the remaining line of Yaakov could grow fresh and pure and holy and sweet. 
This shows , that for us all, the choice to choose between good and bad, the Ways of G-D or one's own ways, exist for us all, every moment.Where we end up, depends on where we start and how we travel there. Our destiny is in our own hands and if we keep close to HaShem and His Torah, our path will always lead to His Light. 
Our 'Toldot,' - Our 'Offspring,' must be a true child of Avraham , carrying on in the Ways of our Jewish people . There are lots of things in this World that come to taint and pull the Jew away Chas Ve Shalom from his true path to HaShem . Some of these things may look so innocent , making a person wonder what can be the harm of turning to respect other idolwoshiping festivals or ways. But the harm is so deep and so dangerous, for a step away Chas Ve Shalom from HaShem's Pathway for us, is a step away from Truth . To even acknowledge other Ways out of respect for others, is a disrespect for HaShem and His Truth and the precious Gift of Yiddishkeit that HaShem Blesses and Gives the Jew.To even think of praising or even wishing well for anything that is not G-Dly or for anything that is from pagan ways, is to step away like Eisav and we all know where that leads - Away from G-D .
A true follower of HaShem, is a person who shuns all things pagan and stays only on the path of G-D and His Torah .
Our Parsha of Toldot is a Gift of HaShem, for HaShem gives us the generations so that we can travel toward Him . As soon as one starts to veer, even with a small thing, one has turned away from G-D .
HaShem Says ,"Ve Eileh Toldos Yitzchak Ben Avraham," - "These are the Offspring of Isaac son of Abraham,' telling us, that to remain a child of Yitzchak and Avraham, just as Yitzchak remained a child of holy Avraham and followed his Father's holy ways, so must we follow the ways of Avraham and remain a child of Avraham and be Avraham's 'Toldos,' - ' Offspring,' for this leads to G-D and makes us one with G-D .
With love to HaShem , I wish HaShem with love, a very special and sweet and beautiful Shabbos Kodesh with love and to all, a sweet and special and beautiful Shabbos Kodesh with love.