{"id":2346,"date":"2020-11-19T01:25:23","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T07:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/?p=2346"},"modified":"2020-11-21T02:19:09","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T08:19:09","slug":"bartering-with-vanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/bartering-with-vanity\/","title":{"rendered":"Bartering with Vanity&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2363 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/chag-crave2-1.jpg?resize=143%2C144&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"143\" height=\"144\" \/>From our Torah portion (i.e., <a href=\"https:\/\/https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/Scripture\/Parashah\/Summaries\/Toldot\/toldot.html\">parashat Toldot<\/a>) we read: \u201cAnd Esau said to Jacob, \u2018Let me eat some of that red stew, for I am exhausted!\u2019 Therefore his name was called Edom (\u05d0\u05b1\u05d3\u05d5\u05b9\u05dd).\u201d The Hebrew text more forcefully reports Esau\u2019s words: \u2018Let me gulp down (\u05d4\u05b7\u05dc\u05b0\u05e2\u05b4\u05d9\u05d8\u05b5\u05e0\u05b4\u05d9) some of that \u201cred-red stuff\u201d (\u05d4\u05b8\u05d0\u05b8\u05d3\u05dd \u05d4\u05b8\u05d0\u05b8\u05d3\u05dd), picturing how eagerly he bartered away the blessing of heaven for a momentary and fleeting pleasure&#8230; The Maharal of Prague said that when Esau called the stew that \u201cred-red stuff,\u201d he was acting like an unthinking brute that relates to things without restraint, in the immediacy of the moment, and without regard to their \u201cform,\u201d that is, their higher purposes or end&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2347\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/prov22-1-analysis.gif?resize=553%2C562&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"553\" height=\"562\" \/><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2346-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/prov22-1-jjp.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/prov22-1-jjp.mp3\">https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/prov22-1-jjp.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/Blessings\/Blessing_Cards\/prov22-1-lesson.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Proverbs 22:1 Hebrew Lesson Card<\/a><\/strong> (pdf)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no &#8220;root of bitterness&#8221; springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled; and that no one is sexually immoral or profane (i.e., \u03b2\u1f73\u03b2\u03b7\u03bb\u03bf\u03c2, worldly, ungodly) like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal&#8221; (Heb. 12:15-16). Surely this is the deeper meaning of \u201cprofanity\u201d &#8211; to deny reality, to live in willful ignorance, and to miss the glory of God&#8217;s presence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From our Torah portion (i.e., parashat Toldot) we read: \u201cAnd Esau said to Jacob, \u2018Let me eat some of that red stew, for I am exhausted!\u2019 Therefore his name was called Edom (\u05d0\u05b1\u05d3\u05d5\u05b9\u05dd).\u201d The Hebrew text more forcefully reports Esau\u2019s words: \u2018Let me gulp down (\u05d4\u05b7\u05dc\u05b0\u05e2\u05b4\u05d9\u05d8\u05b5\u05e0\u05b4\u05d9) some of that \u201cred-red stuff\u201d (\u05d4\u05b8\u05d0\u05b8\u05d3\u05dd \u05d4\u05b8\u05d0\u05b8\u05d3\u05dd), picturing how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-dvar","category-hebrew-reading-practice","category-torah"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2346"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2364,"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346\/revisions\/2364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}