Parashat Toldot
In the upper-right is LECHEM and a cooked dish being prepared, which is, no doubt, N'ZID ADASHIM, lentils. Implication in the pasuk is that the lentil soup was on the liquidy side, since when Eisav got the bread and soup, he ate and drank. The handshake represents the deal made between Yitzchak and Avimelech and Pichol.The earth-mover (do they still call it a steam-shovel?) is the various diggings of the wells. The successful well was called REHOVOT, as in streets as it the street signs at the bottom-right. Upper-left is a cloud giving rain and some stalks of wheat, representing the Bracha to Yaakov - V'YITEIN L'CHA... May G-d give youfrom the rain and bountiful produce of the land. The two goats are the ones that Rivka commanded Yaakov to get so that she could prepare Yitzchak's favorite dishes and so that Yaakov can disguise himself in case his father wanted to feel him (which he did). Note that the goat comes back, so to speak, to haunt Yaakov whenthe Brothers dipped Yosef's multi-colored coat into the blood of a goat, in order to deceive Yaakov. It is also no coincidence that the main sacrifice for communal sin is a goat. And the two goats of Yom Kippur are tied in as well. The sword is Eisav's livelihood. The little monkey is the small KUF in Rivka's exclamation,Katzti B'chayai. The stars represent the repetition of G-d's promise to Avraham, that his descendants will be as lofty and as countless as the starts in the sky. Which leaves the symbol in the lower-left corner, which is the astrological symbol for Genimi, the twins. As in Yaakov and Eisav. [The ParshaPix Index][The Toldot Homepage]
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