Hashem says to them: “Are not the righteous satisfied with what is stored up for them in the world to come that they wish to live at ease in this world too?”

Esav saw it all as further proof that life has no purpose and that the blessing too had no use for him. He believed the moment and getting whatever you can was most important. So, he found the soup, for the moment, to be more valuable than a blessing in this and the next world, when he did not believe in the holiness of either.

“Going to yourself” means looking inward, to “yourself”—as every person has their own point of truth. To find it, we each need to leave our “land,” representing the materialism around us (each person falls to different vices). Leaving your “birthplace” represents physical desires, sensual pleasures and depression. Leaving a person’s ancestry or “fa

The power of tzedakah is that you literally give life to someone: they go from a lowly state of hopelessness and darkness to a state of feeling life and hope and light again.

When we are tested, our knowledge of what we must do is constricted and hidden from us, and only through our desire to do good, focused on our connection with God, do we find the right path to follow.

to put so much perpetual focus to not focus on something keeps you just as connected, if not even more.

even if the world is full of Esavs, ruled by Edom, we still have to emulate Yakov, perpetually refining ourselves and those around us (“sheep, servants, and maidservants”) for the Ultimate Redemption.

Hashem’s light even in a place seemingly devoid of it. In our own lives, we need to eliminate our safek, our Amalek, the nations and notions that attempt to force us to turn away from faith and alignment.

Avraham, the father of the Jewish tradition, discovered the Truth by searching what it meant to be his true self and the responsibilities that come with that, while those around him had fallen to worshiping desires and other false idols.