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.

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.

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.

We are B’nei Yisrael because we are meant to live in this world, to deal in materialism, but to continually find ways to elevate it.

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.

with all the seemingly unending descents, hardships and ways to break our strides, we can’t let it pull us down. We have to keep moving; keeping our soul’s essence and the ultimate purpose of spiritualizing reality until our own redemption, both prati (personal) and klali (public/general) become actualized into the final redemption and the

it is often when we have our own high expectations of how something should play out that we are the most disappointed with what we receive.

Yakov doesn’t see each moment as being a movement, a slow death march, or an infinite repetition, but rather he sees that within time, there is the space that offers the possibility of being present, of elevating moments, and of redemption at any moment. And knowing that time is full of struggles, as well ups and downs, but specifically within

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.