In this week’s Torah portion, Toldos, we are introduced to Jacob and Esau. On the surface, the story is one of sibling rivalry, but its mystic depths contain some of the most profound secrets of ...

Take for example what we are told about what happened when Esau movingly kissed his brother Jacob. In Midrash Rabbah (78:9) we read, “Rabbi Yannai said that Esau didn't come to kiss Jacob but ...

We see him in all of his complexity. One of the stories with which I struggle most is of Jacob’s relationship with his brother, Esau. On two occasions, Jacob (with his mother’s initiative in ...

Esau represents the seed of the snake and Jacob represents the seed of the woman, and the judgement is that the seed of the snake shall bruise the head of the seed of the woman, and the seed of ...

who wrote this in less time than Esau needed to build Rome. Gen. 32:16, listing the gifts that Jacob offered Esau when returning to the land of Israel from Mesopotamia, where he had established a ...

Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, In the spiritual narrative of humanity, the story of Jacob and Esau stands as a profound allegory for the internal struggle between higher ...

The relationship between the brothers Jacob and Esau is shot through with dramatic tension: manipulation and deceit, violence and forced separation, conflict and unexpected rapprochement. So it seems ...