[Avodah] Esav

[rabbirichwolpoe at gmail.com]

> In discussing Esav=Edom we have to distinguish between various eras.
> In the chumash Esav is not painted in such black terms. Though he has
> his faults he does everything for his father and sincerely wants the berachot
> and eventually makes up with Yaakov.

Here is my simple p'shat of the 2 eras
That there are 2 dinnim in Esav :-)

The one, that person, in the Torah did only one explicit "crime" -
viz. He married "B'nos Cheis"

Thus Esav the person was not unredeemable

But Esav-Edom the nation IS evil mostly due to the wives of Esav who
served as Mothers to the nation of Edom!

So in yesterday's Hafatara "es Esav saneisi" imho address "am esav" 

This answers the issue of how could Yaakov give Dinah to Esav? This
P'shat assumes that Esav with a tzedekkes of a wife would have been "OK"
(assuming he kicked out the others as did Avraham)

Then I have another point.

That a major "meta-Mitzvah" and a ubiquitous recurring theme in
Torah-Tanach is against intermarriage.

Of course this idea influences my P'shat in how I see Esav.

"BUT RRW! How come Lei'ah cried her yeyes out?"

Ein hachi nami! Esav was no tzaddik and a "grubbe yung". But still not
yet the epitome of evil.

But 2 generations of intermarriage already produced Amaleik.

KT
RRW
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