The answer according to the way the Maharal understands Rashi at the begining of this weeks parsha seems to be yes. Rashi on the pasuk vayisrotzatzu habanim, quotes the famous medrash that whenever Rivka passed a house of avoda zara Eisav tried to get out. Rashi a few pesukim later comments on the phrase mimayayich yiparedu, "min hamayayim heim nifradim, zeh l'risho vzeh l'tumo". <br>
<br>From Rashi it seems clear that already in the womb Eisav was a rasha who wanted to worship avoda zara. The obvious question is why? <br><br>The Maharal points out that a person has no yetzer hara until he is born. The Maharal (<a href="http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?sits=1&req=14210&st=%u05D5%u05D9%u05EA%u05E8%u05D5%u05E6%u05E6%u05D5">http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?sits=1&req=14210&st=%u05D5%u05D9%u05EA%u05E8%u05D5%u05E6%u05E6%u05D5</a>) answers: "Mipnei sheEsav ratza latzeis lashuv el mino vtivo", basically the Maharal says that Esav wanted to return to his nature (which was a rasha). The Maharal makes a similar comment in Parshas Noach (8,21, <a href="http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=14210&st=%d7%aa%d7%95%d7%9c%d7%93%d7%95%d7%aa&pgnum=65&hilite=f4e448d5-7b3a-4e5a-81fc-6eb9c7a1c0ac">http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=14210&st=%d7%aa%d7%95%d7%9c%d7%93%d7%95%d7%aa&pgnum=65&hilite=f4e448d5-7b3a-4e5a-81fc-6eb9c7a1c0ac</a> bottom of the second column) where he says it even more explicitly "U'bbeten imo efshar laasos maaseh ra v'ein lo yetzer hara rak shehu poel kach b'tivo lfi shehu rasha mibeten." The Maharal says explicitly that a person can do bad things without a yetzer hara but rather because he is a rasha in his mother's womb.<br>
<br>Isn't one of our fundamental beliefs that a person is NOT born a Rasha but has free will? How does this fit in with this Maharal? How else can we explain why Eisav wanted to worship avoda zara in the womb according to the Medrash quoted by Rashi?<br>
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