Interesting.

Why is it that we think of Esav as being evil? He was the victim in our story along with his father, Yitzchak. Surprisingly enough to to what we think that Esav is the only person who does not do anything wrong. Rivkah and Yaakov both are the people who supposedly do the wrongs. I know that some people think what they did was fine and I accept that. My thoughts though are that its still a little not so ok what they decided to do. I also think that it is Rivkah's wrong doing more than Yaakov. If Rivkah had not over heard Yitzchack speaking to Esav before sending him away to hunt some food, Yaakov would have never been pressured into deceiving his father. I mean the real issue is that Rivkah didn't speak to her husband about all of this instead of just sending her other son to just go against her husband, but that is a completely different issue. Clearly this family does not get the family of the year award or anything close to it. I just think its so interesting how the families that built and are the founders of our religion had such messed up families.

Anyway, why do we think of Esav as being the evil child if he didn't actually do anything wrong? I know he gave up his bechorah for a bowl of soup, but that doesn't make him evil. We already decided in class that what he did was justified because he was going to be unfit for the position in the future. I'm fine with that and everything until then. I just can't see why Esav is the evil child. And I also cannot understand why each parent chose one child to be "theirs". Also more family issues.

The bracha was another interesting topic to me. Why did everyone think Yitzchak was giving "Esav" THE bracha? It's funny to me also that in all the brachot we see there is always someone who is strong/higher/ruling over someone else. Why can't everyone just be equal? I also think its interesting how there are so many problems in the Torah. We are supposed to look up to it. It is our guide book. It's interesting to me that in the one thing that is supposed to set an example for us there are so many problems. Neighbor to neighbor problems, family problems, spiritual problems, and so so so many more. I guess that's why its ok to make mistakes because Hashem knows that we pretty much don't have any perfect example to look at.

That's just interesting to me.