Tuesday, March 6, 2012
What It Ok??
We are currently jumping deeper into the debate of if Yaakov's actions were right morally or not. I think at this point we have seen both side. I know I certainly have mixed feelings about the whole thing. In the end though I think the right person to have the bechorah was in fact Yaakov, but I'm still bothered by how he attained it. Perhaps a better way (which would have shown complete faith and trust and belief in Hashem) would have been for him to talk to Hashem or Daven. Even after seeing all these arguments that say that what he did was perfectly fine because of this reason and that reason I still have trouble believing that Hashem was ok with it. Well I mean I guess He wasn't ok with it, because He made Yaakov's life pretty difficult in the future. I guess though Esav really didn't want it and no matter how many times he might have thought that he did, deep down he knew he didn't. Esav was a hunter. He was a murderer. Having him as one of our Avot?? Could you imagine? We have already seen and had SOO many problems with immorality and people being unethical. This would have just been the icing on the cake. Who knows how we would have turned out! Probably not anything good. Hashem probably would have had to break his promise to Noah to not destroy the world again! We spoke about that Esav didn't care about it even after the trade was done so that make it ok, and that Esav only thought about the then and now about everything so Yaakov knew he would not be able to do the right think because that required thought. We also spoke about a number of other reasons as well. Going into this study I thought that it was absolutely wrong and that Yaakov should have handled the situation better. All in all and after doing all this research and hearing from all these different commentaries I think my opinion has swayed a bit, but only a bit. In the back of my head I still feel like it was not totally %100 right of him, but I do see why he did it and I think he had valid reasons making it better.
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