Esau

A child shouldn’t be expected to be a miniature replica of his parent. Individual character traits need to be honed and channeled.

Esau married his uncle Ishmael's daughter Machalat. Was Machalat righteous or wicked? Scripture gives us evidence to argue both ways.

Jacob hid his daughter from the wicked Esau. But did Dinah actually have the power to make Esau repent? Based on the commentary of Rashi on the verse (Genesis 32:23) "And [Jacob] arose during that night, and he took his two wives and his two maidservants ...

Keep your head in the sky…and feet firmly on the ground.

The Torah records minute details about Rebecca’s first and only pregnancy. Did her twin sons, Jacob and Esau, have free choice to become who they wanted to be or were their personalities predestined from the womb?

The circumstances under which our patriarch Jacob left his parents' home at the age of sixty-three.