Jacob Meeting Esau

The Kabbalists see Esau and Jacob as the embodiments of the primordial world of Tohu (“Chaos”) and our present reality-process of Tikkun (“correction”)

What is the key to graciously accepting blessings in life while not growing callous because of them? Rabbi Schneur Zalman offers the answer, through a study of the words of Jacob, the archetypal beneficiary.

Where Abraham, Isaac and Jacob failed, a young girl could have succeeded

How many Jewish Rothschilds are left in the world? G-d knows we could have used them...

Jacob when seeing his brother Esau ready to confront him, he prepared for the war in three ways. A timely message on the immediate response Jacob prepared for Esau.

Over the centuries, numerous “reasons” have been advanced to explain the phenomenon of Antisemitism. But perhaps there is no reason!

Twenty years after Jacob stole the blessing, he was about to meet Esau once more. There was much at stake, not only for Jacob and his family, but for all of the cosmos.

In parshat Vayishlach, we read that Jacob heard that Esau was coming towards him with 400 armed men, intent on destroying him. Jacob was afraid, so he divided everything he had into two camps, thinking that if Esau attacks one, the other will survive. He ...

Hearing that his brother Esau is coming to meet him with a force of four hundred men, Jacob was terrified.

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