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| Father |
Isaac |
| Mother |
Rebecca |
| Brother |
Jacob |
| Wife |
Oholibama |
| Sons |
Eliphaz,
Korach, Reuel, Yalam and Yeush |
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| Esau
strived to be better than his brother by being more
physical. Jacob was more of a thinker. This is the
classical "brains over brawn" story in the Torah. |
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| Esau
loved his father Isaac for his physical abilities, and Isaac
loved Esau for the same reasons. |
| Esau
sold his birthright to his brother Jacob for a bowl of
soup. |
| Rabbi Shimon Ben Gamliel said: “No man ever honored his fathers as I honored my fathers; but I found that Esau honored his father even more than I honored mine” (Devarim Rabbah 1:15). |
| Esau is looking for
love throughout his life. At the reunion between Jacob and
Esau, despite a lifetime of divergent beliefs and practices, “Esau runs toward Jacob, embraces him, falls upon his neck, and kisses him; then the two brothers weep” (Genesis 33:4).
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