In this episode, Rabbi Reinman discusses the succession of the patriarchs and the raging conflict between Eisav and Yaakov over Yitzchok’s brachos.
Chapter Seventeen: Esau’s Tears
The Torah’s biography of Abraham is incomplete. We meet him when he is seventy-five years old. God tells him to forsake his homeland and travel to an as-yet unspecified destination, and Abraham obeys without question or protest. Clearly, he has already recognized God and rejected pagan society. Clearly, he has developed a complete and profound faith in God. Clearly, he has achieved the exalted level of prophecy. But we are not told how he arrived at this point.
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