Posts Tagged: Esau
‘Unorthodox’ Star Shira Haas Becomes First Israeli TV Actress Nominated for Golden Globe
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced this year’s Golden Globe award nominations today and a history-making selection: Shira Haas, star of Netflix’s “Unorthodox,” for Best...
Esau’s Callous Ambivalence in 2020
I love this quote from Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821): "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." (Though I expect he wasn’t happy that...
Parshat Toldot: Love Heals the Lover and the Loved
It’s a haunting question. Why did Isaac love Esau? The verse says so explicitly: “Isaac, who had a taste for wild game, loved Esau, but Rebecca...
The Story of Esau: Be Honest With Yourself
In October 1897, Sigmund Freud wrote to his close friend and confidant, the idiosyncratic German-Jewish otolaryngologist Wilhelm Fliess, inter-alia telling him that “being entirely honest...
Like Esau, Today’s Terrorists Live Only in the Present
There is so much going on in the world today that makes absolutely no sense. The security camera footage that emerged this week of two...
Was Jacob Right to Take Esau’s Blessing?
Was Jacob right to take Esau's blessing in disguise? Was he right to deceive his father and to take from his brother the blessing Isaac...
