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The earliest midrashic commentaries on the story of Jacob and Esau portray Esau as thoroughly wicked. Since Jacob does not seem to emerge from the deception of his father with much credit, the ...
The Talmud (Tractate Sotah 13a) records an interesting narrative where Esau attempts to prevent Jacob’s body from being buried in Me'arat Hamachpelah (the Cave of the Patriarchs) claiming rights to ...
When famed Russian director Pavel Lungin first read Esau, the 1994 novel by celebrated Israeli author Meir Shalev, its unexpected familiarity struck him. As Pavel explains, it is a “novel speaking ...
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