Some thoughts on parshas toldos

Why did God "hate" Esav(Esau) and "love" Yaakov(Jacob) (Malachi 1:2-3)? Why was Yitzkhak's(Isaac) favor towards Esav and not towards God's "favorite"? Was Yitzkhak's intention to continue God's bechira(selection) process with Esav? Was the birthright(bekhoratehka) that Yaakov "stole" the blessing of the selecting of God's one chosen nation? What was the nature of the birthright? What was the nature of the beracha(blessing) that Yaakov "stole"? What was the nature of the last two berachot that Yitzkhak gives: one to Esav and the last to Yaakov?
Why is Yitzkhak's love connected to something ("...for game was in his mouth[befiv]") wherase Rivka's is unconnected?

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The fact that we awake from sleep is some evidence for the resurrection.
Man in distress pledges himself to good deeds; man in prosperity forgets his good resolutions.
The righteous require no monuments; their lives and their teachings are their monuments.

Midrash, Genesis Rabba.

Money, freedom and Solomon.

A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes life merry, but money is the answer for everything." -- Ecclesiastes 10:19 ...

We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. -- Declaration of Independence



The founding fathers understood freedom as a right and a responsibility. A right given by our Creator and a responsibility to choose to do what we ought. When men are free to live, be free and pursue happiness they tend to be industrious, entrepreneurial and ingenuitive. Out of that freedom we get capitalism. Capitalism is a byproduct of free individuals engaging in free Enterprise with little to no interference.



Why does Kohelet state that money is the answer for everything?
Is there a connection between the two statements?
I am hoping to explore this further in a later post. Let me know if you have any insight.

I am a conflicted man.

No place to hide.

Somewhere in the firmament

In the morning I am a believer. Walking through the park with the ground blanketed by frost, the rising sun beaming through the mist and trees I am filled with grandeur and the sublime. In the evening I am a skeptic. Night blankets the cosmos. My world is illumined by man made light, I am filled with fear and self reliance.