Toldos 5786 - Yaakov & Esav

Ash told us we have the um Malus, we have uh Asov and Jakob being born and is the first description of their relationship to each other and it has been uh that way ever since. The uh the Joshua Saran over here explains something about this mutual conflict. the um it he it's built around the Gmorrah in McGill when it says amala that when this one is full when when when your is built Romy is is is is not and vice versa one or the other is one or the other is built that's you know they they are mutually exclusive that's way describes and um explains over here that they are essentially not compatible. They're essentially opposite. And when you have one, you don't have the other. If we can give uh an example, we can have light and darkness. As far as we know, it's either or. Where there's light, there's no darkness. Where there's darkness, there's no light. We we we don't have the ability to you know we we don't have that type of of light darkness for us mutually exclusive. It's either one or the other. The um so he explains over here why it is that you have that he goes through different parishes. It says later on these are the um the kings there before this before there was kings in the king no kings there. The point is it's either or. So other nations don't like us. Other nations may be belligerent. They may um they they they may attack us. they may want to destroy us but they don't have that type of standing of um you know either or so the um so I want to explain the the the the point that is making a little bit and uh amplify it a bit we have malus cl is bracious is bishful which means that existence existence isol is something that um it's its essence is what Hashem wants therefore is existence. So if we're to ask the core is that exists. The brier means to give existence to and that's um edom is called to home. It's it's it's in the in theukim of the of the various let's call them anti- um forces. It says to home as to home means um an endless abyss. An endless abyss is a description of nothingness. So um the somethingness and nothingness are mutually exclusive. That's the words. Let's try to understand a little bit what that means, why that is what it is. Um we have um we we we have people who want destruction. They they are people who who who don't want anything to be. the nest of sorts. Um, and express many ways. They people who believe there's no tas to life. No point to it. Um, people who believe who don't believe in in because no I don't care if it doesn't exist. Um, a person a normal person has some element of yesesh meaning he would like things to be would like things to exist. He his heart is thrills at at life and at existence and so on. He may have a particular enemy or may he may be jealous but but his heart thrills at life and existence. And there are some people that that they're just needless. They just want nothing to be. That's we can call them a psychopath, but but it's it's it's destruction is something that makes them um it makes them be uh you know uh that's that's what they're about. It's hard for us to imagine it. It's hard for us to understand it, but that's there's that type of just hatred and wanting destruction and reing in in seeing things destroyed, put to waste and so on. That's the essential force of of Asov. Asov said means that nothing is worth anything. Everything falls apart. everything dies and everything's over. It there is nothing worth having because nothing ever really exists. They see the world as being a place of of [snorts] uh antimatter. The world is a place where everything will disintegrate, peter out and be gone. That's how Aso gets the world and that's what he's about. the um so Claus and and Edom are very different than other forces that the other the other three Malus um also wanted something but they were um they conflicted with with Israel they weren't loggerheads and therefore you could have their malus and our malus coexist of and cla is mutually exclusive um and therefore it's either or when kasrol does good ac disappears almost I would say by essentially if if we see a world that's good and beautiful and thrives and is tove then is answers yes there is good there's kind If Kalisol is not doing what they're supposed to do and Kala themselves are rah then as says I see I told you the world is a bad place people are inherently bad and so on that's the type of attitude that um as fosters the run adds one more point in his structure he writes that um edom He is really identified with Malhos Romy which morphed into Christianity. That's the that's the the um the way he explains it. The the the um morphing into Christianity. So, so when we speak of Malus Edom, we speak about Rome and Rome was an empire that wanted to swallow up everything in the world and it then the Roman Empire then converted to Christianity and became till this day the seat of the church. The reason um so the the at least understanding a little bit of the um the church's attitude so long as Clausol existed exists they um their own position their own existence is um threatened threatened in theologically. Their their point is that we had we were hadins who got rid of us and brought them in instead. If we're not gotten rid of then then um where are we then then then where are they? It's interesting. Islam says that it's not true. They were always the chosen people and they are the chosen people. Christianity um says we were the chosen people and wiped the the slate clean which creates a theological problem. The way they solved it is that by us being downtrodden, depressed, repressed, crushed, and broken. We're we're kept around as living testimony to the people didn't who did not um accept the truth. So they needed us in a state of non-existence. Sort of we need to be a museum piece of non-existence to help prove their point. That's the way they see it. So So they themselves project that Mechis Edom uh which is what they what it morphed into is there only because your doesn't exist. And if your schlime exists, it really creates a problem. So the the this this uh mutual exclusion of Malus is very powerful for that reason. So let's sum up. So Dan explains at length the um mutual [clears throat] um conflict between Asov and Malcus Asov and and Yakov. The conflict is a conflict of existence versus non-existence. Yakov is the embodiment of being existing. Positivveness as embodied ho negativity neism non-existence. It's either or things that exist. When there's light, there's no darkness. And if it's dark, it means because there's no when I turn the light off, it's dark. That's in essence their their mutual conflict. It expressed itself in a religious sense when Asov morphed into Rome to into the Christian um church in Rome where their existence is posited on Claudius's non-existence and it makes very very uncomfortable if we exist they don't exist I mean that both not discard us and that's why they sort reached a a kind of understanding that we have to be it's okay quote unquote if we exist in a very repressed form and they did their best to support the theology. One must admit they did not spare much effort to do that. But takas it's either or if we exist and and therefore we don't need to go and disprove discredit. We need to exist. If we thrive in a toica way in a positive way then we are who we are and and and the forces of of non-existence are simply are just not there.