Q&A - Was Eisav Meant to be The Fourth Patriarch? Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz

there's a medish that says this is a phenomenal medish that says originally six shim were supposed to come from Yakov and six were supposed to come from ASF which would mean actually this this this would even change the distribution among the imos and that is yakob would marry Rael and there' be six from Rael or maybe also from bah six from Leia and maybe Zila and the like and that was the original plan and in fact this goes back to the I don't again I can't be Mar in all of this why did y want to bless ASF right y wanted to bless ASF because he knew that ASF had a certain Destiny to kind of also be a co-creator of the Jewish people so the question is well what does that mean ASA was the one that was kicking to go to the abod Zora and the like so the answer is y envisioned that both Yakov and ASV had spirit spiritual roles but they were different spiritual roles describes how you do cha as Turn Away From Evil a do good he saw yov as aov Yakov did not have a strong yerar Yakov didn't have to struggle with overcoming base instincts yakov's job was to do good in the world asov had the Avida of struggle ASV had the a so Yakov so y thought and maybe originally this was so that he should conquer his evil inclination he said subjugated and that would make him worthy of being an A in CLA Israel because Yakov is teaching us aov and ASV is teaching us SRA the Aral says what does the PK say loved asiv now this is actually a little difficult to translate but Sayad is that which you hunt PIV is in his mouth so the simple meaning is that asov would serve y food that he hunted which is the little trivial I mean I love ASA because he brings me good meat by the way it says ASA was such a skillful Hunter because y would only eat things that were Sheed how could he eat animals that ASF had hunted ASF could shoot an arrow and it would sever the veins in the neck it was a kosher as could do a kosher by shooting by shooting an arrow that's uh that was his great uh his great skill so that's the simple meaning but the Aral has another interpretation s Biv is referring to the idea that ASA captured goodness and righteousness but it was only in his mouth it wasn't swallowed to spread and be digested in his body in other words as of had aspects of kadha but they weren't fully integrated into his pus and Y thought by giving asov the braa he would be able to integrate that Holiness so there actually was a view that asov potentially could have been enough and it was his b his b that ultimately caused that to be forfeited now this is always complicated because God knows the end of every story I mean God knows as is not going to make the right choice but Hashem allows things to play out Hashem allows the situation to make that choice possible even though Hashem knows what the end of the story is going to be and that was the story of of yakob and Asa