Esav & Western Civilization's Big Mistake

We grew up with the idea of a criminal and a villain and there's always a hero and a savior on the other side zone one against the other. And in these par that are in front of us discuss the paradigm of the villain in direct contrast to the successor the one who is the hero of course Yakov and Asv. And the question that needs to be asked is yeah as we know was not exactly a great guy. The Gomorrah actually lists a bunch of that he did he didn't believe in to he sold the bakor he actually had relations with a narasa a woman who was betrothed and he killed a person on the day that he went off the der as as we say and still the funny way that the Torah decides to describe him is that as was an is he was a hunter big deal so he was a hunter so the man went fishing what bothers us about the fact that he's an if he was such an avarian he was such a person who was over him all the time and did things that are incorrect so what the Torah did not describe that as the problem instead it describes him in terms of the fact that he was a hunter so the ter of this question is based on an idea which I saw once from revansky and that is that when we discuss we usually think of something chronological that now is later and that's how it is and that's why it's called Z this and later as next but that's incorrect in a much deeper understanding has to do with the word Z this right now the here and now the immediate need for everything that has to do in the world that stands in front of me immediate gratifi uh gratification I need it for the here and now I'm not looking for things that are happening afterwards as opposed to when we're talking about is also actions that take place in this world but it comes with what we call a calculation knowing that there's a purpose or something behind it if someone has to as we say go through chemotherapy he was diagnosed with some type of horrible sickness and he has to go through chemotherapy if it happens to a child so that child is uncomfortable upset about the fact that he's going through these treatments not regarding presently. We're not discussing whether he's upset at Hashem or not upset at Hashem. That's not the idea. But presently, he thinks about what's going on. He's like, "Wow, I can't wait till it's over." He's looking just and it's over today. Well, next week there's another treatment. Ah, shucks. Okay, at least at least the person has a week break off. That's the way he thinks. He thinks in the here and now about the pain and pleasure. What is going on? as opposed to an adult who is going through the same therapy and is going through the same pain has meaning to the pain. At least he sees it objective where it's getting to. He understands that next week he has to go through the process again. But the whole thing is seen in one global picture. He's able to see it in a bigger picture to know he's getting to somewhere. Hopefully, he's being cured from a deadly sickness. He's being removed from a place that he doesn't want to be. And therefore even though he is going through the same pain as that child there's a lot more meaning behind the pain that is being expressed presently. That is the difference between people who have a drive of who their focus is in the immediate gratification as opposed to segmented is day and day and day. The world was created one day after the next. you see it in an individual place as opposed to alaba is seen as one big scene without without being segmented. It's much more pronounced everything that happens and therefore you can see this piece in the as a piece of a big puzzle and it's a greater way to be able to be calm and at ease about your whole entire situation. That was really the difference between as and yes as an is the [snorts] idea of being a hunter is the person who's looking for the here and now for the immediate for what I can do handto mouth that's the idea of an is the word as means as done finished he was done that's it there's no future whatever is is there's nothing that is more beyond than what exists that's the idea behind asov he says says he's looking for the red. He describes food as what he sees in his vision. He doesn't look beyond the external externalities. This whole country is called edom red. I see red. That's what I'm looking for. I'm not looking beyond than what I see. What more than meets the eye. What seeing is believing and more than that I'm not interested in. He's willing to give up his whole rights to the because it's all spiritual. It's all about the future. It's all about something that's happening later. And therefore, he has no interest in that type of concept. And another idea which I one time heard is that's why he was an isir. He was one made of hair because our whole bodies always change and they grow until a certain age when it stops. Of course at certain ages it starts shrinking maybe but more or less we stop except for one part of our body and that is the hair the sar keeps growing and that is really what represents as always needing more tavot always chasing more he's never saturated with the tavot whatever food whatever women he's chasing after whatever money he's looking for he's always looking for more and more and more yeseshav but he doesn't have coal but it's not yes co he doesn't have everything he has a But he's always looking for more. That's the epitome of Asov. The man who looks to the here and now that looks to the immediate gratification to be able to satisfy as soon as possible. And that's why these five aot the five sins that are mentioned in that gamarra are exactly similar. The common denominator between all of them is the now without making any calculations for the future. No bonus killing someone without thinking about the future generations. It says not an as not a woman who was married but one who was betrothed. Why? Because he's not thinking about the fact that she's going to get married right now. She's not married. Leave me alone. He doesn't think twice about that. He doesn't believe in the resurrection of the dead. He doesn't care about the because it's all just ephil. It's all just above my head. I'm not interested. Give me the here and now. Just serve me another cup of beer. Just give me another cigarette. I'm not interested. That's the assort of the difference between a Yakov and an Asov. And this of course is very prevalent for us as we can all understand because as the epitome of the western world. He describes the contrast between what Judaism chases, the [snorts] one who thinks about the future, the one who thinks about what can change and what can happen as opposed to the man who is busy chasing over the here and now. And that's really what we were raised with. If I could say the western world teaches, if I could say a certain focus on the me, myself and I. A certain hedonistic idea about just taking care of myself. I need this now and give it to me. This is the source with no question about the amount of protests that we see what we call on a constant basis cuz nobody seems to be satisfied ever. And also as we can understand and uh it spills over very simply to the fact that the divorce rate is out of proportions. I was speaking to an old friend of mine and he was mentioning I remember when we were younger already that makes me old already cuz I'm already talking about when I was younger when we were younger how many people did you know that were divorced it was it was barely around now it's a dime a dozen. How many people is happening? Because people go into marriages already focusing on the ani and what I'm going to get out of it. And that way of thinking that as we say is what's causing so much havoc in the world. One time someone sent a letter to the Labavorebi and he and it was all complaining about his wife and his marriage and everything about it that she's doing this and I'm upset and I can't handle this and I got to be out. The laborebi folded up that letter and returned it right back to him and he made one amendment in the whole letter. He circled every every place that he wrote me, I I can't me me that. All those stop focusing on the self and start focusing on someone else and then you will see success. The biggest of course Elzar the we met in he made the biggest between Rifka and he got a lot of for that marriage. which was a big one and he was so successful the first hit he was able to make it wouldn't be so happy if all our children on the first child on the first date and they were able to come out and succeed how is he so successful because if you go through the whole para you know how many times his name is mentioned ephis zero all it says is eid of it only talks about being an evid of rum and then later it talks about being an ish but it never mentions the fact that he is Elazar he took himself out of the picture and that is the key to success because the word ani is a very powerful word. The word I or my needs is something we use every day over and over again. What I feel, what I need, what I love, what I hate, what I wish, what I can't, what I think, we're always focusing on which is normal and it's totally fine. But that word expresses all our desires, all our emotions and everything about us. It is so powerful that is the capabilities of building a person but at the same time it is the power to destroy a whole entire world. The eye of a person can make it from one extreme to the next. You know the atom is what makes up the whole entire universe. The whole entire world is only here because of the atoms that are within us. In our body alone, we have 1 to the 10 to the 25th power atoms. That means 25 zeros. That's how many atoms are contained inside of your body. The atom is fantastic and it keeps us alive. But you know what? The most destructive material in this world is the atom. If you make an atomic bomb, which we've been dealing with over here in this country, it can actually go ahead and destroy everything. That tells me one thing. The me, the I, who I am, who I feel, who I want can be extremely productive, but it can also be extremely destructive. And it's all a decision of the person who is capable of doing it. Who is capable of making those decisions and deciding what I want to do with my life. This is what we learn from the contrast between Yakov and Asov. You know the difference between an animal and a person sounds the same. Animal and no, they all eat. They all drink. They all sleep. They all reproduce. They're all doing the same things. What's the difference? The answer is a behemoth is always a behemoth. From day one till the day he die, he doesn't change. He is not affected. The word behemma means bah. He is what? He is a beah. And guess what? Asov was the man of behemoth. He was an ish, a man that was hunting for animals. He was connected to animals because it's the same concept. No change. busy changing and getting interested in my own physical desires. Eating, drinking, chasing, looking for this, looking for that. BM what it is is what it is. There's no building of the process of the person. Just trying to satiate and satisfy all my desires. BM I am what I am and that's it. It stops over there. B is it to what it is is ma. You will not find more than what meets the eye. When you see an ox, you see an ox. There's nothing hiding behind them. You see 10 lions, you see 10 lions. You can know when they migrate. You can know what they eat. You can know exactly what they're all going to do when they're when they see a bunch of zebras together. They are all predictable. That's what it's all about. As opposed to anom is from because he grows, he changes, he's influenced, he makes decisions, he has free choice. So that kak that power free choice can make him to what he is for the good or for the bad to destroy worlds like that Russia 80 years ago was able to cause the death of 56 million people in World War II because of the craziness of one person's head who was so into the ani to himself to everything that he presented everything was the whole idea of the Aryan race is one selfish idea that is all about myself. That's the power of a person and that's what he can do to destroy. And on the contrast million of Dulith in 1933 when that person came to power to make a distinction there was a great man that passed away because he could not speak on the planet simultaneously with him. His name was the [clears throat] of Mayor Kagan. Theim who was a person who was exactly the polar opposite. The one who loved Claw Israel. The one who was always looking to help. Every book he wrote, every speech he made, every aspect of his life, every bone in his body was dedicated to helping Clal Israel. That's all he cared about. And that was the same person. They both grew up as children as little babies in diapers. They grew up and each one took his own polar opposite direction. Not to make any comparison between them because they're complete opposites. But the idea is clear that we see from here how a person has the capabilities to mold himself. Adam is from he builds himself and therefore a person has to make those decisions and know that it is within my reach to know that sometimes is my dining on par. Am I learning where I'm supposed to be? Am I really giving it duck that I can be doing? And to know sometimes yes to say no. What's really human is to be able to resist something. Not only to do something, but to resist. That really shows humanity. To know what comes through my door. What devices do I let in here? What type of internet access is coming through here? What kind of channels do I let inside of my house? Do I filter or do I not filter? That is a very human decision. Yes, I know how to resist, how to say no to show that not everything. And that shows true freedom. The one who is in charge of himself. That shows the beauty of the ani, the power of I to be able to make a decision and to be able to resist and to know when to do something and when not. Before I spit out a comment to my spouse or to my children, I think for two seconds, for two minutes maybe, and I make a decision if this is prevalent for me to say, is it worth it or am I only causing destruction or am I being helpful? A person has to know to make such then that it's human. That's me. That's a person who's constructive. Those are the person who thinks of the ramifications before he does something. It's an incredibly powerful tool to realize our powerful free choice who we are and what we have. You know the writes in one of his letters that one of the biggest tum that we have the worst thing that we have in this world presently before Msiah comes is the fact that they've decided we don't have free choice. They've taken away our free choice. The psychologist and says well the poor guy this the poor guy that. And he says that's because we're right before Mashia's time. When Mashiah comes there is no more free choice. That's it. It's game's over. There's no more free choice. But we're spilling into an age where people are denying free choice and there was and uh and that's what causes this issue. There was a person by the name of Ethan Couch in 2013 in England that has is a 16-year-old crazy drunk driver. He was going incredible speeds. He went off the side of the road. He killed four people and injured seven very seriously when he was driving horrifically. He got pulled in. Eventually they found him. They pulled him into court and his psychologist that was there testified that he was suffering from affluenza. You know what affluenza mean? It's the same word as affluence. He grew up so wealthy, so spoiled. He doesn't even realize the consequences of his actions. The poor guy. He was overdone. He doesn't have any boundaries. You have to have pity on him. He didn't know what he was doing. Guess what? He got acquitted. His whole punishment was he had to go to rehab for the next 6 months. Poor guy. Can you imagine that? No jail for him. And as a PS, a year later, he was caught again drunk driving. But his mother quickly scured him out of the country and flew him to Mexico to make sure he wouldn't be caught. What a fantastic mother taking care of her beautiful child. She really cares about him. As you can understand, we see that this is really the agenda of what we are being taught. The idea of not being responsible or held for my actions and this is a point of or construction or destruction. You decide. Rapina says a story unless I finish of the grand granddaughter of the that she was influenced like many many in that time period of course by the by the enlightenment movement and she went to university she kind of went off she one time went to visit her incredible grandfather the and she told him sabo to zade till when are you going to be in this primitive light in the darkness of this world get out into the real world and start realizing what's going around. When I hear that story, I get a stomach ache also. Trust me. And you know what he said to her? He said to he took her outside to the window. It was in the middle of World War I. And he showed her those biplanes flying up and top with the propellers in the front. There was a man in the front driving. And there was the man in the back dropping bombs on top of the cities. He said, "You see those planes? One day they're going to get to the moon. You see those bombs? One day they're going to destroy be able to destroy the world. The man had prophecy. Novoa. One day he's going to the moon. One day those bombs will be able to reach everywhere. He said that's what they make. Those are the things that they just they try to make. We make people. We make mention. We're busy constructing people. This is what I'm doing in the opaces of my room. I'm interested in building a mench, building a person, seeing who I am and make myself great. the ani, the great ani that is behind us. And this is the greatness of our capabilities. What we can do when we come to a proper realization of this contrast between an asov and a yakov. The power to say no as opposed to the power to give in to everyone of our desires.