"If Esav lived in our generation - he would also open a newspaper"
In a Hachnasas Sefer Torah in the yeshiva Ketana of Ateres Shlomo in Modi'in Illit, the head of institutions Hgrs"b Sorotzkin gave a sharp talk about the "way of life of Esav" • See video and pictures
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In a particularly sharp talk given by the head institutions of Ateres Shlomo, Hgrs"b Sorotzkin, at a Hachnasas Sefer Torah for the yeshiva ketana in Modiin Illit, he referred to marginal groups which divide the Hareidi public, under the guise of ideological justifications.
Hgrs"b compared them to Esav, and explained how a person cheats himself, until he falls to the abyss.
"I have a feeling, which I would like to mention, that really touches everything we talked about, that a person lives with his truth and he knows his truth is the truth, without any deviations. I'll shorten it: the verse says that Esav sold his birthright, "He arose and went, and Esav disdained the birthright".
"All the great Telshe gedolim ask, they relate to this thing: why does the Torah have to mention to us, '"and Esav disdained the birthright"? Clearly he disdained the birthright. Let's think, a man who chose to serve G-d, eternal life he sold for momentary life, a momentary pleasure, and what type of a pleasure?! So, one can think that a person will give up eternal life, for something meaningful. Esav sold it for "a lentil stew", nothing, a pleasure of one moment, "a mess of pottage" and after that one has to write, 'and Esav disdained his birthright"? It's obvious by the act.
"The Torah teaches us a basic, anyone knows when a person transgresses some kind of offense, the opposite of His will, the opposite of eternal life, the opposite of the purpose of human goal on earth, how does it happen? He gives up on eternal life, for the pleasure of this world! How can this be? But the plain meaning is, what the sages say: 'No person commits an offense, unless a spirit of folly enters him'. It's true, there's folly that removes a person's mind, when he sins, when he sells eternity for a momentary life, there is a spirit of folly.
"But what happens with an Oved Hashem, with a person that 'a Tzadik falls seven times and gets up', what happens to him after the spirit of folly? After the folly, it changes into a broken spirit, "a broken and oppressed heart, G-d does not disdain". He immediately "chaps", he sobers up, it was nonsense passed over me, I passed eternal life for momentary life, folly!
"My grandfather Harav Baruch Sorotzkin, says that this is a form of a servant of Hashem who deals with sin, it is a form of person who wants to rise, to deal with the remorse of his sin.
"Esav, "has hunting in his mouth", he is not only sharp to deceive others, he was sharp to deceive himself. How did he cope with his heartbreak, that he lost his birthright for a lentil stew? Says the verse, there is another way to deal with it, a person who makes this his method, a way of life - the folly of his. He makes this his ideology - his folly. He sits and despises those who are on the straight path, he takes his spirit of nonsense, and makes it his way of life, he gathers people to explain why he did it, and why he was right – "and Esau disdained his birthright". Esav established communities, turned this into his ideology, how to deal with his guilty conscience. Of course, he knew it was silly, he was sharp, but he deceived himself, it became his ideology, this spirit of folly. "
Hgrs"b ended his words with a clear allusion: "Who knows?! Maybe in our generation, he would also start a newspaper! Who knows? But the reality is that it becomes a nonsensical ideology, and this is what the Torah points out to us, "Esav disdained the birthright" – it is not enough that his very act showed his contempt for the service of Hashem, but he turned it into an ideology of life. "
Hgrs"b compared them to Esav, and explained how a person cheats himself, until he falls to the abyss.
"I have a feeling, which I would like to mention, that really touches everything we talked about, that a person lives with his truth and he knows his truth is the truth, without any deviations. I'll shorten it: the verse says that Esav sold his birthright, "He arose and went, and Esav disdained the birthright".
"All the great Telshe gedolim ask, they relate to this thing: why does the Torah have to mention to us, '"and Esav disdained the birthright"? Clearly he disdained the birthright. Let's think, a man who chose to serve G-d, eternal life he sold for momentary life, a momentary pleasure, and what type of a pleasure?! So, one can think that a person will give up eternal life, for something meaningful. Esav sold it for "a lentil stew", nothing, a pleasure of one moment, "a mess of pottage" and after that one has to write, 'and Esav disdained his birthright"? It's obvious by the act.
"The Torah teaches us a basic, anyone knows when a person transgresses some kind of offense, the opposite of His will, the opposite of eternal life, the opposite of the purpose of human goal on earth, how does it happen? He gives up on eternal life, for the pleasure of this world! How can this be? But the plain meaning is, what the sages say: 'No person commits an offense, unless a spirit of folly enters him'. It's true, there's folly that removes a person's mind, when he sins, when he sells eternity for a momentary life, there is a spirit of folly.
"But what happens with an Oved Hashem, with a person that 'a Tzadik falls seven times and gets up', what happens to him after the spirit of folly? After the folly, it changes into a broken spirit, "a broken and oppressed heart, G-d does not disdain". He immediately "chaps", he sobers up, it was nonsense passed over me, I passed eternal life for momentary life, folly!
"My grandfather Harav Baruch Sorotzkin, says that this is a form of a servant of Hashem who deals with sin, it is a form of person who wants to rise, to deal with the remorse of his sin.
"Esav, "has hunting in his mouth", he is not only sharp to deceive others, he was sharp to deceive himself. How did he cope with his heartbreak, that he lost his birthright for a lentil stew? Says the verse, there is another way to deal with it, a person who makes this his method, a way of life - the folly of his. He makes this his ideology - his folly. He sits and despises those who are on the straight path, he takes his spirit of nonsense, and makes it his way of life, he gathers people to explain why he did it, and why he was right – "and Esau disdained his birthright". Esav established communities, turned this into his ideology, how to deal with his guilty conscience. Of course, he knew it was silly, he was sharp, but he deceived himself, it became his ideology, this spirit of folly. "
Hgrs"b ended his words with a clear allusion: "Who knows?! Maybe in our generation, he would also start a newspaper! Who knows? But the reality is that it becomes a nonsensical ideology, and this is what the Torah points out to us, "Esav disdained the birthright" – it is not enough that his very act showed his contempt for the service of Hashem, but he turned it into an ideology of life. "
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