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There are a number of questions regarding Eisav’s selling of the birthright.
Couldn’t Eisav feed himself? Why did Yaakov add bread and water to the
menu? Why did Yaakov take advantage of Eisav’s hunger by buying the
birthright? Wasn’t it the opposite of chessed? Was Yaakov in such
desperate need of the birthright?
It was on that day that Avraham Avinu died, and Yaakov saw that Eisav
was hungry. He tried to influence him to do teshuvah by speaking words
