Q. Dearest Rabbi Shlit’a. As we read the current and next Parshios in with the story of Yaakov and his older brother Eisav, describing the foundations and base sources of the Jewish Nation, I wonder at what point was Eisav removed from being part and parcel of the Jewish people? Was it maybe when he decided to take all those strange and very unfit idol serving wives that his parents detested? Or was it his abnormal, immoral and degenerate conduct with the rights and belongings of others that decided his future in our nation?

A. “Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that it all began when Eisav sold his first birthright to Yaakov for a pottage of lentils, and then he just ate, drank, arose and left, thus truly despising the meaning and importance of his birthright.

The Rov also quoted Talmud sources, that Eisav was considered a ‘Mumar’ or a unbeliever or irreligious member of our nation, nevertheless, still then part and parcel of it.

Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by, Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller, Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit’a