Reply To: “Eisav Sonei LeYaakov”

Thanks everyone for your responses. May questions were: 1) Whoever says it was ever meant to apply to all non-Jews and all Jews, rather that just Yaakov and Eisav themselves, and 2) Why can’t there be exceptions, in the very context of that Medrash R’ Shimon b. Yochai is saying that there was an exception! It is true that many non-Jews in the Holocaust turned on their former friends and neighbors, but what about those few who actually helped Jews, often at the risk of their lives? Did they also hate all Jews? And what about a non-Jew in the other end of the world who has never met a Jew in his life, and doesn’t even descend from Eisav? Does he also hate all Jews?