To Always
I’m not disagreeing with you, but I think you’re confusing issues. When the Torah told us the three things that Yaakov did, it was to teach us how to prepare when we have to deal with Eisav and, of course, his descendants. Neither you nor I are on the front lines, so our responsibility is different. We have to focus on self-improvement and assisting others so that Hashem becomes more favorably inclined to us. Edited but let me share the following. This year, I was in a Sukkah on the first night of the Yom Tov and one fellow said to his friend, “Everything we have in our lives comes from the Rebbe.” The other responded, “Of course. We live in the shadow of the Rebbe.” It’s time for all Jews, even Chabad, to wake up and recognize that our only hope is through Hashem.