Tafsiran Kejadian 25:29: Tze'enah Ure'enah, Rashi, Chizkuni & Or HaChaim

“Jacob was cooking a stew” [25:29]. Jacob was cooking lentils and Esau was very tired. He had committed many murders that day. Esau said to Jacob: feed me the red lentils since I am very hungry. That is why he was called Edom. He was cooking lentils because they were mourning. Abraham had died on that day, in the hope that Abraham should not see that his grandson Esau had committed many sins and worshipped idols. Therefore, the Holy One let him die five years before his time. That was why lentils were being cooked. When someone dies, just like a lentil is round, so too death goes around and wanders from one person to the other person.²⁵Rashi, Genesis, 25:29–30.

Esau committed five sins on that day. He slept with a bride who was married to her groom. He killed a person. He denied the resurrection of the dead. He denied the Holy One, and he shamed the birthright.²⁶Bahya, Genesis, 25:29.

ויזד means boiling, as the Targum renders it.