הלעיטני נא מן האדם הזה כי עיף אנכי “Feed me some of the red stuff, for I am tired ...” (Bereishis 25:30)
Rav Matisyahou Solomon zt”l once visited Rav Elazar Shach when Rav Shach’s little grandson walked into the room. Rav Shach took a bag of candies and offered a candy to the young boy, saying, “You want a red one, don’t you?”
“The Rosh Yeshivah is making the child into an Eisav!” Rav Solomon chided Rav Shach. (Eisav concerned himself with the food’s color.)
“You don’t understand,” Rav Shach replied. “A child lives in a fantasy world, and it is perfectly acceptable for him to be focused on color. The problem with Eisav was that he never grew up.
“When an adult lives in a fantasy world it is a sign of hedonism. An adult must live in a world of reality to serve Hashem properly.”
