So many stories in Torah are based around individuals being put in difficult situations. Being broken as people but through vulnerability and crying out to God, they become victorious.
How is this the case when we live in a world (2015) that convinces us, we need to be strong, powerful, boastful like Floyd Mayweather & Ronda Rousey - to be victorious?
Well, Rav Hirsch explains it perfectly depicting the conflict between Yaakov & Esav in his commentary on parsha Vayishlach:
"It may seem to be undesirable to arrive at a long-anticipated encounter with a physical disability, but it actually helped Esav understand something about the brother who stood before him. Yaakov would become identified with Divine assistance precisely because he could not compete with others with his own resources. Yaakov would not be defeated, but the source of his strength was not within him, but in his relationship with Hashem. Esav understood on some level that Yaakov was not the master and source of his good fortune and his very survival. Something higher stood behind him."
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