The Sun That Heals Jacob and Scorches Esau and His Chiefs

"And the sun rose for him" (Genesis 32:32). Rabbi Berechiah said: And for whom did it not rise? Rather, for him, for his healing, but for others, light. Rabbi Acha said: The sun heals Jacob our father and scorches Esau and his chiefs. The Holy One, blessed be He, said to him: You are a sign for your children. Just as the sun heals you and scorches Esau and his chiefs, so for your children the sun heals them and scorches the nations of the world. It heals them, as it is written (Malachi 3:20), "And for you who fear My name the sun of righteousness shall rise, with healing in its wings," and it scorches the nations of the world, as it is written, "For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, and all the arrogant and all evildoers shall be stubble, and the coming day shall set them ablaze" (Malachi 3:19). "And he was limping on his thigh" (Genesis 32:32). Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi went up to Rome, and when he came to Akko, Rav Chanina went out to meet him and found him limping on his foot. He said to him: You resemble your grandfather, "and he was limping on his thigh."