Some births announce their children. Esau's birth, in Targum Pseudo-Jonathan on Genesis 25:25, announces an entire character.
"The first came forth wholly red, as a garment of hair: and they called his name Esau, because he was born altogether complete, with the hair of the head, and the beard, and teeth, and grinders."
Read that inventory. Hair on the head. A full beard. Teeth. Grinding molars. Esau was not born like other newborns. He was born ready — ready to chew, ready to hunt, ready to be an adult before he had been a child. The Aramaic root of his name, the Targum says, is asui, "made" or "complete." He was made from the start.
There is an ominous undertow to this description. The Torah celebrates becoming. Abraham becomes. Isaac becomes. Jacob, whose name means "he will strive," is nothing but becoming. But Esau is born finished. And anything finished at birth cannot grow.
The sages noticed the color — red. Red is the color of blood, of the field hunter, of the descendants called Edom (which simply means "red"). The Targum is painting a portrait of a man defined by appetite before he has taken his first breath.
Contrast Jacob in the next verse: he will come out grasping Esau's heel, still reaching, still wrestling, still incomplete. Jacob's incompleteness is his inheritance. Esau's completeness is his tragedy.
The Maggid's quiet teaching: the righteous life is not about being born ready. It is about being born unfinished — and spending every day becoming. Beware anyone, including yourself, who thinks they came out of the womb already done.