In struggling with her pregnancy Rivkah believes her fetus is pulled in opposite directions, until she seeks the divine and is told if fact there twins and that they will become two nations.
I have always felt (Reb Shlomo implied the same) that until we fix this unfinished business with the descendants of Esau (Rome/Christianity) the geulah will not arrive.
What does that mean? Especially in a Post Holocaust world where post modernism has called into question the very theological underpinnings of the enlightenment, exposing its theological Christian unacknowledged categories.
I have also felt that Christianity has stolen the very secret of kabbalah (the incarnation of the holy spirit in man) which was then refused for a millennium of Jewish self-definition.
The collection below sets the frame of reference.