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It's ok.

I've said this many times and it's worth repeating again.

Xtianity didn't just make up a religion.
They STOLE OURS!

So Judaism does teach that the serpent was a manifestation of the evil inclination because it was not yet a part of humanity until after he sinned.

That being said, even though it may "sound like," they have it "right," their serpent is not our serpent. Their devil/satan is not our satan. Their concept of temptation is not our concept of temptation, and on and on and on...

Again:
Yes, their story sounds like our story because they STOLE it from us. Even so, the two have nothing in common.

Lastly, the serpent tempted Chava so that she'd feed Adam, he'd die, and the serpent would get Chava.

Sure, but that applies to everything,

You've gotten it right on all counts.

Good question on the immortality issue.
The information you seek is that whereas we now have to experience death to atone for much sin, pre-Eden's sin we could have moved on without having had to die.
Like Eliyahu, who ascended to heaven without dying.

I did start last post with Avivai and then switched to you. So the play on words [name change], in simple context, was switching from her to you. I imagine most took it that way but, then again, most impressions weren't skewed by having two names.

No reason to beat a dead horse with no name.

The good news is, A) You seem to have responded well enough to my... midwestern humor, so don't sell yourself short.
And 2) You've now asked a question that everyone reading it can actually understand.

I'd offer in return, 5 verses earlier Rashi says this angel is specifically the governing angel of Esau. Certainly an angel whose task has not yet been completed. How he then says what he says in verse 30 is a question preceding your question.

Is Eisav's angel speaking in the queen's English? Then how does an angel with one job say he has many jobs?
If we say that Eisav's angel is speaking for all angels, maybe he is *implying* that something of substance can give a blessing but not something whose substance is as fleeting as his task. Then your question falls away. One angel=one task, then poof.

Maybe this angel is speaking no more for every angel than I was speaking for every mid-westerner?
So maybe there are angels that come and go as there task is done.
And maybe there are angels who get new ID tags with new jobs who won't go till later.
And maybe there are angels whose one job lasts the entirety of this world before they go.

Some Kabbalists probably know with a measure of certainty.

I know that if someone s going to say, in one breath, that G-d and angels are immortal, it is worthwhile and even prasieworthy to clarify that those two spiritual entities, if you will, have no such similarity.
G-d was, is, and always will be.
Angels were created by G-d, for their function in this universe, and whatever there longevity, their day and time will come.

You may like you're question better than my answer.
One we both can live with.

I did.

You're thinking of them like humans.
Do they grow old?
Can you kill them?

Angels were created.
Things with a beginning have an end.

Opposite ends of the same spectrum.

The balance in good vs. evil.