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- As the children struggled within her, Rebekah inquired of the Lord. He answered by telling her that she would give birth to two nations. Further, He told her that the older would serve the younger. Isaac loved Esau because he loved the venison that he brought to him. Rebekah loved Jacob because he stayed nearer home, and was a milder son.
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Esau, the firstborn to Isaac and Rebekah, did not take heed to a lot of things in the family’s custom and order. While Abraham made a big deal to marry from his own tribe and people, Esau did not. Esau took a more liberal approach to life.
Isaac, who had a taste for wild game, loved Esau, but Rebecca loved Jacob. 1. We know why Rebecca loved Jacob. Before the twins were born, the pains Rebecca felt were so great that “she went to inquire of the L‑rd.”. This is what she was told:
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“When the boys grew up, it came to pass that Esau was a man who understood hunting, a man of the field, and Jacob was a guileless man dwelling in tents. Isaac loved Esau, for he was a hunter for his mouth, but Rebecca loved Jacob.”
How could two brothers, born to the same parents and raised in the same household under the same conditions have turned out so different from each other? Why does the Torah choose to tell us that Isaac favored one son while Rebekah favored the other? Does the nature of each brother predetermine the outcome of the story? Rabbinic tradition considers...
1. “Teach a child according to his own way.” [Proverbs22:6] 2. “How is Torah taught? The teacher sits at the head of the class and the students sit around him. The teacher should not sit on a chair while his students sit on the ground. Rather, either everyone should sit on the ground or everyone should sit on chairs.” [Rambam, Laws of Talmud Pronou...
Later in our Torah portion, when Isaac asks Esau to hunt for him so that he [Isaac] may bless him [Esau], he says: “Take your quiver and your bow and go out into the field and hunt game for me. Prepare for me a tasty dish like I love and bring it to me so that I may eat and so that my soul may bless you before I die.” [Genesis 27:3-4] Three verses ...
- Rabbi Howard Alpert
Jun 28, 2004 · They loved each other dearly. Isaac mourning for his mother three full years after her death would be some indication of the love they felt for one another (Gen. 24:67). With Ishmael gone, Isaac was the only child at home and his parents’ lives revolved around him. He never wanted for anything.
Gen. 25:23. It seemed as if God were saying that the younger would prevail and carry forward the burden of history, so it was the younger, Jacob, whom she loved. But why, in that case, did Isaac love Esau? Did he not know about Rebecca’s oracle? Had she not told him about it? Besides, did he not know that Esau was wild and impetuous?
Why did Isaac love Esau? Jacob was the younger. Rebekah seems to have inferred, correctly as it turned out, that it would be he who would continue the covenant, who would stay true to Abraham ’s heritage, and who would teach it to his children, carrying the story forward into the future.
While Rebecca favored Jacob, Isaac showed a preference to Esau, as Esau would prepare him delicious meals. 8 The Midrash adds that Esau tricked his father by leading him to believe that he was pious.
