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The Portion of Toldot A Blessing from Heaven
The days of Yitzchak (Isaac) are numbered. He doesn’t know when the day of his death will arrive. He decides to bless his eldest son Esau. He asks Esau to go out to the field, hunt and prepare a meal for him just the way he likes it “in order that my soul may bless you” (Genesis 27;4).
Esau is commanded to bring food for his elderly father to eat. By doing this act of kindness for his father, it will be Isaac’s soul which blesses Esau- not a regular blessing but a blessing of the soul.
The blessing did not come from Yitzchak- it emanated from G-d Himself who funneled it through Yitzchak, through his soul. As David wrote in Psalms (104;35) “Bless the Lord my soul”.
And therefore at the end of the blessing “And it came to pass when Isaac finished blessing Jacob (Genesis 27;30), the letter “lamed” in the word “kila” (finished) is written in the form of a stick from top to bottom, thereby telling us that Yitzchak’s blessing came from heaven and passed through Yitzchak on its way to Jacob.
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