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From: Zev Sero via Avodah  <avodah at lists.aishdas.org>

>>he doesn't know that Esav is  really evil [...] Rivka had always
>> warned him about Esav "ki tzayid  befiv" but he never believed her.[--TK]

He did believe her, and he knew  what Esav was really like.  He warned
Esav not to bring him stolen meat  or neveilah, and when Yaacov addressed
him politely he grew suspicious.   So he knew exactly what sort of son
he was dealing with, but he thought the  power of the brachos would bring
Esav back.  Rivka knew  otherwise.

-- 
Zev  Sero                
zev at sero.name          





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He knew that his sons were different but he did not know that Esav was a  
rasha and he certainly did not know that Esav had sold the bechora -- in 
fact,  despised the bechora.  When  you see the brachos he gave Yakov (what  he 
had originally intended to give Esav) you see that they are all blessings 
for  material wealth.  He knew that Esav was not the scholarly type but he  
thought his two sons would have a Yisachar-Zevulun relationship, that Esav 
would  be wealthy and would support his brother, the scholar, who would spend 
his whole  life learning.  Rivka knew that Yakov needed material wealth as 
well as  intellectual and spiritual blessings, because she knew that Esav 
would not  support Yakov and Yakov would be destitute if he had to depend on 
Esav.   She knew that Esav was systematically deceiving his father as to his 
true  character.  She tried to tell Yitzchak but he didn't believe her.   Yes, 
Yitzchak knew his sons had different personalities but Rivka understood her 
 sons far more deeply than Yitzchak did. 
 
 

--Toby  Katz
t613k at aol.com
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