[Avodah] patterns??

[Saul.Z.Newman at kp.org]

>>>My response is that, as you wrote, *WE* know the damage that is done by 
playing favorites. But it seems that Yaakov Avinu truly did not understand 
this. We have learned and benefited from his mistakes.


--------  is this the same as saying  noge'ah badavar?   i could see two 
ways of looking at it.  any rational person [today]  would say 'of course 
the brothers will be  jealous'.  so was the issue  he is noge'ah badavar, 
or  no-in fact  he analyzed the situation , allowing for his relationship 
as father,  and felt his  sons are on too high a level to have petty 
jealousies, and  therefore  favoritism is apparent , yet benign?
did he under estimate his negiah, or overestimate his  boys?

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