[Avodah] patterns???

[Micha Berger]

On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 03:01:05AM +0000, kennethgmiller at juno.com wrote:
: 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.

Which I find difficult.

Yitzchaq had a favorite she'einah teluyah bedavar; Rivqah also had a
favorites, with more cause. Yaaqov saw how well that turned out.

Now it is quite common for someone to repeat all the scripts they
learned as children, and make many of the parenting mistakes their
younger selves were so sure they would be smart enough to avoid.

But Yaaqov, and moreso Yaaqov-the-biblical-archetype, was not quite
common. How did he repeat that error?

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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