[Avodah] Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch on the parsha: Improper parenting

[Akiva Miller]

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R' Yitzchok Levine quoted the Israel National News:

<<< Rav Samson Raphael Hirsch suggests (based on earlier sources) that the
fault partially lies with Yitzchak and Rivkah in that they ignored “the
great law of education chanoch la’naar al pi darko, ‘bring up each child in
accordance with its own way’ – that each child must be treated differently
with an eye to the slumbering tendencies of his nature.” Rav Hirsch argues
that Esav and Yaakov possessed very different natures and thus should have
been raised differently. >>>

Can someone point to where Rav Hirsch wrote this? Can someone point to
evidence that Yitzchak and Rivka raised Esav and Yaakov the same way?

To my mind, the fact that Yaakov was accustomed to the meat that Esav would
bring home and prepare, and that he requested more of it, demonstrates that
he *was* aware of each son's talents, and that he encouraged (or at least,
didn't mind) those disparate talents.

Akiva Miller
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