Toldos: 5783 - Rabbi Shimon Zonnenfeld with an insight for the weekly parsha 'Toldos': when Yitzchok discovers that he blessed Yaakov and not Eisav, he said "he too shall be blessed." Why did Yitzchok want…

00:00 Speaker 1 He asked: What’s so clever about this? Someone asks a person his name, and he says—well, his name is Yaakov, but he says, “My name is Moshe.” What’s so clever about that? Where’s the cleverness here? The explanation is that Yaakov acted cleverly. What was so clever? Yaakov figured: Esav will come afterward, and Yitzchak can bless him too. So what did he do? He’ll bless him too—so what? Yaakov used a trick to make sure Yitzchak would not be able to bless Esav. How did he do it? It says this was on the night of Pesach, which is why Rivkah took two young goats. One was for the Pesach offering, and the other was for the Chagigah offering. What did Yaakov do? He gave Yitzchak afikoman to eat. Now, after Yitzchak ate the afikoman, it says: “One does not eat anything after the Pesach offering.” So Yitzchak could no longer eat. Esav would come now, but Yitzchak could not eat what he brought. If he could not eat what Esav brought, he could not bless him. To bless him, he had to eat his food. That was the deception: making sure he could not bless Esav. And here’s proof: “bemirma”—“through deception”—has exactly the same numerical value as “afikoman.” “Bemirma” is exactly “afikoman.” It was through deception. It was done cleverly.

01:29 Speaker 2 Shema Yisroel.