“Rebecca said to Jacob her son, saying: Behold, I heard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying” (Genesis 27:6). “Bring me game, and prepare me tasty food and I will eat, and I will bless you before the Lord before my death” (Genesis 27:7). “Now, my son, heed my voice to what I am commanding you” (Genesis 27:8). “Go now to the flock, and take for me from there two fine goat kids, and I will make of them tasty food for your father, like that he likes” (Genesis 27:9).
“Rebecca said to Jacob…. Bring me game…. Now, my son, heed my voice…. Go now to the flock” – Rabbi Levi said: Go and see to the advancement of the nation that is likened to a flock, just as it says: “You are My flock, flock of My pasture” (Ezekiel 34:31).
“Take for me from there two fine goat kids” – Rabbi Levi said: [Rebecca said:] ‘If you find, excellent, but if not, go and bring me from my dowry,’ as, so he [Isaac] wrote to her, that he would provide her with two goat kids each day. “Fine [tovim]” – Rabbi Ḥelbo said: Good [tovim] for you, as through them, you will take the blessings, and good for your descendants, as through them they will gain atonement on Yom Kippur, as it is written: “For on this day he shall atone…” (Leviticus 16:30).18Atonement was achieved through the offering of two goats on Yom Kippur.