“He, too, prepared delicacies, and brought them to his father, and said to his father: Let my father arise, and eat from his son’s game, so that your soul will bless me” (Genesis 27:31). “He, too, prepared delicacies, and brought them to his father, and said to his father: Let my father arise” – that is what is written: “The spider grasps with hands” (Proverbs 30:28). Rabbi Ḥama bar Ḥanina said: By virtue of what merit does the spider grasp?8A metaphor for the Roman Empire, that descended from Esau. It is due to the merit of those hands – “he, too, prepared delicacies.” “Let my father arise” – because he said to him: “Let [my father] arise,” I will exact retribution against him with that same expression: “May God arise…His enemies scatter” (Psalms 68:2).