Why Esau's Wives Blinded Isaac and Not Rebekah

Midrash Aggadah, Genesis 26:35

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"And they were a bitterness of spirit" and so forth. From the good deeds that they did not do; and it was not enough that they did not do good, but they even did evil, for they would offer incense to foreign worship and drive the Shekhinah away from the house of Isaac. And on this account some say that Isaac became blind. If so, why did Rebekah not become blind? Rather, Rebekah was accustomed to it, for in the house of her father they would offer incense to foreign worship; therefore she was not blinded. But Isaac, who was an unblemished burnt-offering, was blinded.

Themes

PatriarchsJacobCreationSacrificePurity

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