Jacob's Voice and Esau's Hands at Isaac's Blessing and Betar

"And Rebekah spoke unto Jacob" etc., "And now, my son, heed my voice as to that which" etc., "Go now to the flock" etc. (Genesis 27:6, 8, 9). When he had gone and brought it, he went to his father, as it is said, "And he came unto his father" etc., "And Jacob said unto his father" etc. (Genesis 27:18, 19), and he blessed him. And even though you say that Jacob lied, he did not lie. Balaam said, "He has not beheld iniquity in Jacob" (Numbers 23:21). Rather [he said], "I am Jacob; Esau [is] your firstborn" etc. "Arise now, sit" etc. "And Isaac said unto his son" etc. (Genesis 27:21). He said to him, "Because the LORD your God caused it to happen before me" (Genesis 27:20). And further he said to him: When you were bound upon the altar and the angel said, "Do not stretch out your hand against the lad" (Genesis 22:12), was there perhaps anything there? The Holy One, blessed be He, only made it sprout forth for your sake, as it is said, "And Abraham lifted up his eyes" etc. (Genesis 22:13). And so too he said, "Because the LORD your God caused it to happen before me." And when Isaac heard that he said, "Because the LORD your God caused it to happen before me," he said: This is not Esau; Esau does not mention "the LORD your God." He said to him, "Come near now, that I may feel you, my son" etc. "And Jacob came near unto Isaac his father" etc. (Genesis 27:21, 22). He said to him: You are acting with your voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau. Rabbi Judah bar Ilai said: In the earlier generations one would expound: What is "the voice is the voice of Jacob"? The voice of Hadrian Caesar, [who] killed eighty thousand myriads in Betar. Rabbi Yohanan said: The voice of Jacob cries out over what the hands of Esau did to him in Betar.