Rebekah's Partition and the Angels Who Held Up Jacob

[(Genesis 27:28:) "So may God give to you."] What is written above of this matter? "And it came to pass, when Isaac was old" (Genesis 27:1); "And Rebekah spoke" (ibid. 27:6); "And she gave the delicacies" (ibid. 27:17). Rabbi Judah the Levite son of Rabbi Shallum said in the name of Rabbi Helbo: She brought him in as far as her partition, as far as she had permission to enter. She said to him: My son, this far I have come in with you; from here onward let your God come in with you. He entered, since he said to him, "Because the Lord your God made it happen before me" (Genesis 27:20). Rabbi Yohanan said: At the moment he said, "Because the Lord your God made it happen before me," Isaac said: This manner of speech is not the speech of Esau but the speech of Jacob, as it is said, "The voice is the voice of Jacob" (Genesis 27:22). You should know that it is so, for when Jacob entered, what did he say? "Pray, arise, sit" (Genesis 27:19). But when Esau entered, [what did he say to him? "Let my father arise." See] what he says, how he speaks with toil: "Let my father arise" (Genesis 27:31). Isaac began to say to Jacob, "Pray, come near that I may feel you" (Genesis 27:21). Rabbi Joshua said: When he said, "Pray, come near," his body trembled and he was bending like this wax. What did the Holy One, blessed be He, do? He said to two angels, to Gabriel and to Michael, and they assisted him—Michael at his right and Gabriel at his left—and He, in His glory, blessed be His name, supported him from behind him. And He said to him: Jacob, why are you afraid, with your body bowing down upon you? I am God, and My legion is at your aid and supporting you, and you are afraid?! As it is said, "Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I strengthen you, I also help you, I also uphold you with My righteous right hand" (Isaiah 41:10). "Fear not, for I am with you"—and let your body not bow down, for I am with you. "Be not dismayed, for I am your God; I strengthen you" with Michael, "I also help you" with Gabriel, "I also uphold you with My righteous right hand." Immediately [Isaac] said to him, "The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau" (Genesis 27:22). Your strength is harder than his. As for Esau, if he seizes a man, behold, he is in his hand; but if [he] flees, he can do nothing to him. But you—even a man who flees from the end of the world [and to its end]—"The voice is the voice of Jacob": you say [a word] in the synagogue, and behold, it comes of its own accord.