Jacob The Blessed

The night of the day of Passover arrived, and Isaac called Esau his elder son and said to him: My son, on this night the whole world recites the Hallel, and the storehouses of dews are opened on this night. Make me savory food, so that while I am yet alive I may bless you. And the Holy Spirit answers and says: "Do not eat the bread of one who has an evil eye" (Proverbs 23:6). He went to fetch it and was delayed there. Rebecca said to Jacob: My son, on this night the storehouses of dews are opened, the heavenly beings recite song. On this night your children are destined to be redeemed from the hand of servitude. Make savory food for your father so that while he is yet alive he may bless you. Jacob was learned in the Torah, and his heart feared on account of his father's curse. His mother said to him: My son, if blessings, they are upon you and upon your seed, and if curses, they are upon me and upon my soul, as it is said: "Upon me be your curse, my son" (Genesis 27:13). He entered and said to him: Arise, please, sit and eat of my game. Isaac said: The voice is the voice of Jacob in the proclaiming of the Unity of the Name, the voice is the voice of Jacob in the study of Torah, but the hands are the hands of Esau in all manner of shedding of blood and in all manner of evil death. Rabbi Judah says: With ten blessings Isaac blessed Jacob, concerning the dews of heaven and concerning the grain of the earth, corresponding to the ten utterances by which the world was created, as it is said: "And may God give you of the dew of heaven" (Genesis 27:28). And when Jacob went out from the presence of Isaac his father, he went out crowned like a bridegroom and like a bride in her adornments, and the reviving of dew came down upon him from heaven, and his bones were made fat, and he too became a man mighty in valor and strength. Therefore it is said: "From the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, from there is the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel" (Genesis 49:24).