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Why didn't Esav wear the hunting coat when searching for food for YITZCHAK? [closed]

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IT seems that the coat that Yaakov wore when he received the Brachas was a special hunting coat that attracted animals, Esav stole it from Nimrod, who inherited it from his grandfather Cham, from his father Noach, originally given to Adam (that is one reason why Yitchak smelled Gan Eden as Adam used to live there.) The question remaons though, If Yitzhcak had sent Esav out to go goet him food, Why not put on the special hunting jacket? What was his reason for not wearing it?


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We know that Esav was extremely careful and zealous when it came to the mitzvah of “kibud av” - of honoring his father, Yitzchak. If we look at the wording of the pasuk we see that Yitzchak asks Esav to “capture for me” game…”Capturing” is a word used when one tries to get something which is attempting to elude him. Esav understood that using his miraculous coat which attracted the animals and brought them to him, would not be fulfilling the full word of his father. In addition we know that the medrash says that Esav would shoot an arrow at the deer, shechting them with such precision through the jugular vein that they would be killed in a kosher way! This is why Yitzchak further emphasizes to Esav that he does not want food from that type of kill, but rather he wants a Shchitah with a “Sharp knife” - Further telling Esav that the “normal” way of hunting which Esav is used to doing is NOT what Yitzchak wants to eat from. He wants to eat from an animal which has been “caught” and “shechted” properly.

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Chapter 27:

  1. So, now, sharpen your implements, your sword [and take] your bow, and go forth to the field, and hunt game for me.

ג. וְעַתָּה שָׂא נָא כֵלֶיךָ תֶּלְיְךָ וְקַשְׁתֶּךָ וְצֵא הַשָּׂדֶה וְצוּדָה לִּי צָיִד: your sword: Heb. תֶּלְי‏ְ, your sword, which is usually hung לִתְלוֹתָה.

תליך: חרבך שדרך לתלותה: So, now, sharpen: שָׂא נָא an expression of sharpening, as we learned in the Mishnah (Beizah 28a):“We may not sharpen a knife [on a whet-stone] but we may sharpen it (מַשִּׂיאָה) against another one [on Yom-Tov].” [Isaac said]: “Sharpen your knife and slaughter properly, lest you feed me neveila ” [an animal not slaughtered according to ritual law] (Gen. Rabbah 65: 13).

שא נא: לשון השחזה כאותה ששנינו (ביצה כח א) אין משחיזין את הסכין אבל משיאה על גבי חברתה, חדד סכינך ושחוט יפה, שלא תאכילני נבלה: and hunt for me: from ownerless [game], and not from stolen [animals]. [Gen. Rabbah 65:13]

וצודה לי: מן ההפקר ולא מן הגזל: 4. And make for me tasty foods as I like, and bring them to me, and I will eat, in order that my soul will bless you before I die."

ד. וַעֲשֵׂה לִי מַטְעַמִּים כַּאֲשֶׁר אָהַבְתִּי וְהָבִיאָה לִּי וְאֹכֵלָה בַּעֲבוּר תְּבָרֶכְךָ נַפְשִׁי בְּטֶרֶם אָמוּת: 5. But Rebecca overheard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son, and Esau went to the field to hunt game, to bring [it].

ה. וְרִבְקָה שֹׁמַעַת בְּדַבֵּר יִצְחָק אֶל עֵשָׂו בְּנוֹ וַיֵּלֶךְ עֵשָׂו הַשָּׂדֶה לָצוּד צַיִד לְהָבִיא: to hunt game, to bring: What is the meaning of“to bring” ? If he would not find game, he intended to bring [meat] from stolen [animals]. - [from Gen. Rabbah 65:13]


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R' Shimon ben Gamliel stated that Esav wore special clothes whenever he served his father. It is safe to assume that these were the same clothes that he had Rivkah safegaurd because he didn't trust his wives with then, additionally these clothes actually did fool Yitzchok. It could be that Rivkah made herself unavailible so Esav couldn't get to them.


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Esau was very Makpid on Kibud Av. In fact the Midrash says that a Tanna said that he didnt come up to Esav in Kibud Av. So maybe he didnt want to cheat the mitzvah and do it easily, he wanted to do it properly.


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    I dont understand, is there a point of especially doing hard work, isnt the end result the same? - shteeblehopperNov 15  '12 at 14:29
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    Pirkei Avois says Lifum Tzar Agra - harder work (to accomplish the Mitzvah) = the more Schar you get - SJRFeb 21  '13 at 23:04
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lefum tzarra agra

http://thepartialview.blogspot.com/2013/11/frum-girl-quits-cofferoom-amid-doubts.html


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