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This Week's Dvar Torah:
It was a daring mission. Yitzchak wanted to bless his firstborn Esav. He asked Esav to prepare a meal for him in order "that his soul would bless him." But Yaakov, beat Esav to the blessing. Upon his mother's instructions, he dressed like Esav, and, before Esav arrived, brought his father goat meat as a meal. Then Yaakov respectfully asked his father to sit and eat in order "that your soul may bless me" (Genesis 27:19).
Thinking that Yaakov was Esav, Yitzchak obliged and blessed Yaakov with the words, "And may G-d give you of the dew of the heavens and the fat of the earth and abundant grain and wine" (Genesis 27:28).
Those words have been the hallmark of our blessing ever-since. They are cherished by Jews the world-over who repeat them, some in jubilant song, others in tearful longing, every Saturday night after the havdalah. But the story did not end there
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