I was struck by a Midrash that was quoted in a Dvar Tora yesterday afternoon at the Young Israel of Scarsdale at Seuda Shlishit. Referencing R. Amnon Bazak, the speaker attributing to him calling to his readership’s attention a passage in Midrash HaGadol. The Midrash wonders how could Yitzchak have been so oblivious to his son Eisav’s bad behavior to the point where he appears to indiscriminately love the miscreant, even more than he was emotionally invested in Eisav’s more righteous twin, Yaakov (see my blog post for 11/13/15 “Biblical Text and Rabbinic Interpretation” at https://yaakovbieler.wordpress.com/2015/11/13/biblical-text-and-rabbinic-interpretation/#more-162):
Trying to Bring about Improvement in Those about Whom One Cares
15 Sunday Nov 2015
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