Rashi on Chumash Part27 Isaac Tries to Bless Esau Part 2 (Rabbi Dovid Gottleib) (Jewish Philosophy)

okay in the art school Rashi we're on page 293 this is chapter 27. verse um verse 9. we did the Russian this uh yeah so the situation is Isaac told Esau to go and Hunt game to make him a meal and then to cook the meal feed it to him and then as it was bless Esau Rebecca overheard this conversation and she says to Jacob I want you to go in and get the blessing instead I'm commanding you to do this she has already told Jacob that this blessing will be a prophecy not a prayer that will be very important for the scenario she says go now to the flock and fetch for me from there until he chose young goats and I'll make the Delicacies for your father as he loves it and we pointed out the for me is strictly speaking redundant superfluous and she means I they're mine because it was written into my marriage contract from from Isaac that I should be able to take two goats a day so don't worry that they they won't uh that they they'll be still then you'll bring it to your father and he shall eat so that he may bless you before his death and remember that the paragraph breaks in the English are of no significance whatsoever in the Hebrew it's all one long text Jacob said to Rebecca's mother but see my brother Esau is a hairy man and I am a smooth-skinned man perhaps my father will touch me or feel me and I shall be as a mocker in his eyes I'll bring myself upon myself a curse and not a blessing that's Jacob's remark now this although Russia doesn't say anything here um this needs to be thought about very carefully number one well you tell me what what strikes you here that that could need to be explained in which particular verse 11 and 12. and not a blessing because he could just say you know bring a curse on me that's kind of saying the same thing there that's pretty good I don't think of that right he says he'll discover who I am and he'll curse me and he won't give me a blessing that does seem to be redundant at the end like you know of course he's angry at me it curses me I guess it would be obviously he wouldn't be getting a blessing good okay good what else it could possibly you'd say like um why would we why would we expect yaakov to touch him why would he expect the actor to touch him okay you could ask that the question though is the answer is not too far to reach right because he's it sounds different I'm assuming or is it again he sounds different so in order to verify the fact that it's him you would touch it well I mean we just start with the fact that he's blind so how he's gonna One Way blind people identify things by touching them even people why would you suggest that well um yeah I think you could probably even figure it out it's going to be explicitly in the text but what happened Isaac sent Isa off to hunt game it's very important that Jacob should get in and out before comes back so you better do it right away hey I mean right but then when it occurred to Isaac that it was a little short for a Hunting Expedition so he could anticipate that there's going to be trouble there okay and now um what isn't he worried about maybe he'll feel me maybe he'll feel me then Jake is up he's worried about right and particular in interrogation what is going to come out for sure I just said that but but what piece of evidence is going to be betrayed necessarily not if he happens to touch it but necessarily which he's not worried about information on the actual Expedition and the hunt his voice oh he's gonna talk right so it's quite obvious to Jacob that he's not going to detect his identity through his voice it was it couldn't be that Jacob is a tenor and uh Esau as a Brasso profundo you know it's just not going to sound the same right that's going to be very important because later on it's going to say the voices is Jacob's voice it can't mean tone quality because Jacob's not worried about that that for sure is going to come out right that's one thing but there's something else here in the scenario I mean remember we mentioned that in this study there are many very many different dimensions you have to try to take into account right what did she say obey my voice to that which I command you it's his mother talking what do you want to say the previous thing wouldn't it make sense to assume you probably assume that their voices would have been that Isaac would have noticed the fact that uh that he's speaking to Jacob instead of it's asog and therefore the touching has to do with that as an I notice a difference in your voices and therefore that's why I'm touching you well that could already been assumed because then I've already been assumed by the fact that he's anticipating a different voices and that's why there needs to be touch present that's why the other the concern has to do with the fact that Esau has more hair than him if you I'm going to say this he's worried he's going to be discovered right if his voice doesn't sound like Esau's voice he's going to be discovered when he opens his mouth to talk but then he doesn't but that's not something you can say if I talk then maybe he'll discover me he's got to talk he's going to talk for sure so why is he going to something which only might happen won't happen for sure I said worried that that thing that might happen might give me away when in fact he knows he's going to be given away as soon as he opens his mouth that would be very peculiar thing to say obviously he thinks that he can open his mouth and he won't be discovered but maybe there'll be a problem and he'll get felt it'll get discovered so you asked what kind of problem could there possibly be so I answered he's going to get in and out fast the very speed could be a tip-off as it was in fact to tip off that in fact is something which Jacob which Isaac does take into account and he knows that's going to happen because he's got to get out before he still comes back so the questioning will take place because of the speed and he's not worried about his voice giving him away he's only worried that maybe he'll feel it that means we have to take into account in going through the text that don't pin anything on Isaac identifying his voice you don't want to say that well Jacob thought he wouldn't identify but Jacob was wrong and really Isaac did identify it but I think you could trust Jacob's judgment okay but but behind all of this there's something else again she says to him obey my voice to that which I command you what does he do what does he do he says no ma no no it's not gonna work he's not just rolling over and playing dead he's not just saying yes about whatever you say right okay now having registered that did something else occur to you he isn't just saying yes ma he's thinking independently he's raising an objection against the project isn't it interesting that he doesn't raise another objection how can I do this to my father yeah hey Ma this isn't right oh well I have the right to do this it's a crime so from the fact that he doesn't ask that it's a crime we would have to conclude that he doesn't think it's a crime just like he didn't ask about tone quality and therefore we conclude that he did he dismissed Stone quality as a problem so here too he dismissed it as a as a as a um as a crime now here I don't think you can get it directly from the text the way it's written here but uncle's translates that Rebecca told Jacob about the prophecy she had at the beginning of the Parsha that the elders will serve the younger that's how she knows it's not a crime but only does she know it's not a crime he has to know it's not a crime because he's raising an objection he's not raising that objection so Uncle fills that in and of course since it is at the beginning of the Parsha it's quite reasonable to use it to fill out it like it's prophecy yeah but like how does that morally so it's gone you know it's still working it might be morally wrong even though it's prophecy no I don't exactly see how that could be perhaps it comes from God how could it be more of the wrong you could ask you asked one question yesterday about the scenario you could ask another another question here similar question you could ask why doesn't she tell Isaac don't go this up to the Future don't make them go in it doesn't make him lie and cheat you know and take his brother's place just simply tell us I know this is a mistake in order to answer that you have to go back and think what happened over there she was pregnant the Twins were fighting she thought she didn't know she had twins she just knew there was some terrible distress there and it says and she went to uh to to to inquire of God she went where did she went why did she have to went why did she just ask Isaac is a prophet after all okay so why is she asking I think the assumption is she did and he didn't know in the end of the day she didn't get the prophecy from him now you say because I should fill this in the oil tradition tells us that it wasn't that God spoke to her she went she had ashamed of Ava and God gave it to shame to give it to her but she she went to find it went to find it means she didn't have it at home she got it he didn't get it Isaac didn't get it now there's a rule in Prophecy if Prophet a receives a prophecy that's relevant to Prophet B a doesn't tell B because a says b is a prophet if God wants me to know God will tell B directly B doesn't mean me to tell him if Prophet a gets a prophecy that's relevant to person Q who isn't the prophet then the prophet can take it into account that he should uh goes to the person and communicate it to him and to have him a prize of the prophecy and take it into account but not if the person about whom the prophecy is is is speaking is himself a prophet so she thinks um I know that what he wants to do is wrong I know because I got prophecy directly or indirectly that wouldn't matter and I know my husband didn't get the prophecy so I know that I'm not supposed to tell him no then I have to do something about it prophecy tells me what to do yeah Jacob I'm sorry Jake not yet so we will become a profit elect currently use them good try yeah I'm not sure what that means but certainly from the time he has prophecy he's considered a prophet I know what you mean which would be when will we perceive a prophecy when he has a dream I mean next week next parisha he has a dream of the latter but before that night okay so now to fill out another piece of the of the scenario let's say let's say Jacob's worried about is going to be discovered it's going to be discovered it'll be cursed okay let's say he's successful let's say you're successful he goes in he tells his father that he's Esau and father gives him a blessing and he's successful how long will this success last night as long as it takes visa to come back because when he said comes back the chick is up you know the Boom is lowered everything comes out and it was he was it was deceived and he gave it to Jacob instead of he says and so on why aren't Rebecca and Jacob worried about the aftermath why are they wear at the aftermath so you got through it and he spoke the blessing to you but a half hour later it's all going to come Crashing Down oh why not why can't he take back a blessing you know you know the answer I've said it down six times why can't he take back the blessing because the blessing is not his the blessing is prophecy it's prophecy he's going to go into a prophetic State and God is going to say it to him she right she said it should she says she he'll God will make known that he agrees with it that's why when Esau comes in later the first thing Jacob says is he shall certainly be blessed and even ESO doesn't protest Israel doesn't protest but he was a lie you were fooled you were deceived it's a cheat it's a mistake he's wrong it's an invalid it's a misfire give it to me it doesn't say that he says give me a blessing too there's a question the efficacy of it that's why she says to him you have to know that it's going to be prophecy so that if you get through it it's all over you don't have to worry about the aftermath because the aftermath is guaranteed if not that's why it was important for her to say it I once worked on this this parship it was like 40 years ago more more than that and I was with my I have a caboose that I believe with it for 60 years we're still doing every day but Hashem and he and his wife were visiting me and my first wife it was just the four of us at the Shabbos table it was this week that Parsha told us and when these questions came up and we sat there about an hour batting things back and forth and we worked out this very complex uh shot the the Capstone on it is something that I have from zoletski um well I had the privilege of study with a year and that would end up answering the question that you asked yesterday and the question I added to it today he answered that question as well but we're in the middle of it now but this is this is why it's crucial that it's prophecy that's what that's why there's no aftermath both Isaac and Esau agree immediately that once it happened it's all it's definitely set in steel because God himself confirmed it okay so now um so he says I will bring upon myself a curse and not a blessing I mean an answer to your question the best I could say is you're telling me to get a blessing this will be a curse and not what you said okay now still there's no rush but his mother said to him your curse be on me my son only heed my voice and go fetch for me now I don't think curses are transferable accounts so it's hard to see on the surface what could it mean your curse um be on me will be on me my son I think I'm just telling you what I think um if Jacob does this what is Isaac going to think he's going to think what it is being deceived well maybe so I mean in certain sense I think that's right he is being deceived but what else is he going to think why would he do this and in particular more than why but particular he would think who put them up yeah who put him up to this did Jacob do this on his own did Jacob decide to deceive me and take the blessing on his own that's not likely there's somebody else behind us I wonder who my Asia can hang though my my wonderful wife if she's not behind it he wouldn't do it the only thing that could neutralize the honor that he owes me is he honor that he owes his mother otherwise he wouldn't dare do this on his own so she says if it were not to work out and if Isaac will be angry and so forth and so on don't worry I'm not getting a lot of scotch-free I'm not putting your neck on the chopping block and walking off to have a you know to have uh around the bridge with my friends my neck is on the talking box also he'll know right away that I put you up to it I think that's what it means Okay so 14 he went fetched brought to his mother made delicacy as his father loved um Rebecca then took her older Sons Esau's clean garments which were with her in the house and clothed Jacob her younger son so let's look at Rashi 15. I'm well let's figure out what anything strike you here what was the introduction to the whole story three pages ago what did he saw do you saw married um yeah married two K-9 women so therefore therefore what he's doing I like this very pies with the right word very faithful person who follows God if he goes against him by maranteed Rebecca took her oldest son eso's clean garments which were with her in the house foreign he has two wives why is his mother doing his clothes why is his mother doing his clothes there he said did I tell you the the number of different dimensions I just have to think about the texting you know morality spirituality War and Peace economics and who's doing your clothes right if you're married your mother's not going to do your clothes and right she talks about it in the in the down below where the Rashi is the fourth line which will Wither in the house but did not used to have many wives at least two yet he gave them to his mother for safekeeping because he knew well the conduct of his wives he was suspicious of them if I give them to them who knows what they'll do with that they'll sell them they'll botch them I can't trust them so it's an indication of Esau's appreciation of his own marital status he married these women we saw that right she said that he was 40 years old so that he wanted to fool his father into thinking that his father the Father the footsteps get married at the same age he took these women for whatever appeal they had to him but he wasn't he wasn't deceived about them he knew very well that they had deficiencies okay and the skins of the goats of the goat kids that she slaughtered to make the meat for for um for Isaac she clothed his arms and smooth skin neck so we'll feel rough she plays the Delicacies and the bread which she had made into the hand of her son Jacob and he came to his father and said father Abba and he said here I am who are you my son so he's already questioning Jacob said to his father it is I easily the firstborn I've done as you told me rise up please sit and eat of my game that your soul may bless me yeah I don't know if you could see it in the English look at the punctuation maybe this maybe this could give it away to you isn't the punctuation a little peculiar here and punctuation follows the way right she's going to explain it let me read it the way it's punctuated and see if you can hear the way I read it something that needs to be explained it is I he said your firstborn I have done as you told me rise up please sit and eat of my game as your soul may bless me I think maybe I'm wrong but I think that after the word ESO belongs another comma hmm that Esau is like the positive of I it is I Isa your firstborn it's written here it is I comma you see your firstborn I need to go together the I is ISA that's who he is he asked who are you he say it's his eye Issa right for the war did he have to say I who are you Peter no who am I I and Peter you could just say Peter no now look at Rashi and I'll explain to her actually for you a little bit um 19. his eye he's here first board I am the one who is bringing you your meal and Esau is your firstborn that's what the comma says now in the trop which is punctuation it is to that that way to a certain extent anohi is stands somewhere alone and Elizabeth stands together there is a comment here of the Sabbath was a commentary in the 19th century which worked very hard to see rabbinic comments in the actual text of the of the Torah Itself by analyzing the language of the Torah with exquisite care and subtlety and he points out that when Jacob says I he uses the Hebrew word anokhi and when Esau comes in he uses the Hebrew word Ani now remember Jacob is impersonating ESO here so you would expect Jacob to speak ESO talk because that's the talk that he knows and that's the talk that he knows his father is going to suspect going to expect I should say so why did he say anokhi so examples of Allah says the words function in different ways and someone says I am a shepherd there might be one of two different things to me it could mean both of them as well he could mean if he's identifying his profession he said I'm a Shepherd I'm not a carpenter I'm not an accountant not a doctor I'm a Shepherd the emphasis is on the predicate or he could mean I'm a Shepherd not Peter down the street not Philip across the way not Frank across town I'm a Shepherd it's I in that day the difference between anokhi and Ani in Hebrew is which is emphasized the subject of the predicate now somebody asks who are you where did the emphasis go you say I'm Peter is the emphasis on I'm Peter not John and Philip and Paul and Frank is that the right emphasis or is it I'm Peter not the guy from across the street and somebody else the question is asking Who You Are so the emphasis is on the predicate you know who I am I am Peter not Frank and not Philip and not Paul not and not John I'm Peter the emphasis is on the predicate that's an e the word Ani puts the emphasis on the predicate I am X not Y and Z but X yaakov uses anokhi anokhi says I am not this one and this one and this one and Esau who was talking about this one this one and this one who was talking about them I was talking about you you're standing in front of me I wonder who you are other people aren't on the on the stage here without the stages how to describe you your identity the question is which identity do you have not which other people are involved why did you use the word that drives my mind to other people because really really there are two people on stage here there's ESO who you think is here and I am here and and that's why Rashi says I am who I am right and ASAP is here too if there's two people involved not two identities involved but two people involved that's the hint which could be driving Rashi to say what he says he says instead of what Esau really says the appropriate thing to say in the circumstances and he says it the wrong way so that could be part of what Rashi is using here that's a beautiful point that the exam cabal is making in paying very careful attention to the language as we go through you'll see in the context here this idea of contrasting what Jacob says and personality he saw versus what Esau would have been expected to say it plays a big role that the next few lines that's going to be used over and over again so that's something that you should keep in mind okay so that's that Rashi uh okay so we're up to 20. so Isaac said to his son like we said before how is it that you were so quick to find my son and he is a setback because Hashem your God arranged it for me foreign said to Jacob come close with you please so I can touch you my son are you indeed my son ESO or not so just as Jacob worried that there will be a question in Isaac's mind and being blind he's going to ask to touch him to verify who he is that's exactly what happens now what tipped off Isaac to ask him especially what tipped him off now what is it in Jacob's words that would tip off Isaac that something's wrong can you guess yeah he's talking God talk he's talking religious talk we know that ESO wasn't like that we know that where what he did we know his character from the verses before so Rashi says it right away 21. Isaac said in his heart to himself it is not the practice of Esau to have the name of Heaven flew into his mouth and this one that means to say whoever is standing in front of me this one said because Hashem your God arranged it hmm that's peculiar 22. so Jacob Drew close to his Isaac's father he touched him and said the voice is Jacob's voice but the hands are Esau's hands the butt is your translators helpful change then the Hebrews just add the voice is Jacob's voice but and the hands are Esau's hands now if you look in Russian 22 as a puzzle here that I can't solve but we didn't take a look at it hmm Jacob's voice why how is it that Isaac identifies the voice as Jacob voice for he speaks in a supplicating tone that is to say um asking with reverence please rise up please he says that Esau as we will see in 20 lines when easily finally comes back and speak to his father spoken antagonist my father should rise get up Dad now rash is coming here as it stands I think is okay but the scenario now becomes very hard for me to understand I asked my rabbits about this and she couldn't figure it out he had looked at some commentaries I couldn't figure it out either let's go back to 20. Isaac says how did you make it so quick Jacob answers because Hashem your God arranged it for me and then Isaac says come close what triggers Isaac to say to come close says Rashi is the person standing in front of him is mentioning God speaking religious talk spiritual talk that's not common for Esau so these words trigger in Isaac's mind this person isn't Esau the way he pretends to be the previous talk didn't trigger that in Isaac's mind well he said please my father get up they've been triggered in his mind what triggered it in his mind was Hashem you got arranged it for me that's and that's why he feels them now atheism now because these words trigger in his mind that is not so now he says we have to refuse him he says well I'm faced here with contradictory evidence the voice is Jacob's voice if I were writing the commentary I would say you see he mentioned God and chemistry God is not what he saw does so that really characteristic of Jacob so that's why I think the voice is the the voice of Jacob's voice but his hands are hairy like like he's so so I have a contradiction well she doesn't say that he skips back to the previous verse where he says please my father sit up he says that's characteristic of Jacob not of Esau where Isa says uh that that uh you know my father should get up if that's what's characteristic of Jacob why didn't that trigger his requirement for a a tactile investigation right away why is it only after the next verse I can't understand why Rashi you have verse a please my father sit up verse B Hashem prepared it for me and then comes the words the voice of Jacob's voice and right she says the voice of Jacob's voice is because of verse a but what triggered the investigation was voice B because it's because he concluded that he still doesn't speak that way I don't know I can't make I can't make it work yeah he notices one odd but I didn't notice the second one he begins to see a pattern maybe that is what leads him to to um doing an actual investigation by by having it so I agree that could be that could be uh it would be a little funny that Russia has mentioned at all that the first one also is something which is uncharacteristic of Esau says about the second one but that's the subject that's what the scenario we're going through but it's worse than that because Rashi explains the words the voices Jacob's voice as referring only to the first one he leaves the second one out altogether if it's the two of them together that triggered the investigation then when he says the voices Jacob's Jacob's voice it should be covered both of both of them not just the first one then what does it mean for the second one then what is he in what is it what's it implied for this the second phase I'm just mentioning Hashem what does what imply for that if the first one is abnormal because it's it's of Jacob's voice then what's the issue with the the second one let's get straight down let's let's not make a mistake my voice I mean vocabulary in both cases right so the the two independent points and the one in the first one he speaks in a kind and reverent tone to his father how many for his tone the vocabulary is reverent whereas eso's vocabulary is not reverent and also in the second verse he mentions Hashem is the one who arranged it for him which is not Esau talk he doesn't talk that vocabulary so there's a wooden ball with the reference to to Jacob's voice then you said you you and I could say that but Rashi doesn't say that Rashi says the voice is Jacob's voice only because of the first one that's what he says one wow he right she makes two comments on the second verse he says Isaac is suspicious because that's not ESO talk that's what he says in the second verse and in the third verse where he says the voices Jacob's voice he says that's because of the first verse okay I don't get it just don't get it on the fact that um pretty much trick um it's uh but um it's still like um learning and everything yeah maybe like uh you just kind of use like some pretty much like God talk pretty much kind of like um make him think that he was still on the up and up as opposed to the way he actually talks is still rough but he's like still speaking okay the commentators actually say that they actually say that Elizabeth says that um because let's just read the next two words and then that'll help see it says um 23 but he did not recognize him because his hands were hairy like the hands of Esau's brother so now we have to read this very carefully so I saw this environment now but it's pretty pretty much straightforward logic where's where's Isaac standing now you got the voice which is Jacob's voice you got the hands with your eso's hands so you have a contradiction in the evidence so the first thing is well he didn't positively recognize it as Jacob because he's got contradictory evidence but that's going to make up his mind with way to go and then he says like you said much easier to change your vocabulary than to change your skin quality so if I have to decide in the face of this contradiction of evidence what's more likely is it is it more likely that it's Esau who's talking like Jacob or it's Jacob who's made his skin feel like Esau much more likely that as he saw talking like Jacob that's why he makes this decision to go to go through with it because he's convinced that it's that it's easier yeah it again so you could say that in the first one the first part I've been saying please rise or just rise up we would say that's Jacob's voice and the second one couldn't you say that that's not indicative of asol but it's not trying to imply the fact that it's also Jacob's voice it's just to imply the fact that this is something Aesop wouldn't say not to say that no Jacob would say this oh well there are two things here first of all there's no there's no possibility of Peter from down the block coming into impersonate Esau right I mean there's only two possibilities here it's got to be one of the two boys part isn't the fact that oh only Jacob would would say it would say use Hashem in conversation but rather no uh asog wouldn't say this without trying to imply that Jacob would yeah but but even even if I agree with you that the words don't imply that Jacob would but in this case if it isn't Esau it's got to be Jacob because it couldn't be anybody else uh the the normal diction of Jacob he's just basing off the fact that ASA wouldn't say this and that he's suspecting impersonation yeah it's a you know the more you say I'm glad you're repeating it because uh and I'll rethink what I'm saying it's true that Rashi puts it only in negative terms hmm um and in both cases it's negative no no no let's see wow maybe that's when when he says the voice of Jacob's voice Rashi says he means Jacob speaks this way and Esau speaks that way here he says specifically the words that are spoken are Jacob's words he doesn't say that in the other verse in the verse where he mentions God it only says ESO doesn't talk that way and the truth is Isaac's question to himself the way the text puts it is are you ESO or are you not doesn't put the question are you Esau are you Jacob is it it's are you ESO or are you not because frankly Isaac who doesn't care if it's Jacob or Peter from down the street he wants to give the lesson the eso The crucial look at his mind he says he saw isn't it the eso okay okay fine but now the order doesn't work because the supplicating tone which he does identify as Jacob's voice comes first that comes first that's the first speech the first speech he already identifies as Jacob talking the first one so when the second one says that Esau doesn't talk that way of course it's got to be Jacob so I know you're saying because it doesn't say in the words that Jacob talks that way but I think the way we understand them all together would uh would not be uh would not be consistent with that just says it's negatively but even even okay so how's it going to work out both speeches are against it being Esau you're going to tell me that only the first speech identifies it as Jacob well they precise identify not Esau right right right right right and proof okay I'm I'm working hard to overcome my prejudices here because of course the other things that I know the other things that I believe let's just just clear clear the stage and look at the text as if it were just standing on its own by itself so he when he says the voice of Jacob's voice that he identifies with the first speech because the first speech explains his characteristic of how Jacob related to his father and it contrasts with the way Issa relates to his father the second speech is just not characteristic of ISO so the first question will be why didn't the first speech trigger the investigation all by itself it's a stronger piece of evidence it's evidence that it's Jacob and not Esau but why are we assuming he's only acting on the second piece of that he could be acting on both pieces of evidence combined it may be well but that that's not the way let's see let's see let's let's go now she says here and again because Rashi says it that way she says in 21 . as he said in his heart it's not the practice of eso to have the name of Heaven fluent in his mouth that's the understanding according to Rashi of why he asked to touch him so Russia is pinning it on the second verse alone that's right that was part of the problem rash is pinning the investigation of touching him on the second verse and he's spinning the conclusion that the voices Jacob's voice on the first verse that being the case the first verse should have should have triggered the investigation I don't know it's I I you know we could figure out how this make the scenario work but I don't see how to make it work in Russian's words so so as I said I asked people about this and I didn't get any I didn't get any any satisfaction at any rate at this point in time um he does not discover that it is Jacob and he decides to go through with the the blessing I just want to comment to the end of this verse that we're going to be finished he said um foreign 23 he didn't recognize him and he blessed him in 24 he says you are indeed my son he says I am which could be a question instead of a statement the way they translated here but even if it's a statement he's still confirming it in his mind so this words he blessed him here at the end of 23 does not refer to the blessing he offered and promised it's something else because he hasn't eaten the meal yet the whole point was to eat the meal and as a result of the meal to give the blessing that hasn't happened yet so let's throw the commentators struggle to figure out what uh what this extra blessing means now she doesn't comment on it I'm not going to go into it don't want to be confusing to you this is something else that he blessed him for the real blessing is coming up okay [Music]