Rabbi Shmuel Zucker

The parashah tells us that Yaakov put on a show, so to speak, and disguised himself as Eisav in order to receive the berachos . Why did the berachos  have to come to him in this way? Furthermore, Yaakov’s middah  is אמת, as in the pasuk תתן אמת ליעקב. Why would someone who is the embodiment of אמת receive his father’s blessings through deception and then live so long with Lavan, the ultimate deceiver?   Chazal say that Yaakov Avinu rectified the sin of the nachash , regarding whom the pasuk ...