Standing before his father Isaac, Jacob claims that he is his brother ... convincing their father that Joseph has been devoured. As a young man, Jacob deceived his elderly father into blessing ...

The Torah states that Isaac ... in his footsteps and those of his father Abraham? To continue, what Rabbi Soloveitchik called, “the Covenantal Community” that Abraham started. Jacob ...

Esau enters his father’s tent and asks Isaac to bless him. At this moment, Isaac suddenly realizes that he has been deceived. Though Isaac quickly understands that Jacob did indeed deserve the ...

He deceived his father to steal the covenant blessing ... “I am the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob,” he echoes through the ages. The association of Jacob’s name with the covenant is a ...

When Esau heard his father’s words ... at the point when Jacob leaves Isaac’s presence, having deceived him into thinking that he was Esau. Then Esau enters, and slowly both father and ...

Isaac, who had a taste for wild game, loved Esau, but Rebecca loved Jacob (Gen ... who trapped his father and deceived him by his words (Rashi 25:28). The Maggid of Dubnow adds a perceptive ...

Isaac hung out with his wicked son Esau; that is strictness? Jacob tricked his brother to take his first-born right, misled his father to take the blessing, and fooled his boss and father-in-law ...

HAVE I missed something? In his piece on Alasdair Gray's introduction to Jonah, Micah, and Nahum in The Pocket Canons, Ron Ferguson writes, ''Isaac was a conman and a cheat. He tricked his own ...