Ask at Your Shabbos Table

Ask at Your Shabbos Table

הַקֹל קוֹל יַעֲקֹב

Ask around your Shabbos table: Since Yitzchok Avinu said, “The voice is the voice of Yaakov”, why does the very next verse say: “And he did not recognize him because his hands were hairy like the hands of his brother Esav”?

Answer: Rashi tells us that, actually, it wasn’t Yaakov’s voice that Yitzchok noticed, but rather the polite manner of speech - he used the word “please” in his conversation.

Clearly, since Yitzchok Avinu said, “hakol kol Yaakov” (the voice is a voice of Yaakov), being polite was Yaakov Avinu’s nature. We should learn from our forefather Yaakov, and also have “kol Yaakov”.