1. Rivka is greatly troubled, to the extent that she would rather not be expecting. (See Rashi.) Why not ask Yitzchok, he's a prophet?
2. Why not ask Avrohom, he's a prophet?
3. "ו ְה ְנ ְה" is an expression of surprise. “Oh, look!” ְְBut what's the surprise? She had been told that she was carrying two children!
4. Yitzchok didn't love Yaakov?
5. Rivka didn't love Aysov? He was a good son!
6. Yitzchok is richer than the king and has lots of servants. So, is there a general strike of all the household staff that Yaakov has to do the cooking?
7. Why is Yaakov cooking lentils, of all things? Why is the menu so important that the Torah has to tell us what he is cooking?
8. Can one buy a birthright? Even if the parties are agreed, does it have any legality? The Torah forbids even a father to swap the birthright of his own sons, so can the two sons do this themselves? What exactly was being “sold”?
9. Why are the two marriages of Aysov reported just here? These marriages took place more than twenty years before the episode of the Brochos. Why tell us the names of his wives? Do his wives have other names? (See Rashi to Berayshis, 36 : 2.)
10. Isn't Yitzchok at all aware of how good Yaakov is and how bad Aysov is? If anything, a blind person can detect and is more attuned to false pretences.
11. Why does Yitzchok want to give the Brochos to Aysov and not to Yaakov? “Biased in favour” is one thing, but “completely unaware” is another!
12. Can one steal a Brochoh?
13. What does Rivkah intend with her charade? Isn't Aysov coming home soon? It's only a matter of a couple of hours and the whole thing will explode! And she doesn't tell Yaakov to disguise his voice or his manner of speaking — and he doesn’t!
14. It looks like Yaakov almost wishes that Yitzchok should discover his trickery! (“ְְ"אוּלַ י"Father will feel me!” [“hopefully,” “maybe,” “perhaps”] rather than "פֶּן" [“hopefully not,” “lest,” “in case”].) Is Yaakov part of the trick or not?
15. How come that Yitzchok, a blind man, usually especially gifted in his sense of touch to compensate for his lost sight, can't tell the difference between a hairy man and the back of a goat? Aysov was hairy, yes, but he wasn’t a werewolf!
16. When Aysov came in, Yitzchok “saw Gehinnom opening underneath his feet.” (Rashi.) But why only now? Is Aysov at this moment a greater ְְר ְש ְע than he was when he came in to Yitzchok a couple of hours earlier, when Yitzchok gave him his instructions? What's changed?
17. "ב אְא ח יך ְב מ ר מ הְוַי קַ חְב ר כ תֶּ ך !" “Your brother came with trickery and took your Brochoh!” Why is Yitzchok making Aysov hate Yaakov? Whose side is Yitzchok on?
18. Why doesn't Yitzchok yell for Yaakov and Rivkah and tell them off for this trick? Even when Yaakov comes to Yitzchok to say “Goodbye,” Yitzchok doesn't tell him off and doesn't rebuke him at all. He doesn't even mention the whole episode. Why not?
