Overview
- Torah Musings highlights Onkelos’s practice of rendering several Hebrew terms for prayer with one Aramaic root, underscoring pragmatic translation over fine distinctions.
- R. Hirsch, as presented, portrays Yitzchak as recognizing Esav’s nature and attempting to channel his strengths toward constructive service.
- Ibn Ezra is cited for allowing contextual untruths by great figures, a framing used to discuss Yaakov’s statement to Yitzchak.
- Ha’amek Davar reads Rivka’s instruction to Yaakov as a two-stage plan, first to escape Esav’s flash of rage and then to outlast lingering resentment.
- Israel National News emphasizes hishtadlut as the parsha’s takeaway, using a reported Yehudit Berl letter to President Truman about Friday broadcasts to illustrate practical initiative.