Comentários de Citação sobre Gênesis 28:5

When it finished it went back to the previous subject. I.e., Rashi’s original question was: Why does Scripture need to repeat the point and write, “Yaakov left,” when it had already written (28:5), “Yitzchok sent Yaakov on his way”? Rashi answers: Since the narrative of Yaakov was interrupted by the subject of Eisov—and proceeds to explain why it was interrupted: since [Yitzchok sent Yaakov away,] Eisov understood that Yitzchok considered the daughters of Canaan evil, so Eisov went to Yishmael. After explaining why the narrative was interrupted, Rashi goes back to complete his explanation of why Scripture repeats the point: “When it finished...” (Kitzur Mizrachi, see there)

ויבך AND HE WEPT- because he foresaw by the Holy Spirit that she would not be buried with him in the cave of Machpelah (Genesis Rabbah 70:12). Another explanation is: he wept because he came with empty hands. He thought: Eliezer, my grandfather’s servant, had with him rings, bracelets and all good things, whilst I have nothing with me (Genesis Rabbah 70:12). This was because Eliphaz Esau’s son pursued Jacob by his father’s order to kill him, and overtook him. But because Eliphaz had been brought up on Isaac’s lap, (cp. Deuteronomy Rabbah 2:13) he withheld his hand. He said to him (Jacob), “But what shall I do as regards my father’s order?” Jacob replied, “Take all I have and you can say that I am dead for a poor man may be accounted as dead" (Nedarim 64b).

Toldot Yizhak and Bahya write. How was Rebecca not afraid to send Jacob from the area of Beer Sheva to Paddan-aram? Perhaps Esau would pursue him. That is why the verse tells us, “the mother of Jacob and Esau” [28:5]. That is to say, she sent Jacob to Paddan-aram, because in Paddan-aram they knew that Rebecca had higher regard for Jacob and they would protect Jacob from Esau’s hands. She was the mother of Jacob and afterwards, the mother of Esau. That is, she loved Jacob more than Esau. Some sages say that all the twins were created in two membranes. However, Jacob and Esau were in one membrane in the womb, and that is why it calls her the mother of Jacob and Esau.⁸⁸Toldot Yizhak, Genesis, 28:5; Bahya, Genesis, 28:5.