{"id":7892,"date":"2025-11-11T19:41:39","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T19:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=7892"},"modified":"2025-11-11T19:41:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T19:41:39","slug":"and-the-boys-grew-for-he-had-a-taste-for-game","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/and-the-boys-grew-for-he-had-a-taste-for-game\/","title":{"rendered":"And the Boys Grew \u2013 for He Had a Taste for Game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>73) \u201cAnd the boys grew.\u201d Abraham&#8217;s side, the right side, Hassadim, caused them to grow. His merit assisted them because it reared them with Mitzvot [good deeds\/precepts], as it is written, \u201cFor I have known him, to the end that he may command his children.\u201d The word Et [which in Hebrew is included in \u201chis children\u201d] comes to include Esau and Jacob, who are among his sons, as well. Hence, \u201cAnd the boys grew\u201d means that they grew in holiness, but Esau subsequently strayed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAnd the boys grew, and Esau became a skillful hunter \u2026 and Jacob was a naive [also complete] man.\u201d Each went his separate way\u2014one to the side of faith and the other to the side of idolatry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>74) This was so even while in Rebecca\u2019s intestines; each went to his own side, since when she engaged in good deeds or when she went past a place where it is good to perform the Mitzvot of the Torah, Jacob would rejoice and rattle to get out. And when she went near a place of idolatry, that wicked one would rattle to get out. For this reason, when they were created and came out to the world, each of them was separated and went and was drawn to his befitting place. 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