Genesis 27

That was ridiculous--that was exactly like a soap opera!  How Jacob pulled off that deception seems a little feeble to me, but Isaac did ignore the fact that it was Jacob's voice ( and Esau must have been really hairy when wearing a goat skin felt like him).  Rebekah unabashedly loves Jacob more.  Why?  Here you can see that favoritism pulls families apart.  And the family seems to be a warzone, not a group of people who love\support each other.  How horrible.  The idea of blessing--the power of words.  Once said can't be retracted (my Bible says, "like an arrow shot towards its goal"), and the words said influence your life forever.  Words powerful for them, like names.  I wish we thought like that sometimes, that things you say for forever, can't be undone, so shouldn't lie or anything.  We as a culture, I mean.  Poor Esau.  He keeps trying to do things the right way and keeps being deceived and outsmarted by Jacob.  It's very sad.