We know that this
Parsha begins with Eisav out to kill Yaakov Avinu. Isn’t it strange, the last
time we met Eisav, it was in Parshas Toldos, 27:41(וַיִּשְׂטֹם עֵשָׂו, אֶת-יַעֲקֹב, עַל-הַבְּרָכָה, אֲשֶׁר בֵּרְכוֹ אָבִיו; וַיֹּאמֶר עֵשָׂו בְּלִבּוֹ, יִקְרְבוּ יְמֵי אֵבֶל אָבִי, וְאַהַרְגָה, אֶת-יַעֲקֹב אָחִי) Eisav said in his heart, when my
father dies, I will kill Yaakov. Did he mean that seriously that he is going to
wait until his father dies? Rashi says, (יקרבו ימי
אבל אבי: כמשמעו, שלא אצער את אבא. ומדרש
אגדה לכמה פנים יש) Eisav was
genuinely a Mechabeid Av V’aim and he wouldn’t kill Yaakov during Yitzchak’s
lifetime because that would bring pain to him.
That being the case, the beginning of this week’s
Parsha in Vayishlach, is so strange. Yitzchak at the time he gave the B’rachos
was either 122 or 123. We know this from Rashi in Parshas Toldos 27:2 (לא ידעתי יום מותי: אמר רבי יהושע בן קרחה אם מגיע אדם לפרק אבותיו ידאג חמש שנים לפניהם וחמש לאחר כן, ויצחק היה בן מאה עשרים ושלש, אמר שמא לפרק אמי אני מגיע, והיא מתה בת מאה עשרים ושבע והריני בן חמש שנים סמוך לפרקה, לפיכך לא ידעתי יום מותי, שמא לפרק אמי, שמא לפרק אבא) Since he was within 5
years of the Petira of his mother who had lived 127 years. Since he was within
5 years of that, he was either 122 or 123 when he gave the B’rachos. Subsequent to that, Yaakov learned in the
Yeshiva Sheim V’aiver for 14 years and he spent 20 years at Beis Lavan which
totals 34 years. If we add 123 + 34 we come out that Yitzchak was 157 years
old. Yitzchak still lived another 23 years. What happened? Eisav had said that
when Yitzchak passes away he would kill Yaakov and here we find him out to kill
Yaakov before his father’s Petira? 
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