The Maharit had
a Shaila about a young man who was a guest in someone’s home and during the
course of the meal he and the host’s daughter decided that they wanted to
marry. The young man took some food from the table and gave it to the daughter
Mitoras Kiddushin. Harei At Mikudeshes B’apple Zu or whatever the food was. The
Teshuvas Maharit deals with the question based on a Ran in Maseches Nedarim, as
to whether a guest owns the food that he is served or whether the food belongs
to the host and the guest only has a right to eat it. It is a question of
ownership. You have to own something in order to give it to be Mekadaish an
Isha or to do any Kinyan for that matter. This is a discussion in the Maharit
based on the Ran in middle of Maseches Nedarim.
With that
background we turn to the beginning of the Parsha. We know that Yaakov Avinu
was a (25:27) (וְיַעֲקֹב אִישׁ
תָּם, יֹשֵׁב אֹהָלִים) Yoshev
Ohalim, he had no Parnasah of his own, he ate at his father’s home. Yet we find
here that Yaakov Avinu does a sale 25:31 (וַיֹּאמֶר, יַעֲקֹב: מִכְרָה כַיּוֹם אֶת-בְּכֹרָתְךָ, לִי). Yaakov takes food which presumably
belongs to Yitzchok and Rivka to purchase something. I know that his father was
not Makpid that he took the food to eat it himself or to give it to his
brother. But to do a sale, a person has to have ownership in the object that he
is using to do the Kinyan. (מִכְרָה
כַיּוֹם אֶת-בְּכֹרָתְךָ, לִי),
how could Yaakov do a Mechira with food that was not his? This would be a Raya
to the Shaila of the Maharit that a person does own the food that he takes to
eat.
Rav Druk in his
Sefer on Beraishis answers the question even though he doesn’t ask it. He
brings B’sheim the Chasam Sofer that it was B’diyuk Gadol that this took place
here on the day when Avrohom Avinu died. 25:29 (וַיָּזֶד
יַעֲקֹב, נָזִיד) Yaakov was
cooking food, what was he cooking and for what purpose was it? As Rashi
explains in the next Posuk 25:30 (מן האדם האדם: עדשים
אדומות, ואותו היום מת אברהם). He was cooking Adashim Adumos, red lentils.
Why was he cooking red lentils? On that day Avrohom Avinu had passed away and
the Minhag of the Aveilim is to eat lentils when they return after the Kevura the
first meal that they eat. The Halacha is that the first meal that the Aveil
eats what is called the Seudos Havraa is not allowed to be his own food it has
to someone else’s food which is given to him. On this day Yitzchok Avinu needed
Yaakov Avinu to own food so that he would be able to provide food for the
Seudas Havraa for Yitzchok Avinu. Therefore, Yitzchok was Makne (transferred
ownership) to Yaakov of the food or the money with which Yaakov went and bought
the food. Either way, this was a unique moment in that it was a moment that
Yitzchok could not own the food. Yaakov was cooking food that had to be his.
And what do you know, just then Eisav walks up (וְהוּא עָיֵף)
and he is able to do the sale. This answers a question of how he was able to do
the sale, because this food uniquely was his.
The point that
Rav Druk makes of course is the Hashgacha Protis that took place. The
tremendous Hashgacha that here Yaakov was a (יֹשֵׁב אֹהָלִים),
he had no money, no investments, and no Parnasa so how would he ever buy the
Bechora? The one opportunity that presented itself so that he could own
something happened at precisely this moment and Hakadosh Baruch Hu prepared for
him just at this moment that the sale would take place.
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