Whose children are we?

Hi,

"Rabbi Shemuel bar Nachmeni cited Rabbi Yonatan: What is the meaning of, ‘You are our father, for we do not know Avraham and Yisrael does not recognize us, You are HaShem our Father, Your Name was always, ‘Our Redeemer?’

"HaShem will say to Avraham, ‘Your children have sinned to Me.’ He will say, ‘Master of the Universe, they should be destroyed for the sanctity of Your Name!’

"HaShem will say, ‘I will tell Yaakov, who had the pain of raising children and who may daven for mercy upon them.’

"HaShem will say to Yaakov, ‘Your children have sinned to Me.’ He will say, ‘Master of the Universe, they should be destroyed for the sanctity of Your Name!’

"HaShem will say, ‘Logic is not with the elderly, and counsel is not with the children.’ HaShem will say to Yitzchak, ‘Your children have sinned to Me.’

"Yitzchak will say: Master of the Universe! Are they my children and not Yours?..."

(Talmud, Shabbat 89b)

Gmar tov,

Mordechai

A twist on Yitzchak's desire to bless Esav that day

Hi,

"And it was, when Yitzchak aged and his eyes weakened from seeing, for when his father bound him he gazed at the Throne of Honor and from that moment his eyes began to weaken. And he called his older son Esav on the 14th of Nisan and said, “My son, Tonight the heavenly ones praise the Master of the Universe, and the stores of dew open.” And his son said, “Here I am.”"

(Targum Yonatan to Bereishit 27:1)

Have a great day,
Mordechai