Parashat HaShavua (weekly portion), Parashat Toldot (Generations): We can see that there was this agreement between Yitzchak and Rivka. Yitzchak wanted to bless Esav and only Esav, and Rivka wanted Yitzchak to bless Yaakov and only Yaakov. We have to understand here: Yitzchak saw Yaakov and saw Esav. He knew both of them. Although Esav pretended that he was a tzaddik (righteous person), Yitzchak thought it was not known that Esav was a rasha (wicked person). But he could see the big difference between Esav and Yaakov. Yaakov was the biggest matmid, learning Torah all the time. Yitzchak saw it. And he saw that Esav was going every day to hunt; he was hunting animals, and that was it. So why did he think he had to bless Esav and not Yaakov? Rivka was right: Yaakov is a tzaddik. She wanted Yitzchak to bless the tzaddik. But Yitzchak was thinking like that: He thought, if someone is studying Torah, Torah itself—this is the blessing. He is learning Torah. Of course, he is blessed. He is blessed, learning Torah all the time. So, of course, Hashem is with him. Esav doesn’t have the zechut (merit) of studying Torah. He doesn’t have it. So he needs me to give him strength, so I have to bless him.
Rivka didn’t agree with that. The Torah said: If you are learning Torah and you fulfill the mitzvot (commandments), Hashem is telling us in the Torah all the berachot, all the blessings. It means that because we have the Torah, we have to get the berachot. It means to follow the Torah—the meaning is following what is written in the Torah. If we see someone learning Torah, we have to give him berachot, to give him blessings. He deserves it. Because we have to show that the main thing in this world is the Torah, learning Torah.
So Rivka thought: Even Yaakov is blessed; we have to bless him. He needs it, exactly like we are learning Torah and we need berachot; we need blessings from Hashem. Rivka thought the same thing: Yaakov deserves berachot. We have to show that the main thing, when we give berachot to a tzaddik like Yaakov, to one who’s learning Torah like Yaakov, is to show who deserves the berachot: the one who is learning Torah.