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be right and true. Even one who learned the truth and knows right from
wrong can still be blinded by his desires and led astray. Many people fail
to integrate what they do, with what they know.
Yaakov Avinu was a man of complete truth. His body acquiesced to the
rigors of learning Torah and his feet obeyed his inner desire to serve
Hashem. There was no inner conflict between what he knew to be true
and how he led his life, and so his physical body and spiritual soul lived
in complete harmony. This was a result of the Torah that he learned.
“The lads grew up and Eisav became one who
knows hunting, a man of the field; but Yaakov
was a wholesome man, abiding in tents”
(Bereishit 25:27)
