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base desires. When Yaakov put them on, an unusual scent emanated forth.
Because Yaakov strove to rise above his corporeality, these clothes were
able to exude their fine fragrance with their scent of Gan Eden, just as
they did for their original owner.
Every person’s destiny is really in his own hands. Some can enter the
portals of Torah, or of Eretz Yisrael, and raise their levels of devotion.
Others can be spiritually stagnant and sink into the muddy morass of stark
physicality. It all depends on each individual and their choices in life.
“So he drew close and kissed him; he smelled
the fragrance of his garments and blessed him;
he said, ‘See, the fragrance of my son is like the
fragrance of a field which Hashem had
blessed’”
(Bereishit 27:27)
