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laws of kibbud av v’em was enough of a merit to accredit him as if he had
done what he could not do in practice.
Yaakov tarried in keeping his promise to build a Mizbeach on his return
home, and thus was not able to see his mother before she passed away, as
a retribution for his unhurried fulfillment of his vow.
“So Yitzchak summoned Yaakov and blessed
him; he instructed him, and said to him, ‘Do not
take a wife from the Canaanite women. Arise,
go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Betuel your
mother’s father, and take a wife from there from
the daughters of Lavan your mother’s brother’”
(Bereishit 28:1-2)
