It's Never Too Late by Rabbi Moshe Peretz Gilden Yaakov (Jacob)
knew that his father Yitzchak (Isaac) was about to give a very
significant blessing to his brother Aisav (Esau). His mother,
Rivka (Rebecca), had prophesied that Yaakov must do all he could
to get the blessing instead of his brother. Since his brother
was hairy, Yaakov dressed himself in goatskins so his blind
father would be tricked into thinking that the one standing
before him was Aisav. After Yaakov served his father his meal
and Yitzchak identified him as Aisav, "he [Yitzchak] smelled the
fragrance of his [Ya'akov's] garment and he blessed him." The
Midrash explains that the word begadav (his garments) could be
read - as the Biblical text only has the consonant letters,
without vowel markings - as bogdav (his traitors), such as Yosef
Meshissa and Yakum of Tzeroros, referring to two renegade Jews
who lived in the Second Temple era, just prior to its
destruction. When the Roman army penetrated Jerusalem, they were
afraid to enter the Temple. T