Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Musar for Kiddushin 62:14

ת"ר איזהו מורא ואיזהו כיבוד מורא לא עומד במקומו ולא יושב במקומו ולא סותר את דבריו ולא מכריעו כיבוד מאכיל ומשקה מלביש ומכסה מכניס ומוציא

Our Rabbis taught: He must honour him in life and must honour him in death.' In life', e.g. , one who is heeded in a place on account of his father should not say: 'Let me go, for my own sake', 'Speed me, for my own sake', or 'Free me, for my own sake', but all 'for my father's sake.' 'In death', e.g. , if one is reporting something heard from his mouth, he should not say: 'Thus did my father say', but, 'Thus said my father, my teacher, for whose resting place may I be an atonement.'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [May I make atonement for all the punishment in the Hereafter that may have to come upon him. (Rashi) .]');"><sup>14</sup></span>

Shenei Luchot HaBerit

As to the external mechanics needed to prevent detection, Rebeccah provided the skins of these goats and put them on Jacob's hands and arms. She also had Esau's clothes that she dressed Jacob in. It is interesting that the Torah describes Rebeccah as personally garbing Jacob in those skins, that Jacob did not do so himself (27,15-16). Why did Jacob allow his mother to perform a personal service such as this for him, instead of Jacob performing a personal service for his mother, part of the commandment to honor one's mother?
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