Genesis 27:21 · World English Bible
Genesis 27:21 Meaning Isaac Said to Jacob
Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not.”
What does Genesis 27:21 mean?
Isaac is blind and judges not by sight but by touch, and this is exactly how an assumption is claimed. Feeling is the confirming sense.
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Isaac is blind and judges not by sight but by touch, and this is exactly how an assumption is claimed. Feeling is the confirming sense. A desire is not established by looking at it or reasoning about it. It settles in only when a person draws near enough to feel it as present, as though the wanted thing were already in the hand.
Jacob wears the appearance of another to receive the blessing, and this repeats inside every act of assuming. A person puts on a state that the senses would deny, and by feeling it close he takes the blessing that belongs to it. What convinces the deeper self is not the outer fact but the inner touch. The state a person feels as present becomes the one he lives.
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Live Genesis 27:21 today
- Pick one thing you want and spend two quiet minutes feeling it as already yours, the weight of it in your hands, the room you are standing in, the ordinariness of it. Stay with the feeling and not with the reasoning.
- Before you meet a friend or your partner, feel for a moment the warmth you want between you, as if it were already in the room. Then walk in and let that feeling do the talking.
- When you are gripped by worry on a commute or in traffic, swap the felt thing. Sit in the feeling of this already handled and let the body settle into it, even while the traffic does not move.
Which do I trust more, what I can argue for or what I can feel?
The same truth in other traditions
Yoga Sutras
What the mind holds continuously and with warm attention takes root and becomes a groove. Dry repetition without feeling leaves nothing behind.
Sufism · Rumi
He said the heart knows by taste, not by argument. You can be told about honey for years and know nothing until it is on your tongue.
Zen
A student who understands with the head is sent back. The teaching has to be felt in the belly before it counts as his.
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