2. Why was Yaakov cooking lentils?
3. What was unusual about Yaakov when he was born?
4. Why didn't Yitzchok go to Egypt when there was a famine like his father Avrohom had done?
5. Yitzchok said Yaakov had the scent of what type of field?
Answers
1. According to one opinion, Avrohom was 3 years old when he recognized that there was a Creator (Nedarim 32a). According to another opinion, he was 48 (Reish Lakish in Bereishis Rabbah 64:4).
2. Yaakov was cooking lentils because on this day Avrohom had died and Yitzchok was mourning him. Lentils are served to mourners since they are round. They represent the cycle of life (Rashi 25:30).
3. Yaakov was born circumcised (Avos D' Reb Nosson Chap 2).
4. Yitzchok was not permitted to go to out of Canaan because he became an Olah Temima, an unblemished Korban Olah, when he was placed on the Altar during the Akeidah (Rashi 26:2).
5. Yitzchok said that Yaakov had the scent of a field of apples (Rashi 27:27 from Taanis 29b see Tosfos there who say it means an Esrog field).