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Larry Schwed points out that Birkat Avraham is given to Yaakov without any
incident or conflict. Has anyone considered the possibility that Birkat
Avraham is in fact the bekhorah -- which Yaakov has indeed purchased, and
which is otherwise never directly given? It seems to me that both the Ran
in Derashot HaRan (#2) and Abarbanel point to this idea.
Anne Gordon</HTML>
