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Esav's special clothing

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Rabbi Ari Shvat

Question
what are the materials it was made from ? why do they keep at Yaakov home and in what place? and how Rivka could take it without Izchak permission ?
Answer
The most basic explanation is that these special clothes were reserved by Esav for when he wished to serve his father. There are various midrashic explanations regarding these garments, which as usual, are mostly symbolic, not literal. They were not kept in Ya'akov's house/tent, but rather in his mother Rivka's, and it doesn't specify where. The clothing belongs to Esav, not Yitzchak, and Rivka took them without his permission, just as the entire tactic was without Esav's permission or knowledge.
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