Who's Fooling Who?

Rashi says Esav won his father's love with pious questions, like how to take maaser from salt. Yitzchak, a tzaddik who could see straight into a person's neshama, was fooled by his own son? The Zichron Meir finds that hard to accept, and his reading turns the whole scene in Toldos on its head.It speaks to anyone raising children, or trying to hold on to someone who is drifting away. In Radin, a troubled bachur is finally told by the Chofetz Chaim to pack his bags, on a night with no train home. What happens next, he carries with him for decades.NOT A PAID ADVERT: the concept of this Dvar Torah has been laid out in a book on Chinuch called Raising a Loving Family by Rabbi Shimon Russel. The book just came out and is already a bestseller.