Then his father Isaac said to him: come here, my son, and kiss me. The physical embrace that precedes the blessing is the covenant act of presence — the father drawing the son into the closest possible physical proximity before speaking the words that will define his future. The tender intimacy of the kiss is real even though the identity of the one being kissed is false. The application: the tenderness of the moment does not diminish the fraud; the fraud does not diminish the tenderness. Both are fully real.

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