and he went up and kissed him. And he smelled his clothes and he blessed him, saying, “Ah, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field that Hashem has blessed.”
English: Rabbi Zeira said: Do not read “his garments” (begadav) but “his traitors” (bogedav).
On the daf / in context: Even those who later prove traitors among Israel still retain a fragrance that Yitzchak could sense; the verse is applied to the enduring sanctity of the Jewish people despite individual failings.
Type of Learning
Custom (Bavli — even the traitors retain fragrance)
What Is Learned
The smell of the garments can be read as the smell of the “traitors”; even those who later betray still carry the fragrance of the people of Israel.