Real-Talk Torah: Revisiting Yaakov Avinu's "Deal with the Devil" 😈

Last year, my brother R' Daniel and I confronted Yaakov Avinu's 'lie.' We interrogated the story and its many interpretations to better understand Yaakov Avinu's actions. Here, I revisit that story and demonstrate that in our Parsha, Yaakov Avinu purposefully made some 'deal with the devil' in more ways the one with a deeper agenda in mind. What was the nature of Yaakov's 'Deal with the Devil'?