The following is a brief summary of some of thoughts said over by R' Frand on the parsha this evening. I have attempted to reproduce these vorts to the best of my ability. Any perceived inconsistency is the result of my efforts to transcribe the shiur and should not be attributed to R' Frand.
Within the dialogue between Yitzchak and Ya'akov prior to the giving of the beracha, there is an interesting pasuk (Bereishis 27:20) וַיֹּ֤אמֶר יִצְחָק֙ אֶל־בְּנ֔וֹ מַה־זֶּ֛ה מִהַ֥רְתָּ לִמְצֹ֖א בְּנִ֑י וַיֹּ֕אמֶר כִּ֥י הִקְרָ֛ה יְהֹוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ לְפָנָֽי. In this pasuk, Yitzchak asks Ya'akov, "how is it that you brought me food so quickly " and Ya'akov responds "because Hashem your G-d has made it ready for me."
R' Frand quoted the Zera Shimshon which asked - why did Ya'akov say to Yitzchak and say that Hashem was responsible for him finding food so quickly? He did not find the food, he got it from his mother's kitchen!
The Zera Shimshon answered that Ya'akov was accurate in his response - the finding of the food was with the help of Hashem, as it was Yad Hashem that he was able to obtain the food from Rivka's kitchen while Esav was out hunting in the fields.
R' Frand said that this is a lesson to us about how we approach things. A person can be running late for a meeting and then get all the green lights and show up early. He can say "I made all the lights" ... or he can say "B'Ezras Hashem, all the lights turned green for me."
R' Frand quoted a story from R' Meilech Biederman about a man who made a speech at the Sheva Berachos after the marriage of his fifth and final son. The man said "I have married off five sons and Hashem has not helped me one iota."
The man's children were aghast...surely their father was drunk, or otherwise confused.
The man responded to their quizzical looks - "I meant what I said. Hashem did not help me, He did it all himself!" Its not Siyata D'Shmaya if it is all from him.
R' Frand closed the vort by telling a story from the Chofetz Chaim. A wagon driver once came to him and cried about how his horse had died and now he had no way to make a living. The Chofetz Chaim said to him - you should cry if you think that the horse gave you a way to make a living! Your parnasah comes from Hashem, not from the horse. And Hashem can give you another horse or another way to make a parnasah.
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