There are three different opinions on whether Yitzchak meant to do with the bracha. The first opinion is that Yitzchak intended on giving the entire bracha to Esav. This opinion is saying that Yitzchak was intending on making what we believe was the wrong choice. In this scenario, Esav would have recieved everything, and who knows where we would be today if that had happened.
The second possibility is that he planned on splitting the bracha. Yitzchak may have known that Esav's strenghts were in worldy things, and that he was manipulative and good at politics. He would be powerful and have agricultural success. Yaakov would have Avraham's blessing. HE was the more spiritual and G-dly one, and he would inherit the zera and aretz. They were both sons from the same mother and father, and he loved both of them. Why couldn't both of them take care of this job?
The last possibility is that Yitzchak meant for Yaakov to have the entire bracha. He may have made this decision because he saw that Yaakov was capable of handling the entire bracha, not just the spiritual parts. He may have realized that Yaakov's descendants deserved the entire bracha, not Esav's.
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