Tag: Yitzchak
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If My Father Were Here Today… In Parshat Toldot, Yitzchak tries to continue Avraham’s path exactly. He digs the same wells. He gives them the same names. And when famine strikes, he prepares to do what Avraham did — go down to Mitzrayim. But Hashem stops him.“Al teired Mitzraymah. Gur ba’aretz hazot.” Ramban explains that…
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Chazal tell us that as long as Sarah Imeinu lived, her tent was filled with open miracles. Bereishit Rabbah teaches that her Shabbat candles stayed lit from week to week, a cloud of the Shechina hovered above her tent, and her dough was blessed. It wasn’t just a home. It was a place where Hashem’s…
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Avraham Avinu showed us what bitachon really means.Hashem promised him that Yitzchak would be his future — “ki b’Yitzchak yikarei lecha zera,” your offspring will come through Yitzchak.And then Hashem commanded him to bring that very son as a korban. It made no sense.The promise and the command couldn’t coexist — at least not from…
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Both Avraham and Sarah laughed when they heard the impossible: that a child would be born to them in their old age.But their laughs were not the same. Avraham laughed out of joy — out of awe at the greatness of Hashem and the beauty of a promise being fulfilled.Sarah laughed out of disbelief —…
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In this week’s parsha, Chayei Sarah, Avraham Avinu instructs Eliezer his servant, to find a wife for his son Yitzchak. Immediately before this story, the Torah states that Hashem blessed Avraham “bakol”—with everything. Rashi explains that the gematria (numerical value) of bakol is the same as the word ben, “son” (52). This teaches us that…
