Bereshit 26:12

Isaac Digging Well

Digging Wells

The third aliyah of Parshat Toldot presents a profound metaphor through Isaac’s well-digging enterprise. Isaac re-opens his father’s wells, stopped up by the Philistines; then

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Isaac sawing the field

The Hundredfold Paradox

Dwell in this land. (Genesis 26:3). In famine, with every natural instinct pointing south toward Egypt, Isaac (Yitzḥak) is told to stay. The Midrash notes

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