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Project Likkutei Sichos — Toldos 5783

Выпуск: Project Likkutei Sichos — Toldos 5783. Темы: не определены автоматически. “Here I am.” (Bereishis 27:1.) The Explanation: The Rashi: We previously read that after Avraham’s Were too dim — Because of the smoke of death, “G-d blessed his son Yitzchak.” these [wives of Eisav] (who would burn (Bereishis 25:11) How could Yizchak suffer [incense] to the idols) (Tanchuma, Toledos from blindness after G-d Himself had 8; Pesikta Rabbasi 12). (Bereishis 26:35; see Rashi) Therefore, Rashi’s first explanation is the most logical one: Yaakov’s blessings, it stands to reason that “Because of the smoke of these wives of the cause of his blindness would be one Eisav who would burn incense to the idols.” that underscores Yitzchak’s holiness and not This explanation is not entirely satisfactory, something negative (such as Eisav’s wives however, because why would Yitzchak alone idolatry, or Yitzchak’s misplaced desire to have been affected and not Rivkah? Rashi therefore provides a second According to the first two, Yitzchak’s explanation: “When Yitzchak was bound on blindness happened years before he the altar, and his father was about to “turned old.” Only according to the third slaughter him, at that time, the heavens explanation — that the reason for the opened up, and the ministering angels saw blindness was so that Yaakov could receive and wept, and their tears descended and the blessings — does the order make sense. Rashi therefore provides a third The Lesson: explanation: “So that Yaakov should take the blessings.” Yitzchak’s blindness could have been avoided if G-d revealed to him the extent of This is the final, and least plausible, Eisav’s wickedness. Therefore, Rashi concludes When Yitzchak was bound on the altar, and that there must have been extraneous his father was about to slaughter him, at causes for his blindness, and not simply old that time, the heavens opened up, and the age. 15 Toldos, Sicha 3 The verse itself gives the cause of Yitzchak’s blindness: “It came to pass when Yitzchak was old.” Why does Rashi find it necessary The Verse: to provide additional explanations? old, and his eyes were too dim to see, that What is the weakness in each explanation he summoned Eisav, his older son, and he that necessitates the inclusion of the said to him, “My son. ministering angels saw and wept, and their We would have expected that the cause of tears desc

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