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PUTING THE SPOTLIGHT ON IMPORTANT JEWISH INFORMATION
Wednesday, November 11, 2015
RAV KOOK ON Chayei Sarah Part 1: The Torah of the Patriarchs
Even the Sages were puzzled why the Torah describes with such detail the story of Abraham’s servant and the search for a wife for Isaac. Why are so many verses devoted to the servant’s encounter with Rebecca at the well, as well as his subsequent report of this event to Rebecca’s family? The Torah is so parsimonious with its words — important laws are often derived from a single letter. Why such verbosity here? Due to this textual anomaly, the Sages made a bold claim: “The conversation of the Patriarch’s servants is superior to the Torah of their descendants” (Breishit Rabbah 60). What does this mean? Is their everyday discourse really more important than the Torah and its laws?
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