CHASSIDIC PEARLS BY RABBI LAZER BRODY PARSHAS TOLDOS

Yitzchak (Isaac) sowed in that land, and in that year reaped a hundredfold (Bereishit 26:12). Rashi comments on the above passage and explains that the people of that generation used to remark that the manure of Yitzchak's mules was better than Avimelech's gold and silver. Strange, who would prefer manure to gold and silver? In order to understand the depth of the above saying, which in effect summarizes the difference between our forefathers and their foreign contemporaries,