Parshat Toldos begins with what appears to be a superfluous phrase. The unusually wordy verse says, “These are the offspring of Isaac son of Avraham – Avraham begot Isaac.” Certainly, if Isaac is the son of Avraham, Avraham begot Isaac. Why does the Torah take the unusual step of repeating that detail? Rashi’s explanation, although appearing quite logical on the surface, raises even more questions than it resolves. Rashi says that Hashem created a miracle that Yitzchak resembled Avraham so closely that the scoffers would not be able to claim that Sarah, who conceived Yitzchak after Avimelech had detained her, got pregnant from Avimelech rather than from Avraham.
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