I once called Rebbi to ask him the following question: Why does the Torah spend so much time on the story of Eliezer’s lengthy conversation; would’t we have seen a higher level of moral instruction from a story of the conversations of the Avos themselves? Rebbi answered me, “The Avos kept quiet; they didn’t have any light conversation.”
(From Reb Y. Schwob)
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