101) \u201cAnd Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, \u2018He who touches this man or his wife will certainly be put to death.\u2019\u201d How long did the Creator wait to avenge the wicked? For because of that good which Abimelech did with the first patriarchs, for that, Israel did not rule over the Philistines until after a long time, in the last generations. Abimelech did well when he was good with Isaac, as he had said to Abraham, \u201cBehold, my land is before you; settle wherever you please.\u201d This saying certainly applies to Abraham’s offspring, too, which is why he kept his words with Isaac, as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
102) Woe unto the wicked whose good is incomplete. In the beginning, Ephron said, \u201cMy lord, hear me: I give thee the field,\u201d and then he said, \u201cLand worth four hundred shekels of silver, according to the weights current among the merchants.\u201d Here, too, he first said to Abraham, \u201cmy land is before you,\u201d which includes Isaac in it, and then he said to Isaac, \u201cGo away from us, for you are too powerful for us.\u201d This is the good that he did with Isaac\u2014that Abimelech did not take anything from him but sent him with all his money and possessions, and then went and signed a covenant with him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
103) Isaac did well, for because he knew the wisdom, he exerted and dug a well of water, meaning corrected the Nukva, which is called \u201ca well of water,\u201d to properly strengthen in faith, which is the Nukva. And Abraham, too, exerted and dug a well of water. Jacob found it already corrected and sat on it. And everyone followed the well and exerted in it so as to properly strengthen in complete faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
104) And now Israel grow stronger in it, in the well of water, the Nukva, by keeping the Mitzvot [commandments] of the Torah. Each day, a man is strengthened with a Tzitzit [fringed garment], which is a Mitzva [singular of Mitzvot], and a man cloaks himself with it, and with the Tefillin, too, which he puts in the right way on his head and arm, and which have a sublime meaning. This is so because the Creator is with a man who is crowned with Tefillin and cloaked with a Tzitzit, and all is sublime faith, the Nukva, which becomes corrected through the Mitzvot that a person keeps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
105) Hence, one who does not cloak with a Tzitzit and does not crown to strengthen with a Tefillin every day, faith is not on him and the fear of his Master is removed from him, and his prayer is not a proper prayer. This is why the patriarchs would strengthen in sublime faith, because in the high pit there is complete faith, meaning the correction of the Nukva.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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