Parshat Toldot tells the fascinating story of a child’s desire to remember his past generation by emulating the same behaviors of his father. As seen in the earlier chapters of Bereishit Avraham moves south, meets a king, avoids famine and finds water. In parshat Toldot we read how Yitzhak does the same.
- There is a famine in the land that forces Yitzhak to head toward Egypt.
- Yitzhak settles in Canaan.
- Yitzhak digs the same wells in Be’er Sheva.
- Yitzhak makes peace with a Philistine king, Avimelech.
Yitzhak’s main role was to take the ‘radical’ new ideas of Avraham and firmly establish them in society.
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