Aliya Summary: Yitzchak sets himself up in Be'er Sheva. G-d appears
to him and reiterates the promises for prosperity made to Avraham.
Yitzchak builds an altar to G-d and continues to prosper. Avimelech,
realizing that his own prosperity was due to the presence of Yitzchak,
comes with a delegation to Yitzchak in order to enter into a covenant
with him.
The Baal HaTurim notes that when G-d speaks
to Yitzchak, He does not use the name associated with Divine Mercy, as
He had done with Avraham and will do with Yaakov. Avraham and Yaakov
went through difficult times, but they were treated, so to speak, with
an element of Mercy. Yitzchak's trials and tribulations were without
G-d's mercy, because Yitzchak had a certain extra strength of character
that can withstand powerful trials. Is that fair? Or was Yitzchak tested
because he needed to be (for his and our sake), because he could pass
those tests, and because his reward is that much greater than those
tested less?
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