{"id":38088,"date":"2018-08-18T23:57:30","date_gmt":"2018-08-18T20:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=38088"},"modified":"2022-03-11T14:12:28","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T12:12:28","slug":"isaacs-wells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/isaacs-wells\/","title":{"rendered":"Isaac\u2019s Wells"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[485,363,410],"acf":{"old_id":"38088","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":36663,"related_cahpter":"26","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Isaac is a practitioner of the arts of the possible.","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAll the wells which his father\u2019s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father the Philistines had stopped them up and filled them with earth\u201d (Gen 26:15). \u00a0So what did Isaac do? He dug them again, unstopping them (26:18 -34). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Genesis Rabbah 64:8 says that the five wells that Isaac dug were for <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">kineged, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the sake of [or equivalent to] the five books of the Torah and names them. \u00a0Esek (Genesis 26: 20) for Genesis, Sitna for Exodus (26:21), well of the living water (26:19) for Leviticus, Shiva (26:33) for Numbers and Rehovot (26: 22) for Deuteronomy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2018s a clich\u00e9 that the Torah is a wellspring, something that replenishes itself. If we unpack this metaphor, \u00a0I believe it rises above the world of clich\u00e9 to become something more. If the word <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">kineged, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">used to mean \u201cequivalent to\u201d or \u201cin place of,\u201d is creating the equivalency, and the five wells Isaac dug are <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in place of<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the five books of the Torah, a different level of meaning is at play here.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If we each need to<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishbookcouncil.org\/_blog\/The_ProsenPeople\/post\/its-no-accident-the-final-commandment-is-to-write\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">write our own sefer Torah<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for ourselves as Deuteronomy 31:19 instructs, then the wells are Isaac\u2019s writing. The wells are actually Isaac\u2019s art, his expression of himself in this world. \u00a0Isaac then is a person who draws things out and unstops that which has been stopped up so it flows once again and provides nourishment. So the question then is: what gives him this unique ability to make art, to continue to have something that he creates, flow in the world?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One explanation of his puzzling calm at the time of finding out that Jacob had usurped his brother Esau\u2019s blessing is that Isaac is a practitioner of the arts of the possible. Isaac responds to Esau\u2019s anger that Jacob will get the blessing, \u201che too will be blessed&#8221; (Genesis 27:33).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Isaac lives and creates within the contours of what he has been given. \u00a0Those words &#8211; \u201che too will be blessed\u201d &#8211; and that acceptance are hard earned by someone whose own father must have been such a disappointment to him by almost sacrificing him. To have his son deceive him as well must have been a cause of great pain. 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