
Parashat Vayera
I find it challenging to relate to Yitzchak The only one of the three forefathers never to leave Israel, he doesn't do much of anything, instead, he just lives his life copying his father Avraham. My friend frames it well, she says "Avraham dug a well, and ... Yitzchak digs the exact same well." He sounds a bit nebish, like a bit of a nobody. But then we consider the whole Akeidat Yitzchak scene. Recently I was teaching some chanichim about the episode, and I took them around