The Psychological Test of Rebecca

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi YY Jacobson’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

the story which lasts for close to seventy sixty-seven it's the longest one of the longest portions in the torah we don't have the name of the servant but the commentators identify him as eliezer so when the story is usually told we say avraham sent eliezer to find a wife for her son but the actual verse of the text the text never identifies him as eliezer and when he has to introduce himself he introduces himself characteristically with three words by saying evad avraham i am a servant of avraham he goes to the city of kharan he travels from the land of kanan later to become the land of eritseral the land of the jewish people and he goes to kharan kharan is actually a name of a city that still exists southern turkey has a city called haran h-a-r-a-n and according to most it's exactly the same city of ancient kharam because nearby they did excavations of what seems to be ancient kharan so this is at the southern point of turkey it's on the border of syria and iraq so the servant of avram travels all the way to kharan that's where avraham's family remained while he and sorrow moved on to the land of kanan but kharun was the place where his family once upon a time moved many years ago and when the servant eliezer arrives at the town's well he proposes the famous test what's the test a woman a young woman who comes to draw water from the well and offer some of her water to the traveler and in addition we'll give water also to his camels so this the servant says i will know that this is the woman chosen

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