Chelek 15, Toldos 3 - Rabbi Shalom Moshe Paltiel - Sicha Discourse with Spreadsheet

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secret number three the verse says it came to pass when Isaac when yet became old his eyes became dim or blinded and it tells the whole story how then yaakov came and stole the blessings on that verse Rashi gives three interpretations how he became blinded it became blinded how three interpretations one it was the smoke of the idolatrous offerings of the wives of Esau two it was the tears of the Angels who looked down and saw Isaac it's got binded on the Altar and they cried and three it was in order for Jaco to take the blessing that he was blinded by Providence so the rabbit asked a couple of questions I want the first question the most fundamental why is the need for any Rashi at all what's Rossi trying to explain we're trying to figure out what blinded Isaac and we have to start looking and give three different answers the text says it very plainly because it was old it's right there in the text the rebel will then ask two other important questions but let's first deal with this one became old and he was blinded that's the reason for blindness Rashi has to give any comment let alone three different explanations the fact that old age brings blindness is not uh such a difficult phenomenon to understand it happens it's a reality and in fact in the Torah itself we have later in the last Parsha of the book of borageous it says clearly

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1. 0:06secret number three the verse says it came to pass when Isaac when yet became old…
2. 2:46because it was old why not because in the end of the earlier Parsha it says…
3. 5:24and he was much older seems there he was right at the end of his life…
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5. 10:38doesn't say from the wise of these clearly a reference to that which was just mentioned…
6. 13:15Torah and everything else but it's it's a stretch from the literal interpretation when we try…
7. 15:54a text level nowhere in the text as it ended however um however it makes sense…
8. 19:12because of the wives of Aesop's idolatry that that's a dampering that's a hampering that's the…
9. 21:50three and have them in disorder whatever takes a lesson at the end of The Secret…
10. 24:29when it speaks about Good People it says straight out righteous you're not going to find…

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