THE QUESTION WE MUST STRUGGLE WITH IS WHY YITZCHOK IS THE ONLY ONE OF THE PATRIARCHS CAPABLE OF SEEING THE GOOD IN SINNERS?
THE ANSWER LIES IN THE SPIRITUAL ROLE OF EACH PATRIARCH.
AVROHOM WAS THE TEACHER OF HIS AND ALL SUBSEQUENT GENERATIONS.
YAKOV WAS THE HEADMASTER, EXAMINING AND TEACHING THE DEPTHS OF AVROHOM'S DOCTRINE.
IN OTHER WORDS AVROHOM WAS THE FOUNDER AND MECHADESH-ORIGINATOR OF THE ABRAHAMIC DOCTRINE OF MONOTHEISM. YAKOV WAS THE ROSH YESHIVA WHO PLUMBED THE DEPTHS OF THE ABRAHAMIC TEACHINGS.
YITZCHOK ON THE OTHER HAND WAS A BUSINESSMAN RELATIVE TO THE OTHERS. HIS INTERESTS WERE TO EVALUATE EVERYTHING AT ITS' SOURCE. A LECTURER OR PROFESSOR ,EVEN A ROSH YESHIVA HAS A LIMITATION THAT THE BUSINESSMAN DOESN'T HAVE.
THAT IS THAT THE MAN INVOLVED IN COMMERCE SEES THE POTENTIAL IN EVERYTHING.
HE SEES THE POSSIBLE PROFITS IN EVERY ASPECT OF HUMAN ENDEAVOR. WHEREAS A ROSH YESHIVA IS BIASED BY THE NEED TO HAVE UNDERSTANDING STUDENTS,THE
ENTREPRENEUR SEES THE POTENTIAL IN EVERY STUDENT IN EVERY PERSON!
MANY YEARS AGO A CERTAIN STUDENT WHO WAS NOT PARTICULARLY A GOOD STUDENT APPROACHED ONE OF THE VENERABLE SPIRITUAL GUIDES OF THE LAST GENERATION ASKING HIM HOW TO SERVE HIS CREATOR IN CHASSIDIC PRAYER ONLY TO BE BRUSHED OFF THAT IT WASN'T FOR HIM!
UNDAUNTED THE YOUNG MAN WROTE THE LUBAVITCHER REBBE Z.T.L. ABOUT THIS .
THE REBBE ANSWERED THAT ALL JEWS ARE CAPABLE OF SERVING G-D THROUGH CHABAD MEDITATION, NOTWITHSTANDING THE MASHPIA'S STANCE.
THE REBBE WASN'T INFLUENCED BY THE RECEPTIVE QUALITIES OF THE STUDENT WHEREAS THE ROSH YESHIVA WAS LIMITED BY THE NEED TO HAVE A RECEPTIVE STUDENT.
THE ABILITY TO SEE THE OTHERS' GOOD QUALITIES AND POTENTIAL IS MORE PREVELANT AMONGST THOSE WHO HAVE NO SPECIFIC AGENDA IN OTHERS AND DON'T LOOK FOR SPECIFIC QUALITIES OTHER THAN LOYALTY AND STICKTOITIVENESS.
THESE ATTRIBUTES CAN BE FOUND IN ANYONE AND EV ERYONE!
THIS WAS THE UNIQUE VANTAGEPOINT OF YITZCHOK, THE ABILITY TO SEE THE POTENTIAL THAT RESIDES IN OTHERS.
WHERE YAKOV WAS THE REALIST, YITZCHOK WAS THE VISIONARY. HENCE THE REAL
DESIRE TO BLESS THE WICKED ESAU HOPING THAT THIS WOULD PUSH ESAU INTO TESHUVAH.
Thursday, November 15, 2007
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