The divine command to Isaac uses exactly the same phrase that was said to Abraham at the end of the Akedah: “And in your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed.” The message to Isaac is clear: the goal should be – all the nations of the earth. Not isolation.
Looking further at the similar stories of Abraham and Isaac, it seems that in each story Isaac draws lessons and behaves better than his father. We`ll go through the stories in order to reach the last story – most important to us – giving the name: Be`er Sheva.
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