1)

"Rak ba'Avosecha Chashak Hashem". What is the word "Rak" coming to teach us?

1.

Ba'al ha'Turim: To teach us that the Avos are also subject to Din - since each one of them sinned - "Avraham asked "ba'Meh Eida ... ?"; 1 Yitzchak loved Eisav 2 and Ya'akov declared "Nisterah Darki me'Hashem" ('My way is hidden from Hashem'). 3

1

Bereishis 15:8.

2

Even though Hashem hated him (See Mal'achi, 1:3).

3

Yeshayah, 40:27.

2)

?Vayivchar be?Zar?am Bachem?. Why does the Torah insert the otherwise superfluous) word ?Bachem??

1.

Ramban and R. Bachye (on Pasuk 12): To preclude Yishmael and Eisav.

3)

What is the connection between this Pasuk, the previous one and the following one?

1.

Seforno: It is further proof that Hashem means only for our good. 1 See how heaven and earth - esteemed creations that are not subject to deterioration - belong to Hashem, yet He changed their nature for your sakes 2 on the merit of the Avos. 3 Clearly, it was in order to achieve an objective that is superior to heaven and earth - a perfect human-being, inasmuch as he is as similar to his Creator as is humanly possible. 4 It is therefore befitting to remove the blockage of your minds. 5

1

Refer to 10:14:1:2.

2

In Egypt when He performed the Ten Plagues and at the Yam-Suf, when He split the Sea.

3

See also Ba'al ha'Turim DH 'ha'Aretz v'Chol asher bah'.

4

Seforno: As the Torah wrote in Bereishis, 1:26 "in our image after our likeness".

5

Refer to 10:16:1:3, 10:16:2:2.

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