Parshas Toldos 5786
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R’ Moshe Sofer zt”l (Chasam Sofer) would say: “'אברהם הוליד את יצחק' - Why does the Torah use this expression - ‘Avraham gave birth to Yitzchok’ - which makes it sound like it just happened recently? When Yitzchok and Rivka were davening for children, Chazal tell us that Hashem listened to Yitzchok’s tefillah because he was a tzaddik ben tzaddik. Therefore, the direct cause of Yitzchok meriting to have children is because Avraham gave birth to Yitzchok, and now he was a tzaddik ben tzadik.”
A Wise Man would say: “It is easier to rise from defeat than to rise from ignorance.”