[Avodah] Akeidas Yitzchak as a symbol of hidden goodness in Kedushas Levi

[Tal Moshe Zwecker]

In Parashas Ki Savo The Kedushas Levi twice mentions the Akeidas Yitzchak as an example of an event where goodness is hidden and secreted. Any idea to what he is referring exactly?
 
"May Hashem command the blessing for you in your storehouses..."

(Devarim 28:8)

This is the meaning of “May Hashem command His blessing for you” — this is referring to berachah that actually comes from you, because of your own awakening. And this shefa is “b’asamecha,” in a hidden place [סמוי, “hidden,” and אסמיך, “your storehouses,” have the same linguistic root]. The favor and goodness is hidden and secreted, just like the binding of Yitzchak.

 
"May Hashem open for you His treasure-trove of goodness, the heavens, to provide rain for your land in its time..."

(Devarim 28:12)

 
This is why the verse concludes, “to provide rain for your land in its time” — because sometimes the Blessed Creator sends goodness and bounty that is obviously good and revealed, and at other times the Blessed Creator sends the good in a hidden manner, cloaked as something negative, such as in the binding of Yitzchak.



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