[Avodah] Middos of the Avos

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 07:13:38PM -0500, Lisa Liel wrote:
> On 9/6/2011 3:46 PM, Yitzchak Schaffer wrote:
>> A question WRT the middos commonly attributed to the Avos (Avraham  
>> <==> chesed, etc.). What is the nature of the relationship of these  

> We don't really know a lot about the Avot as people.  I mean, if we have  
> 5 days worth of Avraham Avinu that's a lot.  I don't think the question  
> is really pertinent, because all the Torah has given us is that which  
> will display those middot...

How does that change pertinence? Whether we want to know the historical
Avraham or Avraham-as-he-appears-in-Bereishis, one still can ask how
we're supposed to understand the origin of his chessed. And in either
case the question is what that says to my own development of my own
capacity of chessed.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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