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On the Pasuk Bereishis 24<br><br>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4><b>4
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3><i>But you shall go to my
country and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son, for
Yitzchak.<br><br>
</i></b>RSRH writes<br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4><b><i>Lib'ni
l'Yitzchok</i></b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3>. Eliezer
is to be guided by two considerations: First,
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4><b><i>Lib'ni</i></b></font>
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she should be worthy of being the wife of my son; she should justify<br>
my hope that she will become my daughter even as he is my son. This<br>
is the general requirement regarding her character. But two people
can<br>
each be of the most excellent character and still be incompatible.
Hence,<br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4><b><i>l'Yitzchok</i></b>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3>; Eliezer should make sure
that the woman is compatible with<br>
Yitzchak’s individual character.<br><br>
Avraham rejected the daughters of Canaan, preferring an Aramean<br>
woman for his son. Let us bear in mind, though, that the Arameans,<br>
too, were idolaters. Thus, the reason for Avraham’s decision was not<br>
the idolatry of the Canaanites, but their moral degeneracy.<br><br>
Idolatry is basically an intellectual error, and
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3><i>that
</i></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3>can be corrected.<br>
Moral degeneracy, however, takes hold of the whole individual, heart<br>
and soul. Hence, even a man such as Avraham could not hope to find<br>
among the Canaanites a modest, morally pure woman as a wife for his<br>
son, a woman who would bring with her a nobility of spirit and the<br>
purity of morality, as a pearl for his home.</font></body>
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