EXTRA · classical (not a TT unit)

Toldos 26:2 · EXTRA

Parashas Toldos · Passuk 26:2

The Complete Passuk

וַיֵּרָ֤א אֵלָיו֙ יְהֹוָ֔ה וַיֹּ֖אמֶר אַל־תֵּרֵ֣ד מִצְרָ֑יְמָה שְׁכֹ֣ן בָּאָ֔רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֖ר אֹמַ֥ר אֵלֶֽיךָ׃

Hashem appeared to him and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; dwell in the land that I will tell you.

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Source Citation

Rashi on Bereishis 26:2 (classical source on this passuk; not listed as a numbered Torah Temimah unit here).

Lemma / focus: אל תרד מצרימה.

Sefaria

Core Text of Chazal

Core Text
שֶׁהָיָה דַּעְתּוֹ לָרֶדֶת לְמִצְרַיִם, כְּמוֹ שֶׁיָּרַד אָבִיו בִּימֵי הָרָעָב; אָמַר לוֹ אַל תֵּרֵד מִצְרָיְמָה, שֶׁאַתָּה עוֹלָה תְּמִימָה, וְאֵין חוּץ לָאָרֶץ כְּדַאי לָךְ.

English: For he intended to go down to Egypt as his father had gone down in the days of famine. He said to him: Do not go down to Egypt, for you are a perfect burnt-offering, and outside the Land is not fitting for you.

On the daf / in context: Yitzchak is barred from Egypt because he was bound on the altar; as a “perfect offering” he must remain in the Land.

Type of Learning

Derash on the verse (Rashi / midrash) — not a formal named middah of the 13: the prohibition is linked to the Akeidah status of Yitzchak as an offering.

What Is Learned

Hashem forbade Yitzchak to go down to Egypt: he is a perfect offering from the Akeidah, and life outside the Land is not fitting for him.