EXTRA · classical (not a TT unit)

Toldos 26:4 · EXTRA

Parashas Toldos · Passuk 26:4

The Complete Passuk

וְהִרְבֵּיתִ֤י אֶֽת־זַרְעֲךָ֙ כְּכוֹכְבֵ֣י הַשָּׁמַ֔יִם וְנָתַתִּ֣י לְזַרְעֲךָ֔ אֵ֥ת כׇּל־הָאֲרָצֹ֖ת הָאֵ֑ל וְהִתְבָּרְכ֣וּ בְזַרְעֲךָ֔ כֹּ֖ל גּוֹיֵ֥י הָאָֽרֶץ׃

I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven, and assign to your offspring all these lands, so that all the nations of the earth shall bless themselves by your offspring.

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Source Citation

Rashi on Bereishis 26:4 (classical source on this passuk; not listed as a numbered Torah Temimah unit here).

Lemma / focus: והתברכו בזרעך.

Sefaria

Core Text of Chazal

Core Text
אָדָם אוֹמֵר לִבְנוֹ יְהֵא זַרְעֲךָ כְּזַרְעוֹ שֶׁל יִצְחָק, וְכֵן בְּכָל הַמִּקְרָא, וְזֶה אָב לְכֻלָּן.

English: A man says to his son, “May your offspring be like the offspring of Yitzchak”; and so throughout Scripture—and this is the father of them all.

On the daf / in context: The blessing formula is the model for later blessing-by-comparison: people will invoke Yitzchak’s seed as the standard.

Type of Learning

Derash on the verse (Rashi) — not a formal named middah of the 13: the phrase is read as the paradigm of blessing oneself by another’s seed.

What Is Learned

Nations will bless themselves by Yitzchak’s offspring—saying, “May your seed be like the seed of Yitzchak.”