EXTRA · classical (not a TT unit)

Toldos 26:18 · EXTRA

Parashas Toldos · Passuk 26:18

The Complete Passuk

וַיָּ֨שׇׁב יִצְחָ֜ק וַיַּחְפֹּ֣ר אֶת־בְּאֵרֹ֣ת הַמַּ֗יִם אֲשֶׁ֤ר חָֽפְרוּ֙ בִּימֵי֙ אַבְרָהָ֣ם אָבִ֔יו וַיְסַתְּמ֣וּם פְּלִשְׁתִּ֔ים אַחֲרֵ֖י מ֣וֹת אַבְרָהָ֑ם וַיִּקְרָ֤א לָהֶן֙ שֵׁמ֔וֹת כַּשֵּׁמֹ֕ת אֲשֶׁר־קָרָ֥א לָהֶ֖ן אָבִֽיו׃

Yitzchak dug again the wells of water which had been dug in the days of Avraham his father and which the Philistines had stopped up after Avraham’s death, and he gave them the same names that his father had given them.

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Source Citation

Rashi on Bereishis 26:18 (classical source on this passuk; not listed as a numbered Torah Temimah unit here).

Lemma / focus: וישב ויחפר.

Sefaria

Core Text of Chazal

Core Text
הַבְּאֵרוֹת אֲשֶׁר חָפְרוּ בִּימֵי אַבְרָהָם אָבִיו וּפְלִשְׁתִּים סְתָמוּם, מִקֹּדֶם שֶׁנָּסַע יִצְחָק מִגְּרָר.

English: The wells which they had dug in the days of Avraham his father and which the Philistines had stopped—before Yitzchak had left Gerar.

On the daf / in context: Yitzchak restores his father’s wells and restores the names, reclaiming Avraham’s work in the land.

Type of Learning

Derash on the verse (Rashi) — not a formal named middah of the 13: the reopening and renaming is read as fidelity to Avraham’s claims.

What Is Learned

Yitzchak reopened the wells of Avraham’s days that the Philistines had stopped, and he called them by the names his father had given.