“Re-digging the Wells of Isaac: A Journey towards Rehovot” In Genesis 26 we find one of the most profound episodes of the Torah: the story of Isaac and the wells. After a famine forces Isaac and his household to settle in the region of Gerar, the Torah tells us that Isaac reopens the wells that his father Abraham had originally dug, wells that the Philistines had blocked up after Abraham’s death. Isaac clears them, gives them the same names his father had given them, and th
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