Shnayim Yomi - Toldot - Shlishi - #3 - Rabbi Yechiel Spero - Sentimental Snowstorms

Hello yi for paradise and in this portion of the para we read the story about yitzk digging wells and the pishim filling up and blocking those wells over and over three times. And it's not just a little game of back and forth. I dig the well, you fill the well. Rather, is digging the wells. And the Ramban says that represents a future digging, a future building of the Bam Miktosh. One well is dug, one Bikto is built, depend destroy it. The second well is built, depend destroy that as well. And then the third bay mikt is built. And the Ramban explains how each of the names of the wells allude to the issues that arose during that time of the Biktosh. But the digging of the well is not the same as the building of a Bikto. Digging is removing the dirt. It's not building an edifice. And I would suggest the answer is as follows. Based on a story that I love telling over. It's a story from my youth that means a lot to me. It was Cleveland, Ohio, 1977. The storm and the winter of 77 were really ferocious. even by Cleveland standards. Probably two feet of snow. School was cancelled, if you can believe it. And of course, my mother didn't want all the three little Spiro boys home. So, she asked my father, "Wherever you go, please make sure to take the boys with you." My father put on his big coat and his Russian hat and his boots. He opened the door. The door swung open and he began to walk towards the car, his big feet in the huge mounds of snow. And now it was my turn. I put on my little coat with my little boots and I thought to myself, "How am I going to get to the car? The snow is so high." And then I looked down and I saw my father's huge footprints. and I put my little feet in his big footprints one by one until I made it to the car. We are not asked to dig new wells. We are just meant to put our little feet into the wells that have been dug before us, into the incredible efforts of our parents and grandparents for generations, for thousands of years before us. And if we do that, we'll beem very soon to carry on that. Have a great day.