פרשת חיי שרה תשי"א - סיפור אליעזר

... ‘And God saw everything that He had made’—R’ Yochanan said: A king of flesh and blood who builds a palace, he looks upon the upper ones (i.e., stories) – one glance/r’iyah, and upon the lower ones – one (separate) glance, but the Holy One looks upon the upper ones and upon the lower ones – one glance [altogether]. in the book of r meir they found written instead of "and behold it was very good" and behold death is good.r shmuel the son of r nachman says i was ridding on the back of my grandfather and he was going from his city to the town of channan through beis shan, and i heard r shimon the son of eluzur sitting and expounding in the name of r meir, "behold it is very good" meaning , behold death is good. r chama the son of r chanina and r yonsan, r chama the son of r chanina said , the first man shouldn't have tasted the taste of death, only god saw that nevuchadnetzar and chirom the king of tzur are were going to make themselves (as if) gods , and therefore he punished the first man with death, and this is what it says " in the garden of Eden you were" now could it be the chirum was in the garden of Eden?? , rather he said to him: you caused the one in the garden (first man) to die. r chiiya the grandson of of r berichya in the name of r berichya says "I created you as a cherub" you are the one who caused that cherub to die. r yanoson said to him if so he should decree death upon the wicked and not the righteous, rather the reason is that the wicked should not fake repentance, and so that the wicked shouldnt say isnt the only reason the righteous are living because of their good deeds and mitzvot? we to shall do good deeds!!! this make the doing of mitzvot for other things besides the sake of heaven. r yachnon and reush laskish, r yachnon says, why is death decreed upon the wicked? rather while the wicked are alive they upset god, this is what it says "You have wearied the LORD with your talk" once they die, they stop upsetting god, as it says "There the wicked cease from troubling" meaning this is where they stop upsetting god. and why was death decreed upon the righteous? that as long as the righteous are alive they are fighting thier evil inclination, once they die they rest, this is what it says "and there will rest the tired ones" meaning to say: it is inuf what we accomplished. and reish lakish says the reason why people are killed is to punish the wicked double and to reward the righteous double. to give the righteous double: because they shouldn't have tasted death but they accepted upon themselves to, therefore " therefore in their land double they will inherit" and to punish the wicked, sincw the righteous shouldnt have had to experince death and for them they did, therefore they will inherit double.

And the servant told Isaac all the things that he had done.