"Bakol mikol kol" - "in everything, from everything, everything"
It's more than just a catchy line in benching (grace after meals). As with so much that I love about the Jewish library, it's a little liturgical clue to a bigger scavenger hunt through the Torah, bringing extra meaning to our practice.
The first "kol" is from our parasha - וְאַבְרָהָם זָקֵן בָּא בַּיָּמִים וַיהֹוָה בֵּרַךְ אֶת־אַבְרָהָם בַּכֹּל׃
Abraham was now old, advanced in years, and Hashem had blessed Abraham in all things.
Rashi tells that the gematria (the practice of assigning a numerical value to words/phrases) of "bakol" is equal to that of "ben" and that now Avraham has a child, he has everything. But Avraham, just after the Akeida and losing his wife, is in a pretty shaky place. The same can be said of Yitzchak and Yaakov at their "kol" moment. So what can we take from these three "kols"?
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