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GENESIS | 24:14 her — GEN1173 Someone who loves to do chesed will do mo...

GEN1173 Someone who loves to do chesed will do more than he is asked to do.   … Eliezer, the devoted servant of Abraham, had learned from his great master to appreciate the profound significance of helping others.   Chesed is not merely a kind act, but a manifestation of one’s belief in God.   Doing chesed is an act of emulating Him whose kindness is without bounds. Eliezer realized that the woman who would be deemed worthy of becoming a mother of the Jewish people must be the paragon of chesed.   … Rivkah ran (verse 20) to water the camels – an act which she was not even asked to perform.   On her own volition, she offered to draw enough water for ten thirty camels.  This act of chesed indicated that she was worthy of being Avraham’s daughter-in-law.   (Rabbi Isaac Sher in Leket Sichos Mussar, p. 38-39).  PLYN 88-9

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