Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Chasidut for Rosh Hashanah 32:13

א"ר אבין מאי קרא (תהלים סט, כט) ימחו מספר חיים ועם צדיקים אל יכתבו ימחו מספר זה ספרן של רשעים גמורין חיים זה ספרן של צדיקים ועם צדיקים אל יכתבו זה ספרן של בינוניים

one for the thoroughly righteous, and one for the intermediate. The thoroughly righteous are forthwith inscribed definitively in the book of life; the thoroughly wicked are forthwith inscribed definitively in the book of death;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The life and death in the future world (i.e., of the soul) is meant. V. Tosaf. s.v. .');"><sup>25</sup></span> the doom of the intermediate is suspended from New Year till the Day of Atonement; if they deserve well, they are inscribed in the book of life; if they do not deserve well, they are inscribed in the book of death.

Kedushat Levi

Genesis 26,28. “we have taken due note of the fact ‎that the Lord has been with you, etc.;” based on what we ‎explained (18,2) in connection with ‎וירא וירץ לקראתם‎, (page 88) ‎that when a person looks at a righteous person, his own powers ‎of perception are enhanced by the mere fact that he is within the ‎orbit of the tzaddik, our sages (Rosh Hashanah 16) have ‎stated that people must make a point of visiting their Rabbi or ‎other scholars on the festivals. They will benefit spiritually merely ‎by looking at their Rabbi. Avraham at the time had realized that ‎the three strangers who had appeared in front of him suddenly ‎were superior beings as his own powers of perception had been ‎sharpened by their arrival and his facing them. It was this ‎realization that his perceptive powers had been enhanced, that ‎prompted him at the time not only to walk toward these visitors ‎but to run in order to make them welcome.‎
The repetition by the Torah of the words ‎ראו ראינו‎ is to draw ‎our attention to both Avimelech and his entourage having ‎experienced these enhanced powers of perception. They had ‎become aware that their powers of “seeing” had not only been ‎improved quantitatively but also qualitatively, i.e. they had ‎experienced the awe of feeling in the presence of a spiritually ‎superior being. They realized now that the Presence of the Divine ‎Shechinah rested above the head of Yitzchok.‎
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