There once lived a great tzaddik the gadol hador of his time whose name we learned during our earliest school days.
This tzaddik had earned an international reputation as the consummate host he was a baal chesed a wealthy man and had even proven his military prowess defeating an army of four powerful kings in a single night when five other kings before him had failed.
And in case all of the above wasn’t good enough this tzaddik possessed an eternal promise from G-d that he would be the forefather of a great nation that would dwell in the choicest of all lands.
One would think such a man would have been scooped up at a young age by a potential marriage partner yet we find that Yitzchak Avinu the son of Avraham Avinu was approaching age forty and had still not found his bashert.
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