Chayei Sarah - The Journey From Cursed to Blessed

Eliezer has a daughter, and he wants her to marry Yitzchak. Yet he davens for his mission to succeed and does everything in his power to bring home Rivka. How does a person serve with such devotion when success means giving up something he deeply wants?

In this shiur, given in Baer Miriam, Rav Burg explores Eliezer’s journey from arur to baruch and the difference between finding our identity through someone else and becoming rooted in our own connection with Hashem. Even our attachment to a tzaddik can carry the hope that belonging to his world will finally make us feel worthy. What happens when that hope meets a closed door?

Through Eliezer’s faithfulness to Avraham, we discover what it means to want something deeply and still remain free to choose what Hashem asks of us. His mission becomes the very place where he grows into the person he had hoped marriage into Avraham’s family would allow him to become.

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