A word from the Rebbe on this week's Parsha, Parshas Toldos. In the beginning of Parshas Toldos, when the posuk says אברהם הוליד את יצחק that Avraham gave birth to Yitzchak, so Rashi says because the ליצני הדור there were people that said מאבימלך נתעברה שרה that Sarah became pregnant from Avimelech, מה עשה הקדוש ברוך הוא, what did Hashem do, צר קלסתר פנים של יצחק דומה לאברהם Hashem made the face of Yitzchak be similar like Avraham, והיו הכל אומרים and now everyone was able to testify אברהם הוליד את יצחק that Avraham gave birth to Yitzchak. Now Rashi uses the loshon, מה עשה הקדוש ברוך הוא? What did Hashem do to prove that Yitzchak was born from Avraham? And the Gemara also says loshon, מיד נהפך קלסתר פניו של יצחק. The face of Yitzchak was changed to look like Avraham. So it seems from this that there needed a you needed a something special to happen in order that Yitzchak should look like Avraham. Lekhore, why is it something special? Isn't it natural that a son looks like his father? So why did there have to be here a special פעולה that the Eibishter had to do to make Yitzchak look like Avraham? Isn't that natural?

And the Rebbe explains that the reason generally why a son looks like his father, because the way the face looks has to do with the middot, the qualities of the person, the תכונות הנפש of the person. And usually the son has the same תכונות הנפש as the father, the same attributes as the father, and therefore he looks like the father because the face represents the type of middot a person has, the type of quality the person has. So the son who has usually the same quality looks like the father. But in our case of Avraham and Yitzchak, it's not like that. They were completely different. We all know that Avraham was chesed. Like the posuk says אברהם אוהבי, Avraham the one I love because Avraham loved Hashem, and love is from chesed. So Avraham is always known, he did גמילות חסדים. So he was from the מידת החסד. Yitzchak, it says is from the מידת הגבורה ויראה like it says פחד יצחק. The fear of Yitzchak, which is yirah, fear, comes from the מידת הגבורה. So since the qualities and the attributes of Yitzchak were different than Avraham, so naturally Avraham and Yitzchak should have looked different one from another. And there needed to be a special miracle that even though they are different, they have different qualities, different middot, nevertheless Hashem made that the face of Yitzchak should look like Avraham. And this is this explains what Chazal tell us that the Eibishter said to the malach, it's a Medrash, the Eibishter said to the malach which is ממונה, which is appointed to shape the shape of the child, don't make him look like his mother but make him look like his father. What's the pshat? Cuz be'etzem he should have looked like his mother. Since he was the middah of gevurah, so he should have looked more like Sarah because Sarah, which is a woman, it says has a שייכות more to gevurah. So and his middah was gevurah, so he should look like Sarah. Therefore the Eibishter said, \"bedavka don't make him look like his mother.\" A special thing כדי that people should realize that Avraham is his father. So therefore he said, \"don't make him look like his mother but make him look like his father.\" So here we see that it's connected to the type of middah you have, and therefore he should have looked like his mother, and there was a special miracle he looked like his father.

And this explains the Rebbe says another thing. The meforshim ask if the Torah wants to tell us that people recognize that Avraham was the father of Yitzchak, why does the Torah say this in Parshas Toldos where it talks about what happened to Yitzchak? Why doesn't the Torah tell us somehow in Parshas Vayeira where it talks about Yitzchak was born? And when did the people start claiming that Yitzchak Avraham is not Yitzchak's father? When Yitzchak was born. So the Torah there should have said something to tell us that Yitzchak looked like Avraham so people knew that Avraham was Yitzchak's father. Why does the Torah wait till Parshas Toldos? So the Rebbe says, since the whole thing is dependent on the middot and on the attributes of the child the way he looks like the father, so the main טענה that people had is when they saw that Yitzchak and Avraham are two different middot. That strengthened their טענה. When they said that Avraham was not Yitzchak's father was strengthened by the fact that they saw that the middot of Yitzchak are different than the middot of Avraham. And that is expressed in this week's parsha. When the parsha talks about Yitzchak. See, in Vayeira, the main parsha is about Avraham. It tells Avraham had gave birth to Yitzchak. But in Parshas Toldos it talks about talks about Yitzchak himself, all the תולדות and all the happenings of Yitzchak. So when they saw what Yitzchak was doing and they realized that Yitzchak is different than Avraham, that was really when they started having this טענה that Avraham was not Yitzchak's father. And that's why in Parshas Toldos both had both. It doesn't mean Avraham chas veshalom didn't have יראת השמים didn't have yirah. Actually, it says in pasuk, right after Akeidah, so, the Eibershter said, now I see that you are a ירא אלוקים, that you have yirah, because he did have yirah, too. Yitzchak also has ahavah also had ahavah. The main point here is the main middah of Avraham was חסד אהבה, the main middah of Yitzchak was גבורה, which is yirah. But, nevertheless, they both had each.