A thought from the Rebbe on this week's Parsha, Parshas Vayeitze. In Parshas Vayeitze, it says when Yaakov left Eretz Yisrael on his on the way to Charan, the Abishter spoke to him and the Abishter mentioned to him, \"I am the God of Avraham and God of Yitzchak, Elokei Yitzchak.\" Rashi says that we don't usually find in the Torah that Hashem should connect his name to a living person because you never know what's going to be, he might later on, chas v'shalom, sin. Only a person who passed away and he's a tzaddik, that's when the Abishter puts his name on him. So, how did the Abishter refer to Yitzchak himself as Elokei Yitzchak, the God of Yitzchak, when Yitzchak was still alive? Rashi answers because vatikahein einav, his eyes became weak, v'chola babayis, he's locked in the house, v'harei hu k'meis, he's like a dead person, v'yeitzer hara pofak mimenu, and the yeitzer hara left him. So, it seems from here that because he couldn't see, that's why we say that the yeitzer hara left him left him. But the Rebbe asks what does that mean because that because he can't see, the yeitzer hara left him and he couldn't can't do an aveiras anymore? We see b'muchash, we see gashmius that that even a blind person has a taiveh and has a yeitzer hara and he's also able to sin. What does it mean here because he can't see, b'meilah we know for sure he won't sin?

So, the Rebbe says a pshat as like this. The reason that he his eyes became weak and he wasn't able to see, Rashi says in Parshas Toldos, one of the reasons is mei'ashan ashnan sheloilu from the smoke of Eisav's wives shehayu ma'ashnos u'maktiras l'avodah zarah that he puts ktoras to avodah zarah and brought smoke and the smoke caused Yitzchak to have problems with his eyes. But you could ask a shaileh. We know that takeh that it says in a posuk in Mishlei that smoke hurts your eyes. But it doesn't hurt your eyes so much that you can't see. So, why is it considered that he couldn't see because the smoke of the the the avodah zarah the ktoras of avodah zarah?

So, the Rebbe says a pshat is it's not only because of the smoke physical smoke. Since it was smoke that came from avodah zarah, that's what caused it. Yitzchak was a tzaddik and the posuk says he's tehor einayim mei're'os b'ra, clean eyes that can't see evil. So, his eyes couldn't see the avodah zarah. And that was mashpia that his eyes was became weak and he couldn't see with his eyes because it came because it was avodah zarah and he can't see avodah zarah. So, that closed caused his eyes not to see. Similar to the story that we say about Reb Nochum Chernobyl'er that pa' once they gave him a glass of cholov akum to drink and he didn't drink it. They asked him, \"Why don't you drink it?\" He says, \"Drink what?\" He didn't see that there was milk there. So, he said so, later he teitsched that the Mishna says b'nogeia cholov akum cholov she'cholva akum v'ein Yisrael ro'eihu, milk that was milk by a goy and a Yid doesn't he doesn't see it, you're not allowed to drink it. So, he teitsched cholov she'cholva akum milk that's milk by a goy, ein Yisrael ro'eihu, he doesn't see it. Since it's a goyishe thing and it's not kosher, a Yid doesn't see it. So, he didn't see it. Another story about the same Reb Nochum Chernobyl'er is that he once came into the house into a room on Shabbos and he started feeling the wall like as if it was dark and it wasn't dark, there was a candle burning. But you could see that he couldn't see and he started walking by touching the walls. So, later they found out that candle was lit on Shabbos.

So, pashut to him the candle didn't light, he didn't see it. So, Yitzchak was such a tzaddik that he couldn't see avodah zarah. So, b'meilah it caused his eyes not to be able to see. So, since his the fact that his eyes were not able to see came as a result of such a great kedusha that Yitzchak was that he was tehor einayim mei're'os b'ra that he couldn't see evil, he couldn't see avodah zarah. If that's the reason that caused him not to see, that shows that he's such a great tzaddik that he has no yeitzer hara. And that's what Rashi means because vatikahein einav, because his eyes became weak and it all came because he couldn't see the avodah zarah. And that's why he his eyes couldn't see because he couldn't see avodah zarah caused him b'chlal not to see. That's what Rashi means. So, b'meilah that's a raya that yeitzer hara pofak mimenu, that he doesn't have a yeitzer hara anymore, and therefore, the Abishter was able to put his name to Yitzchak.