Razei Emunim
Allusions to Meah Brachos and Amen in the Parashah
With the Power of Meah Brachos
(י כח) “חרנה וילך שבע מבאר יעקב ויצא”
The Chasam Sofer wrote that the final letters of this phrase make up the words ארבע כה. Harav Yissachar Shlomo Teichtal, author of Mishnah Sachir, explains that four times כה is equal to one hundred, and thus the passuk alludes that Yaakov set out on his way with the power of the mitzvah of reciting one hundred brachos a day. That is because with the power of being strict to say one hundred brachos a day, a person subdues the powers of impurity so that they cannot harm him, which Yaakov needed very much at those times, when he ran away from his brother Eisav to the home of Lavan.
Mishneh Sachir
A Short Tefillah – Shortens Life
(כ כח) “הולך אנכי אשר הזה בדרך ומשרני עמדי אלקים יהיה אם”
The Rebbe Harav Eliezer Zev of Kretchnif explained: Chazal say (Brachos 13b): “Anyone who prolongs the ‘Echad’ [in Krias Shema] – has his days and years lengthened.” Likewise, they say (Brachos 47a): “Anyone who prolongs his ‘amen’ – has his days and years lengthened.” So because Chazal instituted that one who traveling davens a ‘tefillah ketzarah’ (Brachos 3a), we find that one who is traveling loses out on the segulah of arichus yamim that one who prolongs his tefillah is zocheh to – with ‘Echad’ and amen. There is even an allusion to this in Tehillim (102:24): “Inah baderech kochi kitzar yamai” – the way caused me to have shortened days.
Olamo Shel Abba p. 437
Yaakov Vowed to Make One Hundred Brachos
עשר לי תתן אשר וכל אלקים בית יהיה מצבה שמתי אשר הזאת והאבן” (לב כח) “לך אעשרנו
We can explain that the vow of Yaakov was to bless and thank for “all that You give me,” both Birchos Hanehenin and brachos of shevach and gratitude, until he would reach one hundred brachos a day. Because the words “עשר אעשרנו” can be explained as ten times ten – meaning one hundred.
Imrei Baruch [Rav Baruch Avraham Toledeano]
