עֲשָׂרָה נִסְיוֹנוֹת נִתְנַסָּה אַבְרָהָם אָבִינוּ עָלָיו הַשָּׁלוֹם וְעָמַד בְּכֻלָּם, לְהוֹדִיעַ כַּמָּה חִבָּתוֹ שֶׁל אַבְרָהָם אָבִינוּ עָלָיו הַשָּׁלוֹם:
Abramo, nostro padre, fu sottoposto a dieci processi: [uno —Ur Kasdim, dove Nimrod lo gettò nella fornace ardente; Due—"Vai dalla tua terra"; tre—"E c'era una fame"; quattro—"E la donna fu portata a casa del faraone"; cinque—la guerra dei re; sei—l'alleanza tra i pezzi, dove gli fu mostrato il soggiogamento (di Israele) da parte delle nazioni; Sette—circoncisione; otto—"E Avimelech mandò e prese Sarah"; nove—"Scaccia questa serva e suo figlio"; dieci— il legame di Isacco], e ha resistito a tutti loro, per apprendere (gli uomini) del grande amore di nostro padre Abramo, che la pace sia su di lui.
Me'or Einayim
However, each and every person must come into trial – even if he receives God’s Godliness into his thoughts as we have explained above – nevertheless each person is tested with ten trials, as they said about Abraham, “Abraham was tested with ten trials and withstood them all” (Mishnah, Avot 5:3). And the trial is that they strip him of the Connection with which he was connected to Blessed God through Awareness. At the moment when he comes into the trial, only Free Will remains with him; for without this it would not be called a trial. For certainly through the Connection the tzaddik holds his path (Job 17:9), and in this way his Awareness is diminished – though not completely removed – and if he withstands the trial, it is because it was already fixed in his heart from before when he had expansive Awareness.
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