Bakol: Avraham’s Secret to Being Content with What Hashem Gives

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This Torah class is brought to you by TorahAnytime.com. How does one work on the kol ma d'avid Rachmana l'tav avid? You need to be positive and not negative. You need to be content and not constantly complaining, negative, you're missing something, it's not good. It's very important. Positive, positive, positive outlook. Everything is good. I need, I need—no, I have what I need. I'd like to tell you a middah, kol, kol, kol ma d'avid Rachmana l'tav avid. What is kol? Kol ma d'avid Rachmana, kol. So pashut means everything, but there's a little secret to the word kol. You know, VaShem beirach es Avraham bakol. In this week's parsha, before he sends Eliezer, the pasuk says, Hashem beirach Avraham bakol. Notice the word bakol, with everything. Rashi says, bakol, according to one man d'amar, according to one opinion in Chazal, bas hayah lo l'Avraham u'shmah Bakol. He had a daughter, and the daughter's name was Bakol. I looked in the book of names—you know, there's a book of all—nobody was called Bakol. I heard of Kayla. I never heard of Bakol. Why would somebody call his daughter Bakol? I have everything. So I call her everything. I make a good business deal, so I call her deal. I bought a house, I'll call her bayis. Why would you call a daughter Bakol? What is the meaning, and why the name Bakol? I've always said the pshat based on something I heard from my rebbe, Rav Pam, zicher tzaddik livracha. Rav Pam once told me, we know that Leah calls Yehuda, Yehuda, praise, hapaam odeh es Hashem, because now I can praise Hashem. Chazal say that Leah was the first to praise Hashem. First? Really? Is that true? The avos, they never praised Hashem? Is it true that Leah was the first to praise HaKadosh Baruch Hu? Said the Rebbe zatzal, Rav Pam, the first to name a child, Hoda laHashem, praise to Hashem. Of course the avos praise, but to take a child and give him that name in order that whenever—there's the reason to do it—so whenever she calls him Yehuda, she's saying, I praise Hashem. And that was a chiddush, something new, that Leah was the first to do that. So I wanted to say, could be that the Bakol is the same concept on the kol ma d'Avraham Avinu l'tovah, which means he took a child, he had a boy, Yitzchak, and then he got a girl. He had everything he needed. A person thinks he needs a house, and he needs to take trips, and he needs... And he needs a car, and he needs... Now, a home with the children, bakol. You have everything you need. Avram saw the bracha. I have Ben ubas, az mekayem peru urvu, I have a home. And therefore he named the daughter Bakol, Ichabatz. In English, this expression, she means everything to me. She meant everything to Avram, because it was bracha me'eis Hashem. He had everything he needed. You've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by TorahAnytime.com.