“Avimelekh commanded all the people, saying: Anyone who touches this man or his wife will be put to death” (Genesis 26:11). “Isaac sowed in that land, and found in that year one hundredfold, and the Lord blessed him” (Genesis 26:12). “Isaac sowed in that land” – Rabbi Ḥelbo said: “In that land…in that year” – the land was harsh and the year was difficult; had it been favorable, all the more so. “And found in that year one hundredfold” – one hundred kor;16Kor is a measurement of volume which contains more than 200 liters. “one hundredfold” – one hundred times.17The yield was one hundred times the seeds that he sowed.
“One hundredfold” – it teaches that it produced one hundred times more than they had estimated for it. Is it not so that blessing does not rest upon an item that is weighed, measured, or counted? Why, then, did he measure it? It was due to the tithes.