Isaac Sowed Charity and Reaped a Hundredfold Blessing

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 111:11

"And Isaac sowed [in that land and found in that year a hundredfold]" (Genesis 26:12). He took all the tithe from his wealth and sowed [it as] charity for the poor, just as you say, "sow for yourselves according to charity" (Hosea 10:13). And for each and every thing that he tithed, the Holy One, blessed be He, gave him a hundred gates of blessings. "And Abimelech charged all the people, saying: he that touches [this man or his wife shall surely be put to death]" (Genesis 26:11). Rabbi Aibo said: [it was forbidden] that a man should not even throw a pebble at him.

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