How the Tears of the Angels Dimmed the Eyes of Isaac

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 114:2

Another interpretation of "from seeing" (Genesis 27:1): it was from the force of that seeing. At the hour when Abraham our father bound Isaac his son upon the altar, the ministering angels wept, as it is written, "Behold, their valiant ones cry out in the street" (Isaiah 33:7). And their tears dropped down into the eyes of Isaac and were imprinted within his eyes. And so, when he grew old, his eyes dimmed.

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