Vayera 5782 - Lot's Ambivalence and the Importance of Knowing Ourselves

The Torah does not have a word for ambivalence. It does, however, have a TUNE, or really, a MUSICAL NOTE for it. It is called the Shalsheles. The shalsheles appears only 4 times in the entire torah and explains Rav Yosef Ibn Kaspi that each time it is used, it reflects an existential crisis within the individual it is referencing.   When Eliezer goes out on his mission to find a wife for Yitzchak, he turns to HKBH to ask for help in devising a plan with which to find this woman, and when he does…