Yet another detour from Shemoneh Esrei, this time because the thought is from Rashi on this week’s parashah.

This thought from Anne Frank Hy”d is very inspiring. However, Rashi on Bereishis 25:5 (parashas Chayei Sarah) quotes a medrash that goes one step further:

וַיִּתֵּ֧ן אַבְרָהָ֛ם אֶת־כׇּל־אֲשֶׁר־ל֖וֹ לְיִצְחָֽק׃

And Avraham gave all that he had to Yitzchaq.
– Bereishis 25:5

אָמַר רַ’ נְחֶמְיָה בְּרָכָה דִּיאַתִּיקֵי, שֶׁאָמַר לוֹ הַקָּבָּ”ה לְאַבְרָהָם “וֶהְיֵה בְּרָכָה”, הַבְּרָכוֹת מְסוּרוֹת בְּיָדְךָ לְבָרֵךְ אֶת מִי שֶׁתִּרְצֶה, וְאַבְרָהָם מְסָרָן לְיִצְחָק:

Rav Nevhemiah said: He gave him berakhah as a legacy. HQBH had said to Avraham (12:2) “You will be a blessing” which means “the blessing are entrusted to you that you may bless whomsoever you please”, and Abraham transferred them to Isaac.
–  Rashi, quoting Bereishis Raba 61:6

Ben Zoma famously said “אֵיזֶהוּ עָשִׁיר? הַשָּׂמֵחַ בְּחֶלְקוֹ – Who is wealthy? One who is happy with what they have.”

But this pasuq goes beyond that; it doesn’t speak of osher, of wealth, but of kol — Everything.

And we refer to this kol in Birkhas haMazon:

הָרַחֲמָן הוּא יְבָרֵךְ … כְּמוֹ שֶׁנִּתְבָּרְ֒כוּ אֲבוֹתֵֽינוּ, אַבְרָהָם יִצְחָק וְיַעֲקֹב: בַּכֹּל, מִכֹּל, כֹּל, כֵּן יְבָרֵךְ אוֹתָֽנוּ כֻּלָּֽנוּ יַֽחַד, בִּבְרָכָה שְׁלֵמָה, וְנֹאמַר אָמֵן!

May the Merciful One bless… just as our forefathers were blessed— Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob— “With Everything,” “From Everything,” and “Having Everything”; so may He bless us, all of us together, with a perfect blessing and let us say Amein!

A wealthy person is one who realized they have enough, exactly what Hashem deems they need to accomplish what they’re supposed to in life.

But Avraham’s kol is described as the power to bestow barakhos.

We ask in Birkhas Hasmazon to be blessed like they were: To have Everything, which is to be in a position where one can give to others.