Think For Yourself

As an addendum to this post on the importance of chiddush...

Avraham says in this weeks parsha - Who is going to inherit me, all I have is דמשק אליעזר?! Chazal explain that דמשק is an acronym - דולה ומשקה מתורת רבו לאחרים, he draws out and feeds others his Rebbi's Torah. So if he has such a dedicated talmid then why is he complaining?? Let his faithful talmid inherit him?

The Tzadikim answer - All Eliezer did was "say over" his Rebbi's Torah's. Avraham didn't like that. He wanted a talmid who was original and wasn't just an "ibber zugger"....