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PUTING THE SPOTLIGHT ON IMPORTANT JEWISH INFORMATION
Wednesday, November 8, 2017
OU TORAH The Space Between Us By Britain's Former Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
The stories told in Bereishit chapters 21 and 22 – the sending away of Ishmael and the binding of Isaac – are among the hardest to understand in the whole of Tanakh. Both involve actions that strike us as almost unbearably harsh. But the difficulties they present go deeper even than that. Recall that Abraham was chosen “so that he would instruct his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just.” He was chosen to be a father. The first two letters of his name, Av, mean just that. Avram means “a mighty father.” Avraham, says the Torah, means “a father of many nations.”
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