Believing is seeing: seeing G-d’s presence in the world, in sickness and in health, (the opening verses of Vayera), in the good and the bad, (the destruction of Sodom), and even when G-d seems to place an impossible task before us, (the binding of Yitzchak). Avraham’s open-eyed faith in G-d led him to Mount Moriah, the place of the future Holy Temple, the place Avraham named “‘HaShem will see,’ as it is said to this day: On the mountain, ‘HaShem will be seen.'” (Genesis 22:14)
Lech Lecha (Genesis 18:1 – 22:24)
Parashat Vayera is read on Shabbat:
MarCheshvan 18, 5776/October 31, 2015
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