1 Vayera (Genesis 18, 1 – 22, 24) – the story of Sodom and Gomorrah
The Talmudic rabbis compared Abraham as the spiritual father of the Jewish people with Noah. I want to cite two such rabbinic sources that are sensitive to the humanistic ideal…
2 Lech Lecha (Genesis 12, 1 – 17, 27) – the phrase lech lecha and parallel to the story of the binding of Isaac
The Torah reading of Lech Lecha begins (Genesis 12, 1) with God telling Abraham to go (lech lecha) from his country, from his homeland, and from the house of his…