The Eyes Have It: Looking at the Text
Oct 31, 2014 By Anne Lapidus Lerner | Commentary | Lekh Lekha
Matthias Stom’s “Sarah Leading Hagar to Abraham” (c. 1638)—brought to my attention by Mimi Kaplan, a student at the Albert A. List College of Jewish Studies of The Jewish Theological Seminary—is a proverbial picture worth a thousand words.
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A Lesson for Abraham
Oct 23, 2015 By Judith Hauptman | Commentary | Lekh Lekha
Lekh Lekha was the first parashah I ever learned. As kids in Hebrew school, we were not taught Bereishit or Noah, probably because of the theological questions they would raise. We began Bible study with Lekh Lekha. I am happy to return to it as an adult and try to understand its message anew.
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Taking the Journey with Abraham
Nov 7, 2008 By Arnold M. Eisen | Commentary | Lekh Lekha
Five short verses after he (and we) first encounter that Land on which the Jewish future will turn ever after, a famine sends Abraham down to the place where he (and we) spend the remainder of chapter 12 of Genesis, a foreign land where he gets embroiled in a complex interaction with the Pharaoh that foreshadows a great deal of the text and history to come.
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Claiming Our Ancestors: The Case of Terah
Oct 31, 2014 By Eliezer B. Diamond | Commentary | Lekh Lekha
For all of us, there is no going without leaving; and so it was for Abraham: “Go forth from your land, your birthplace, and the house of your father to the land that I shall show you” (Gen. 12:1) [emphasis added]. And when we leave places, we leave people as well. When Abraham departed for Canaan he left behind, among others, his father Terah. And it was always thus: “Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother” (2:24).
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Lekh Lekha
Jan 1, 1980
1 The Lord said to Abram, Go forth from your native land and from your father’s house to the land that I will show you.
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Lekh Lekha
Jan 1, 1980
27 Why do you say, O Jacob,
Why declare, O Israel,
“My way is hid from the Lord,
My cause is ignored by my God”?
