Monday, February 20, 2012
Egypt and Avimelech
Reading through the Pasukim and my notes I started thinking about the stories of Avraham and Sarah when they go to different cities and Avraham tells Sarah to tell them that she is her sister, this happened twice. In Egypt they went and Sarah was taken after telling them that she was the sister of Avraham and it was over that was the end of the story. When they get to Gerar Avraham tells Sarah again to tell them that she is his sister and she did exactly that, but this time was completely different. This time Hashem came to Avimelech in a dream and told him that he will die because he took a married woman, and Avimelech became mad at Avraham for lying and he gave back Sarah and gave Avraham gifts and servants. So this is what is confusing to me. If this story has already happened and everything was completely smooth with it nothing wrong and nothing happened to Avraham my question is why now? What is different this time that the person had found out that he was lying? If this is a test why this time and not the time before? If you know the answers to these questions please answer.
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Maybe it was to try to teach Avimelech a lesson, or test him. It says before and after this happened that Avimelech and his people lacked morals. Perhaps it was a test to see what would happen in the end. Avimelech had the capability to do a number of different things, and his action reflected his people and their morals. This might be a good reminder to everyone that how you act shows people around you not just how you and your family and maybe people in your city/state/ country act, but also Jews in general.
ReplyDeleteOr, on the flipside of what Emma said, maybe it was a mistake that Avraham made. We said that maybe Avraham shouldn't have had so little faith in the ethics of Avimelech. We just said he had been around people without any ethics for so long that he had sort of lost his faith in mankind. This would have been a reminder to Avraham to due other people favorably even while being cautious. He should ascertain the way things are before just assuming that people or always immoral.
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