Venue: OU-JLIC at Queens College OU-JLIC at Queens College

Machshava:

Avraham,  Kabbalah 

Parsha:

Lech Lecha,  Vayeira 

Collections: R' Charnoff Bereishit 2017

Description

Now that we discussed the first 5 questions we had in the beginning of lech lecha, we are still left with the question of why Yishmael was born before Yitzchak if he wasn't the son to inherit the land and continue the rest of Jewish history anyway. We explore this question with looking in kaballah- the concept of the 7 sefirot or middot that Hashem utilizes and guides the world with. We discover that Avraham embodies chessed- one of these middot- and how this all connects to the original question of why Yishmael came before Yitzchak. (Part of HaMidrasha at QC, OU-JLIC's Torah learning program for women at Queens College.)