THINK Haye Sara: Relationships Ruptured & Repaired
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This is a shiur about parents' love for children, and children's love for parents - and about how relationships seemingly broken can be fixed over time.
At the beginning of Haye Sara, Avraham must think that even though he is 137 he has almost nothing to show for it. He has lost his life's partner Sara, one son is estranged and banished, the other is 40 and single and not seemingly able to settle down.
By the end of the parsha however the many relationships within the family have been restored or repaired in deeply surprising ways. The shiur traces a broad midrashic counter-narrative that connects multiple data points within the parsha (primarily that of where Yitzchak is living) to open up the broader family dynamics at this stage of Bereishit. To our surprise characters who we thought had left the story make a dramatic return.
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L'ilui nishmat Itay Chen, Hadar Goldin and Sivan Tzimmerman and for a refuah sheleima for Gershon Hayim ben Tova Tsofia
THINK is generously sponsored by Dr Alan Wecker and family in loving memory of his dear uncle and aunt, Yechiel and Chaya Kleinman z"l
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