{"id":2438,"date":"2015-10-22T08:53:09","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T08:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/?p=2438"},"modified":"2015-10-22T08:53:09","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T08:53:09","slug":"2325-november-parsha-lech-lecha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/services\/this-shabbat\/2325-november-parsha-lech-lecha\/","title":{"rendered":"23\/25 November: Parsha Lech Lecha"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><em>Shabbat comes in at 5.36pm, goes out at 6.37pm<\/em><\/div>\n<div>_________________________________________________________________________<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Islam points to Ishmael as its spiritual ancestor, just as Judaism points to Yitzhak and Ya\u2019akov, as the heirs of God\u2019s covenant with Avraham. The Koran and the Torah share a story\u00a0about the binding and near sacrifice of one of Avraham\u2019s sons; in the Islamic story, that son is Ishmael, and in the Judeo-Christian story, it is Yitzhak.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Yet even in the Torah, both sons share a near-death experience, and both are delivered by Divine intervention. A ram replaces Yitzhak on the altar, and Ishmael, exiled from Avraham\u2019s household with his mother Hagar, nearly dies of thirst before God\u2019s angel once again appears to Hagar, showing her a lifesaving spring of water.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Both are in &#8220;God\u2019s favour&#8221;. God is with Ishmael as he grows up, but we don\u2019t have any account of what God might have said to Ishmael during those years when \u201cGod was with the boy\u201d (Gen. 21:20). Who knows how God might have described or thought of their relationship ?\u00a0 We only know that God makes the same promise in substance to both Avraham and Ishmael \u2013 to make of them a goy gadol, \u201ca great nation\u201d. In ancient Hebrew, \u201cgreat\u201d means numerous. My modern mind also wonders if our nations will achieve \u201cgreatness,\u201d as in excellence.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Shabbat Shalom,<\/div>\n<div>Rabbi Paul Arberman<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shabbat comes in at 5.36pm, goes out at 6.37pm _________________________________________________________________________ Islam points to Ishmael as its spiritual ancestor, just as Judaism points to Yitzhak and Ya\u2019akov, as the heirs of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-shabbat"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2438"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2440,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438\/revisions\/2440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}