{"id":36908,"date":"2018-08-05T18:43:14","date_gmt":"2018-08-05T15:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=36908"},"modified":"2022-02-27T23:55:48","modified_gmt":"2022-02-27T21:55:48","slug":"who-is-remembered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/who-is-remembered\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Remembered?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[418,391,427],"acf":{"old_id":"36908","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":36661,"related_cahpter":"17","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Learning to question our assumptions, to notice who is being excluded","content":"<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Abraham threw himself on his face and laughed, as he said to himself, \u201cCan a child be born to a man a hundred years old, or can Sarah bear a child at ninety?\u201d And Abraham said to God, \u201cO that Ishmael might live by Your favor!\u201d <\/span><\/em><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(v. 17-18)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What a response! Abraham doesn\u2019t believe God! He rejects the possibility that he and Sarah could have a child, and makes a contingency plan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before we unpack Abraham\u2019s motivation, let\u2019s zoom out.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This text highlights two people who, for all the Torah talks about them, seem to be minor characters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Abraham responds here to the news of his and Sarah\u2019s future conception with disbelieving laughter, just as Sarah does later. However, it is <\/span><b>Sarah<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> who God derides, responding that nothing is \u201ctoo wondrous for God,\u201d whereas God completely ignores Abraham\u2019s comment here. Like so many women, Sarah is criticized for behavior that in men is rewarded or ignored.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ultimately, Sarah is remembered when their son Isaac is named for her laughter, not Abraham\u2019s. And when it is described, it is a laughter of gratitude and amazement: the opposite of how God initially read her response.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Ishmael<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, like Sarah, is also ignored. Through no apparent fault of his own, Ishmael is initially ignored in God\u2019s promise. What if Abraham\u2019s dismissal of God\u2019s promise was not out of disbelief, but out of support for his discarded son? If so, then Abraham lives up to his reputation as the parent of many nations, intervening with God on behalf of his forgotten son. He reminds us all to look beyond ourselves, to see value even in those we may have dismissed as being too different, or not a part of our group.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Like Sarah, Ishmael is also remembered. God promised to protect him and make him prosper. 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