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Just out of surgery, Abraham sits at the entrance to his tent. \u00a0Like any sick person, he feels not just the physical hurt, but the existential anxiety of being off schedule– there is work to be done, and here he is, sitting around, healing. And then God appears: a visitor. <\/span><\/p>\n

In Sotah 14b, Rabbi Hama b. Rabbi Hanina ponders what the verse means when it commands us to walk in the ways of God, and concludes that it means to emulate God\u2019s attributes. As an example, Rabbi Hama points to our chapter and recommends: God visited the sick, so too we should visit the sick.<\/span><\/p>\n

God appeared to Abraham in this chapter to give neither commandment nor covenant, but comfort. \u00a0And, as far as we know, no words were exchanged. God appeared, and then there were others guests to attend to\u2014and that\u2019s the end of the visit as the Torah tells it.<\/span><\/p>\n

This does not seem like a particularly dignified visit. Abraham left the presence of God to go speak to some other, flesh and blood visitors?<\/span><\/p>\n

And yet\u2014this is what it means to visit the sick. To show up in the worst of times and, sometimes, to leave quickly, at the convenience of the visited, even if the visitor feels unfulfilled. It helps as a visitor to remember that this is the way of God. Show up for the other; leave your own needs at the door. 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