Ilustration Credit: Elad Lifshitz, Dov Abramson Studio
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CONTENTS
- Midrash / מִדְרָשׁ
- Why does God choose Avram?
- What was making Avram scared?
- Avram is called an עִבְרִי (Ivri, Hebrew). What does that mean?
- What does it mean that Avram and Sarai followed God with "the people that they made in Haran?"
- Commentary / פַּרְשָׁנוּת
- What is Avraham asking when he says: “God, how will I know that I will possess it (Eretz Yisrael)?”
- Why did God want to convey the message that God listens?
- Halakhah / הֲלָכָה
- How does one respond when someone else says a blessing?
- Name changes
- How can we understand Avraham, Yitzhak, and Yaakov as the ancestors of all Jews?
- A Moment of Hebrew / רֶגַע שֶׁל עִבְרִית