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Isaac was not the weakest link. Abraham the founder had many potential successors. There was his first-born son Ishmael, by Sarah’s maidservant Hagar. After Sara’s death Abraham fathered six ...

She told Abraham to have a child with her servant Hagar. Hagar and Abraham had a son called Ishmael. This was not what God had promised and later Sarah and Abraham had their own son called Isaac.

His list included the test of Abraham being told by God to send his wife Hagar and son Ishmael into the wilderness. We are living in a precarious time, with Israel still at war more than 400 days ...

One could say that it looks like Abraham is orchestrating the initially intended family (keeping in mind that the intention was that Ishmael would be Sarah’s son through Hagar’s surrogacy ...

Hagar and Ishmael in the desert by George Hitchcock, 1850-1913 (Wikimedia Commons) This week’s parashah ends with the epic and troubling story of the Akedah, the binding of Isaac.