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The biblical account of ancient rivalries has been crammed by author Herman Melville into those three short opening words of ...

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.

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.

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 ...