The Torah never presents our great men as being perfect, it deifies no man, says of none “here you have the ideal, in this man the Divine became human.” -Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch (1800-1888)
Our parsha introduces us to two of our great forebears: Avraham and Sarah. We term these characters Avot (patriarchs) and Imahot (matriarchs). They are exemplars in many ways – in their faith, their adherence to God, their hospitality, their moral sense. And after Avraham and Sarah, we shall meet many other Biblical figures, who stand as towering icons, heroes of the Jewish consciousness: the other Avot and Imahot, Joseph and Judah, Miriam, Moses and Aharon and so forth.
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