Weekly Reading – וַיֵּרָא – Vayera – And He Appeared; Genesis 18:1 – 22:24; 2 Kings 4:1 – 37

There are times in life when we seem to just sit there, exhausted, overwhelmed, staring into space. Times when the heat of daily life weighs on us like the scorching sun in the desert. Yet it is precisely there, in the stillness, that a window can open—a moment when we suddenly see more clearly. A moment that invites us to look inward and hear what we otherwise drown out in the noise.

There are moments when a person, like Abraham, sits at the entrance of his tent, enveloped by the heat of the day. Sometimes such moments become a gateway to clarity and a new inward gaze. My husband Aviel has told me about this; he knows it from his own experience, having often sat with Bedouins in the Negev Desert, especially in the evening hours when the wind blows. A moment for new insights. That is exactly what happened to Abraham as he rested in front of his tent. And there, “The Eternal appeared...

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