{"id":1678,"date":"2020-11-03T12:18:02","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T20:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2020\/11\/03\/the-5-books-meander-week-3-lekh-lekha\/"},"modified":"2020-11-03T12:18:02","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T20:18:02","slug":"the-5-books-meander-week-3-lekh-lekha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2020\/11\/03\/the-5-books-meander-week-3-lekh-lekha\/","title":{"rendered":"The 5 Books Meander, Week 3 (Lekh-Lekha)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In brief:<\/strong><br \/>\nFar from the simple shepherd I&#8217;ve always pictured, So-called Abram turns out to be complex &#8212; a wealthy man, a traveller, a warrior, a slaveowner. Also Lots&#8217; uncle. And a bit quick to say his wife is his sister. <\/p>\n<p>Moses gets foreshadowed. Hagar gets set up, but then she and Ishmael and their descendants are blessed. <\/p>\n<p>Abraham and Sarah are given new names, and that&#8217;s not the most dramatic change in the household, as the men experience an exceptionally memorable afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A few thoughts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The way Abram as slave owner is casually discussed unnerved me. There&#8217;s no moral layer to it. Just an accepted fact, that humans owned other humans.<\/li>\n<li>On the other hand, the importance of having offspring as plentiful as sand and stars was sort of primal and joyous. Multiplying ourselves as prime directive. And there&#8217;s the redeeming notion that your reward might be paid to future generations. A positive flip on the idea of punishing people for the sins of their ancestors.<\/li>\n<li>Gen 15.1: &#8220;Fear not, Abram, I am a shield to you.&#8221; Just beautiful.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>If you&#8217;d like to join in&#8230;<\/b> this is the place for comments and commentary on <em>Lekh-Lekha<\/em> (Gen 12.1 &#8211; 17.27)<br \/>\n<strong>Next up:<\/strong> <em>Va-Yera&#8217;<\/em> (Gen 18.1 &#8211; 22.24)<br \/>\n-Cecil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In brief: Far from the simple shepherd I&#8217;ve always pictured, So-called Abram turns out to be complex &#8212; a wealthy man, a traveller, a warrior, a slaveowner. Also Lots&#8217; uncle. And a bit quick to say his wife is his sister. Moses gets foreshadowed. Hagar gets set up, but then she and Ishmael and their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meander"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}