Did you know that the entire world was created for Abraham’s sake? Well, that is what the Sages teach based upon an interesting spelling of a word in Genesis. We also consider a single dot that changed the world. And a great blessing is to be found in the way God changed Abram and Sarai’s names. Come and enjoy these seasonings of the parshah.
Genesis 2:4 These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that Adonai Elohim made the earth and the heavens.
בהבראם
באברהם (ba’Avraham) = “for Abraham”
Genesis 13:11 So Lot chose for himself all the Jordan Valley, and Lot journeyed east. Thus they separated from each other.
…מקדם ויפרדו אישׁ מעל אחיו:
שלום (shalom) = “peace”
Genesis 16:5 And Sarai said to Abram, “May the wrong done to me be on you! I gave my servant to your embrace, and when she saw that she had conceived, she looked on me with contempt. May Adonai judge between me and between you!”
וביניך (uveinecha)
Genesis 17:5 “No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham, for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.”
Genesis 17:15 And God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name. “
יהוה
אברם שרי
אברהם שרה
Numbers 13:16 These were the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua.
הושע
יהושע