What a great story! Imagine sitting around the fire hearing this story year after year . That's what I kept thinking with this parhsa- the perfection of the living oral tradition.
This story begins with the story of Abraham's Isaac and the birth of the twins Jacob and Esau.
There are so many parallels in this story from the brothers of cain and able, the re-negotiations of wells (which is a whole other deep discussion in itself ;) the passing off as wife as sister and the bareness of the Jewish matriarchs -oy!
And again the Creator's relationship and revelatory response to women is strikingly different then to his menfolk. There is so much emotion and twists in this story it would have been one of my favorites to hear over and over again round the fire with my tribe!
Oh and then where does Esau go at the end of the story - to see his Uncle Ishmael ( and marries his first cousin)- leading me (and others ) to believe that perhaps Hagar and Ishmael were not so estranged from their husband and father Abraham .
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