It's the third week of class and already I have fallen behind in my blog posting. In fact, I am typing as I sit and listen to the fourth class.
The parsha we discussed was VaYera. Bereshit (Bereshit) 18:1 - 22:24. The Three Strangers but it is what i have come to think of more fondly as "laughing all the way to the ..."
For the first time I am reading the books of the Torah, week by week - portion by portion - for the first time in my life. What I am learning, which I am sure everyone who has ever done this is Dang- there is so much involved in each week.
When Abraham learned from The great mystery of his first wife Sarah's upcoming pregnancy at nearly one hundred years of age he laughed. Upon hearing the creators plan for him he laughed. Sarah hearing the same prophecy from the three messengers also laughs. Could there be a better name for their first and only son then Isaac - He ( the Lord) Laughs !
A few weeks ago, I heard a piece on NPR about fishing bards in New Orleans who are on the verge of extinction. Their songs mostly served to bring humor to their hard lives and it re-iteratied the idea of how humor has helped countless cultures survive the direst of circumstances.
It comes then really as no surprise that from the very beginning- the ancestors of the ancestors- we were laughing - even with God,.
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