3. Vayeira- The Prophet's Wife -Understanding A Timeless Story Of The Prophets

The Prophet's Wife ~Understanding a timeless story of the prophets. This week's Haftorah starts with a story of a widow and her two sons who were suffering from extreme poverty, and the collector was threatening to take her two sons as slaves for payment. The woman cries out to Elisha the Prophet, who performs a miracle, filling all the empty containers in her house with oil, for her to sell and be able to live with her sons in abundance. A story in the Torah, read every year by Jews throughout the generations, has a timeless lesson for all who read it. Otherwise, why would the story have been documented in the eternal and timeless Torah?! Thus, who is this woman to you? Who are her two sons to you? How about her jug of oil, collector, empty containers, and Elisha the Prophet? Finally, how is this story of the Haftorah connected to the story of Abraham in the Torah-portion of this week? How is this relationship between the Torah-portion and its Haftorah a timeless lesson to us? All this and more are discussed in this lecture.