VAYYERA 

 

 

 

 

 

Genesis 18-22

He had been taken out beyond the world,
He had looked down on the heavens from above;
That a new life might blossom from the old
He had seen the customs of the earth dissolved.
Upon his own flesh he had carved the mark,
With his own hand completing G-d's design,

But now he felt G-d reaching for his heart,

That all his being might become a sign
Of G-d's reality beyond all generations.
He split the wood - and far down time the sea
Divided. Raised the knife - and desert rations
Rained from the future sky on a people freed
From Egypt's bondage. Sacrificed and spared.
Thus to all time, through Avraham, G-d appeared.