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Lech Lecha: Trading Your Wife for Your Life

In this week’s parsha podcast, Neima Novetsky discusses parshat Lech Lecha and looks into the issues that arise when we read stories which seem to portray our ancestors in a less than positive light. The opening chapter of Parshat Lech Lecha is a case in point. In Egypt, Avraham knowingly endangers Sarah’s honor so as to save himself.  How are we to understand his decision?

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Credits
Larry Kluger – Creative Consultant
Arlene Harel – Production Coordinator

Neima Novetsky

Neima Novetsky is a Tanakh educator and co-founder of AlHaTorah.org, an online resource dedicated to Jewish textual study. She holds a BA in Religion from Princeton University and an MA in Bible from Yeshiva University’s Bernard Revel Graduate School. She has taught at numerous Jewish educational institutions in Jerusalem and the United States, including Midreshet Moriah, Nishmat, and Matan, emphasizing critical thinking, textual analysis, and a lifelong love of Torah learning.