ARTICLES BY DAVID WILBER
Why Did Abraham Make the Same Mistake Twice? (Parashat Vayera)
Abraham is celebrated throughout Scripture as a great man of faith, but he wasn't immune to making the same mistakes more than once. In this week's Torah portion, Vayera, we find Abraham repeating a deceptive scheme that had already made things awkward for him years earlier. Why did he make the same mistake twice? And what can his example teach us about our own tendency to fall back into old patterns of sinful behavior?
Want to Hear God’s Voice? (Parashat Lech Lecha)
Have you ever wished God would speak to you the way he spoke to Abraham? Imagine how much easier life would be if God simply told you what to do and where to go. But while Abraham experienced some incredible encounters with God, those encounters were much less frequent than we might imagine. The good news is that we have something Abraham didn’t have: the written Word of God.