Hospitality

Vayera | Genesis, Bereishit | 5771

Hospitality as the first Jewish value, through Abraham sitting at his tent door scanning for guests while recovering from circumcision. The Talmudic teaching that hospitality to guests is greater than receiving the Divine presence is presented as a profound expression of how caring for people's practical needs can supersede even spiritual experience.

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