Parsha Vayera

This week Torah portion is an action-packed affair. G#d appears to Abraham in the form of three men. Abraham seems to serve them one of the most traif meals imaginable and we get history's earliest recorded punch line. The ugly side of gay love rears... its head... in Sodom. Lot's daughters make sure the family comes first. A part of the parsha we didn't take on is another episode in Abraham's successful career as a pimp. Some years later he prepares to sacrifice Isaac whence many believe Christianity got the idea of sacrificing one's beloved son. Of course if old JC were here today, observant Jew that he was, he would join us in wishing you - SHABBAT SHALOM! - a & s