{"id":2901,"date":"2025-11-09T07:19:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T14:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2901"},"modified":"2025-11-09T07:19:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T14:19:02","slug":"torah-teaching-for-parsha-vayera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2901","title":{"rendered":"Torah Teaching for Parsha \u201cVayera\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Join Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship for a two-part look at parsha &#8220;Vayera,&#8221; Genesis chapters 18 through 22) and the central part of the story of the first Patriarch, Abraham, from his storied &#8216;dickering&#8217; with YHVH Himself concerning the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, to the &#8216;binding of Isaac,&#8217; known as &#8216;the Akieda,&#8217; that prefigures another parallel act on that very same spot, many centuries later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is perhaps THE &#8220;Biblical-level&#8221; Act of Faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First, the Erev Shabbat reading:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/SSM-11-7-25-Vayera-teaching-podcast-xxx.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Sabbath Day Midrash is about not only that &#8220;Act of Faith,&#8221; but what it says to BOTH of those two houses, still in exile, who each believe the story prophecies the Messiah Himself, but can&#8217;t seem to recognize His character in the process!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;Vayera: &#8216;Your son, your only son\u2026Who?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/WT-CooH-11-8-25-Vayera-Your-son-your-only-Son-podcast-xxx.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The combined two-part reading and Sabbath <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/mark-call-torah-teaching-for-parsha-vayera\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/mark-call-torah-teaching-for-parsha-vayera\/\" target=\"_blank\">midrash<\/a><\/strong>, via Hebrew Nation Radio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa&#8217;s 2025-26 Torah cycle teachings for parsha &#8220;Yayera&#8221; (Genesis chapters 18 through 22) and related Scripture, from Luke chapter 24, to II Peter 2.  <a href=\"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2901\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,1742,11,1865,1698,12],"tags":[476,88,1475,2205,104,149,212,318,101,2206],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2901"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2902,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2901\/revisions\/2902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}