{"id":3033,"date":"2026-11-01T07:22:31","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T14:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=3033"},"modified":"2026-11-01T07:24:39","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T14:24:39","slug":"mark-call-torah-teaching-vayeira-genesis-chapters-18-thru-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=3033","title":{"rendered":"Mark Call \u2013 Torah Teaching \u2013 \u201cVayeira&#8221; (Genesis chapters 18 thru 22)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Join Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship for an exploration of one of the most fundamental &#8212; and certainly more than relevant today! &#8212; Torah portions in all of Genesis:<br>Vayeira, &#8220;and He appeared&#8221; to Abraham, Genesis chapters 18 through 22, which includes not only the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, and the famous &#8216;dickering&#8217; that preceded it, but the story of the &#8216;binding of Isaac,&#8217; and perhaps the most undeniable foreshadowing of the Messiah in the Bible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First, the Erev Shabbat reading of the whole parsha:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/SSM-10-23-26-Vayeira-teaching-podcast-xxx.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Most people who have even begun to study the Scripture &#8220;from the Beginning&#8221; via Torah are familiar with the Akeida, or &#8220;Binding of Isaac,&#8221; and the fact that the connections to the story of the Messiah Yahushua, and YHVH &#8220;will provide Himself a lamb&#8221; are simply undeniable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But there are some other parallels in this story that, especially today, should be as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fact that they may not be, at least to most of those who SHOULD take note is why the story is so poignant. And no doubt why it repeats, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Sabbath day midrash only begins with some of those parallels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;Vayeira: Yes, Sodom was a warning, but now? &#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/WT-CooH-10-24-26-Vayeira-SodoAmeriKa-podcast-xxx.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Service information:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship worship services and teachings are broadcast live every Sabbath, via Paltalk. (www.paltalk.com has both the link, and the app.) The &#8220;room name&#8221; is &#8220;Walking Torah with Shabbat Shalom Mesa,&#8221; and can be found via the paltalk search, then bookmarked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Erev Shabbat services begin at 7:00 PM Mountain Time Friday evenings (9 PM Eastern, 8 PM Central)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Live Sabbath teachings begin shortly after 11 AM Mountain time on Sabbath day (Saturday).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>email: mark@markniwot.com<\/p>\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-vayeira-genesis-chapters-18-thru-22\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/mark-call-torah-teaching-vayeira-genesis-chapters-18-thru-22\/\" target=\"_blank\">midrash<\/a><\/strong>, via Hebrew Nation Radio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa&#8217;s 2026-27 Torah cycle teachings for parsha &#8220;Vayeira&#8221; (Genesis chapters 18 through 22) <a href=\"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=3033\">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":[5,35,11,1865,29,12],"tags":[475,2445,46,28,88,1330,2443,1997,104,722,212,1329,318,101,2444],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033"}],"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=3033"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3036,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033\/revisions\/3036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}