- A new world of transmission from אם לאם that is a parallel universe to the מסורה מאב לאב opens in this week’s parasha, because it is only here that שרה becomes an אם. It is through יצחק that she is an אם, through the עקידה that she becomes both wife and mother. We go from אבל שרה אשתך to קבר אברהם את שרה אשתו: he knows at last the difference and for the first time then can actually have הגר. This is the world of dormancy, indeterminacy: conception, the courage of reproduction without כיבוש, and the ויהי שם לגוי גדול is the delivery at last as the waters split for the appearance of Moshe through the ongoing commitment to conception within which a nation is conceived in both senses: מן המים משיתיהו of Moshe becomes קריעת ים סוף and the birth of crossing the ירדן and the סלע בתולה.
It is this biological motif, of finding solutions in the actual workings of the world, that is the deepest message of ברית מילה as a genesis/genetic issue, the reason that earth-ירושה-woman-חוסן-perversion-translation of חם into ישראל וארץ חם לארץ ישראל-רפאים עוג ואליעזר – Freudian motherhood-marriage – אבישג ודוד all interrelate in a vast tapestry that points to the only way to תיקון וגאולה: the achievements of biology in the development not only of complex brains, but the drives that force correction of the mechanical וכבשוה into a world of nature fully expressed, so that all the דרך השם becomes an outgrowth not of mechanical גבורה and a כובש יצרו – מוש"ל בכל which is עוג-אליעזר, but as a רות ובועז-דוד ואבישג that is the only path of allowing דעת to be מים לי"ם and to escape the פן ישלח ידו into a world of עץ החיים

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