Vayeira

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Vayeira

Three times in parshas Lech Lecha,

Avraham builds a mizbeach,

But he never denotes,

A sheep or a goat,

To bring near as a re’ach nicho’ach.

Why didn’t he offer up something before,

I wonder just what he was thinking,

But finally he’s shocked,

To learn that Yitzchok,

Is the korban he is to be bringing.

Still hidden from him is what G-d really wants,

Though he acts just as he was directed,

Despite bris mila’s seal,

Something’s still not revealed,

Avraham is as yet unperfected.

No sacrifice may have been suitable yet,

Until all of his klipos were gone,

Till the future he’d dreamed,

Went to dust, so it seemed,

Yet his faith in HaShem lingered on.