Happy Hanukkah everybody.
Why didn't Abraham immediately share the good news of the birth with Sarah?
Is it possible that he was at that very moment busy feeding hungry angels?
It takes time to add details to a long birth announcement.
Hungry messengers=Hungry message..Genesis 18.6
This birth announcement includes history that would be veiled, cloaked in the mists
of time & not so obvious. And one needs to take time to listen to details or prepare the
meal (Torah), so to speak.
Not only were the messengers eating a nice meal but their message would be long
& involved, hence the eating and fattening process. The more you can successfully
connect the Torah's stories the bigger (fatter?) the message gets.
HaShem discusses two births with Abraham?
Sarah represents two kinds of wives to Abraham:
1. Sarah is the literal wife who gives birth to Isaac & represents the obvious birth.
2. Sarah also represents HaShem's Wisdom giving birth to a "multitude of nations."
Genesis 17.4
I'm assuming HaShem calls Israel a multitude because Joseph is married to Asenath,
daughter of Poti-pher priest of On. Their two sons, Manasseh & Ephraim are partly
Egyptian. This brings to mind G-d's promise to Hagar that her sons would also increase
in abundance. And, this is also a reference to HaShem's fattening process.
Increasing in abundance is said of the Creation process in Genesis.
Only it comes out as being fruitful and multiplying.
Exodus 4.22---- HaShem's "first-born" child & future KING is of the house of Israel.
"So said HASHEM, My firstborn son is Israel. So I say to you, (Pharoah) Send out My son that he may serve Me."
It is even more apparent in Genesis 15.13 that HaShem's main topic for Abraham
is about Israel being Abraham's descendants living in a land not their own. (Egypt)
Numbers 24.8 again shows us HaShem's "first-born son" in the last Day.
"It is G-d Who brought him out of Egypt according to the power of His loftiness. He will
consume the nations that oppress him & crush their bones, and his arrows shall pierce them." [Num. 24.8]
Torah's main theme is G-d's love for His people & His blessing & care for them
repeated a thousand times over from the various Torah stories.
Even Balaam, sitting on a donkey, saw that it was good in HaShem's eyes to bless Israel.....
mariaw