Avraham Edery

Parallels In The Torah Avraham Edery

"Parallels in the Torah" is an original and fascinating book that clearly reveals that apparently unconnected episodes in the Torah are actually inherently connected in a meaningful way. Below is a brief example:

WHAT'S THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE AKEIDAH YITZHAK AND MATAN TORAH (Giving of the Torah) EPISODES?

Did you know that these two episodes share over twenty significant matches including words and actions in the same chronological order? It is almost impossible that this is by chance, but rather the reality is that these two apparently unconnected episodes are inherently and meaningfully connected! Below are explained just two parallels/matches out of a total of twenty-two that are laid out in this book in chapter 9.

Two Parallels/Matches:



12) Both episodes describe a very similar pattern of how Avraham and Moshe and associated persons approached the mountains to perform the Akedah/receive the Torah:

That is, both episodes started with one group of persons which then broke into several groups with one group staying at a distance from the mountain and another group (or person) then going up the mountain- with the person that will go up the mountain giving orders to the others to wait for them there, that they will return to them. You will note the very similar Hebrew matching language in bold as well as matching actions by reviewing parallels #12, #13 below.

a) The Akeidah episode:

"On the third day Avraham raised his eyes and he saw the place from afar (). And Avraham said to his young men " - (wait here by yourselves) with the donkey while I and the lad will go up to here, we will worship, we will return to you ( .)"

b) The Matan Torah episode:

When Moshe went up Mount Sinai to get the "tablets of stone and the Torah" (Shemot 24-12):

"Moshe arose, and Joshua his servant; and Moshe ascended to the Mountain of G-d. And to the elders he said, wait for us here until we return to you ( - , - ). Behold Aaron and Hur are here with you..." (Shemot 24 -13).

13) In addition, the same word (from a distance) is used with respect to approaching the mountains - whereby the persons with Avraham and Moshe both wait at that distance () until Avraham and Moshe return to them.

a) The Akeidah Yitzhak episode reads: "On the third day Avraham raised his eyes and he saw the place from a distance ( )." That is where they were asked to wait.

b) In (Shemot 20-18) we see (just like in the Akeidah episode) that the people stood at a distance () while Moshe went up the mountain himself as per: "the people stood from a distance ( ) - and he approached the fog where G-d was." They waited for him there.

This is just like in the Akeidah episode where Avraham's servants stayed at the bottom of the mountain waiting when Avraham went up with Isaac.

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The Mabul (flood) and the Yam Suf

Cain and Korach - A Tikkun

Avraham and Rivka - Say Little But Do Much

Sodom and Yehuda - Killing the Good With The Innocent

The Akeidah Yitzhak and Hagar

Yaacov and Moshe - Oppression to Liberty

Deception, Rachel and the Beau