Eshel Across America
Eshel Across America
Why Parshat Vayera? On Shabbat Vayera, we read in the Torah “ planted an eshel at Beer-sheba, and invoked there the name of Hashem, the Everlasting/Universal God.” (Genesis 21:33) וַיִּטַּע אֶשֶׁל בִּבְאֵר שָׁבַע וַיִּקְרָא־שָׁם בְּשֵׁם יְהֹוָה אֵל עוֹלָם׃What is an eshel? The Talmud identifies the eshel as a tamarisk tree, a flowering tree that provides […]