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In parshat Vayera:

  • 3 Angels visit Avraham and tell him that Sarah will give birth to a son in a year
  • 2 of those angels continue on to Sodom to rescue Lot
  • Avraham argues with God to save Sodom if a sufficient number of righteous people can be found
  • Lot and his daughters are saved, but Lot's wife looks back on the destruction and is turned into a pillar of salt.
  • Lot's daughters get him drunk and become preganant by him, giving birth to the nations of Ammon and Moab.
  • Abimelech, king of Gerar, abducts Sarah, and God appears to him to warn him not to try to marry her.
  • Yitzhak is born.
  • Sarah sends Hagar and Yishmael away.
  • The binding of Yitzhak.
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