Abraham hosts three angels who announce that Sarah will bear a son within a year. The angels are sent to destroy Sodom for its wickedness, but Abraham bargains for the city. They save Lot's family but Lot's wife looks back and turns to salt. Sarah is taken by King Avimelech but returned. Sarah gives birth to Isaac as promised. At Isaac's circumcision, Abraham is commanded to sacrifice Isaac as a test of faith, but an angel stops him at the last moment. Sarah names Isaac "Yitzchak" which means "laughter" because she laughed at the idea of bearing a child in her old age.

1. Parshah Vaye’ra

2. Abraham has just
gone through a
circumcision at 99
years old.

3. G-d sends three angels dressed as men to Abraham and
Abraham excitedly runs to prepare a delicious meal for them.

4. Abraham takes in the angels
and gives them food and water.

5. One of the angels
announces that in
one year from
that time, Sarah
would have a son.
The other angels
are given a
mission from G-d.
They have to
destroy the city of
Sodom because it
is full of wicked
people who stole,
killed and did
lot’s of bad
things.

6. Abraham prays to G-d and
asks Him to save the city
but, alas, there are no
righteous people in whose
merit the city can be saved.
But the angels save Lot and
his family. Lot was
Abraham’s nephew. As the
angels lead them out of the
city they warn them not to
look back, but Lot’s wife
looks book and turns into a
pillar of salt

7. Abraham and
Sarah move to
Gerar where
Sarah is taken
captive by King
Avimelech, but
G-d reveals
Himself to this
king in a dream
and warns him
to free Sarah,
and he does.

8. A little while after this event, G-d remembers His promise to
Abraham and Sarah, and Sarah becomes pregnant and has a
child whom they name Yitzchak-Isaac as G-d told them to do.

9. Sarah becomes pregnant and has a child whom they name
Yitzchak-Isaac as G-d told them to do. When Isaac turns
eight days old they make a big party and circumcise him.

10. G-d sent Abraham
different tests. In
this parsha we
learn that G-d
sends Abraham the
tenth and most
difficult test of all:
He commands him
to bring his son
Isaac as a sacrifice!
Right before he
kills his son, an
angel stops
Abraham and he is
told that this was
only a test.

11. Question:
Why did G-D command Sarah to
name her son Yitzchak?

12. The answer is because when Sarah heard that she was
going to have a baby from the angel she laughed. She was
too old to have a baby. She was unable to give birth. She
named him Yitzchak because in Hebrew that comes from
the origin Tzachak which means “Laugh.”

13. Parsha Song
http://www.chabad.org/parshah/article_cdo/aid/573563/jewish/Parshah-Song.htm