Not Just A Tool

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“And he mobilized his disciples…” (14:14) After discovering that his nephew Lot had been taken captive, Avram mobilizes his disciples in an attempt to free his relative. The word the Torah uses for disciples is “chanichav{1}”. Rashi comments that “chinuch” – “education” stems from the word “lechanech” – “to inaugurate{2}”; education establishes patterns of behavior […]

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