Lesson date: 11/17/5858AA
Around 1979 Arnold Schwarzenegger made a movie named “The Villain,” also starring Kirk Douglas and Ann Margret. It was pretty silly and based on a Bugs Bunny or Roadrunner cartoon backdrop with real people. Anyway, Arnold’s character’s name in the movie was Handsome Stranger and Ann-Margret asked him how he got his name and he told her that his mother named him after his father, who was a handsome stranger. ((No, I don’t smoke anything so we’re not going there.)) It sounds funny (weird) and, even funny (ha-ha) but just suppose it is also applicable to one of the best known stories of Torah? What story is that, pray tell? Abram and Sarai, oops, and Hagar.
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