Vayeira: Hidden

How do we deal with the revealed?   Avraham sees the angels in the wilderness and he offers them his finest.  Avraham becomes the models for hospitality; he makes hospitality a value for all his descendants. 

The angels reveal to Avraham that Sarah will bear him a son.   The parsha ends with Avraham taking that  one and onlt  (yechidicha) son to be a burnt offering.  Along the way, Avraham answers Yitzchok: Gd will show (yireh)  the lamb for sacrifice.  Ultimately this deflection becomes a prophecy and Avraham sees the ram caught  by its horns. The murky vision becomes  a reality. 

When the angels reveal the plan to annihilate the 5 towns of the valley ( Sodom, et al)  to Avraham, he sees the challenge of, once ,again ,saving those people.  He becomes their advocate in negotiations.  Between Avraham and Lot, they save one of the five (Tzoar).  Again, Avraham sees revelation as opportunity. 

Lot finds it difficult to act on information,  After he sees how evil his fellow citizens of Sodom are, after he sees how their evil drags him into  their web, he stalls and must be dragged to his own rescue.  On the way, his wife sees too much. 

Lot's daughters act on their extrapolation of events into the future.  They see the world outside their rescued family doomed .  They devise a plan of action, based upon their limited field of vision.  How many people have been killed in wars based upon the fear generated by limited resources?  And then, new solutions are found.  The underpinnings of  Stalin ( and perhaps Hitler)  a limited food supply that should be directed to the favored peoples, a belief that killed tens of millions,  was invalidated by the subsequent application of a discovery that had already been made ( the Haber process  to produce organic nitrogen for fertilizers).   What has shale oil done to the meaning of the Gulf war?

Will Gd continue to show us the lambs?