A Midrash for Rosh Hashanah, Day Two
Genesis 21:3 And Abraham called his son, the one born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, by the name Isaac (Yitzchak, “He-Will-Laugh”). 9 Now Sarah saw the Egyptian Hagar’s son—the one she bore to Abraham— laughing. 10 And she said to Abraham: “Expel this servant-woman and her son, for the son of this servant-woman will not share the inheritance with my son, not with Isaac.” I didn’t laugh for years after the day my father sent us out of our camp. My mother and I survived, a
