From Seven Lambs to One Big Lambchop
1. The Scene at the Well (Gen 21:25–28)
Abraham
said, “Listen here, Avi-Melech, your guys stole my Wi-Fi—er, I
mean my well!”
Avi-Melech said, “Nu, I didn’t know! Nobody
told me! Don’t give me that face, I just heard now.”
So Avraham took out seven cute little lambs and said, “Take these, so everybody knows I dug this holy well—kosher plumbing rights for life!”
2. Messianic Twist: From Seven to One
Midrash Rabbah (shtetl style):
The rabbis said: “Whichever flock the water jumped for—that flock owned the well.” When the water saw Avraham’s lambs, it did the hora and bubbled up.
๐ On Rosh Hashanah we don’t argue over wells. We argue if Bubbe’s kugel is supposed to be lokshn mit raisins or lokshn mit pepper. But here’s the punchline: Avraham needed seven lambs, Yochanan haMatbil (John the Baptizer) pointed to one Lamb. Less shlepping, more salvation!
Joh
1:29:
“Yochanan
squints, sees Yeshua coming, and yells: ‘Oy gevalt! Look, the Lamb
of God—no seven needed, just one perfect kapparah deluxe special!’”
3. Rosh Hashanah Application
On Rosh Hashanah, we blow the shofar. Why? To remind Hashem we’re serious. Also, to wake up Shloime from the back row who fell asleep during Musaf.
The shofar blast says: “Remember Avraham, remember the lambs, remember the covenant!”
And in Messiah: “Remember the one Lamb, Yeshua, who doesn’t just solve a water rights dispute, but solves the whole human mess with sin!”
4. Study Questions
If Avraham had to give seven lambs, how many would your bubbe have tried to get for free?
Why is one Lamb (Yeshua) better than seven lambs plus a goat?
When the shofar blasts on Rosh Hashanah, do you hear a heavenly alarm clock—or just your rabbi’s indigestion?
5. Closing Blessing
“May your Rosh Hashanah be sweet as honey, loud as a shofar, and shorter than the rabbi’s sermon.”
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