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Three difficult stories tonight.

And hopefully my plan is to get through all three of them.

So we'll see how that goes.

So we're going to talk about the story of Sodom and Gomorrah and then the story of the

sacrifice of Isaac, which is an extremely complicated story.

And so we'll try to make some headway without the story of Sodom and Gomorrah is plenty

complicated too.

All right, so what we established last week, at least in part, was this idea that the

Abrahamic narratives are set up as punctuated epochs, I suppose, in Abraham's life.

And we were hypothesizing that you set out a goal for yourself in your life.

It's like a stage in your life, you might say that.

And then when you run that goal to its end, when that stage comes to an end, then you

have to regroup and orient yourself once again.

And I was making the case that that's a good time to make necessary sacrifices.

You know, one part of that is because as you move through your life, you have to shed

that which is no longer necessary.

And because otherwise, it accretes around you and holds you down and you perish sooner

than you should.

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