What Abraham Inviting Everybody to His Tent Means in Today’s World

What Abraham Inviting Everybody to His Tent Means in Today’s World

Dec 27, 2021
A resident of the Negev was attacked by a gang of Bedouin teenagers who tried to rob him. He had a gun and managed to chase them away, but afterward he thought, "Wait a moment. I live in the Negev. They live in the Negev. Soon I’m going to have children. They themselves are children. We are really interdependent here." There is now a Greenhouse for Leadership that teaches Bedouin teenagers how to lead positive change. What would they need to learn in order to lead positive change in the Bedouin society? Like how Abraham invited everyone to his tent, he used to serve them refreshments and simultaneously shared why he did so, why he welcomed everyone, and why he wanted everyone to come. He tried to instill a new spirit in people—an attitude of love and connection—to show them that connection is good. A person can enjoy life on the condition that he builds positive relations with others. That is the secret to a good life: to have positive relations with your neighbors. What would give these young leaders the strength to lead change, like how Abraham led change? First of all, they would need to see that there is the force of nature. The force of nature is good and benevolent, and this force is within a person’s reach. We need to attain it and desire for it to live in and among us. What does it mean for the force of nature to live among us? Bedouins live in nature. The Creator is everywhere, which they know a bit and especially feel. Let us be closer to the Creator and feel him in every moment in life. The Creator is the force that exists among us. We build it through our positive attitude to each other, or in other words, we build the necessary conditions in order to discover this higher force.