[Avodah] Telling the Truth About Great Men

[Zev Sero]

On 20/10/2010 9:06 AM, Richard Wolberg wrote:
> D.S. asked:
> Well, how do you explain that Terach's demise was conviniently
> mentioned at the end of Noach, in order to fudge the fact that he
> lived until Avraham was 130 years old? The correct location would have
> been around Chayei Sarah!
>
> Perhaps I do not understand the question, but who ever said that Terach was a great man?
> He was an idolator and we know anyways that /ein mukdam um'uchar baTorah. /This is not
> the only place in the Torah where chronology is out of context.

*Avraham* was a great man, and the Torah deliberately fudges the date
of Terach's death so that it shouldn't be obvious that Avraham neglected
his father's kavod.


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