so today we read this wonderful article that explained what it actually mean that "Sarah afflicted her." Many people were very upset about the fact that Sarah is seen as "the bad one." She is supposed to be our role model and is therefore not supposed to be the one who acts in such a disturbing manner. The article explained that Sarah did not actually afflict Hagar, but it was rather the fact that she lost her newfound freedom and therefore ran away.
The interesting thing was that i actually liked the idea that Sarah made a mistake by afflicting her maidservant. Why is it such a bad thing? She was emotional and hurt over this terrible and difficult situation with Hagar that she just lashed out at her!
The problem is that we always think that people like Sarah, Rachel Rivkah, Avraham, Yaacov and Yitzchak, Moshe, etc have to be perfect because they are the role models we all look up to. For example, we all want celebrities to be perfect and completely flawless, yet deep down we know that they are definitely not. That is why i think that all our role models from the Torah should not be perceived as perfect. I think that it is good to think that Sarah afflicted Hagar and that she misbehaved because after all she is not perfect! She is allowed to have made mistakes and hopefully learned from them. We shouldnt put our role models on a pedestal and it is okay that they make mistakes since they are only human.
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