The day is January 15, 2009. Published author and high school freshman Asher Edelson sits at his laptop, and gets ready to start his family history book. Let’s take it back – say about 4,000 years – to the time of the patriarchs. One moment Asher is sitting at a desk in H.B. Plant High School, and the next, a man leans against a palm tree in ancient Mesopotamia. The grandfather of Judaism.
They called him Terah. He was a good man, a crafter. He owned an idol shop in the great Sumerian city of Ur Kasdim. The Babylonian Empire had not taken over Sumer just yet, and the southern Mesopotamian territory prospered. As for the man, Terah, he sold statues of all kinds, shapes, and sizes. An, Ea, Enlil, name the idol, he had it. The man had a family. When his son came, he gave the boy the name Abram. The family lived in Ur for a little while longer, until they migrated up north to the city Haran. There, Abram was to eventually grow into adulthood.
Though Terah was a merchant of idols and believed strongly in the Semitic religions, Abram, his son, did not. One day, the boy walked into his father’s idol shop, and smashed every last idol, except for the largest one. Before Terah returned to the shop, Abram placed the hammer in which he destroyed the idols with in the hand of the remaining sculpture. When Terah walked inside, he gasped and nearly fell over. All of his idols – save the biggest one – were broken or entirely smashed! Terah saw Abram, and demanded an explanation. Unlike his father, who was by now raging, Abram stayed calm and explained to Terah that the biggest idol was responsible for the destruction of the rest.
“Ridiculous! Idols can’t move!” Now quite happy, Abram explained to his father that if these idols are so powerless that they cannot destroy each other, why would he bother worshiping them?
Trying to avoid coming to this conclusion, and also angry about his broken products, Terah stormed out of the shop. Abram just laughed.
Hope you liked this little fraction Helpful criticism, please. This is going to be a huge undertake for me, so I could use some motivation!
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