Dr. Rabbi Zvi Grumet is currently Director of Education at The Lookstein Center of Bar-Ilan University, where he is Editor-in-Chief of Jewish Educational Leadership. He was ordained by Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik and holds an Ed.D. from Yeshiva University’s Azrieli Graduate School. Grumet has more than four decades of experience in formal and informal Jewish education, from high school through adult education, and in professional development for teachers and school leaders. His books include Moses and the Path to Leadership (Urim, 2013) and Genesis: From Creation to Covenant (Maggid Books, 2017), the Humash Koren Lev Lada’at (Koren), and his forthcoming Exodus: The Genesis of God’s People (Maggid Books).
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After Abram expresses doubt that Sarai will have children and questions how he can be sure his descendants will inherit the land, YHWH establishes the Covenant of the Pieces, lasting 400 years, extending through Israel’s time in Egypt up to their entry into the land. Does this covenant hold lasting significance for later generations, or is it replaced by God’s “everlasting” Covenant of Circumcision?
After Abram expresses doubt that Sarai will have children and questions how he can be sure his descendants will inherit the land, YHWH establishes the Covenant of the Pieces, lasting 400 years, extending through Israel’s time in Egypt up to their entry into the land. Does this covenant hold lasting significance for later generations, or is it replaced by God’s “everlasting” Covenant of Circumcision?
