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Randomex
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(I really hope I’m being trolled…)

“Our father of Chesed, our DNA origin of giving and caring, Avraham Avinu, sent his son away.”

As Oomis pointed out, only because he was commanded to by Hashem.

“Avraham Avinu sent his son away.”

“Ki b’Yitzchok yikorei l’cha zora” – in a certain sense, Yishmael was not considered truly a son of Avraham. Today?

“because Sara and Avraham thought he might have a negative influence on Yitzchok.”

You talk about what experts say is the worst thing for the child himself, then counter with Yishmael being sent away to avoid the possibility of him influencing Yitzchok, not for the sake of his own chinuch. (And then there’s the explanation which says that he had tried to kill Yitzchok. I don’t think today’s experts would disagree with you in that scenario.)

“He sent his son away to the extent that he needed a Nes not to die.”

Avraham did not endanger Yishmael’s life by sending him away!

When Yishmael was sent away, his mother went with him (today?!)

and Avraham gave them food and water. According to Rashi, Yishmael’s life was endangered only because Sarah put an ayin hora on Yishmael. As a result, he became sick, and therefore used up the water faster than he normally would have.

coffee addict:

“this was to fine tune his chessed to not be on default because theres good and bad to all middos”

I don’t understand his vort.

You wouldn’t be allowed to treat someone badly

because you needed to fine-tune your own middos…