who "looks well after her household" and "whose husband is
known in the gates, when he sits among the elders of the land."
In some matters of a personal and family nature, Sarah's spiri-
tual discernment is praised as being superior to Abraham's.
When her husband hesitated about sending away Hagar and
Ishmael because of Ishmael's baneful influence upon her son
Isaac, God said to Abraham, "All that Sarah says to you, listen
to her voice" (Gen. 21:12).6 Rashi adds, "We may infer that
Abraham was inferior to Sarah in respect of prophecy. "
R. Joseph B. Soloveitchik
(Man of Faith in the Modern World, p. 84).
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