Episode Details

Sarai sees that she is infertile.

She suggests that Avraham be intimate with Hagar, an Egyptian slave-woman, and that she will have a surrogate child.

But once she is pregnant Hagar shows no intention to hand over the child. She asumes parity with Sarah. The pan has backfired.

Now Sarah "oppresses" Hagar and Hagar runs away, only to be met by an angel at the well.

Was Sarai's actions ethical?

Why is the Tanakh so sympathetic to Hagar?