REVISED 2022 EDITION
"Amazing Sefer. I love those parallels .. brilliant." Rabbi Saadia Elhadad, Founder of Yavne Academy, Montreal, Canada

"Parallels in the Torah" is an original and fascinating book that clearly reveals that apparently unconnected episodes in the Torah are actually inherently connected in a meaningful way. Below is a brief example:

WHAT'S THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE AKEIDAH YITZHAK & MATAN TORAH EPISODES?

Did you know that these two episodes share over twenty significant matches including words and actions in the same chronological order? It is almost impossible that this is by chance, but rather the reality is that these two apparently unconnected episodes are inherently and meaningfully connected! Below is explained just two of the parallels described in Ch.9.

12) Both episodes describe a very similar pattern of how Avraham & Moshe and associated persons approached the mountains to perform the Akedah/receive the Torah:

That is, both episodes started with one group of persons which then broke into several groups with one group staying at a distance from the mountain and another group (or person) then going up the mountain- with the person that will go up the mountain giving orders to the others to wait for them there, that they will return to them. You will note the very similar Hebrew matching language in bold as well as matching actions by reviewing the parallels below.

a) The Akeidah episode:

"On the third day Avraham raised his eyes and he saw the place from afar (