Introduction — From Seeing Ourselves to Seeing Others Until now, the human story has been one of self-preservation. From Adam through Noach, people saw only their own needs, their own fears, their own survival. Even faith, in its early form, was still self-centered — a means to stay safe, to endure. In Lech Lecha , Avraham took the first step beyond survival: he walked. But in Vayera , he takes the next step in human evolution — he sees. The willingness to move, learned in Le