How to bring relatives in conflict together? Here Torah tells us that the opposing brothers Isaac and Ishmael came together to share burying their cherished father. A promise of the possibility of overcoming differences to recognize shared concerns. In the background are Hagar, Ishmael’s mother, once shunned but then brought back renamed Katura to marry Abraham after Sarah died. Uniting families. But still a challenge, her children were told to keep a distance and some of them would become later enemies again of the Hebrew descendants of Abraham. We are still challenged to find ways to live together, all being the children of Abraham.