Vayera 5786: Avraham's Legacy of Love and the World's Purpose

Is it really possible that told you wait while I take care of the orim? Welcome to Shamara. We're familiar with the P at the beginning of the para which says he said and there Rashi tells us that that word could be Hashem he's speaking to or it could be my masters those who are visiting him. If I found favor in your eyes, do not pass from in front of your servant. The simple reading is that he's speaking to these men and saying, "Please stay here." But Rashi tells us that one other way of understanding it is that he was speaking to Hashem and said, "If I found favor, don't leave while I go take care of them." And from here learn that greater is than being than speaking so to speak with but asks the reb could that possibly be isn't the highest possible madrega that a person can reach to be so connected to Hashem that he's right in front of Hashem and how could he say you Hashem just wait here what does it mean is it just hyperbole the greater than what would seem to be the whole purpose of life and why is it that Right before brisma, Hashem says to his perform then walk in front of me and be whole. He had already said and testified about Noah that Noah was already whole. He was a sadik and also that he was already walking in front of Noah. So had to perform the mitzvah of in order to get to that level and Noah had been at that level already. But that's also impossible because we're all familiar with that famous rashi in Noah that says that there are those who explain that Noah would have been nothing in the generation of Aramino. He's so much less. So again, it seems like Aramino is saying, "You wait here, Hashem." How could that be? And how could Hashem say to him, "You become even greater. You become whole." Wasn't he already whole? If if Noah was whole way before him having not performed. So how do we understand this? Reb explains the whole purpose of the world is love. As the Pik says in I said that the world will be created for and through indeed there are sometimes we find identify for us things that become so important they're even beyond the normal description and the normal mathematics of the Torah. For example, how could it be that the first base of mus was destroyed because of the three most terrible aeros and yet that gulus only lasted for 70 years. The second base of mus was destroyed forum and baseless hatred and lasts for thousands of years. Baseless hatred is an a of don't hate your brother. It doesn't even carry with it a punishment in the Torah. And yet it's the cause of the entire golus. The answer is there are purposes of the world and the purpose of the world is that we should love one another. And therefore it's bene goes against the whole purpose of the universe. Even though technically in the regular mathematics it's not as severe as the three as it were cardinal aas but it is has a severity that's different because the whole purpose of the universe is that yen would serve Hashem with love and we'll take care of each other with love. We see a similar dynamic in the Sanhedrin that says that a person who violates the aspect of being Jewish in terms of his kaduca and is intimate with a non-Jewish woman can na poke the zealots can kill him. It doesn't carry with it a normal transgression of and punishment of death but it goes against the whole universe the whole purpose of being a yid to be a kadesh. So we see sometimes there's a whole purpose that's beyond the normal dynamics and the nor normal mathematics of regular reward and punishment. And so the whole world was created for a and that's au here. Arainu is showing us in this week's para the love that he has for others. That's the whole purpose that Hashem sent us here for. And therefore, so to speak, he could say to Hashem, you wait here. I want to go do what you gave us. Why we're here? I want to go take care of these men. I don't even know because this is a world of love. And therefore, would you wait here? Sure. Being close to Hashem is of the highest level. But I'm not concerning myself with reward, punishment, the normal mathematics. What's more, this is the purpose you sent me here. You sent me here to serve you with love. And that's what it means. when in last week's para performs the mitzvah of bismah which is an expression of great great love for hashem to perform this mitzvah to do this mitzvah and and and perform it with the kind of elacrity that a performed it and it is part and parcel of everything that a did he did it with love and so said to him I want the service that you offer with love was indeed Tom and Noah was indeed missik going in walking with Hashem. But that was that was the tsum. That was the contraction of Noah in the world that saved the world. And that has a role. But you Ara, I'm not asking you to, so to speak, catch up with Noah and be as great as him. No, no, not at all. within your own mida, within your own element of serving me with the love and affection and and and the enthusiasm of the performance of my will and the care you show to others. Perform and you'll reach that level of being of being whole. You'll reach that level of being of walking in front of me, not only walking with me. And this is the very purpose and every one of us has this ability in his achieving this level put into the Jew that we can be filled with love and that would great be give tremendous he wants us to serve him with passion with fire with elacrity. He wants us to serve others with compassion and love and care. Far beyond the questions of what's the technical element of the mitzvah. Far beyond the questions of what's the technical reward, punishment, higher level made this world that people would love each other and love Hashem. We are the children of we have it inside of every one of us. Let's do the very best that we can to serve others with love and to serve Hashem with love. And if somebody has a need to meet their need for certain, so to speak, even if I'm right now right in front of Hashem, have a great chabas.