Vayera - Spreading Revelation

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with ari goldwag recorded with hashem's neverending assistance in ramaphisha mashitarov 782 2021. this week's priority is part of era and in the beginning of our parsha valley love chapter 18 verse 1 that god appeared to avraham to abraham in the plains of mamre and he was sitting in the entrance of his tent the torah goes on to give us a description of the angels that he saw and their promise that avraham avinu abraham was going to have a child and it would be the beginning of the jewish people so this is a very foundational fundamental and essential description of events that the torah is giving us we need to understand what is the reason what zhus what special merit was it that allowed avraham avinu abraham to have this amazing revelation of hashem turning point in the life of the jewish people obviously but certainly in life and the legacy of avraham avenue of abraham he was 100 years old 99 years old and when he was 100 he was going to have yitzchak what's changing here what was the revelation as i'd like to read to you from the madrish a few different pieces some are in our pressure there's actually one that's at the end of last week's departure which is also very connected as we're going to see the end of elastic's parsha is connected to this week's parsha that you hashem gave me the shield of salvation your right hand supported me and your humility made me great what is the shield of salvation it's abraham we find in essence we say avraham refer to god as the shield of abraham so hashem david malek says you gave me the shield of salvation it's a reference to abram abraham we could say perhaps in explaining the major that the merit of abraham is something that stands in our stead until today we recognize we remember on rosh hashanah kipper we mentioned the al-qaeda the amazing is the queen's amazing actions that abraham and isaac did he is our shield god's right hand supported him in a number of stories he protected him in the when he was thrown into the fiery furnace when he was faced with a famine when he dealt with the war of the four and five kings van vasquez says that your humility hashem your humility made me great ma'am hereby what great humility did god show to abraham abraham abraham avina was sitting the verse says he was sitting in the opening of his tent and god ki alkali as it were was standing and the idea here is that god was showing him a tremendous amount of honor god was bringing blessings and honor upon him why was it we'll soon see why but it's important to understand that avraham did something amazing something awesome and as a result of that we'll see exactly what the dynamics of it are but as a result of it hashem showed him great honor hashem promised him great blessings hashem promised him that he would be the father the forebear with sarah emanuel of the jewish people so that's the foundation here hashem shows in great honor hashem reveals himself to him hashem protects him hashem grants him great uh support the next piece of the madrish uh i'd like to pursue there's there's three different pieces in the magic which describe the feeling of avraham avinu the sense that he had in this moment in this moment when hashem revealed himself to him this awesome revelation the feelings that he was feeling at this moment and we find you know our partner begins with a new topic the revelation of the fact that he was going to have a child at this very old age but as we often find in the torah as we often find in the mandrash the concepts which are placed next to each other in the torah are often connected there's something to learn from the juxtaposition the placement of these two ideas next to each other so we need to look back at the end of last week's parsha in order to understand the beginning of this week's parasha so if we look back at the very end of last week's partially madrish so the torah is telling us about the fact that avraham avinu was commanded to caramel to have a circumcision and indeed as a result of that circumcision it seems from the connection of these two concepts the revelation of hashem and the fact that he was not going to have a child named isaac the beginning of the jewish people was as a result of the fact that he performed the bris now ahmad vino he was a very sensitive person he was very sensitive and willing and able and and desiring to do the myth of him as we find on our parsha he was a going he was a genius when it came to bringing in guests providing for them and of course using it as a platform on which to spread the awareness of god saying i'm not the one who gave it to you it's got to give it to you give blessings to the to the one who really gave it to you but he was sensitive because here he was it was very hot day and the pasta said the simple understanding of the words he was it was a hot day it was very difficult there's nobody passing by when it's very hot middle east i can tell you from experience when it gets hot you stay inside in your air conditioning i'm actually multi so i've run notices something he says look i just did my breasts i just did the circumcision actually malty are you ever going to shove him vomits lee so it used to be that before i did the birds before i had the circumcision so people would pass by and they would come to me and i would i have an opportunity to do ahmad circum to greet them to provide for them to give them what they need taiwanese looks around and he sees it's a hot day no one's coming he's like what's going on it feels like i've lost out i've lost out my opportunity to do this mitzvah and as laser says there's something even deeper going on avraham understood something very powerful this is such an important thing such an important idea to understand for us the adhesive says that avraham understood that through his ah him through his fulfillment of the commandment to bring in guests to do kindness to others so he was holding up the amur the world stands on three pillars one of the pillars is stands on the torah stands on the service of god through prayer and sir and it stands through kindness however mavino knew that as long as he was doing kindness so the world was standing because of him hashem gives power into the world through the people who do the command of god i don't mean vino says oh no here i am i'm trying to do the will of god by performing the brisk but it seems like now as a result it seems everything that happens in our lives is connected if if it's a hot day now right after i perform the circumcision avraham says people aren't able to come so it seems like as a result of my good deeds something negative has occurred it seems like i'm not able to fulfill this myth and therefore abram was afraid that the said the pillar of kindness in the world was missing it was going to fall um said to him something amazing and this is obviously in the moments before those angels arrived actually before before you did the circumcision so people would come to you other you know human beings who come to ash hashem says now you don't need people to come i myself am going to reveal myself to you and i would add because obviously the angels are about to show up they're about to appear but they weren't human beings they were hashem's direct messengers or they were a manifestation in the world of god's will so hashem was saying to him until now you have people coming and yes indeed this is how the atos explains yes indeed you are holding up the world but i want to show you something even deeper now until now you needed actions you needed people to come in order to hold up the world now i come i'm coming into the world you did something you opened up a a the flood gates you opened up the flood gates so that i am present in the world just through your action of the bris mila now god is going to be revealed not per se through any specific action that you're going to actively be doing just the fact that you did the bris reveals me in the world says hashem and now the world is being held up even without specific action amazing thing so it sounds like as as the itos explains there's a switch here there's a mo this is an essential moment in time where things are changing where the way hashem is being revealed in the world is is different so anime so that's what the verse means when it says that hashem revealed himself why was hashem revealing himself now it was a result of the fact that avraham avinu had performed the bris because he had done the circumcision he now purified himself he purified himself he recognized that in every area of his life down to the to the most basic levels of the human being procreation that area of relationship between man and wife everything is part of my service of god everything can be sanctified the moment that he did that act the moment that he was able to come to that recognition perhaps but certainly clearly the moment that he did the act of circumcision he brought a new level of revelation of hashem into the world but it wasn't just his act says the mantras further in parsha and the next piece in our parsha so one thing that happened was that noticed that people weren't coming it was hot hashem says don't worry i'm here myself i'm revealing myself now in the world another thing that occurred um heartbeat gabriel david after avraham avinu abraham he himself was mal he circumcised himself which has a connotation that we spoke about which is a recognition that all of my desires all of my interactions between man and wife all of the aspect of procreation bringing new life into the world everything is to be dedicated to hashem after avraham avinu did that after abraham recognized that many others came the perhaps it was the the people who he had been bringing under the wings of the divine presence all these people that he exposed to the to the reality of he made them aware of that the fact that god exists they also got the bliss all of his slaves all of a neighbor all of those who were in his household and from my flesh i see god this is a verse in eof in job chapter 19 verse 26 from my flesh i see god illusion if i had not done this if i had not myself gone and had the circumcision and if i had not brought others with me if others had not done it how would god have been revealed by yo of hashem the fact that hashem revealed himself to avraham at this point was because of the fact that he himself had gotten the bris but not just that he affected those around him he encouraged those around him he the the goodness that he was spilled over into those around him and as a result there was a greater revelation of god in the world because of all of those around him who also did this amazing act 13 and 14 it speaks about the fact that i'm not sure exactly i never saw the verses in context but i'm guessing that eo himself job is speaking and he's saying and this i know to be the understanding of the verses he is saying that i couldn't i couldn't possibly take my servant and not give him a proper judgment not take proper care of it not take proper care of him and um because god god wants righteousness hashem remembers the truth hashem knows the truth god wants us to stand up god will stand up and tell us the truth right the message brings a story with rabbi acy he had a he had a maid servant and his maid servant was in a fight with his wife and he stood up for the maidservant and his wife said why are you standing up for the maidservant or not for me reason said what can i do she's saying the truth i can't deny the truth so there's this idea that if it's right it's right it doesn't matter who's saying it it could be the lowest the lowest person but what's right is right now the message applies this to abram when it says like this it's a reference to abraham that he that he was careful to make sure that righteousness was done with his servants he took ishmael his son who was the son of his maidservant of hagar and he took all of his slaves and took all of the people that were there and he made sure things were done right um before the next words in the matter he made sure things were done right he made sure that they had the bris that was the commandment of hashem was that he should make sure to be all to circumcise all of the of his slaves in his household if i had not done this how would hashem have been revealed upon me by year i love hashem the elon man the verse tells us again the same concept which you mentioned before we said that hashem was standing and he was sinning what is the idea that god is standing and avraham avinu was sitting so he had in this verse in iowa it said um what will i do when god stands the idea of god standing is that there's a statement that this is real this is right that this is true there's so much sheker there's so much falsehood in the world we're waiting for that moment when all of the sheker all the falsehood all of the evil color is disappears and there's only what's left standing is just the truth that quiet truth that's been saying the truth for three thousand eight hundred years standing remaining after all the falsehood falls by the wayside hashem stands what is stands it means the truth stands when we do what's right when we stand up for what's right avraham avinu made sure that his slaves all of the members of his household had the bris and as a result of that hashem reveals himself and stands there meaning the truth is revealed god is revealed and that's the new stage of mankind when the jewish people are coming into the world coming into existence yitzhak is going to be born i want to read to you a little bit in the aco safe because there's something amazing here if i had not immediately done the circumcision of my slave is a yummy macho busted bruce until i felt a little bit better a few days let me get better myself it says it says an amazing thing if i had done it myself this circumcision hashem would only have revealed himself to me alone in the field where where i go to meditate by myself now that my entire family and i will add and all the other gear and all the other people that he was making that he brought under the wings of the divine presence now that everyone bought in bought in all the way he was careful to be maul all of his servants yishmael etc now the revelation wasn't a private revelation that hashem revealed himself only to avraham but rather the presence of hashem was felt by alien in mamre the plains of mamre it wasn't just in his small little field where he hung out by himself where he went to commune with god it was a revelation that was much bigger than that this is such a powerful piece it's so beautiful it's so deep hear this well it's one thing if i do something good myself [Music] it's one thing if i'm alone it's a beautiful thing if i'm alone i'm doing something good i'm doing something right i'm serving god i'm communing with him i'm committed to be to doing what's right in my private life that's one thing but the message is teaching us that if you want a real revelation of hashem if you want a revelation of god that's going to transform the world it's going to change the way things are it's not just going to be that my actions bring about god's revelation in the world in small places but it's going to be a massive blowout watershed moment the floodgates open boom hashem is revealing himself in an awesome unfettered way that happens when i do something good and i spread it to those around me and there's a ripple effect it spreads to those beyond me when i do that good thing and i share it with others and i share with the next person with the next person it expands that is where hashem comes into the world we see this all the time social media in the negative sense we see this all the time a little word a little lie goes such a far away people like people like falsehood people are addicted to sensational things but the message is teaching us something so deep and so real and that is when we do what's right when i do what's right it has an impact on those around me if it's really real and i'm really committed it affects those around me that they become committed and when they become committed those around them become committed and that's where the revelation of hashem begins that's where the truth stands up it's where hashem stands as it were and we begin to see the truth being revealed this is a mushroom of course it's it's the truth this is a true story this really happened but it's also an analogy myself is that which occurred to the forefathers it's a it's a sign of what is to come for their children we're waiting for that moment in history when god will stand up and reveal himself he'll say i i am god ani hashem and all the falsehood will fall away because we stood up we stood strong we did what was right and we encouraged others around us to also do what's right that moment is fast arriving and i want to bless you and i ask you to bless me hashem should help us to be able to recognize what it means to bring god into our lives to recognize that it's not enough of course we must start with ourselves but it's not enough to just bring hashem into our personal lives and that's that's that can't suffice for us should help us to realize that we can affect those around us through our goodness it will spill over into others around us and it will spill further and in so doing may be hashem's will that we see the ultimate revelation of his goodness of the truth speedily and in our days thank you so much for listening have a wonderful shabbos this podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of listeners like you for more podcasts like this please visit www.ariegoldwag.com or search on itunes ahri goldwag [Music]