Vayeira - 6th Portion

Join me as we learn together for Friday [snorts] Pares Vira Chapter 21 verse 22. After a hadit and aimel saw the great miracles that happened to a confronting the four kings having a child at an old age he decided that it might be good advice to get along with it was at that time his chief of his troops saying God is with you in everything you Rashi verse 22 since they saw that he came out of the war of with stone in peace and not only he came out of the war of stone meaning that he was not hurt from the punishment of the people of Saddam. So too with the with the kings of he waged war against them and he was able to win them. His wife had a baby at an old age. Therefore he realized that God is with him. So therefore he asks so now swear to me with your God that you will not deal falsely with me and to my children now with my son and to my grandson with the kindness that I have done to you. I extended to you will do with me and with the nation that you lived with that you sjourned. Rashi 23. What does it mean? So Rashi tells us to his children and his grandchildren. This teaches us a lesson that why doesn't he mention great-grandchildren until here does a father have and worry for his children? He worries for his children, grandchildren, great grandchildren. That's a little too extended. And he doesn't worry any longer. Verse 24. And a replied, "No problem. I will swear." Verse 25 then disputed with over the well of water that servants stole or seized from. What does word mean us? Alak, he had a debate with him about it. Not that he rebuked him, but he also had a debate. They were disputing what's going on here. Verse 26, I don't know who did this. You also you told me nothing about it. I heard nothing about it built until today. So, how am I to know who what's going on here? Verse 27. took flock and cattle and he gave it and they both made a covenant. They made a treaty. Verse 28 and set aside seven sheep on the side. Verse 29. What are these seven sheep that you put that you put them aside on their own? Responds and says the you are to accept these seven sheep may from me from my hand from my hand that in order that you acknowledge as evidence this should be an evidence that I dug this well. Now, how is these seven sheep going to prove as evidence? Let's see what Rashi says. Verse 30, Rashi that this that I took the fact that you're taking these seven sheep will be as a testimony as a word of testimony like we find. So, can be also a feminine terminology that I dug this well. Why did he need testimony that he dug the well? Because there was a argument between the shepherds of and the shepherds of they said, "We dug the well." So in order to decide who did it they said to each other whoever comes to the well and the water will rise for them that will be the proof that it's his came there and arose said look the well is mine now take these sheep this is the testimony that it's mine verse 31 therefore that place was called because that is the place where they both made an oath. The means a well of an oath. Verse 32 and they both made a treaty in Beerva got up and his lead chief of his troops and they returned to alert I'm sorry and they returned to the land of the Philistine. Verse 33 opened an inv. And he there he proclaimed the name of God and the God of the universe and get everybody else to proclaim the name of Hashem as well. Verse 33, Rashi Ael. What is over here? Rashi brings a dispute of what the word asel means. Ra between one says paradise that he planted a fruit garden an orchard have fruit to be able to give to his guest in a meal. One says pund. It was an in for people to have guests. And in that in there were many different fruits and delicacies that he would give. Why then does it say that he sw that he planted that he swed? We find that when a person pitches their tent, we say use the same terminology. So therefore it can be the word vita means here that he pitched his tent as well and he called there with the name of God through having that in there. He must be able to announce and that people should be able to recognize and real and know about God. Why? Because after the people finished eating and drinking would tell them blessed to the one who whom you ate from. So they would say okay they thought would tell them you think you ate my food. You ate from the one above and therefore you have to thank God. And he would force them so to speak as we know that he would say if you don't want to thank God then it will cost you lots of money because where you going to get food in the desert and this way he forced them to acknowledge and realize the greatness of God and this was the way that he would teach monotheism about God to all the people as we know in it explains it doesn't mean only that he called but we have to be able to get other people to recognize the greatness of God just like a that sometimes a person really wants to recognize and believe in God, but they need a little bit of coercion to be able to see that and recognize that God exists. So like a so to we are obligated to get and to pronounce and get other people to pronounce the greatness of Hashem wherever it may be. verse 33 and verse 34 and a sjourned in the Philistine for one year many says many days but it was one year more than he had lived in that for 26 years he lived in that area which was from 2047 to 2073 from the creation of the world after this he moved back to so he was there for about 26 years in that We'll see this in Rashi as Rashi gives us the calculation more than the days that he lived in he was there for 25 years. But over here he was 26 years. How do we have this calculation? So Rashi gives us the calculation as follows. He was 75 years old when he left that year and that year he came to stay in because we don't see anywhere else that he stayed until when he came to all the other places he was just like a guest who kept on traveling as it says and he moved and there was a hunger then he went down Egypt and in Egypt he was only there for three months Pharaoh sent him away right away and then it says he went to his travels until he came to over there he wasn't until Sodom was destroyed after was destroyed as we just learned a few days ago traveled because of late he didn't want to be together with load because of the incest that load's daughters did then from There he came to the land of and the land of how old was he? 99 when stone was destroyed and traveling to Islam. On the third day of his circumcision the angels came. So what do we have over here? When he was 75 he left his family home. He was 99 when he was moving out of that's 25 years. And over here when he's in the city of says many days just more than he was in the is not giving us a clear date a clear amount to explain that it was more days because if it was an exact time how much more he would have told us but he leaves it open-ended just to say it was more therefore we must say you say It can't be that it was more than a year because if it was more than a year then the verse would have probably detailed it 26 years and then he returned to that year that he left and returned to that was right before the binding of Isaac 12 years before. So he was 12 years back in before God told him to bring Isaac as a sacrifice. This concludes the six Torah reading of the ptoria ring of Vayira.