Abraham's Lesson to the World: Living is Giving - Rabbi Avraham Rockmill

perhaps one of the things that most people in the world jews non-jews the entire world we're all seeking refinement of character a person wants to be a better person we want to be better what's the definition of a good person maimonides rambam explains that there are different meters there are different character traits and a person should seek the middle way the derek yoshio he calls it the straight way shouldn't be extreme on either side that's the famous famous rule the rambam the person should try to go in the middle of all character traits it shouldn't be a spent thrift and shouldn't be cheap it should be in the middle says the rambam where do we get this is this this pure human thought is this just something that comes out of our head for all of us the real resource of this is we should go in the ways of hashem the ways of god just like he's merciful you're supposed to be merciful and where do we learn that out from who is the paradigm of what it means the rambam brains and that was the derek that was the thing that was the way they was going to teach his children and it's because of that that hashem communicated with him and discussed with him the destruction of stone i'd just like to point out something with this we can understand something amazing avraham let's recall avraham he had a brisk meal he got a circumcision it's the third day after the circumcision he's sweet that's the weakest day he's a hundred-year-old man he's looking for guests god makes it very very hot the sun is taken away there's no protection it's very very hot no one's on the street no one needs avraham avinu's kesset that day no one needs his kindness their afrom is in such pain for not having i guess the hashem then produces three angelic figures to come and visit him i want to ask a simple question avram nobody needs you that day there's no one on the street go to sleep take a break your third day after meal or you're not feeling well there's a variety of ways of dealing with this but i think the answer is as follows the shaw points out something the kindness that akris baraku does for all of us never ends our days are filled with the kindness of abundant shalom he's always giving he's giving to everybody in this entire world to the entire universe abraham avinu understood that he was emulating the ways of the kurdish baraku there's no break there's no vacation from there's no vacation from being a kind because the kurdish barco doesn't take a vacation if you wanted he wanted to emulate him too so he could attach himself to him that was the way of getting the closest as he could he understood there's no vacation there's no day at the beach we don't take we don't take off from being fine people we don't take off from having good meters we emulate the rabbana shalom the master of the world he's constantly giving we have to constantly give and it's like that with all the meters with all the ways that we emulate over kurdish borah this is our goal this is we want to be like him is we don't get time off from being a good person giving is living and it's all the time [Music] you