Parshas Vayeira: Why Did You Laugh? Moshiach Is Coming Today - The Letter Of The Chofetz Chaim

okay good shabas great to see everyone so usually I start off this year by saying fasten your seat bels this is your favorite time of the week and I'm going to do that now also everyone fast in your seat belts it's your favorite time of the week but we're not going to do imponderables this week why I'm going to let you ponder that for the whole week why we're not doing impong this week I'll let you think about that I can't reveal all the reasons but but I do want to share with you um a letter of the that really blew me away on a episode in this week's paraa and I think it's very timely and I think it's an eye openening uh presentation on uh a story that takes place in this week's paraa this comes from the letters of the and it's a of and discusses the opening episode of this week's paraa where God sends Three Angels to ABR ainu one to destroy sud one to heal ABR and one of course to give the good report that Sarah was destined to have a child in one year and Abraham ainu was so grateful his whole life he was yearning he was praying to be able to have a continuity to continue his legacy and and what was s's reaction okay now this ain't happening s laughed s left she was incredulous she really didn't believe to some extent and the rebish comes and he remonstrates with [Laughter] Abraham why did s laugh so abam says to Sarah why' you laugh she said I didn't laugh she said I don't know what you're talking about why are you accusing me I wasn't laughing cuz she was afraid to say she was [Applause] laughing and according to some God said to SAR no you laugh what's this whole story about what's this all about just say the story that God sent angels to tell Sarah that she's going to have a kid and sure enough a year later she has a kid why do we need to know why does the tyus say Sarah laughed do you think that reflects well on her you think it reflects well on Sarah I mean I know you're going to ask it's Lush and Hara of course it's lash and Hara but the Torah is allowed to speak T is allowed to say the truth we're not allow to speak Lush and Hara because we'll exaggerate the Torah is allowed to say but this is there's no question it's not a nice thing to say about s why do we need to know it and then the whole back and forth where Hashem asks Abraham why did Sarah laugh I mean that's I mean is that no the is allowed to tell the truth and abam says why do you laugh and she says I didn't laugh what do you mean but she did laugh and then Hashem comes and know you laughed why does the T record this I mean this is too much information too much information over here and the says I want to read to you some of his words I want to thank my friend RAV Brownstein for sending this to me I contemplated this and I'm very troubled everybody knows that the most expensive real estate in the world are the words of the each and every word I'll make it bigger for you its Holiness is very great there's no estimation there's no letter or word that's ex extra they're all counted from theer of therefore it's a wonder why does the tah speak at such length about this story and to disparage s to say s didn't really have she didn't believe the words of the Mal and the whole conversation between Abraham and Sarah she says she didn't laugh he said he laughed it's very difficult to understand the story at face value I said there's no question that a great matter is alluded to in this story until God illuminated in my eyes and this I begin with hashem's help say the actions of our forefathers are a portend to their children we find that whatever happened to our for fathers happens to us says this story is ours story this story is the story of the Jewish people in the Exile where Messiah is coming very close and when mesiah is headed and is coming close so the leaders of the Jewish people the the are going to encourage us that we should do CH like say and the matter is only dependent on says and people are going to say yeah yeah yeah Mia is coming Mia is coming of course but if you ask a Jew no when do you think Masia is coming well first um about like two and a half years because first the war has to be over then I got to find a buyer at my house then I got to liquidate all my assets then I got to finish painting the ceiling there's a little bit of leak in the ceiling I got to finish painting the ceiling this way I get a really good price and just about then I think mhia is going to come do you think mhia is coming today not really but he might come today isn't the that if somebody says if somebody says I will be a on the day that King David comes you can't drink wine your whole life cuz he might come today except for AR of shabas because people are busy making chant Mia doesn't come AR of shabas people are too busy with the CH but isn't that the yeah yeah of course it's do you think he's coming today come on between me and you he's not coming today I told you already he's coming in two and a half years it's the same thing in MIT when M came and he said you know the Lord's taking you out so the people didn't believe the people did not have the emotional wherewithal Dr goodnik maybe they had PTSD they didn't they had too much trauma to believe that messia was coming they didn't think R if you can hear me said that's why my suitcase ready to go in my closet oh very good of clothing pack really pack ready to go pick up and run to Israel beautiful but most believe what you're saying I'm say day we just say it every day do we really mean it that's myself ready to go anymore so we say in in thear tells us that when is mhia coming he could come today if you do CH and the truth is it is incumbent upon every single Jew to wake up in the morning and say I'm doing now and I return to you and I'm prepare I'm prepared now for M to come at least once a day a person needs to sayam I am returning to you with all of my heart I'm preparing myself for messiah but do we do that we don't do it you know why we don't do it cuz even though we hear a mhia could come but we laughed we laugh like Sarah we're incredulous how could it come 2,000 years it's going to come today but the nvi tells us that when Mia come it comes suddenly it comes suddenly he just shows up you know what happened in with the PM Story the Jewish people about to be annihilated and tells Esther go in go into and in 48 hours H's hanging the whole story switched just like that do we believe that in 48 hours the world the destiny of the Jewish people could change on a dime are we ready P do we prepare ourselves every day to be M we don't you know why cuz we laugh of course we believe Sora believed it's not like Sora didn't think God can't give her a child but she she gave a little chuckle she laughed in her mind she believed actually if we would have seen Sarah's heart we would have said yes she believed but according to the greatness of SAR the looked into the heart of SAR and saw she was capable of Greater amuna so SAR says I didn't laugh but SAR laughed and Hashem says to AB why' she laugh and ab says to Sarah why do you laugh and Sarah says I didn't laugh and the re says you laughed and the question is when msia comes and the asks us were you ready for me did you prepare for me right now we learn from is challenging us the is going to ask us why do you laugh and we say we didn't laugh what do you mean we sang says really I know you sang those words but did you prepare yourself every day B Chua you didn't you know why cuz you laughed why' you laugh you didn't think I could come any minute but now we're not going to laugh now we understand we're not laughing anymore we're not not laughing every single day we're going to take aside a moment we're going to sayam I return to you I'm preparing myself for the coming of Messiah and the Satan's going to come to us say no why' you laugh we're going to say we didn't we didn't laugh don't tell me I laughed I prepared myself I was waiting I was ready that's the lesson that's the lesson of the opening of this week's paraa and if we could segue back into you think it's a coincidence that we're reading this in is the month of the inauguration of the third bik this month we better be prepared and we better ready ourselves not to laugh cuz this is the month that's going to happen so that when the kit comes say why' you we didn't laugh we prepared ourselves we LED every year in this month the month of the inauguration of third B mikdash we read the Parish of SAR we learned our lesson we're not laughing the only thing we're laughing at is will laugh with the coming of the okay that's that is the approach of the to the story of the laughing ofu