Rabbi Benjamin Yudin Discusses Parshat Vayera on JM in the AM (5786)

Good morning nah. Good shabas. Everybody tomorrow we have the privilege of reading paras vra. Whoa. What an incredible para this is. Now I'd like to share something which perhaps might even be a drop original but I think that it is true. And I know I'm talking to myself and if anybody else wants to listen, you are most welcome. I usually begin by once again saying tomorrow we have the privilege of reading paras vira and according to the there are no mitzvos of the 613 contained in paras vira. However, I'd like to share with you that while it is not explicit in the para, we know that the Rambam codified amuna, 13 literally pillars of Jewish faith that in order for a Jew to be counted As a believing Jew, they need to believe in these 13 principles. The first being that there is Hashem, that God exists, creator of the world, is the energizer of the world etc. And the 13th is the belief inim that the dead will come to life. Now I was excited that I found that expression of in thiso in the beginning of the para when Abraham extends his orim he's more pained that he doesn't have passers by to take into his to extend hospitality to teach them about the existence of Hashem. He's more pained of that than he is on the third day after his circumcision. So, Hashem sends three angels disguised as men, each with a separate mission. The first one to heal Abraham after his circumcision. The second one to inform Sor that she would have a baby in a year's time and the third one to destroy Sedon. regarding the second one whose divine task was to inform Sora. The Torah tells us in chapter 18 Sora and Sora laughed specifically what's going on here. So the saperno comments on this verse. by informing Sorah that she would have a child. quote naturally this would be literally returning rejuvenating her body from the state of elderly that she was a woman of 90 to restore it to its youth says theo This is literally like resuscitating the dead. Just as bringing the dead to life again, so too Soru that she should be transformed back into time to a young woman. Literally this is not simply this is s not simply beyond the norm and the natural but this is a act like literally resurrecting the dead. So the parasa begins with Hashem telling Sor that she would have a baby and hence we haveim at the beginning of the para and then the end of the para which contains the story of the Aeda and we are familiar with the Gimra that tells us that I'm sorry not not the Gmorrah but rather Hazal Midrashim that regarding The second bra of Shray, the first braha was composed in honor of Abraham as said to Abraham in last week's para that I am your protector. Your reward is very great after a defeat of the four kings who defeated the five kings. And Abram was afraid that he had used up all of his merits. God said, "No, there's much more where that came from." and gain. Hashem protects Ara. Similarly, the Jew every morning is somewhat nervous. Look, you've done so much for me already, Hashem. I'm almost afraid to ask for more, lest I use up all my merits for the future. And we say no. to now what is the second toe. So in the Cooperman edition of this forno he quotes from the purad rebelar chapter 31 that as a brainu was bringing down the knife at the time of the aedo nishmoso soul departed from his body and when said enough don't go any further his soul was returned to his body a untied him Omar rav And so the second of was either recited by himself or as the Shibet cites the medish that it was the Malim who watched the Aedo and they responded as if clapping with joy. that has been resuscitated. Be it as it may, the para begins with the para concludes with this concept of now this is a very significant point interesting. The third is that we deal directly with God, not even with the angels. And therefore the very fact that we keep coming back to Hashem on the one hand asks the basim the mabit aren't we like a nutnik a child who keeps going back to his parent please I can only tell you our bor at the age of 18 wanted a moped he tried his father and his father said no he tried his mother and his mother said no and after a while one of us or both of us said why are you such a nudnik meaning you're bothering us again and again and he finally got the message so why are we not a nudnik asks the mabit and he gives a beautiful answer that even though we prayed this yesterday and we prayed it this morning and we're going to pray it again tomorrow and tonight the answer is because we are basically saying hashem you are the one and only only you can do this and that is the biggest shev to Hashem. So the concept very clearly that I'd like to suggest is just as the Gmorrah in so teaches that the Torah begins with and the Torah ends with it begins with when Hashem made the customos for and he dresses them in leather garments. The Torah begins with and the Torah ends with that Hashem buries Moshe. So too does begin with Sorenu literally being transformed as if re given a totally new life. And it ends with now I'd like to point out that in the what do we say in the present in the present tense we say to Hashem that Hashem you are the eternal Mighty Lord, you the resuscitator of the dead. Now watch what do we say? We say every day in the present literally you sustain right now the living with kindness right now. You support the fallen. You heal the sick. All this in the present. You release the confined. Once again, and you maintain your faith to those asleep in the dust. So first of all, the grass says three times do we have this concept mentioned in the bra of kurosim literally as we acknowledge that the the rain comes from. So too, three times we have the concept of one. When we wake up in the morning, you should know is not only something which will happen in the future. It happened this morning. Every morning we say elai this soul that you hashem have given me it's pure you formed it and as the says that sleep is 160th of death every day gives back power mem to literally dead bodies. Unbelievable. So, how do I know if there's going to be a in the future? I know it because guess what? You and I woke up this morning. That's the first step towards our understanding and belief in the second thing is the comparison of the gamorra and the beginning of tannis to rainfall. Why? Because as rain is to nature so too isim meaning without rain nothing can grow. And rain as we know is the one thing which is completely only in the hands of God. Right? The Indians try to rain dance. But we know one thing that that there was no man to pray to pray and to dive in for rain. If man doesn't pray for it, if there's not the relationship between God and man, you do yours, he does his rain is compared to that's the second reason for mentioning. And the third one is literally for the future. Hashem did it for all of us this morning. He brings the rain in Israel and throughout the world and in the future there will be. The concept is that while there are no of this, none of the 613 impas there is that very important belief that the Jew has that we live not just for today. The Jew lives for eternity. Israel has many levels of understanding and the idea is that there will be the only question is which one? Take a peek my friends at the inus who speaks of two. the first one for those that in the gulos in the exile were aspiring waiting for his salvation and for that there's going to be a hameim at the time of base hamdash and secondly for those who unfortunately did not yearn for it, did not aspire for it, did not believe in it, there's the possibility that that will take place. What he calls my suggestion is believe in it. Now, Shabbat shalom to all.