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Journey to the Galilee 2026: Shunaim - The Lessons of the Isha Hashunamis

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How many times have you visited Shuname? I mean, how many times in your life could you say you visited the biblical city of Shuname? We're going to the city where the Isaamus lived. You may remember and say for Peric Daled. This woman did not have children and the Novi Alisha promised her a child. The no Alicia said this time next year. By the way, does anybody know who that child was? According to some and a little while later, the boy's father took him to work in the field and the boy says, "Roy, Roshi." And the boy expired. The boy passed away. And the boy lay in the lap of the mother. The father did not realize the boy had expired. And the the wife, the says to her husband, I need to go to the I need to go to Alisha. And he says, "Why? It's not it's notes. It's not Shabas. Is everything okay?" And what does she respond? Shalom. All is well. All is well on the home front. So she heads to Alisha and Gay Kaz sees her and guess is everything okay and she says shalom and then she goes to the Nvi and the Ni says what do you mean shalom her one kid is dead she's going to the novi that the should revivify him right to to resurrect him. So why would she say shalom? Why does she say everything is well? Everything was not well. Her son was not alive. So I'm going to share with you now not from a great rish not from a great ain not from a great rasha from a great rebbitson from the rebbit of Ari. And she has the following and she uses it to explain why Sahu was criticized for laughing and was not criticized for laughing. The rebbit sab and this is printed in the biography of Ari in the English biography. It's on page 444 if you happen to be carrying it with you. She said as follows. For a miracle to happen, it has to come down from the highest realms from the all the way down to this world. And by the time it formalizes and concretizes in this physical world, there are a lot of things that could come and interfere with this miracle. So she needs to be careful not to accept the reality that the kid is dead. Cuz if she says the words, "My son is dead." Then for a miracle to override that, that would be a miracle. Very difficult for a miracle to change that physical reality. So she knows that if she's going to be to some form of miracle, the one thing she cannot do is acknowledge the reality that the kid is dead. So the husband asks, "Is everything okay with the kid?" And she says, "Everything's great." And Gay Kazi asks and Alicia asks because unless she says the words the kid is dead, a miracle could still change the reality. But once she acknowledges that reality, a miracle will have a very hard time happening says the rebbit of Ari. Abraham laughed just like Sor laughed. But the Puk by Abraham says, boy. He thought, he laughed, but he laughed in his heart. He never said, "I'm too [snorts] old to have a child." So, he laughed in his heart, but theam could do anything. And the could bless Abraham with a child. What was Abraham Aino? 100 years old. Okay, we heard in our times there was a man, he was only 12 years younger. Miracles happen. It's not a big deal. So, what a miracle happened. as long as a Mavino didn't say that he's too old. But by satar, she said it. She said, she said the words it can't happen. If she says it can't happen, it can't happen. So you'll ask, but it did happen. So what's the problem? No says the rebar that's because came and he said I'm going to make a new miracle. Now she blew out of the water as the first miracle. The first miracle she lost the had to now come and make a second miracle. Now, what you may not be familiar with is another similarity between the birth of Yitzk and the birth of Kavak, the son of the Ishaham. What we're about to learn is not for a general audience. Okay? And don't come and ask questions or extrapolate to contemporary society. Just accept the words. This comes from the beneskai's commentary to the ha paras vira roi roi why the double royi roshi if the novi said that the ishachamus would have a child then why would he have to die and come back to life by the way could you think of anyone else who was born after many years who had to die and come back to life the zar says and by the Vital says he has two interpretations in the zar. One of them he likes better and he can't remember which one that told him. That's what writes and this is quoted by the benesh in his commentary to the on the the is found in parasitzk and have a soul connection and it's as follows. If you notice in the that when is born when he is born he's always attributed to S. He is never attributed to Abraham. But you'll also realize that Rifka that did not get married yet. Not until the and then at the what does the PK say the bra? Oh now it's time for him to get married. As soon as he's attributed to Abraham now he goes and he gets married. Basically the kadesh writes in many many places I'll tell you right now at least five places that there's a concept that there are different types of souls the soul of a person can be rooted in the male side or in the female side and when he was born it was his nish wasrava was from the female side and therefore even though he was 37 years old he didn't get married yet but at the contrary to what you learned in that Abraham wanted to sh and at the last second the mal said don't do it the medish in the brings and the he brings that when Abraham lifted up the knife tok his soul departed expired and Hashem what did Hashem do to Yitk very good yehuda he revivified he brought brought Yizk back to life. And when he brought him back to life, he came back to life with the soul misitra de a male soul. Now that he has a male soul, he could get married. Now he's no longer attributed to Sarah. He's attributed to Abrahamu and he gets married and he has a child. That's the story of says the Benes based on the par goes around comes around. That's what happened to Kavakovi. He was born originally with a soulra nukva. But he was not capable of bearing offspring. Therefore, he expired and the mother saidi the first roshi was from her and her husband. The second roshi elisha revivified him with a soul misitra dra. That was his second roy. And with this understanding you could explain and we're not going to get into all the creeks in the parish. It says but it's written because really it was a soul that comes from Alisha. So that's just a little bit of the background of the story of the son of the Ishachunamis.