Parshas Vayeira: The Ascendancy of the Jewish People Over Yishmael Through the Akeida

this Torah class is brought to you by Torah anytime.com certainly The prominent feature of par is the AA and no matter how many times we learn the AA we see every year and uh especially this year I'm excited to share with you some very Innovative and novel thoughts about the AA that I believe are true and I did not find anyone who says it but you'll tell me what you think the begins who's after these words after these matters Abraham and God tested Abraham and ask what do you mean hasem tested Abraham it would seem like it was a greater test for y mean Abraham got to go home and eat lunch afterwards y that was the end of him so why does it why is it called Hashem tested Abraham why wasn't it a test for so we have over here from the the P the P of the ballet he brings down from it should say both of them also tested I mean if he was 8 days old wasn't a test 8y old kid has a and have been but he could have been he could have stopped the fact that he went along with it why was that not considered a test for y that is question number one question number two that's says 36 it need it needed to give you something to ask really 37 what you call whatever you want the question is the says so why is it a test of Abraham why is not a test of okay that's then the P says please take your son your only son that you love apparently there's a lot of superfluity uh in this P there's a lot of uh extra words here just say so rash says hasem said take your son AB said I have two sons take your only son he said they're both only Sons to their mother the one you love I love both take why didn't Hashem say immediately take hasem didn't want to startle Abraham wanteded because if he would have startled him people would have thought you know why he did it he became deranged from the shock of the command and every Hashem wants everybody but still to me it bothers me just say the way chose to tell him the Torah is not every single word that transpired it's only what we need to know so just say it seems that even more part of the and part of what Hashem was saying take your son your only son that you love take and I'm going to explain further let's continue is there a question on a word no is there I'm sure there are questions yeah yeah well Rashi says why please Hashem really was wanted Abraham to pass this test because Hashem Rashi says Hashem was saying Abraham if you don't pass this test people are going to say the early ones were easy but uh until you do this one you're not really establishing yourself fine next wakes up in the morning and he Saddles his donkey and he takes his two his two young men Rashi says who are there who are they who his two Lads is and Alazar there's a major problem here you learn this every year what in the world is is doing there right before was making trouble he was and S said kick him out of the house and say he went to midb he went to midon so how do he get here to Har Maria he was just kicked out he just went off right the kid ran away from home he went off to the West Indies he's he's serving the Buddha somewhere right with and how did he make it back to Haram Maria no this is this we know was when he said it was either MIT or two his by MIT that the other story now this story is that the story the other Story the one you say happened right away didn't happen right away it happened and he was 13 was 13 that's when she saw him okay so he's off in mid we don't but the say um after 10 years arra made a phone call and he said you know what you're my son it would be nice if you came home for uh for a shabas for yum for a piece of cake for honey and for tea no you don't find any makeup between your chin turkey whatever it is the of that's very nice I'm not burial of ab is not this luk para I have one simple question he kicked him out of the house and we don't find that he came back so why is he how did he come back over here so you say this is a question of the as well look at number five kick him out of the house and what did he do he went to Saudi Arabia he married an Egyptian girl do you find that he came back to to harabas you don't find that you find that that he didn't like the fact that some Jews were on the harabas so he went no right now as far as we know he's on how do he make it back for the this is the question of the how do you get the what that's that's your opinion okay Ella what do you mean he said he didn't know which one of his sons he was going to take but he was told which ones to take that's so why did he take him one question simple question the Tyra says went what it doesn't say he came back right so the question is when did he come back okay so the the says he came home to visit and that night that he came home to visitem said in other words is saying that the happened on visiting day right if you want to know somebody say what day was the rash it was a rash was a yipper it was visiting day it was middle of August right that's what to it happened the day that y happened to come home he hadn't been home in um I don't know what if if the latest the latest was was Mitzvah so then was 26 years old so then he this is the one night that he came home in in 37 years he happened to visit one time in 37 years and pink on the night that he came back for visiting day was the and that is why AB figures to himself ah you happened to come back last night and and this morning Hashem comes to AB and he says take your son so AB says's been here for the last 37 years for the last whatever 27 years right um and and all of a sudden last night came so who does mean he probably means the one night he's here and there was a fight said I can't wait is going to kill and I'm going to be the 40 how old how old was was 37 how old was elzar said no you're already chased out of the you're not going to be the yish so listen to the hash proce over here and I don't think it's a small thing yesal has been out of the house at least 24 years yeah he only came to visit one night as far as we know and dka on that day was the AA it seems to me that hasem wanted to be at the and not to be taken claim today why why why yeah you could make that argument why like the Arabs make the CL then abam says then says he tells stay with the he tells um he tells yma stay with the donkey elzar is a donkey elzar is like a donkey he's an evid and EV is like a so that that comes from is notas after the father in other words the Gentiles are considered in terms of lineage as donkeys thank you well even even so the question is even the Torah says it yeah when he was born okay say a specific point about that okay well because Abraham did not he didn't did not give birth excuse me there are no phone calls sh AB did not give birth AB did not give birth the mother gives birth you want to say it's a trib at first it says by and then later it says so a contradiction first time it says um Ben okay usually it says the mother gives birth in any event here's my my issue and there's a question we discussed this on Monday that very nice are like but why now does the Torah choose to um teach me this Li that in terms of lineage are not considered uh legitimate why daa at this juncture does it Torah teach me this idea this liod that t could have told me anywhere that if the mother is not Jewish then the father's lineage has no meaning why da in the in the the episode of the the Torah emphasizing this the the who were born of the yeah are they considered different in terms of lineage than the uh and the other sisters they were all before mat there were no there were no in terms of what are they are they are they lesser stat yeah L stat I don't think so there were no Jews any there were in general what what was Judaism before the Torah was given there's no Torah so according to maral they they it's like they all converted but were they less are they less than Leia and Le maybe in some way this is also before M this is also before m t so this why wases this question come up here now again all all the we're learning it out from here but just my my question is why at this juncture is the Torah teaching me this Li okay yeah that's up to you okay the let's continue after the AA after that the Mal comes down from heaven and gives a okay the Mal I'll bless you I'll increase your children like the stars and like the sand and your children will inherit the Gate of your enemies and we know that the Torah there two words for enemies they and their and we also know that they're very specific terms them refer to refer to not all the learn that way some learn the opposite number will put these curses on your like M says well about these are the two that we are subjugated by why is called and is worse than a a even if he harms you but he do there is an element of compassion but in he has Eternal hatred there is no mercy at all and then he says okay okay is an and and is a okay we've spoken about this rash says so to me then it sounds like that at the end of the the given to Abraham and his descendants is they would overpower not a word is mentioned about asav the focus is of is so to me didn't exist yet to me this is very indicative of the fact that the AA is Central to the triumph over is first of all you see that in 24 years the only night that Hashem commanded Abraham to do the AA is the one night that yes was home number two number two Abraham was saying you know what is is AAR he never called him AAR before he never called him a after and at the end of the the blessing to of the Mal is you will triumph over your listen carefully this is a Rashi that is not focused on enough the begins after these matters what matters what's after these matters somebody told me they took a when they were in uh in eth grade they were coming into you see you have to understand the so they started with the now that we said and the RAB said and now that we said what the middle I don't know the the kid didn't have didn't prepare what it said before he he just started the has so what do you mean after these words what what are the these words so Rashi brings down a first chot we're going to look at second to last line after the words of what did say had at what age 13 He gloried over when he was 13 years old said you you're nothing you're a wimp you had at 8 days old I'm a man I serve god with M at 13 says are you frightening me with one limb if would have told me yourself before me I would never stop it I I have greater my than you you would only sacrifice one limb I would sacrifice my whole body so I want to say like this the eternal struggle between and is who who is a more dedicated servant of hasem yes is always through his and as we're going to see the says the only has to claim is how do we triumph over that claim Thea Thea where we say not only are we willing to sacrifice that AA we're willing to sacrifice our whole body but they're not so I want to say like this Abraham it's not a test for not just asked for it he just said that if Hashem would tell me to do this I would do it so good Hashem says so do it it's a test he just said he's going to do it there's no test he was just m upon himself he just he was a it's not a test he just said he would do it if said it's not like us we say oh I'll do it says he's going to do it he's going to do it abam never said he's going to do it so it's a test for ab it's not a test for just m the test for abam was the following right before this episode SAR said kick the kid out of the house he's M I want him out and hasem told abah so what was the that abah had was listen to her so abam saying to himself I love isma I like isma he's a great kid shom Bas I got to kick him out Hashem says no no Shalom Bas now I don't want you to think in your mind that the reason you kicked him out is for shom bias you need to show me that you don't value this kid that you're only it's not enough that you're listening to your wife there are a lot of things people do because they listen to their wife but they don't really want to do it Hashem said you demonstrate to me that you don't value your so Hashem listen carefully hasem tells him so says I have two sons hasem said no you don't have two sons my only son I have two only Sons said no you don't I love both of them has said you don't love both of them you're when I say I'm defining that you're that you're that your is and not y That's why I had to make sure yma was here if yma wasn't there the only way to select one over the other is if they're both around if if one of them is away is out of town Yeshiva so the fact that you m doesn't show his Superior superiority over is no I'm going to wait until isma comes back the one day in 24 years that he comes back and I'm going to tell you I don't want him I don't want him you know what you're going to do you're going to take him to the mountain and you're going to tell him don't come you're AAR and in other words what's Thea the AA is the selection of over is the where we're going to bring isal to the mountain and we're going to say you don't come to harabas you're out when it comes to harabas you're a donkey you don't even understand what harabas is my son is my son that I love is my only son is you're AAR by the way look at number 13 look at number 13 the med says the asks he brings down a when they got to the mountain when they sawo the mountain from fire with a cloud on top of it said what do you see so I see he turns to his kids what do you see we don't see anything the donkey doesn't see anything e either you and the donkey are equal so to me this is not just some kind of medish the medish happens to say this is the fight over the claim of and where hasem wants to go up to theas and to be rejected from the haras to the point this is what telling us where is demonstrating is now can't you go here do you even appreciate what harabas is most know to me I don't even see anything say you stay down here you're not connected to this place you have no connection to Haria this is the the superiority of and the and the slaying Stakes of this doesn't even understand doesn't even see doesn't even recognize what this place is now listen to this rakov ketki asks that according to Rashi that the AA followed immediately after the conversation between is and where is said I'm greater than you I had B at 13 and said if Hashem would command me to sacrifice my whole body I would do it but if you look in the there's a whole para in between after the of is there's a whole par of a making a peace treaty with a where Abraham makes a deal with a you could live peacefully in and the rash actually learns that immediately follows the episode of the deal with a but according to Rashi that it follows the conversation and then why is there a whole para of in between so look in number 15 in the he quotes rash and on the six line says but the is between these between the and between the conversation with the and it's it's it's a long in terms of years it's very distant many years have passed isn't it so the says we do find similarly in by the says the sold it down to and then it interrupts the par with the story of and then it says so it completely diverts its attention and the reason over there is because since the story of happened at that time so it brought it at it interrupted um at that juncture so to here says it talks about the birth of it talks about their conversation with is at that time they had a br with and then meaning back to our regular our regularly broadcasted story but the question is but still what's the flow what's the connection between Thea conversation of and theas bris with so everything you said what's the that will even want you to participate no he didn't want it to participate so why did he send them there no because if some if somebody is selected they have to be selected over somebody else if that person is not there they haven't been selected there's no choice it's not show choice I once went to right it's like uh if you're trying out for a job sometimes the people they want a choice don't you can't pick him give us a choice and then we'll pick him if if you won over somebody okay it a selection but people the fact that the person was there and rejected that demonstrates superiority opposed to you's not around so maybe it'll make the claim if I was there I would have been selected so number in number seven where you the so he says which would be yeah why is he calling why why is he why is he equating as the N the same as because when not equating that's what he's refer it doesn't it doesn't before he says when he he went almost equating him I don't okay soob says goob says mention today that why why the say we're not even giving him the credit of his name all we're g he's a n he's a and he's those are his two qualities let the Mal tells you're going to be a yeah a big nation says that until however so you'll think he has no no no the wants you know don't worry about is he doesn't have a real claim to why is that but I thought he has is a very yeah CU you who else lives in is makes AIS with is from what nation you know are called in every time it says the word you know what it calls them so what are they doing they answer is BR doesn't really get you too far the nation which is the epitome of they're also in so lest you think oh AER he has BR who knows when he's going to be get out of the land ready no no no no don't be so afraid of him his is very nebulous it's very it's very flimsy it doesn't it it doesn't stand on strong ground is also there he's the biggest ARL in the world he's the epitome the definition ofos he says the Japanese the in the they're not called only the Philistines are called look so the are the sem ofos and nevertheless they're also n so don't worry don't be so frightened by the mil in other words yes comes to you know who I am am I'm a guy who had mil at 13 years old so the first thing the Torah says is don't be afraid of is's bluff with the mil mil is not a big deal these also so he quotes over here number 41 says 400 years the angel of went the said look and me we have nothing to do with each other he says they could have is sh because of but will rule over is when AR is empty of everything and they're going to stop the Jewish people from settling there and they're going to make great wars in the world at which time Hashem will come up against them and just want to point out and I think this is I did not see this anywhere I think it's a very nice number one why cuz you can't call it a test for was ma upon himself he said he would do it all of a sudden says do it now say I should do it it's a big challenge it's a big test who said do wasn't bluffing he said he's going to do it then wasn't for him number two I think you could read the words wanted to emphasize to Abraham that don't give me this business you have two B don't you tell me you have two don't you tell me no when I say he's your Ben and no other he's your Y and no other he's no other and Abraham passed this because the first thing he does is he says you know you're you don't understand bias you don't see the kadus then you have no connection to it why did Hashem make it that that isal had to be there like we said the whole purpose of the is the Triumph of so the had it that it was visiting day and that is why it comes out very beautiful the that Abraham is given at the is if you want to know what's the triumph over we don't say anything about we don't say anything about okay we're not done we're not done but by the way by the way it comes out I did some research yesterday uh it's pretty well known that the have a different version of the story not all of them between the tip but but they have a big problem here because uh why is it that the one story in tanak that they distort is this story because this is the biggest Thea is the biggest Thorn on their side after all this is the point of contention is says I'm greater than I'm more of a I had at 13 years old and said no no no no no if hasem would tell me to sa so this is the entire schug up to is that's why it's so important for them to distort the story that's how they have to they have to distort the facts okay now let's move to another aspect of uh the the eternal struggle between isal and and this is last week's para okay and we're going to come back to we're going to come back to this so Sarah canot conceive and he tells abam the idea Liv with I'll I'll have a child from her when sees that she conceived she looked down on sah she mistreated Sarah Rashi brings down what did she say about SAR to me this is a very powerful rash very striking rashi rashi says in number 17 she says this Sarah her inside is not like her outside she shows herself like a sad but deep down she's not aad ah she was married to this guy for so many years she never conceived and me one night I married to him and I was by the way is not is that not the Eternal of is they always say oh the Jews they think they're the righteous ones but they're not as good as they think they are I mean it's myself that was Hagar's tin look at number 18 AB said this do with her whatever you want so what does s do s overworks her she causes her pain she causes her she mocks her s distresses insults haar so haug runs away and the mouth tells hauger you're going to have a child Hashem heard your voice he he's going to be a in other words you have a problem already called him AAR he's a param Sayan why do we have to suffer for thousands of years from this say ran I don't know what Ran's Mak is what his source is but the ran feels that SAR acted inappropriately she caused Hagar distress she caused her anguish because SAR caused pain to hug her for thousands of years we suffer from hug our son the didn't say anything AB should have said why are you mistreating her she's a human being was your idea in the first place that I should be with her so why now why why you why you mistreat AB should say why you mistreating her AB should have followed the lead of uh of the liberals so you know you can't cause them pain you can't cause them anguish heard her cry you know why we have distress you know why we read in the news terrible stories CU s caused hugar pain that's the opinion of ran but many disagree with ran and many say what do you want from the poor girl she caused hug or pain who started start who started right the P says she wrote in the newspapers the Holocaust denial she denied us she denied s's uh righteousness and so you say but still s can't take back n no the SM says that if someone causes you insult and pain you're allowed to get back at them it's only if someone causes you monetary damage you can't take revenge but if someone causes you um insult you're allow to insult them back there's no n the r one of the says she worked her hard oh thank you says how could this righteous woman do this which is RA and the answers he hugar started like Rashi says so therefore sorrow is because if you look in the SM the SM rights in the of that if somebody insults you you're allowed to insult them back so even though the ran feels this was wrong of SAR to the point where until today we suffer from Sarah's mistake the r says she was justified by the wayel disagrees with ran as well and he says even though SAR the ran says s did says it's not true because it's well known that if you want to correct somebody somebody has a character fla you have to take them to the to the opposite extreme and since hugar was a balas GAA and she was looking down on SAR SAR as her mistress and as her instructor had a insult her back to put her in place so it's a famous raan says did the wrong thing the r and the did the right thing but everybody agrees that hugar did the wrong thing for starting I think the was not that she threw out you throw so many out I think that was why Wasing PR is because she let him go into the desert not what it say reason why we're today I believe is because she was so I just want to point out something we learned this two weeks ago and this is listen carefully the brings down the story that we discussed in says a well-known story from he quotes it from the saer of rakov Sak the that we know that yes at a certain point in time wanted to divorce his wife cuz he felt that he wasn't allowed to stay married to her and he actually separated from his wife and he had in mind he was going to live with his the children would be a he would free her he would free her and then he would free them and he would caser them from being what how how because they're not you can't be AI upon a sh the children are not Jewish the children he had already so how are they no future children future future children yeah no D didn't have it so basically what the sh the sh was very loyal and the sh told yes's wife so yes's wife slipped in the room he thought it was the sh few few weeks later umai is pregnant he accuses her of being maana and they uh they throw her out they chase her out and the child that's born they treat like a m the child is David turns out David was not born from the sh DAV was born from same from is's wife says that AR quoted by this sh who humbled herself before the wife of yesai was a gilgal of Huger and Huger didn't a the first time what was her she looked down on Sarah she elevated herself and she was arrogant and she was not loyal to her mistress so to be the of hug who was not loyal to S she came back again as the sh of the wife of Yi and this time she was loyal to SAR and she gave allowed SAR to go into the room and the of mistreating s she fixed it by being loyal to the Gil of s doesn't say maybe I want to add the following you ready one second the world is not ready to hear it yet commercial we have a commcial one second so I want to say like this there's another a that hugar needs to be M there's another major disaster that Huger caused that she needs to correct you know what that is forget about the fact that she mistreated Sara how about the fact that she brought yal into the world that she doesn't need to correct how about the fact that she brought the into the world I think she needs to correct that also so no listen listen listen hug brought to the H is she going to correct that so she comes back as the gilgal of of who she comes back as the sh of and she says how am I going to correct the fact that I brought is into the world I'm going to make make sure that yes's wife lives with him who's going to come into the world the other in fact we' mentioned many times from the v in the commentary to the sa listen carefully the writes in the commentary to the as well as this is written in the that we have two G we have go is anded anded as is called the is called the takes us out of from is called is called the but is the who's going to take us out of so Huger has more business to take care of it's not enough to rectify the fact that Hagar wasn't loyal to S so now she's going to be loyal to yesai she has major issues to take care of she brought thear into the world she brought the param into the world she's going to correct that how she's going to bring the other the antidote to Y into the world she's going to make sure that D comes into the world oh one last thing one last thing thear says that one day one day the tan were walking on the harabas and they were crying because they saw they saw the foxes on harabas what was Raba doing the exact word he's is and they said why are you laughing he said why are you crying they said why are we crying this is the this is the haras this is a place where and their foxes on the haras and re says that's exactly why I'm laughing that's why I'm so I said recently but I never said here on the um that the says and I heard it from finer I called him up where says it he said he heard it 20 years ago from a ofap and he didn't never found it in the he looked around a little bit I looked around a lot I didn't find it in the either but if anybody know anybody knows out there where this is where but says like this says you know why R was happy when he saw the sh the words wow and when you see on the you know what reaction is it's a it's when you know why because he's a he doesn't see the he doesn't see he has no connection to it's a joke it means the biggest the biggest baseless claim in history is the claim of the shu to the haras they don't even see what's going on they they don't even write they don't even understand this what missing anive he says we're missing an [Music] olive right now I know I can't find this people so they're on this remes but but but says it says it somewhere we're going to find it but the bottom line is thatal has no connection to the haras it's it's nebulous it's tenuous it's not real it's it's a joke it's a joke when Abram said you see what's going on there he said I don't see anything he didn't even see anything that means his claim is baseless the is the Triumph of says I had says is nothing the are also there there a bunch of the only have over here and after that says the triumph over that's why the says the end of the beginning of the end of is the beginning of what's the connection says when Falls then finally will be the ascendency of at the of the we will see the you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by Torah anytime.com