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

this Torah class is brought to you by Torah anytime.com okay here in Hills New York today we have Mish unbelievable material um of course the most prominent aspect of the para is the AA and the begins so the question here that is raised by one of the B There is a of the and he quotes and the obvious question here is just think about what's going on Abraham is given the charge to then Abraham gets to go home and eat chicken soup and get fil the fish and the one being so exactly who was this this is at the very least why do we only say asks the should say not he's not two years old he's a grown adult we're going to be offering novel explanations today don't say oh yeah I heard that once before you never heard this before if you heard don't say what if you heard don't say and if you heard it right don't say anything but you never heard it before take your son your only son the one that you love there's a lot of superlu superfluity in this PK if there is such a word right there's a lot of ver verbosity in this PK if there is such a word the PK has a lot of words take your son your only son the one you love and Rashi explains Rashi yeah there's such a word veras fuity oh okay so take take your son your only son the son that you love take and rash explains why did he have to give so many adjectives just say because when Hashem said take your son AB said what do you mean my son I have two sons take your only son they're both the one that you love I love both of them take so then just what are you beating around the bush so Rashi says Hashem didn't want to startle Abraham a person might think that the reason why Abraham pass in is because hasem confused him and he maybe in a moment of of un instability he made a rash decision no soem brought it on very slow but still alip it seems rather difficult why Hashem had to use all of these adjectives just say or let Hashem say look Abraham I hope you're sitting for this and Hashem could say you know I have a very important why did he have to do it this way if he if he wanted to bring it on slow what's the point there many ways to bring on news slowly if this this is not the only way hasem could have said look Abraham sit down have a tea just relax take a deep breath and then tell him take why daa this way okay so woke up in the morning he saddled his donkey he took his two Ls he split the wood of the he got up he went so who are the that took with him says Rashi he took elazar a person does not leave leave unless he's accompanied by two people it's m half a fell and probably we never thought about this is the following question elazar I understand what he was doing there is what in the world was is doing there hello is anybody reading the T the previous episode s says to AB get rid of this kid no no don't no try don't send him to Yesa for the D get rid of him throw him out of the throw him out of the house no programs no alternative no none of that just get rid of him and the P says he lived in mid he's in Saudi Arabia somewhere wherever midar paron is he's not in the picture earlier what it was 10 years earlier at the most yeah exactly 10 years and we don't hear from him the the PK doesn't say you know it says he went to midbar paron he got married and then by Thea which was he happened to be in the neighborhood at the time or he returned oruo heard a Shear about kids at risk and he decided to take him back into the house no he threw him out and it doesn't say he came back so what in the world was doing therea it says he got married we don't find the big homecoming right if he came back the P should say and and then took him back it doesn't say that so ask this question ask where come from say it was visiting day it was the one night in his entire life that he ever visited his father he was 50 years old so just think about what's happening right because if if um Yak was 37 then he was 50 and when did he throw him out I don't know when he was 13 doesn't say exactly no a little bit no wait I would say at least there's an argument when the the party that s through was yeah yeah either it was two or 13 either it was 3 or 13 either it was 8 Days 3 or 13 yeah yeah so okay after that she threw him out so it's been maybe 37 years it's been a long time and it was one day in the life of that came back that night there is one day a year one day in in a lifetime that is came back to visit Abraham and that night the night a visiting day came to so AB says H it's been 30 years since been in my house and pink look this night Hashem comes me and says take my son therefore says I'm not sure what son you're talking about because you could askha did Abraham really think that maybe hasem meant I mean he knows was right it says s saw he was so and that's why she threw him out so why did it enter ab's mind that hasem means him so now a fight arose yes says now my father will sacrifice and I'm going to inherit isra and all other said no no no you're already off the wall you're already out you're already in Israel they say you're already out I'm the servant and I serve him day and night I'm going to iner him so I cannot help but think that if had it that the night that the commanded Abraham to take that was the one day in the life of that came back to the house I cannnot help but think that it was that wanted to be there in other words you you can not say it's impossible not to think that the AA had something to do with Y being in the house and I'll explain as we go on we move on in the says to his attendants please stay here with the donkey now why all of a sudden is Abraham invoking the donkey just say stay here stay here what's with the donkey why is the the big Lark here the donkey all of a sudden the donkey is like you know one of the Tor the one of the seven natural wonders of the world that that's the landmark that Abraham uses so there's a famous comment of the that from this that if somebody marries a non-jew the child is not after him why the child has a status of a what that's only no also then you saw is any non any non any non Jewish woman and asks why is that alluded to here in other words why are specific Ally teaching me the at this juncture okay it could say anywhere in the tah if you marry a non-jew the kid is not after you it's Z it's not there's no P there's no patrilineal descent the kid is not jees why and specifically that means Abraham was basically saying that this kid is you know who he is you know what he's like you know how I value him him and me to to me he's a and what abah meant was emotionally he why is Abraham saying that now he never called right when was born and he gave him the bris it wasn't isar right and we never find elsewhere Abraham refers to his son as AAR why specifically at this juncture what what you stay with both of them I I don't think we say he's referring to elazar because uh yeah to one to the other referring to specifically is I believe okay after the AA after the comes to Abraham and he says as follows and here's the Clincher I will bless you I will increase your children like the stars of the heaven and like the sand on the sea and your children will inherit the Gate of your enemy and to me whenever I see the word o o always triggers a very specific connotation and that is we have many enemies we have and we have but the word and the word is a very particular and specific reference there's a will put all these curses on your enemies on your and on your that pursue you and we have over here the comment of Ra now the ran disagrees the ran on and as well as we've been learning the Ran's dispute with Pablo christiani we spent a few shum on that not over here in Young Israel but the ran disagrees with this interpretation but and many others including I believe the who are the also prophecied on them and he said these are the two Nations that subjugate us now as we know is called how do we know that because remember when encounters brings down the people call but is the now who's worse say is much worse is worse than because the enemy even though he harms you it could be in somewhat of a merciful manner but has Eternal hat he's he creates unbearable stress and that's comes from a of a the of and a the word and the same exact because when you have an you scream out so who's the so again I cannot help but notice this phrase that Afters your children will herit who are his children the Gate of their enemy but which enemy somehow the AA is the claim is the way that we overcome the challenges of ishma and how is that so again just look at the words of the pum themselves that means Hashem is promising Abraham that through thisa your children children will inherit is and will overcome the Gate of is that means the ascendancy of Cl over is through the AA half love a fellow what's he got to do with the AA so we have a few we have a few deim here number one the PK says T asks why not we were bothered by the fact that what's yal doing there so says he happened to have been there big things don't happen coincidentally says why did have it that that the should D take place the one day that y happened to be visiting and that Abraham should say no yal you're a nothing you're nobody you're AAR let's go back to the beginning of the AA how does the AA begin right after these words what does that mean after what words right there was once a kid he took a test to get into high school you know so before you know all the and you know all the The Raid you got to know the you have to have the so the kid started saying now that we said this so she said now that we said what I don't know I only prepared from the words yeah you have to before you before you know T and you have to know the words of the otherwise now that we now that we after these words after what words says Rashi look the second rashi rashi says the following after the words of Glo over said you think you're Mach cuz you had A8 days old I was 13 years old when I had I didn't say anything you think you're Fring me with one a if God would have said Slaughter yourself in other words says if comes to me and says Slaughter yourself I wouldn't refrain I wouldn't stop him in other words according to Rashi did a followed a debate between and says to you're a nothing you think you're aad you think you're a you think you're an evem I'm an evem I have mil at 13 years old and I don't protest you had it against your will big deal says I'm greater than you you're right you had it at 13 but if God would tell me today to slaughter myself to give up my life I would do it so RAB said we see to tremendous you st this from here number one that means what was the function of the AA the purpose of the AA was for to demonstrate to is that you are not EX that I'm a I am greater than you in I am greater than you in my ability to serve hasem I am a greater servant of God than you are you serve Hashem only with one a I serve Hashem with my entire life in other words the Eternal debate the eternal struggle between as and Y is who is the more dedicated servant of God and yesma says it's me I had the m at age 13 after by the way we're going to see in the Z that is's right is is through his so what is our Counterattack our our counter attack is AA big deal you have we have complete I never saw this anywhere and I think it's m that's question is what do you mean the bigger test was not a test to how can you call that a test if somebody gets up and says I if God would tell me to slaughter I would do it and then Hashem tells him that's the guy just made an another he was he said he committed he used that as an argument to is he promised so he has to keep his words not like you know when we say we're going to do something this just gave his word he told if were to tell me I would do it so you can't call it's not he just committed himself he just was manad there but know you never promised anything never said I'm in on the deal so it's you can't call it this is just said he's going to do it he just committed himself he just somebody makes a they're going to do something good so they're accountable they say re why you testing me you asked for it you volunteered okay but this is very important let's talk a little bit about um two issues if you look at the flow of the then there's a major problem because if you're going to say that the AA is in the aftermath of the debate between and is that means right after had a says to look at me you're a nobody then the should be in the tah right after the of is wasn't what okay what whenever they had it was in the aftermath of their mil right in other words after the mil of is if you look in the Torah if you look in the tah that's not what that's not what appears there's a there's another episode in between in between the BR of is and is the Treaty of and they come to and they said let's make a peace treaty and in fact the r says that is in the aftermath of abah making a treaty with a and the rasham says one second here I gave you ER Israel for Jews to be in not for you to be having peace deals with Arabs if you're going to make peace deals with Arabs then I will tell you to kill your son says the rashbam said the rashbam says that when you make peace agreements with other nations in Israel Hashem says I'm going to torture you you don't make treat I didn't give you is for you to be um bend over backwards to the UN I gave you Israel to for you to occupy and nobody else should be there that's what rash says that the says rash is a of prick prickling him torture has tortured Abraham Hashem said abah I gave you Isel you have no right to make deals so the according to rashbam by the way the rashbam feels in general that he is and you see how it flow beautifully from one episode to the next AB makes the peace treaty Abraham but according to Rashi that the in the aftermath of the bris so then why does the Torah interject with this episode of the peace treaty with a and that's a Kasha that rakov ketki deals with in the msov in number 15 let us just segue in the following way look look at number abrahamu is going with to and it says and we know the word could also refer to hasem so rash brings down they saw un they saw the so basically Abraham aino turns to elzar turns to is and he says Hey guys do you see what I see and they say huh say what we don't see anything so says so wait a second I see the Unown see the unkown you guys see nothing so guess what guess what you and the have in common that when it comes to kadus you are as spiritually handicapped as thear you and the donkey are basically on the same adga he don't see the you don't see we see that's what prompted abrahamu too to make that comment look in look look at number 13 when saw the place we see nothing you and the donkey are all the same by the way the Met says the same thing you don't see anything thear doesn't say see anything you're like AAR say you know what's going on here in par the tells us this is ROV quotes it in his footnote in number 41 look at number 15 look at number 15 um in the footnote of of Ms number 41 that the that has in is of his right the says look number in the footnote in 15 right in the emak number 15 there's a footnote number 41 and Bel here's the the angel of stood up for 400 years someone who has a has a in your name because of their in other words you know what you know why has control of the Holy Land because of and return they're going to create great uh wars in the world and ultimately Hashem will demonstrate his superiority and his Mal against and will come but what the is saying is what's the you have to understand what is the function of and Thea you smile gets oh gets so says I'm a big kner now now is is mine but more than is is mine the is mine the haras belongs to me this is this is the of is this is the claim of is is says to to do you think you're a big evem of course not you had Mila at 8 days old I had Mila at 13 I had Mila at 13 years old so comes the tah and the Tor says like this the first thing you got to know is let's talk about the peace treaty between Abraham and a a was not any ordinary Arab he was ay oh what is the distinguishing characteristic of ptim what are you always called in everywhere where is is um mentioned they're always called AR is that really interesting um if that's the case says but by the way how do I know that if you look and say okay that should be good enough so in other words the symbol of of arelos of uncircumcision is the py so the first thing the T wants you to know is don't get too caught up in the fact that yal has a bris and that's why he's probably going to have and you're probably all all worried and scared he's going to have this really strong control of says that the is not that important the are also there and there there there's no AR like the that's the the is don't get too scared that has this and the is like the critical ingredient to because don't worry the they are the quintal but here's where we come in and we want to suggest as follows and andu are battling over who are the true who's the true who controls the Holy Land who therefore controls Y and the har and they have this argument and yes says to look I had the at 13 and says I'm a much greater I have it in my potential it hasn't been actualize yet and hasem says well let's actualize it right now and you know what ab's thinking to himself saying to himself do we really have to do this I already threw isal out of the house anyway so isn't it clear isn't it clear who I selected isn't it clear that I hold that Y is my real continuity not is and Hashem says no it's not clear because you didn't want to throw him out you so but AB said but I did it it's because I told you you know why you threw him out cuz your wife told you to there are so many things that we do that we don't really want to do and we just do cuz our wife tells us to do it Hashem says you never selected over all you did was you listen to your wife because I told you to we got to do this over I don't care that you threw him out I'm bringing him back to the house AB said back to the house he's been gone for 37 years no no no don't worry I'll work it out I'm going to give one day in the entire lifespan of of and yesma then I'm going to bring yma back to the house and I'm going to tell you take your son and Abram says I have two sons and Hashem says no you don't no you don't not theat only Hashem was bringing it on slowly Hashem saying we're going to demonstrate now you didn't it's not that you threw out the other kid because your wife you need to believe that you have one son and you only have one son and you only have one son that you love and Hashem said okay AB says fine yeah Hashem says no problem I'm waiting for y to come back your small comes back and they're both in the house and they're both in the house and ab gets the command and Hashem says I want you to take so AB says no problem no problem I'll just take it Hashem says no no it's not good enough just take it you need to bring both of them and you need to leave one of them behind said all right I'll leave one of them said no no no not just one leave one you need to take one and say to the other one you pal you're AAR not just your better not just your Superior you have been selected and you are rejected not because I listen to S because I understand that you have no connection to is you have no connection to the harabas you don't even know what harabas is because I have to ask you do you see the harabas and you're going to admit no I don't even see anything over here and ab is forced to say you don't even know what a harabas is you don't even see a temple man you don't even see and I'm going to say you know what regarding you and are all the same that's Thea the AA is proving to the world that is connected to the and not is just he just you know he came in a close second yes is not in the ballpark and it's amazing thing even the Christians don't tamper with the Old Testament but the they have the that the one episode that they're so vehemently opposed to and they actually change is they take the AA and they say who was brought as the AA why are they so to to get into because this is the superiority and the ascendancy to claim harabas belongs to us they understood this year you see maybe they heard this year before they understand that the battle between and the concept of is the battle over harabas and therefore they they got to get yal into the story it's amazing thing that's why we suggest at the end of the what does the say this AA this Misa demonstrates that you you will inherit your enemy but not just as has nothing to do with this battle as is not relevant to the Thea of the demonstrates ascendancy to the right to through the of the because when it comes to the harabas could look at it he doesn't even see it he doesn't even recognize it that's how little connection he has with it K said we're just getting we're just getting warmed up just getting started let's take it to the next level take a look at this and he came to and she conceived remember in the beginning in the middle of so didn't have any children with s so he comes he lives withar and she conceived and she sees that she conceived and her mistress became lowly in her eyes RAB say if this does not epitomize the the if this is not if this is not the classic claim of the Arab world what does what does Hagar say to SAR s she's a hypocrite she's a faker she's not the way she really is she puts on a better front she shows herself as if she's righteous but s must not be righteous here she's living with Abraham decades and decades and decades she never conceived and I lived with him the first time it's very difficult for a woman to be and I lived with AB first time and I'm already pregnant it must be I'm a much bigger sadas right this is like the classic the classic false accusation of the Arab we're the true the true righteous Nation okay this is M fast in your seat Bel s is very upset with Abraham says I don't understand I gave my to you and now you're treating me to here is my maid servant just do whatever you want to her Afflicted her and she ran away s inflicted her s insulted her s pain her why do we suffer today from the Arabs why does Hashem punish us why does Hashem afflict us why does Hashem pain us today says ra it's for this act that s did SAR caused hug because SAR caused hug now I don't know the Ran's I don't think it's in the sometimes ran will quote from but the ran is saying see we don't have a right to say that if the did something that it was an infraction but ra raan says that s a by causing says not only the fact that AB let her do this listen to her pain and therefore he gave her a son who should be a wild to pain the seed of in other words every time you seeu in the news s from our cousins and why why what did we do it's an age- old thing it goes back to it was s somebody she calls another woman frightening words of ran but you should know not everybody agrees with ran tus in the r tus says P says look at number 20 just bear with me it's m you you'll really appreciate this says look number explains how could s do this says the you know why wait wait a second who started it says that she looked down on S she had a right to inflict her why because don't you know the SM even though we take revenge that's if somebody causes you monetary pain you can't insult them back but if someone insults you the smog pins your M you're allowed to insult them back because it's very difficult for a person to be insulted and not to not to try to take some some of Revenge that's says that there's a that if somebody insults you what do you mean don't insult your friend this guy's not my friend by the way quotes the ran quotes the ran listen to this look at number 21 because of s sinned the says it's not true SAR didn't sin cuz we have a rule that if someone has a bad maida the way to overcome it is you take them to the Other Extreme so Huger was this big balas GAA was very arrogant was very um ostentatious so what did what did s do you're a nobody she made her wash the you know wash the the dirty socks right says s didn't do a she insulted s okay get ready for this gave you gave me in his quotes a of a student of the rash rakov Sak um somebody actually send me an email if I want to get the the sparm of sili the answer is yes and I tried to email you back but it didn't go through Rak Sak who's a student of the Raj says something and by the way the ARA also says it quoted in the past from the ARA that what happened yesai was married to David's M David's mother and yesai had tremendous and yes said what if do is right what if if what if all of the challengers uh of David H are correct what if my grandmother R was so now all my children are moabites and they're not Ro so you what ining himself including himself but his children he maybe plenty of money was right plenty of money said so the Rak Sak and the Aral say that yesi told his wife it's been a wonderful life together and they separated he then went to yes's yes then went to his and he said I'm going to live with you our children will be a and they will not have the the uh stigma of moabit and I'll free them and then I'll be mo my children this is brought down in the it's brought down in the brings it down in so she said fine but she was very close with Yi's wife so she told Yi's wife about the plan so thought it was the sh coming into the room and the sh told yes's wife and it was yes's wife that came into the room and yesi lived with his wife and she deceived guess who few months later they see yes's wife is pregnant the sons of yes who knew yes was parished from their mother said she was ma cuz she didn't have a get yet they wanted to kill her said not a good idea then people are going to be and when David was born they pass he's a and that's what it says and they wanted to throw him to the dogs and they did that's nice and they didn't know he was a until came and said not only he a k he's next brought down in many including and in a number of places and the brings it down right here on your sheet but then the adds one little PR which is you know who do we have to thank for you know who do we owe a great debt of GRA to yeah but you know who really ow is cleaning lady because if she would not have told her mistress about this plan we never would have had a David we never would have Messiah she was herself to her mistress says in the name of the you know who this maid servant was was this made servant was a Gil of haar and she came back to this world to correct a big infraction what was you know what Hagar's big was that she insulted SAR this is going with the that Sor wasn't to blame it wasar who was so she came down to this world to do what to correct now she's herself who I guess was s and then everything worked out and she was this so comes out in an unbelievable thing cuz I'm thinking about this wow that's amazing that according to the rim that haar insulted s hugar did this it needed to be corrected and it was corrected by who it was corrected by the of yes who was able to be but you know come to think of it if you're thinking about what things Hagar needs to correct I would put the fact that she insulted SAR a little bit lower down on the list I mean I would think the main thing that she needs to correct is the fact that she brought Aur into the world she brought in this this param into the world I mean isn't that something she needs to correct so then it hit me an a credible idea maybe she corrected that as well how's that it's uh brought down in the commentary to SAA and it's brought down in many other places you know we have a concept of why do we need two mhia we have enough trouble of trying to identify one Mia you know now two Mia and the says it's because we have two G we have Galos Ed and Galos is and each Galos needs salvation and you know what is as called in thees as is called the sh asav is called the sh okay as is called the ax the the and what's Hisar called so that means is the G of the and is is the G of thear by the way that's why you know Cen and he are also the sh and thear that's why you can't plow with the sh and AAR together cuz when AAR come together you get by the way am and that's bad news and that's the cabalistic reason why you can't you can't plow with AAR together the says together produces am I think I've said over that I found in my grandfather's Memoirs of the Holocaust that when he was in alitz he sawman andman inv invited a special guest to alitz to watch the Jews be tortured who's that the Muti from Jerusalem and my grandfather and the arm in- arm laughing as they would March Jews in front of them and hit the Jew in a way that the Jew would never be able to have children and that was and they were laughing my grandfather said he saw when he saw and he saw the saw together he saw amik that's what the the writes that's the and the that's the combination of the Y and the donkey in fact the grub Rings down over here that's Kim SE whose carbon was se he he brought the the um the ram the Sam that's why when as and want to be M together it's bad news says the now here's here's a clincher that's the of the who's going to take us out of and who's going to take us out of is what is the other is the that takes us out of go by the way which goas is last and we'll see the says is the last but it comes out then because what is responsible for not just hugar is responsible for bringing thear into the world so she comes back to the world as who as the of and she's herself to be to be the fact that but guess what else she's she was the one who created so that she brought the into the world she orchestrated and set up the event to allow into the world she brought the into the world the of to get rid to eradicate to eradicate yesma by the way I just point out look at number 25 but I'm not done I'll just point out if you look at the end of it says about Falls at the end of days that's when will come so here the bat is saying again who will rescue us who will Sprout forth from G we have a story at the end of where all the tan are sitting in the harabas and what happens the tan are crying the tan are very moved the tan are are hurt the fact that and what's R's reaction's reaction is R is laughing and the question is what is Raba laughing about and the main question is who are these Shu Li on the harabas so I found I found in the saer Al Al B was written by Vali who's a t of of M who writes that you know who these Shu are the word shu is and when you see you know laughing about the fact that he sees what's reaction you see is is the biggest joke in the world for to be on the har ask what do you see on the I don't see anything their appreciation their perception of kadus is on the same level as the the biggest joke in the world is to see but what was RAB happy about because R knows that in order for to come it's it's first 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