Parshas Vayeira: The Malbim Reveals What Really Happened at the Akeida

this store class is brought to you by torahanytime.com there's a loaded Parsha there are many interesting episodes and topics in Patches by Era but the most prominent topic is the Acadia at the end of the parisha and what I'd like to do today is focus on a few aspects of the acada that maybe are unknown and primarily it's a focus on the commentary of the malbum and we'll see the malibim was one of the acronym he was born in the year 1800 passed away in the year 1880 and uh he was orphaned at a very young age and at the age of 20 already he started writing his first save for the Arts he was a robin many different kihilos here for five years there for seven years there for another 15 years until finally he had enough of the rapunis you know he said enough ready and he decided he was just going to sit and learn and his wife had a store a wine store and she was going to support him because actually he uh he he had a big yarusha the big inheritance fell to him so he figured you know he'll be able to sit and learn and one time his wife's partner in the business swindled her out of the all her money got very upset and he uh he calls him up to the Torah and he said I want you to know you took away my livelihood I'm not Michael you that week the man went to the Next Room the malvin was one of the good Doyle Islam in fact the briskers even say there are three acronym that have the power of Rishon you know everyone understand of course okay by the way in the mouth when the Melbourne was nifter and the cover qadisha came in they could not deal with the body because it emanated a powerful light and they had to wait some time before they they uh were metapo with the body okay so we're gonna learn a few very important insights to them and we begin with the beginning of the Arcadia Pericles yeah it was always going to be a chief Rabbi of New York but he was very very old very good he was offered the position okay if you look in Perry Club Bays plastic Olive says Shem I'm ready immediately picks up on the fact that there are many phrases here that are Superfluous Jose take your truck we all know your success son he's the only one the one that he loves why does Hashem you know stretch out the point your son your only son the one that you love why all these specifications that sums it all up sarashi says that Hashem first said take your son Sarah said which one I have two I have you talk have you smile sashem said you're only one so avram said I have two only ones this one you smell is the only one of Hagar and yitzuk's the only one of Sarah Hashem said I shall I have to that you love I don't say I love both of them she says why doesn't do it like that he didn't want to shock him if Hashem would come and say go take well you know that would have been like too startling for avraham and perhaps avraham Rashi says would have uh in a moment of uh of almost shock he would have gone ahead with the Nissan without having thought it through so Hashem wanted him to have done it with a clear with a clear mind however the malbum says something very important and that is what was the purpose of the Akita the purpose of the akedah was for avraham to show himself to show Hashem to show the world that despite what a person loves the greatest love in the world is the love for the evanish that's that love should be foremost in our heart now what would have happened if when Abram was about to shut he said I can't do this on what am I doing okay uh let me block this out of my mind you know uh this is uh this is not my son okay it still would have been a great challenge but it wouldn't have been it would have minimized the new Scion or what if avraham would have said okay uh you know I'll make believe I don't love him or I'll make believe he's not such a great kid that would have minimized an essay on Hashem said no when you do the arcade I want you to focus on certain things you know what I want you to focus on focus on the fact that he's your son don't block that out of your mind if you're gonna black it out of your mind you sort of uh render pointless the honey Scion I want while you're cheating think about the fact he's my son not you right but you know I don't have to worry so focus on the fact this is your son and not only focus on the fact that your son focus on the fact this is your only son because Ishmael technically even though he is avraham's son is not is not traced after avraham and we'll see why focus on the fact that you love him don't forget about the fact that you love him and the more you think about how much you love him the greater the gift that you're giving me because when you give when you give a king a gift the more you appreciate what you're giving up the more you're giving and don't forget about the fact that he's Yitzhak that he's the god of so these are things that the ma'am says that Hashem wants offer him to concentrate on in other words to make the nisayon complete and perfect don't forget about the fact that these you're overcoming these things don't black these things out of your mind you're overcome think about how much you love him how great he is how he's your only son and then the Abbas Hashem will come all the way even to conquer that interesting the archaima cutter says that these three specifications correspond to the three ways in which we have to love Hashem we say in Krishna the after such with all your possessions and Hashem was saying all these three things in you and you avraham are expressed to your son you love him and yet you're gonna give it up for me okay they have something very interesting avraham he heads off to haramaria and he takes two two attendants with him who does he take he takes Eleazar and ishma and he says to Eliezer and Ishmael if you take a look in pasok hey you you guys stay here with the donkey you guys stay here stay back with the donkey I have to go take care of some personal business why they don't mention the name they mentioned donkeys they don't mention the names so everyone said stay here with the Donkey and the gamaran kadushan says something very interesting avram wasn't just saying stay back here with the donkey because then he could have just said stay back here you know what everyone was saying you are like a donkey you you smile you're like a donkey meaning what and what that's not the biggest compliment you could give to your child right but what he was saying and that is the same way when it comes to a donkey the lineage of the father is irrelevant we don't care who the donkey's father is there's no such thing as fatherhood when it comes to donkeys it's the mother the father who knows who it could be right the same way avram was saying there's no lineage there's no yes when it comes to hamar you Ishmael have no lineage in other words you're not connected to me because when a Jewish woman excuse me when a man lives with a shifra right a Slave if a Jewish man lives with a non-jewish slave the child is not related to him it's not connected to him he's a guy and he's not related so therefore you know what Abraham was saying to smell you you smile you know your mother is Hagar I lived with hugger but I want you to know just like a Samar just like a donkey has no relation to the father there's no yikos to the father there's no we don't attribute the child to the father so to you your smile I'm teaching you you are not related to me meaning not just stay back with the donkey but I'm teaching you and that is when a man lives with a shift the child is like a donkey right the child's not only so the question is that the basalavi asks that okay it's a very nice very interesting what does it got to do with the akeda why is avraham choosing to teach this at this juncture what does this have to do with anything uh stop fighting who's gonna be the hair oh you smell you smell did not know what Abraham was about to do but listen to itself he says that avraham was about to slaughter her son the challenge of that is much greater if avraham thinks this is my only child but so long as avraham thinks himself okay you know it's not a good thing to shock your child but at least I have you smile so that really minimizes in this ion so you know what Abraham is doing he wants to do this test pass this test with flying colors and give up everything so you know he says to himself avraham you should know that this child is not related to you he's not your son he's so what does avraham say your smile stay back with the donkey in other words in the in the eyes of Hashem and according to Allah you're like a donkey you're not related to me and therefore when I'm going to shake it will be as if I'm shifting my only child this was all part of avraham working on himself that when he gives up Yitzhak it's not just he's giving up a child he's giving up his only child because there's no comparison between someone who gives up a child and someone who gives up their only child okay last week we discussed that in the Marsha and also this you should call them okay we'll rewrite it they say here's another thing we're going to think about and that is why would avraham tell your smile and Eleazar stay back why do you tell them to stay back why don't you take them with him why are you taking them with him I didn't see okay so why is there a reason not to take them says them Alvin says the album something very interesting the malum says kept the entire Torah before it was given how did avraham avino keep the tar before it's given how did you know about all the missiles so he says something very interesting avraham avinos nashama was so pure and Polished and clear and on cloudy that his nashama was like a reflection of God above so for most people the nashama is clouded with the yay Sahara with their own personal agenda with taiva with Desire with all kinds of muddiness and cloudiness avram avinus nashama but the malbam claws something which is very interesting we could think about he calls it aspaklaria which really is a term only used by Musa it was like a clear lens and that means whatever God wanted was reflected on the nisham of avramovino he would wake up in the morning and he would say I could do whatever Hashem wants you know why because I know what Hashem wants it's reflected so I remember being a sat in the sukkah because he knew if Hashem wanted it Adam ravino had it planted on anshama he ate matsan pieceville and he wore Talus and there's one thing ivanovina went around doing more than anything else and that is he promulgated the idea that idolatry is bogus it's false it's Checker it has no basis and it doesn't make any sense and especially what's the most illogical thing about idolatry is the fact that in those times people would constantly sacrifice their children to their idols and alvordino said no this is not something God wants and they would say how do you know everyone say I know I know he knew that logically and he really knew he really knew that's not something that God wanted and then one day avrah mavino gets a message right he gets Hashem says avram I want you to take your son and Slaughter him Adam said what one second I thought I always knew what you wanted so avram said let me you know check my nishama let me check the program it wasn't there so I don't really know what's going on I always know what God wants and intuitively and logically and through this process this is something God doesn't want and yet God told me to do it so this was something that avram was extremely ashamed of where his whole life he's teaching and preaching that this specific Act is something God detests and abhors and finds disgusting and now he's forced to shift his own son aravina says look I gotta do it God told me but I don't want anybody to see he was embarrassed he doesn't want anyone to learn from it and he's embarrassed how this went against his entire career and therefore avram tells Elias and you Schmo uh you stay behind to have some business to tend to okay let's move on a little bit I just want to throw out something very interesting and that is there's a missionary Kiva says [Music] yeah he knew he knew he was supposed to shock the attack [Music] okay we'll have to see I just want to throw out one thing there's a mission says that rubikiva said he knows he has a tradition that any mountain in Earth Israel any tall mountain any tall Hill every tree was idolatry was served on that mountain and that hell Akita says if you look it's in the number five Amara vikiva might say it's ran on any mountain any Hill any leafy tree what does that mean Idols were served there in the times of the Canadian was rampant and every mountain in Israel Idols were served so ask tysus what right we'll have to leave that for later that's what the mission said um uh one second I'm gonna interrupt you because we say we're not we're going to leave time for questions and then we're gonna take after okay if you don't mind I apologize the mission says Every Mountain I doubt you will survived so toasters asked the question tosus asks then how could we build the base hamiktas because where was the ways to make this belt hi I'm Maria so the Rebecca says Every Mountain Idols were served on and if Idols were served on it that renders it unfit it's like a church can't make a show but you can make it you can make a short Church yeah if uh if the church goes bankrupt if you do it through a process but on a mountain no no that's only this is different because if the mountain was served as idols according to the opinion that never becomes our itself you can't make a basement because the mountain itself becomes another so that's ptosis's question but you're allowed to make it let's say for instance an animal that was served as an idol nothing you could do it's never it's also about enough forever so the question is if New Jersey that's because that's different because the building itself was not served as I was served in it in it not it was served if something is objective an object that is served yeah that okay so that's tosa's question told us this answer is a very interesting answer that it was made into the basement through the navi through the prophet what does that mean it doesn't mean it was made into the base into the basement is doing nothing what's that supposed to mean sofa rights in a tuba some silver riots in the name of his rebbe anyone know who the Sam sofas Ravi was there's nothing Adler and he says like this the matters tells us that when avraham avinu was looking for the place that God wanted him to check the islaq he looked at it and it wasn't there you know why because there was no manth in there it was a valley it was an amec and avram says to himself what this is the future place of the base I make gosh God doesn't rest in a valley in a pit God should rest on a mountain Abraham Davin says and God turned it into a mountain so the matter says that at first it was a pet it was an AMAC and avram said what it's not covered other than Islam for God to rest in an Amic so Abraham Davin and Hashem turned it into a mountain says it comes out that it's true Every Mountain Accord was served as an idol but if let's say somebody comes into a shul and starts worshiping it they can't prohibit they can't make it awesome because it belongs to us you can't prohibit something that belongs to someone else so since avraham navino was the one who turned it into the mountain and the first thing that was done on that mountain was the Acadia so therefore very nice the goyam came later and made Abu dazara out of it they can't do anything we already staked our claim at the very Inception of it being a mountain it was already turned into the a mukum of of worshiping Hashem and therefore you knowatosis means that it was determined where the base Amiga should be based on a navi because like this you can only build a basement just on a mountain but you can only use a mountain that was once a valley and turned into a mountain Who would know that only a navi that's what it means so actually this time miktash was built on haramaria because it was the only Mountain that turned into a mountain okay that's just a side point of Interest let's come back to the Arcada for a moment okay look at number 10. an amazing an amazing madrish the mattress tells us the view this says the following once the sword touched the neck of Yitzhak um passed away not like you learned in kindergarten right in kindergarten you learned avram takes its look up to the Al Qaeda and he's about to shut them avraham don't do anything oh okay fine uh everything's wrong says the mattress no it's not wonderful Yitzhak died as the night knife was about to hit him he died just he passed away however so when did he come back to life when the voice of God Was Heard emanating from between the two proven the Amar and it said don't touch the kid his soul returned right he unties the knots he gets up hey it could happen foreign so here's the question question is why did Hashem have that happen that way Hashem didn't want avraham to kill yourself that wasn't his intention his intention was bring him up once you brought him up you passed the test so why would Hashem have it that avram got to the point where you clock for whatever got so scared that he actually died says the Malden an amazing thing by the way my color says something else that maybe we'll get to maybe we won't says the mouth of an incredible thing does anyone Remember When avraham heard the report that he was going to have children what did avraham say it can't be why not cool I'm too old and Adam said I know it can't be why he looked on the stars and he saw in his astrological Stars we spoke about this the night of hoshanarama he saw right there's a concept that God guides the world through the masalas he saw Abraham will not have children I see it's not possible don't worry I'll make a miracle it's true the astrological sign seems to say you won't but I will make a miracle that you will say some album that means that naturally the natural makeup of the universe is that YouTube should not exist that Abram should not have a child that the Stars would like to see the destruction of Yitzhak that means all forces of nature would like to see him be obliterated but Hashem is making a miracle that means every second while the forces of nature are trying to destroy avraham's descendants God is making Miracle after Miracle to allow Yitzhak to exist however says amavam if God is making America that means God will only make the Miracles so long as Yitzhak and his ascendants deserve it as long as they deserve the miracle if God has to make a miracle God will only do it if they deserve the miracle but the moment they stop deserving the miracle God will say look I can keep on changing nature and the force of nature will come crashing down and that will be the end of the Jewish people what about yourself well what about the summer every all the descendants of Iran okay so what does Hashem do Hashem says yeah this is not this plan of making a miracle to allow Yitzhak to exist despite the force of nature we got to come up with a better plan Hashem says I will let the forces of nature have what they want what do they want they want to say yes not here he's not here anymore now you is returned he has a nunashama this is a difference when Utah got up again that wasn't the same there was a new creation that was a new creation of the Jewish people who is not controlled whatsoever by the force of nature is not the laws of nature we're not allowed to get this they're out to get the audience you know I was able to do the miracle long enough but I need a better system the better system is New Year you number two okay new and improved that's how the mountain learns why they're they're okay yeah man this metamorphosis it was a new creature so it was it was totally new thing I don't know I know but listen to them listen to the mountain says if you notice if you look in the Arcada before what is God called Kim I like him then it continues but yeah they said um after after avraham takes the sword against returns Hashem why because Ellie Kim represents nature until the entire was Hashem saying the laws of nature want to see Yitzhak not exist that's what's going to happen but as soon as that happens above the laws of nature now Hashem says I've created a cloudy soil that exists above the laws of nature so until the beginning of the akedah hashem's name is only yellow Kim after yes Now The Madam says uh something incredible does anybody remember tall dice the end of YouTube's life it says his eyes were dimmed why were his eyes dim right at the end of his life he had a hard time saying why so as she says because at the Arcada the malachim are crying the Angels were crying and the tears of the Malachi went into yitzlak's eyes and they they dimmed his eyes so the mama wants to know why were the malachim crying at the acada what were they crying about well they crying why were they crying expect me to get uh were they crying this is what I've shown once what they were sad they were they were they had they were warm and mushy Malacca and they're a nice fuzzy why were they crying so why do you change his mind I want to know why with my luck I'm crying because Donald Trump didn't want it and he was misreading it so are they crying my lesson about compassionate am I looking at feelings so what are they crying because he's doing the wrong thing well every time someone does the wrong thing my welcome cry every time everybody when every time I run doesn't have air malachim cry another question take a look in the second looking good babe stop it you want to open the windows here plus a good base says don't send your hand toward the child don't do anything to him because now I know that you're God fearing and you have not withheld your son your only son from me right me many from me what's talking about now I know you're God fearing why because you have not withheld your son from me what do you mean from me avram wasn't bringing its like to the malach mean now I know you're gut feeling because why because you have not withheld your son from me what do you mean from me ever it should say from Hashem what do you mean you have not withheld your son from me no the Malik is talking the Malik is talking what is it what does it mean now I know you got it because he had not with all your stuff but Abram was bringing the child to the Malachi says the mountain something incredible every time a person does a mitzvah you create a malach right in fact the Marsha says anybody here ever hear that commodity in the way that you want to go Maurice and also they bring you who's delay to say ah says in my shot every time you think something good every time you say something every time you do something good you create a malach and these malachem escort you in that way you do a Mitzvah you create a mouth the malachim help you continue to do more missiles you do an aveira you create a mouth these Malachi bring you in the other way every so that means like this avraham got up early in the morning created a mouth he took the wood created a mouth he sat on the donkey created a mouth he walked every footsteps hundreds of thousands of malachem are created on the way to do the akeda now the the only way to create America is if you're doing a Mitzvah if what you're doing is not a Mitzvah if it's a navera you're not going to create a good malach so like this all of these malachim knew that at the end of the day God did not want avraham knew that so which means that so long as avraham is not going to all of these actions of avraham are actions of preparation leading up to amitza so whenever I'm Sarah the donkey it was a Mitzvah as long as doesn't eventually kill yitsuk if he's going to kill Yitzhak then it turns out that everything that avraham did was in Avera and retroactively all of these acts of preparation were nothing so the mouth was created when he woke up early in the morning another mouth was created when he settled the donkey when he got the wood when he got the knife until avraham was about to shut the Yitzhak and then the malachim are wondering if he's going to Chef Yitzhak we will self-destruct we will no longer exist why because that means all of these acts were not an act of doing the will of God they were an act leading up to murder because we know God doesn't want him to kill him we know God only wants Adam to bring him up so if avram goes through with the ACT then retroactively all of his acts of preparation will have been because they're about to be destroyed the malachim they weren't crying for Yitzhak they're crying for themselves why would they get yeah they'll come back they're only one function Al uh like iron heaven right if you call them show up in my life well there's some disturbance over there it's like by Kyle yeah so maybe that that people would have been born I don't know I don't know exactly what it means Malachi my crying but they were not crying for your thought they were crying because they themselves are about now listen to how the vulner going reads the plastic ready for this that you're God fearing how do I know what do you mean what does he mean me many because he didn't withhold him from me nobody asked you to bring him to me no you don't have the mouse you know what the mouth says the mouth says you know how I know how God-fearing you are because I look at myself and I am the strongest biggest smartest best Malik ever created in the history of the universe that you're God fearing why me many by looking at myself the mother says when I see how big I am how great I am and how strong I am now I know no one had ever done a missile like you did that's how there's only one reason possible not that you didn't withhold him from me the fact that you didn't withhold him shows me how great you are how do I know that me many from me by looking at myself that's what the mask meant by look at me many I know it from me okay now we're gonna turn to an externally related why if somebody does if somebody yeah I've I haven't played in a mile and created them off right yeah I I'm gonna take a question after okay okay let's just let's let's conclude with how the mouth understands the the mice of the Akita again and let's let's review how we learned the arcade in kindergarten right this is this is how we learned in kindergarten I'm ravino nice old guy he's told Hashem tells him to your son avram is about to shocked him and uh come and says don't do it I'll run to sign no problem and then Hashem says oh avraham I love you you're a great guy you know you should be blessed right and after that avraham finds a ram and avram says oh great I might as well bring around if I can't bring Yitzhak no that's not what happened okay what happened I have a question for you the Mala comes and gives avraham a compliment looking past like your gimmel says Abram you're a great guy because you did not withhold yet fine then now take a look in plastic test love you by the way just in the meantime avraham finds Iran and avraham the posix says look in prosecute gimmel after the Malik makes avraham feel good by saying you're a really great guy I'm from cesaran caught up in the bushes and avram takes the RAM and he brings it up as an oil spinay how did we learn in kindergarten what does it mean instead of right in kindergarten that's what the moro said instead of the sunlight and then what happened but you come from last time you're right fine now the mouth calls out again the mark calls out again from heaven and he says avram I swear to you Kiana you're a great guy because you did not withhold so if I was that from you know what I would have told them you just told me that two minutes ago you just gave me that compliment you just said you're great because what's the mouth adding in this the next speech is the exact same thing again I'm from your grades because you're in withhold yet okay yeah no what are you adding you just said that the first time and what's going on and another problem I'll ask you could you somebody please tell me if Hashem comes to you Gabby and he tells you to do something right so fine you're gonna go do it I come to you I say Gabby I'm a navi don't do it she said Rabbi get lost God take if God felt is important enough to tell me to do something if he doesn't want me to do it you know what he would tell me himself right that's what that's what our religion is based on God gave us the Torah other religions say God changed his mind yes so we say to them if God changed his mind don't you think he would have been nice enough to tell us about that right so avraham was told by God take your son so now a mouth comes and says Hashem doesn't want you to do it I probably should have said look until I get word from the the commander-in-chief so I don't listen to the you know lieutenant somebody hold his hand he didn't stop because somebody told him to stop you know someone holds his hand I don't know I don't know that what the kindergarten story I don't know that no I don't know I'm not no maybe I don't know I'm not aware of that okay okay says the Melbourne if you thought that he saw you know the Al Qaeda was Hashem tells avraham take Yitzhak up and avram does that that's not what it was that was step one that's Child's Play Child's Play is Hashem tells Abraham to take up your truck he takes up your truck but then what happens is the malach comes and says don't do it savram says don't do it look oh you know what you're you're a nice guy Mr Malik I could trust you but on the other hand God told me to do it so I'm gonna wait right here and I'm gonna wait for Hashem himself to tell me what to do as he's saying those words you know what avraham sees Iran he says to himself what where did this Ram come from obviously God is telling me I don't have to take your truck God is saying I accept Iran so what does avraham DOI the word doesn't mean instead of it means underneath doesn't mean instead of the heavens doesn't mean instead of the tree it means under the tree yes on top the Rams on the bottom avram says what Hashem is telling me is I don't have to do Yitzhak I'll accept the ram says avraham that's very nice Hashem will accept the ram but since Hashem has not told me I don't have to do Yitzhak I will pass the greatest testing ever that even though God has told me he accepts Iran I'm still gonna shut the attack I'm still in other words even though God is saying I'll accept the ram as a substitute avraham says but if Hashem told me to do it that means the best thing would be foreign didn't know what to do so you know what he said I'm gonna wait Hashem Hashem will show me in other words avraham even after Hashem showed him the ram what would we have now okay Aram great we'll do the ram you know if you accept the ram fine let's you know anybody else he would have quickly shut the ram if hashem's gonna accept the ram of course Adam said no maybe in the eyes of Hashem Yitzhak would still be better says the mouth you know that's like imagine if the King goes to someone's house in the winter it's freezing outside or you know in the show and when heat is broken and uh the king says I need some heat so the guy says look I have no money but I have some firewood and the guy takes his firewood and he burns it for the king fine very nice he's good to the king then the King goes to another friend and this guy is Rich and the king is called and he's thinking I really should burn some firewood for the king he says no I'll do even better I'll take my expensive count and I'll burn it for the king and I'll show the king that even though I have wood I want to serve the king with the best thing did even after Hashem showed him the RAM and avron brought it still avram said I'm gonna still go with your truck says the pasok that Hashem calls out a second time look in the puzzle man he said first I want you to know be nishbati you know what those words mean I swear this time it's not me talking it's Hashem and soft talking that's what it means nishpati I swear avram said look if Hashem told me to do it then I need to hear word directly from God I'm not going to listen to a mouth so the mouth comes and says I swear I'm not just a messenger relaying information the word of God is in me this is God speaking and then look carefully because you did this what's to this different than the first time the first time Hashem avraham was just willing to bring up Yitzhak but now Hashem says now that you're willing to do this you know what this is that you're willing to bring up Yitzhak even though I was willing to accept a substitute then now I will bless you what does that mean I will bless you because we learned that had it not been for the akedah then the old yet suck would have still been there and the old Yitzhak was constantly under the duress and the attack of the forces of the world so what happened Hashem said but now that you did the Arcada his soul Departed and this is a new Yitzhak now he's not subject to all this and God says I will bless you says them album you know what it means you'll be like the sand on the sea the same way I have a treaty with the sand that the water tries come coming crashing down on the sand but we made a deal at the marble I am one cross the world will not be flooded thank you the dirt will always be there that's the book I give to college for now now that's yours had to do this and we have a new year and a new continuity of Israel now no one could destroy you now you'll last forever by the way that's what we say in davening we say our soul should be like dust what does that mean our soul should be like dust Tyson says just like dust will never be destroyed the world right it's always hit round but now we're asking to preserve Cloud Israel for all eternity you've just experienced another Torah 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