When God wants His children to IGNORE Him

If you're talking to one of your children and they say, "I'm getting a call from a sibling. They need me." You don't say, "How disrespectful. Call them back later. Continue to talk to me." You say, "Nothing gives me mater greater joy or happiness in the world than the loyalty between my children." Aram at an advanced age underwent a serious surgical procedure. He performed the circumcision of Brrism Milan on himself. He's on the recovery. Aram is sitting outside of his tent. And more painful, worse than the physical recovery is that feeling of loneliness and the feeling of lacking purpose. He wants to be helping. He wants to be doing. He wants to be hosting. And Hashem had thought he was protecting Aram by making it so hot outside nobody would be passing by. Aram for once would not have to host. But it turns out it was more painful for Aram to be alone than even to host others. Aram is in the middle of a conversation ostensibly. We'll come back in a moment with the Almighty when he interrupts because he raises his eyes and he sees there are three men who are standing over him and so he runs to greet them. Runs runs while in recovery in pain but again he doesn't feel the pain. He feels more pain not helping than he does running to assist. He runs in order to greet them. And Rashi Rashi quotes the great rabbis who conclude from here It is greater greater to receive guests than even to have a conversation with Hashem because after all Aram is in the middle of a dialogue with the Almighty. Hashem has come to visit him and he says to Hashem, I used to give the example when saying this verb of call waiting. I don't even think there's call waiting anymore. But he says to Hashem, could you hold on? I'm getting another call. Would you mind holding on? There's someone else trying to get me. Hashem, I'll tell you what. We'll finish this later. I'll find you later. I've got to take care of these three men. It's very counterintuitive. This should smack of blasphemy, of disrespect, of dishonoring Hashem to [clears throat] put Hashem on hold, to tell the Almighty, he'll come back to him later, to greet mere mortals, to greet mere men. So I wrote in the article that was a hespet for my dear friend Rabbi Hower Zel a huge loss for KL a huge loss for me personally of a friend and a mentor he was very fond of saying the following insight that he might have heard someone else told me he might have heard from YaKob weinberg from his rebi and the insight was you see that Hashem doesn't reprimand hashem doesn't express disappointment it's not wrong to put hashem on hold to help others Why? Because given the choice, Hashem says, "I'd rather you be like me, imitate me, then continue to talk to me." If given a choice to be like God or to talk to God, Hashem says, "By all means, put me on hold and take care of your brothers and sisters." To me, if you're talking to one of your children and they say, "I'm getting a call from a sibling. They need me." You don't say, "How disrespectful. Call them back later. Continue to talk to me." You say, "Nothing gives me mater greater joy or happiness in the world than the loyalty between my children." Absolutely. Call me later. Your sibling, another one of my children needs your help, and you want to go run and help them. You want to demonstrate loyalty to them, by all means, put me on hold. That was our life. Not only talking to Hashem and listening to Hashem talk to him, but imitating and emulating, being like Hashem and caring for each and every Jew with a tremendous aas hashem. What a great loss.