Rabbi Minkowicz Weekly Torah Lesson Parsha Vayeira 5781

welcome to this week's torah lesson this week's torah portion is pasha's vayilla the question of the week is how can we merit for hashem to reveal himself to us so in this week's torah portion pasha's failure the torah begins and it says hashem that hashem revealed himself to avraham avinu there's a famous story we know this shabbos is also the birthday of the rebel ashab the fifth rabbi when he was four or five years old he went into his grandfather that samak and he was crying to him and he said grandpa how come hashem revealed himself to abraham and to me he didn't and his grandfather told him that when abraham ate sadiq at the age of 99 decides to be circumcised isn't he fitting for hashem to reveal himself to him so the question rubber asks is how is that comforting the child what are you telling the child he has to be at sadiq he has to be 99 circumcise himself in 99 then hashem will reveal himself to him other than that there's no revelation so the rebbe explains and he said something very very powerful the torah says ye rail of hashem in other words after abraham circumcised themselves and we know we all circumcise ourselves because we come from abraham via a lover doesn't say to who hashem revealed himself a yera a love every single human being hashem is revealed to viera a love it doesn't say a name that means each and every one of us hashem has and does reveal himself to us the minute we're circumcised the minute we complete bring in the completeness to us and we all know to be clear that talmud says that women are as if they're circumcised so every male female that exists in this world jewish hashem has already revealed himself to us so if that's the case what was the rebel roshav's question and the river explains the rebel asham's question wasn't why he doesn't reveal himself to him in reality because reality does hashem has revealed the question he asked was why can't he see hashem and to this that sama sadiq answered and he told him that when you do something just like abraham did where at the age of 99 he worked on himself to circumcise himself he merited to be able to see the revelation that already existed so based on this drug rebbe explains hashem has revealed to every one of us the question is can we see hashem we could see hashem and we'll all benefit to be able to see hashem if we do something and we go out of our comfort zone to create our deep relations with hashem and we all have 613 commandments as many ways and anytime we do a mitzvah we don't want to do we put the effort in to do it we will merit to see hashem so the answer the question how can we merit to see hashem so first of all hashem is within us we all merit to see him when we go out of our comfort zone and do something whether it's extra learning extra mixed vote extra prayer we will all merit to have the greatest revelation and have a beautiful relationship with hashem thanks so much for joining us for our weekly torah lesson this week's torah lesson is dedicated to the memory of barak banari may their souls be elevated by the torah we're studying in their memory thanks again for joining us for our weekly torah lesson have a great and blessed week for more information please see our website khabanswf.org shalom and shavua tov