The Greatness of Avraham: Parashat Vayeira

Now, the is an extraordinary a million dollars minimum is what it's worth. Certainly something you've never heard and something I only learned now in his introduction to he says something that if he didn't say it you couldn't even think of it. He says, "Of course, the level of prophecy that Abrahamu had was no less than the later prophets which were his descendants, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Isel, Ezekiel. They all spoke to Hashem. They they had messages of what's going to happen in the future." So of course Abraham was no less than them. Yet Abrainu did not attain access to this prophecy. Why not? Because he did not have time to do the preparations that are required to receive prophecy. Because prophecy is not like in uh people's imaginations where you know you're sleeping and all of a sudden God comes to you and talks to you or uh you're walking around all of a sudden you hear a message. Yes. Yes. Who is it? Who is it? It's your son. Why? Why you have that voice? I had something in my mouth. Oh, okay. Fine. People think sometimes people are talking to them. Usually it's either they have shadim in their in their mind because of all the tuma or because their kids are playing a joke on them. Araminu Araminu. This is Keshim, our forefathers. Certainly, he had no less prophecy than his descendants that were prophets. But yet, he did not attain it because he did not have time to prepare himself. You have to clean yourself. You have to purify yourself. You have to meditate, do all types of things in order to receive prophecy. This is also one of the things that distinguished Moshe Rabenu from everyone else. All of the other prophets received their prophecy while they were laying down, while they were out. Whereas Moshe Rabenu was able to walk around and speak to Hashem, something unlike anybody else before or after him. But even Moshe Rabenu had to prepare before Hashem would speak to him. This is the reason why Hashem told Mosherenu and he's the only one he told this to that he should leave his wife. Why? Because the preparation that's required if you're married takes longer than the preparation if you're not married because of the issues of purity and impurity. And Hashem says, "I want to talk to you all the time. Whenever I feel like it, I want to talk to I don't want to wait for you 2 days, 3 days for you prepare. I want to talk to you whenever. So, I can't have anything get in the way. Leave your wife. Therefore, you're always pure. I can talk to you all the time. Like, we're friends. If you read some of the things that the midash, the uh um uh lots of talk about the relationship between the conversations between Hashem and Rabenu. It's literally like like unbelievable relationship. And this was due to the sacrifice that Moshe Raenu had to make on a daily basis living with no wife. Who can do that? By choice. So now knew my beloved as great as he was and the access to prophecy that he had he did not attain it because he didn't have time to prepare himself why why didn't Abrau have time I mean this is great things you can elevate yourself you could you could do all types of amazing things you can learn elevate your Torah What are you doing that it's so it's keeping you so busy that you cannot talk to Hashem says theamu did not have time to prepare himself to receive the prophecy. Why? because he was always teaching and serving his students and helping the masses get closer to Hashem. In fact, even when himself came to speak to Abrainu, in the middle of the conversation, in the middle of the prophecy, Abrau says, "One second, Hashem, I got three guests. I have three Arabs that came to me." He didn't know they're angels. He thought they're three Arabs. They could have been kamas. They could have been Palestine. They could have been whoever. It can't be Palestine. They weren't existent back then. And today they don't exist. Just imaginary. BUT NONETHELESS, COULD HAVE BEEN SOMEBODY. HASHEM, one second. I got to go attend to these guests. You're talking to Hashem, the King of Kings. What are you doing? Somebody's in the middle of a conversation with their boss that gives them $15 an hour. They won't walk away. here. Abraham is talking to He says, "One second, Hashem, I got to go. I have three people. I don't know. They're Arabs. They may be idol worshippers that pray to the dust on their feet. So, I got to wash their feet to see if they allow me wash to wash their feet." And they're not idol worshippers. But if they don't allow me to wash their feet, that means that they're going to gather the dust on their feet that walked in the desert all day and pray to it. So, they're idol worshippers. So I got to leave you the king of kings to go attend to them and then give them some food. She the whole bull for them. Each one gets his own tongue. So I'll be back when I finish. Five, six, seven, 10 hours that it's greater to host the guest in order to get them closer to Hashem and do kiru than it is to speak to himself. Where did Abrau learn that? From Hashem himself. from Hashem himself. How so? Hashem obviously knew that he was going to talk to but it was possible that is going to go leave to go uh attempt to guest like he does every day. So what did Hashem do? He took the sun out of its shell to stop guests from coming. So even Hashem Puskkins the same way as Abrainu that if guests come in the middle of our conversation in the middle of the prophecy is going to have to go. So let me just stop the guest from coming by putting out the sun so nobody's coming and that way me and Abraham can have. That's where Abraham got it from. Abra's wisdom was beyond comprehension. Already at three years old he knew more than more than we could ever imagine in the wildest dreams. Also another person that the of as great as it was is not compared to the of said that was greater than Abrau with all of his greatness decided that in order for him to serve Hashem he has to Go leave the conversation every single day, leave the books, leave the elevation of himself in prophecy and go teach the lowest level of students [snorts] who Hashem is. That's what the says. He says he didn't have great students that were extraordinary. No, he's telling them listen Hashem. Oh, you mean the idol? Oh, not the idol. Not the idol. Hashem was Hashem. What's Hashem? Hashem, the God. God is the one that created the world. Not the idol. Idol. You made it. You bought it from Walmart. That's not God. That's nothing. That's garbage. Hashem, he created the world. Okay. Say, "Thank you, Hashem." Okay. Thank you, Hashem. Buy a t-shirt from shop. Says, "Thank you, Hashem." Okay, I'll buy a t-shirt. Buy a cup. Says, "Thank you, Hashem." Okay, I say I'll thank you, Hashem. Okay, next day. All right, now we're gonna learn alf. That's the language that Hashem created the world with. He took these letters and he created the world with them. Alf. No, not al. teaching them. He's dealing with people that are full of immorality. Hey, Rabbi, listen. Uh, I love you and everything, but I need help. What happened? I can't stop wasting seed. I can't stop cheating on my wife. I can't stop stealing my business. I can't stop driving on Shabbat. That's who that's who is is is dealing with every day. He's dealing with idol worshippers, with immoral people. He's dealing with people that are clueless about Hashem. That's who he's busy with. And that's who he decided to leave prophecy behind for. That's who he sacrificed everything for. And therefore says the Hashem in his goodness says that it's not possible for to lose out a in attaining a higher level of prophecy as a result of his sacrifice for my children for my creation. He is my servant. So there's no need for preparations. What does that mean? Says a my child my son, he doesn't need preparations. I'm going to him. All the other prophets had to prepare to speak to sometimes for a few days longer. All types of meditations, readings, elevations, all types of uh words. ABRAHAM KNOW RIGHT NOW HE JUST FINISHED making some shish kebab for a few Arabs that came to him a few times. Okay. He got this guy to say this guy he said that guy he's still working on he still has a little bit of the sauce on his on his hands. He's telling make some cakes. We have some guests right now still has the apron around him right in the house. Hashem says, "I'm going now. I'm going." Yeah, but he didn't prepare. No preparation for Abraham. Why? Abraham cannot lose as a result of serving me. as a result of his sacrifice for my children, I'm going to Abraham to go and tell him my plans with Sodom. Because it cannot be that since such a sadik he's such a sadik that he would lose out as a result of his inability to elevate himself to learn more to pray even more to have he can't do it not because he's playing basketball not because he's sleeping all day not because he wants wants to uh watch uh the uh stock market. No, he can't do it because he's constantly toiling in getting my children to do chuva. He doesn't have a minute to breathe. There's a new message coming every second. There's a new person. There's a new problem. There's issues. There's a issues. There's uh ALL TYPES OF NONSTOP PEOPLE ARE COMING TO HIM. THAT'S THE REASON WHY he can't. So I'm making an exception for au preparations needed of I'm coming to you. I'm going to tell you what I'm going to do with Sodom. I'm going to tell you the whole plan. I'm going to tell you the whole prophecy without any necess necessity for you to prepare because you sacrifice for my children. You are my beloved. We see here So many things. First and foremost, we see that anyone that makes a sacrifice for the sake of getting am closer to Hashem, for the sake of getting the world closer to Hashem, closer to his will, will never lose out as a result of it. It's not possible. It's not possible for them to lose out as a result of real sacrifice. Whether it's major sacrifice in donations and support or time or teaching or effort, whatever it is that you make as a major sacrifice for the sake of Akadosh's children, you will certainly never lose as a result. Impossible. Even if it's a prophecy that all other prophets were required to prepare themselves. There's that have written about prophecy. I believe it was a uh um has an is the entire road map of how to attain and even prophecy what you need to do at each level each level of preparation. Literally instructions just like you when you buy Legos, they give you, okay, step one, take the Lego out. Step two, get these pieces. Step three, take these two pieces, put together, step four has literally a stepbystep process of how to attain prophecy, how to attain. When a person learns even the first step, they realize, okay, it's pretty much for me to learn any of the other steps. I can't even do the first step. All of the prophets had to do this. No. Why? He doesn't have time. What do you mean he doesn't have time? Not time. Tough luck. No tough luck. He doesn't have time because he's answering WhatsApp messages for broken houses. He's answering WhatsApp messages for people that are addicted to pornography. He's answering. He's dealing. He's calling. He's going to people's houses. He's he's doing whatever he possibly can with all of his time to publicize my name. That's why he doesn't have time. You want me to judge that my son, my beloved is going to lose as a result of sacrificing his time, his effort, his benefit, his good for the sake OF MY CHILDREN? NO, OPPOSITE. HE IS MY BELOVED. HE IS A TRUE SERVANT. So the first thing we see is that you can never lose as a result of sacrificing for the sake of Kiru, for the sake of publicizing Hashem's name. Number two, we see who Hashem calls his beloved, who Hashem favors. Number three, we see the clearest difference you could ever imagine that distinguishes the Jewish leaders that follow the Torah and everyone else, Jew or Gentile leaders, doesn't make a difference, that are following politics, their own opinion, popular opinion, votes, likes, We are meant to be a light unto the nations, not to follow their misguided [music] practices. Remember, every Jew has to remember that he's a Jew and she's a Jew. We don't celebrate non-Jewish [music] holidays, even if they seem harmless.