King David From Before Creation to the Days of Moshiach | Based on a Shiur by Rabbi Baruch Rosenblum

The Characters, places, and images you see in this video area artistic interpretations created to bring Torah Stories To Life for educational purposes only. They Do not represent the true appearance of any historical figure, holy site, or sacred object. we present these visuals with deep respect. Purly as a tool for learning and inspiration. Before the sun, before the stars, before  time itself had drawn its first breath,   2,000 years before the creation of the world,  Hashem summoned three angels, and he asked,   "Shall I build the world?" They looked at each  other, they deliberated, and they answered,   "No, it is not worth it." And just like that, they  were gone. Vanished. Called back by the very flame   that made them. A second group was called. Same  question, same answer. Gone. Then the third group,   Hashem asked again, "Shall I build the world?" And  these angels bowed and they said, "Master of the   universe, we will not speak. You are the master  of the world. Do as you will." These were the ones   4,047 years passed. Worlds formed, seas filled,  mountains rose, civilizations were born, crumbled,   and were born again. And somewhere in the golden  desert of Canaan, the greatest human being who had   ever lived was sitting at the entrance of his tent  in pain. On the third day after his Brit Milah, Avraham Avinu  Hashem himself came to visit Avraham that  morning to perform the mitzvah of Bikur Holim,   visiting the sick. But Avraham was not satisfied  just to receive. He needed to give. And so he sat   at the opening of his tent, eyes on the desert,  hoping. And then he saw them. Three men crossing   the desert in the blazing midday heat. One  was stocky with a cloth sack on his shoulder,   the kind a baker would carry. One was tall and  lean with the bearing of a man who has sailed   every sea and arrived exactly where he intended.  And one wrapped in desert robes, staff in hand,   moved like a man who belonged to the wilderness  itself. Three travelers in the desert in the heat   of noon. They looked like men. They were not men.  Holy Rashi in Betesit Rabba 48:9 explains exactly   who these three were. The baker was Raphael. His  mission to heal Avraham from the pain of his Brit Milah The sailor was Michael. His mission to bring  Avraham and Sarah the news. a son. Next year, a son. And the Bedawin was Gabriel. His mission  to overturn Sodom.   Three angels. But before the angels descended, Gabrielle had asked Hashem  something. The Midrash tells us Gabrielle   turned to the Almighty and asked, "Should I save  Lot and his family or not?" And Hashem looked   at Gabrielle and said, "Beautiful question, but  this is not for me to decide alone." Ask the Beit Din Ask the court on earth. And so the angels  came to Avraham's tent, not just to heal him,   not just to bring him news, not just to greet him.  They came to receive a ruling that would determine   the fate of a family, that would determine the  fate of a nation, that would determine the fate   of a king who would not be born for another  900 years. The angels sat. They were welcomed. Ayeh Sarah Ishtecha? (Where is Sarah, your wife?) איה שרה אשתך Where is Sarah, your wife? Now, why would an  angel ask where Sarah is? He's an angel. He   knows exactly where she is. The question was not  a question. It was the opening of a Beit Din,   a court of law, the highest court on earth.  And Avraham answered, "Hay ba oel. She is in the tent. She knows you're here. and she's chosen  with full wisdom and modesty to remain inside. The   Talmud in Yavamote Daf 77 (page 77) teaches us something  extraordinary. Our sages permitted women from   Ammon and Moav to convert and join the Jewish  people. Why? Because women were not obligated   in the same way as men to greet guests with bread  and water at the road. And how did our sages learn this? From Sarah right here at this tent on this  day. And now Gabrielle knew. The Beit Din had   ruled. Avraham had answered. Sarah had answered  with her presence in the tent and her deliberate   silence outside it. Lot and his daughters had  to be saved. Not because Lot was righteous,   not because his city deserved mercy, but because  hidden inside Lot's future, Hashem had placed   something so precious, so essential to all of  creation that even Sodom could not be allowed to   erase it. The light of Moshiach was there, waiting,  asleep inside a family line that had not yet been   born. Follow the chain. Lot survives Sodom. His  daughter gives birth to Moav. Moav becomes a nation. From that nation, a woman named Ruth,  a convert, a woman of extraordinary faith who   chose the Jewish people when she had every reason  to walk away. Ruth gives birth to Oved. Oved to   Yishi and Yishi to David. King David, the sweet  singer of Israel, the anointed one, the ancestor   of Moshiach himself. Every link in that chain  begins here in the desert at a tent on the third   day of an old man's Brit Milah. The Gamarra tells  us when King David will rise in the time of the   Geula, the final redemption. He will take the Kos (cup) of wine and he will say the Bracha "Kos Yeshua Essa"   The cup of salvations I will raise! "Essa" - Alefh Shin Aleph (the Hebrew spelling of Essa) those three letters Aleph Shin Aleph Are the first letters of Ayeh Sarah Ishetcha? Where is  Sarah, your wife? King David, standing at the end of   history lifting his cup says with his very first  word, I am here because of Avraham and Sarah. This is Torah, not legend, not  stories that happened a long time   ago to people who aren't us. And  we are the reason it was written down! Based on the teachings of Rabbi Baruch Rosenlum, Schlita, part two, coming soon.