Vayeira: Should I Tell Avraham? The Chasam Sofer Uncovers the Mystery of the Occurance in Tanach

this Tower class is brought to you by torahanytime.com okay welcome everyone Patrick's Day era same parasha so there are so many fascinating Concepts that emerge from parachute zaira but there's one particular pasta that has no parallel in all of Tanakh and no comparison so as the wickedness and Corruption of the city of sudim is increasing and the riban said you know enough is enough the city has to be destroyed so the Torah now reveals to us the following piece of very classified highly classified information God said can I possibly hide from Abraham that which I'm about to do can I hide it from Abraham then I plan on destroying the city of Sudan and Hashem says no I'm not able to hide from a year ago God avram's a great guy Ki adaptive I love avraham I can't hide it from him and the tar goes on to tell us that in fact Hashem told avraham what he's about to do to the city of Sudan this phenomenon does not occur anywhere in the entire Tanakh nowhere in the entire Tanakh do we ever find Hashem is unsure that Hashem is vacillating hmm should I tell the navi should I not tell the navi yeah the navi is such a swell guy I think I'm gonna tell him you know I love him so I'm not sure okay fine I'm gonna I'll tell him I'll tell him how could I not tell him you ever hear Hashem should I tell you shy of the Navajo should I not tell them should I tell at least should I tell you Hashem has something to tell the navi he decisively tells the navi why when it comes to avrah mashem says should I tell him oh he's such a great guy I'm gonna tell him the first time he had the opportunity to dude he said the president he didn't have to ask again this is not hashem's first communication with avraham he did we don't find Hashem said you know but why why is Hashem vacillating back and forth now I wanna some will have the human quality no no I mean no not possible no so comes one of the all-time great leaders of the Jewish people Cipher he lived from 1762 to 1839 and in his introductions his chubas and yaradea he offers the following fundamental insight we know that some Cipher was one of the greatest leaders of our people was also in the busiest leaders of Kali so he filled three vital roles number one he was a uh arav of the kahila and pressburg he was uh he was a rough of a not only a shul but of an entire Community an entire city number two he was a Russia Shiva so usually today those are two institutions that usually don't mix you have rubbed on him yeah actually they say you know back in the day the leaders of Kalisto were the rabbanim you know the leaders are you had uh the uh the right bottom of the city and the Russia Shiva not necessarily and today it's sort of it's an opposite where the the people those who have the most clout today are the the Russia Yeshiva the shuls are unfortunately um don't have the same um Eminence that they once did the rabbanim have lost but even even yeah the The Prestige of the rabbits has lost a very large share of its Eminence and probably the main reason for that is the level of scholarship you know today the you have poiskim and you have lambdonim and um okay that's the subject in and of itself okay we won't go there right now and number three and some stuff aside from being a Rob besides being Rashid was also the greatest nation he responded to shylus from all over the world and what he says here is definitely is definitely worthy of the one who said it says I'm sorry for you know why Hashem is vacillating back and forth should I tell him should I not tell him because in reality avraham was not on the level to receive in order to receive prophecy in order to get divine revelation you have to be in the proper frame of mind you have to go into seclusion you have to go into his body you have to meditate the greatness of Hashem you have to contemplate lofty spiritual matters and avram was not able to do these things not because he wasn't great enough but because he didn't have time he was too busy what was that avraham busy with he was busy Influence People influencing people he was being Makara people he was teaching the world there's one God and when you want to influence people you have to speak to them on their level and what they're interested about and you have to connect with them on the level that they're on and you have to engage them and establish relationships with them and ultimately avram was very successful and the rambam says he influenced tens of thousands of people but avram was not able to make the proper preparations to receive prophecy amazingly than at Civ in this week's Parsha uses this idea to explain arashi Rashi says on the passage whatever Sarah tells you listen to says from here we learned Abram was secondary to sorrow in Prophecy and then he wasn't secondary in Prophecy it means he was secondary in ruach and the reason is because in order to receive the Divine Spirit you need to prepare you need to meditate you need to seclude and avraham didn't have time to do that and therefore he was secondary to sorrow not because Sarah was greater because Sarah had the luxury of preparing herself and avraham did not says in itself like the Sam soifer says in his and who would be more fitting to teach this teaching than the Sam said for himself who obviously gave up his whole life to teach Tara to others and at his own personal expense okay so even though avraham was hampering his own spiritual attainment avraham the following calculation does Hashem need me to focus on my own Spiritual Development because at the end of the day what will I be contributing to Hashem there are already tens of thousands of heavenly angels in the heaven does Hashem need another angel let's say I raised myself up high high what Hashem needs another malach what will be with me when when I die says Abraham my righteousness will end forever it is more important to give up on my own personal greatness to influence the many so technically says avraham was not on the level to receive and therefore Hashem says can I tell him that how could I tell him he doesn't have enough credits to receive prophecy he's not on the madrega but then Hashem says you know what the reason he hasn't met the requirements is because he loves me so much and he's willing to overlook his own greatness for the sake of influencing others so even if technically he shouldn't receive the navua I'm gonna tell him anyway even though he doesn't mean even though I can't but I can't not because yeah after um so even though when avraham Avenue even though yashaya God never vacillated should I tell him of course he's going to tell him he's under my dragon he just tells him and yeah but avraham deserved and earned the title that no other individual in the whole Tanakh earned and that is avraham ahavi avraham who loves me no one else in the whole Tanakh is given this title Zara avram I have a Abram is considered the one who loves her colors why because he gave up his own greatness to teach his fellow brothers and sisters how much the ribanisham loves them and the Republic responded in kind that avraham there's no one who I love more in this world than you because there's nothing loves more than someone who takes out the time to show another Jew the beauty of the Torah the beauty of Shabbos the joy of being a Jew and if we follow the Paradigm of Abraham avinu then we are then we are worthy of the title of being Zara Abram but avraham says in a way was on a lower madrega than all the other Naveen was on a lower madrega even then Sarah has the further God says why do I love Abraham I'll show you avraham Hashem says you know I love avraham because avraham tells his children follow the path of God so God will will give us Sadako Mr God will be good to us says avraham is teaching his students to listen to Hashem so that Hashem should do good to them I thought you're not supposed to serve Hashem because avram teaches his children after him to follow the road of God in order that hashems on them that's the way to serve God so some Surfers says yeah because who's avraham teaching what kind of individuals is that everyone teaching avram's teaching idolaters avram's teaching people who are far from my college world and when you are Makari people you have to speak to them on their level and speak to them and give them incentive and motivation in a way that talks to them says I love avraham because he knows and he gives up of himself to bring these people back in a very basic way anyway beat asame abramovino earns the title who loves me have a great job you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com