5 Amazing Insights From the Trop on Parshas Vayeira

Okay, good Shabbos everyone. I want to share with you five or so based on the trop. Based on the beginning of the parsha by that's a very early as nachda for a possuk. Usually the as nachda is evenly placed in the middle of the possuk. The as nachda is a major stop in the possuk. You would think no, we put the as nachda after the first word. Why is the as nachda after the first word? It is not common to have the as nachda after the first word. So, in the safer Tiferes Bonim he brings since Rashi says the word aleph dalet nun yud is Shem Kodesh. Since aleph dalet nun yud is Shem Kodesh, therefore to give honor to the Shechina, to give honor to Hakadosh Baruch Hu. As to give cover to the name of Hashem where aleph dalet nun yud is following the Vayomer is separate. Vayomer Hashem because that supports Rashi in the first says it's Shem Chol. But the safer Tiferes Bonim says supporting Rashi's second interpretation is the word Vayomer Vayomer with an as nachda. Now, take a look in perek possuk you'll have the most mafsikim of any pasuk you could possibly imagine. That's one. zakef katan asnakhta zakef katan How many stops can there be in one pasuk? You have in this pasuk three zakef katans, an asnakhta, and a sof pasuk. Why is this such a choppy pasuk? Says Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky in the Emes l'Yaakov, Avraham Avinu is pleading that Hashem should spare the residents of Sedom. He is extremely pained. He is extremely hurt and bothered that Hashem should wipe them out if they are not deserving of that. Avraham Avinu said it in so much pain and tsar, this is reflected in the ribuy hamavsikim in this pasuk. Now, you ready for this? So they gave Lot to drink wine on that night, and the eldest one came to him, and she lay with him, and he did it know b'shichvah uv'kumah. He didn't know when she lay down and when she got up. And then they also she also gave to drink to their father, and that seirah came, and she lay with him v'lo yada b'shichvah uv'kumah. And yet both times these words appear, v'lo yada b'shichvah tipcha uv'kumah The tipcha seems to be in the wrong place. It should say, v'lo yada, he didn't know in her lying down and getting up. What? These are two independent clauses. Lot didn't know, that's one idea. And the second idea is he didn't know when they lay and when they got up. Why put the tipcha between the words bishichva and uvkuma? It should be the lo yada pause. Bishichva uvkuma. Says the Gemara in Nazir on daf chof gimmel. By the way, if you join us for the dafa shavua Maseches Nazir, we will soon be on daf chof gimmel. Monday night and Tuesday night at 9:15 p.m. Maseches Nazir. The Gemara says Tanna Mishum Rebbi Yossi bar Reb Chiyya. Why are there nekudois on the word uvkuma of the bechira? To say Lot didn't know bishichva, but he did know bkuma. That's Therefore, it's suggested there is a tipcha between bishachva uvkuma. Belo yada bishichva, he didn't know when she lay down. Uvkuma, but he did know when she got up. The tipcha is a remez to the words of the Gemara Nazir daf chof gimmel. Now, so you'll ask, but it says the same trop by the tze'ira. And they're only nekudois by uvkuma of the bechira. So why would the trop be the same? So he explains, Lot also knew by the uh uvkuma of the tze'ira. The only thing is it was only by the yediah of the bechira was there an af gamina. Like the Gemara says, what should Lot have done? Whatever happened half can happen. The nafka mina is the next night he should not have drank. But the trop is the the same by the by the bahira and the tzira. Now here's a really interesting one. You know parshas Vayeira there are a lot of words names of Hashem that it's not clear is it Hashem or is it a master or is it someone else? Ready? Let's go to perek um chaf pasuk yud gimmel The way Rashi interprets this pasuk It was when God allowed me to stray from my father's house. Eloikim is kadosh. Says Akshava Hagaha Kabbalah No, Eloihim is choil. And by the way Yonasan ben Uziel also learns this way and the Sforno also learns this way. Eloi him is choil. You read the pasuk like this. Vayehi and it was kasher hisu oisi when they led me astray. Who led Avraham astray? Eloihim me beis avi. The idols of his father's house. That's why says Akshava Kabbalah the trop on the word Eloi hey yud mem is a zarka. A zarka is a meshareis. It's meshareis the segol. It's the gods of me beis avi. Eloikim is not Hashem. Like Rashi says says Akshava Kabbalah and the Sforno and the Rebyonasan ben The it's not kasher hisu Eloikim pause. God let me astray. No, it's when they let me astray. Who? Eloikim beis avi, the gods of my father's house. And that is supported by the zarka leading into the segol. One more. This is a very interesting one. I must say. You ready? Vatomer Sarah tzechoik asali Eloikim kol hashoime'a. Yitzchakli. Let's look at the beginning of that pasuk. Tzechoik asali Eloikim. Rashi learns God made joy for me. But the trop on the word tzechoik is a zakef gadol. When difficulty befall a tzaddik, they're mefashbesh b'ma'aseh. They recognize that Hashem would not bring punishment for no cause. And when Sarah had a baby, she was caused great distress because the late Sonei Hadar would mock Sarah. They say, "Sarah, hmm, quite interesting. You lived with Avram for 99 years. You spent one night with Avimelech and you had a baby. So, I wonder who the father is." They mocked Sarah. So, Sarah's thinking to herself, "Why did God do this to me? I waited my whole life to have a baby and now they're mocking my child." And she thinks back, "Ah, I must have mocked." When did I mock? In the beginning of the parashah. Vatitzchak Sarah Says the Michtav Sofer, "Vatomer Sarah, tzechoik pause, Tzechoik, ah, it is because of my laughter. Assur le alai chem. That's why God did did this to me. That kol hashoim'a yitzchakli, that everybody is mocking me. So, the word tzechoik is separate. In other words, the miktav sofer is reading that that Sarah imainu indicted herself for laughing in the beginning of the par- parsha, that's why she was punished. That uh they she was mocked in the end of the parsha. Okay, raboisai, I want to I wish I would take this opportunity to wish everyone a wonderful shabbos parshas vayeira haba aleinu letova. And the ezras Hashem, I hope to see you all next week. Total on a good shabbos. Total total total. >> Recording stopped. >> Shabbos.