Vayeira - 6th Portion

Join me as we learn the hitas together for Friday parshas Vayeira chapter 21 verse 22. After Avram had Yitzchak and Avimelech saw the great miracles that happened to Avram confronting the four kings, having a child at an old age, he decided that it might be good advice to get along with Avram. Vayehi ba'eisa hi and it was at that time Avimelech and his chief of his troops said to Avram, "His chief of his troops said to Avram saying God is with you in everything you do." Rashi verse 22 since they saw that he came out of the war of with stone in peace and not only he came out of the war of stone meaning that he came out of the war of stone meaning that he was not hurt from the punishment of the people of Sodom. So too with the kings of Kedarlaomer. He waged war against them and he was able to win them. His wife had a baby at an old age. Therefore, he realized that God is with him. So therefore, he asks him, "So now swear to me with your God that you will not deal falsely with me that you will not deal falsely with me or the Nini and to my children not with my son or the Nini and to my grandson with the kindness that I have done to you I extended to you with me and with the nation that you lived with that you sojourned." Rashi 23, what does it mean or the Nini or the Nini? So Rashi tells us to his children and his grandchildren and Khan this teaches us a lesson that why doesn't he mention great grandchildren? And Khan until here does a father have and worry for his children? He worries for his children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren. That's a little bit too extended, and he doesn't worry any longer. Verse 24. By Yimer Avram, and Avram replied, "I know you have to swear. No problem, I will swear." Verse 25. Avram then disputed with Avimelech over the well of water. Over the well of water. Asher gazlav Avimelech, that did Avimelech's servants stole or seized from Avimelech. The word is word for mean. The word Rashi tell us means chaos. He had a debate with him about it. Not that he rebuked him, but he also had a debate. They were disputing. What's going on here? Verse 20 six. Avimelech and Avimelech says, "I don't know who did this. The also you told me nothing about it. The heard nothing about it until today. So, how am I to know who it's going on here?" Verse 27. Avram took Avram took flock and cattle and gave it to Avimelech and Bruce, and they both made a covenant. They made a treaty. Verse 28. And Avram set aside seven ewes, seven sheep on the side. Verse 29. Avimelech and Avimelech said, "What are these seven sheep that you put What are these seven sheep that you put that you put them aside on their own?" Avram responds and says, "You are to accept these seven sheep from me, from my hand, from my hand, from my hand, for that in order that you acknowledge as evidence TL that this should be an evidence. that I dug this well. Now, how is these seven sheep going to prove as evidence? Let's see what Rashi says. Verse 30, Rashi. That this that I took the fact that you are taking these seven sheep will be as a testimony. word of testimony like we find the Adam and Hava. So, Adam can be also a feminine terminology. that I dug this well. Why did he need testimony that he dug the well? Because there was a argument between the shepherds of Avram and the shepherds of Avimelech and Avram and they said, "I knew we dug the well." So, in order to decide who did it, Avram and him they said to each other, whoever comes to the well and the water will rise for them, that will be the proof shall I hear that it's his. Avram came there and arose. So, Avram said, "Look, the well is mine. Now, take these sheep. This is the testimony that it's mine." Verse 31, for that place was called Beersheba Beersheba that is the place where they both made an oath. Beersheba means a well of an oath. Verse 32, they both made a treaty Avimelech and Avimelech got up and and chief of his troops and they returned to alerts to the land of the returned to the land of the Philistine. Verse 33, Avram Beersheba and Avram opened an inn in Beersheba. I could show the shame of sham killer oil on. And he there he proclaimed the name of God and the God of the universe and get everybody else to proclaim the name of Hashem as well. Verse 33, Rashi. I a shell, what is a shell? And over here Rashi brings a dispute of what the word a shell means. Rav Shmuel between Rav and Shmuel once as part of this that he planted a fruit uh garden, an orchard. I have you men who paid us so that we'll have fruit to be able to give to his guest in a meal. I have a one says pundak. It was an inn last Anya for people to have guests. And boy, call me the peters and in that in there were many different fruits and delicacies that he would give. Why then does it say by Yita that he sold that he planted that he sold We find that when a person pitches their tent, we say use the same terminology Yita. So therefore it can be the word Yita means here that he pitched his tent as well. By Yikra sham and he called there with the name of God. Are you day are you say a shell through having that in there? He was be able to announce and that people should be able to recognize and realize and know about God. Why? I could show you because after the people finished eating and drinking, I would let me would tell them let me show how to bless to the one who you ate from. So they would say, "Okay." They thought I would tell them you think you ate my food. You shall be you ate from the one above and therefore you have to thank God. And he would force them so to speak as we know that he would say, "If you don't want to thank God, then it cost you a lot of money cuz where you going to get food in the desert?" And this way he enforced them to acknowledge and then realize the greatness of God and this was the way that he would teach monotheism and about God to all the people. As we know in the Hasidus that explains by Yikra Sham, al tikra Yikra but Yakri, it doesn't mean only Yakri that he called, but we have to be able to get other people to recognize the greatness of God. Just like Avram, that sometimes a person really wants to recognize the belief in God, but they need a little bit of coercion to be able to see then recognize that God exists. So, like Avram, so too we are obligated to get and to pronounce and other people to pronounce the greatness of Hashem wherever it may be. Vayagar Avram b'eretz Plishtim verse 33, and Vayagar verse 34, Vayagar Avram b'eretz Plishtim yamim rabim. And Avram sojourned in the Philistine for one year many calls as many days, but it was one year more than he had lived in Chevron that was for 26 years. He lived in that area, which was from 2047 to 2073 from the creation of the world. After this, he moved back to Chevron. So, he was there for about 26 years in that area. We'll see this in Rashi as Rashi gives us the calculation. yamim rabim merubim m'ali asher b'Chevron more than the days that he lived in Chevron. B'Chevron as a chof shana In Chevron he was there for 25 years. K'an chovav but over here he was 26 years. How do we have this calculation? So, Rashi gives us the calculation as follows. Sh'arei ben ayin shana haya when he was 75 years old b'tzeis umacha when he left Charan. Oisa shana that year and that year he came to stay in Elisham cuz we don't see anywhere else that he stayed until when he came to Elonei Mamre. Sh'b'chol makom asav all the other places he was just like a guest who kept on traveling. Sh'n'emar as it says passed Vayakin moved and there was a hunger Vayeired Avram then he went down to Egypt. M'Mitzrayim sh'lo sh'chach and in Egypt it was only there for 3 months. Finish lucky for me out cuz Pharaoh sent him away right away. And then it says by Ella my servant he went to his travels until they came to Hebron. Show me your stuff over there he was in Hebron until Sodom was destroyed. Me out after Sodom was destroyed as we just learned a few days ago by Easter mission of my room traveled across he didn't want to be together with Lord because of the incest that Lord's daughters did. Then from there he came letters flushed into the land of flushed. And the land of flushed him how old was he? 99 been solid to show me out. When Sodom was destroyed and traveling to Hebron Charlotte will be lost in my Islam on the third day of his circumcision the angels came. So what do we have over here when he was 75 he left his family home. He was 99 when he was moving out of Hebron that's 25 years. The con and over here when he's in the city of Palestine Steve Yummy Mom says many days more than he was in Hebron. More than he was in Hebron. Just more than he was in Hebron. The Lord of least time the possum is not giving us a clear date a clear amount a little far as to explain that it was more days than because if it was an exact time how much more he would have told us but being he leaves it open-ended just to say it was more. Therefore we must say ain't no use can't be that it was more than a year because of it was more than a year than the first one would probably detailed it. And he said it's 26 years and he also has Hebron and then he returned to Hebron. So I used to show now that year that he left Palestine and returned to Hebron God I can't say that was right before the binding of Isaac you'd be shot in 12 years before I can't say that so he was 12 years back in Hebron before God told him to bring Isaac as a sacrifice. This concludes the sixth Torah reading of the Torah reading of Vayera.