Why Could Avraham Sleep Before the Akeda? | Rabbi Yaniv Meirov

Akedat Yitzchak, the binding of Yitzchak. God commands Avraham Avinu to go and sacrifice, give an offering his one and only son, his loved one who he loved so much, Yitzchak [music] Avinu. Now, the Torah testifies, "Vayaschem Avraham baboker." Avraham wakes up early in the morning. >> [music] >> And everyone, a lot of the commentaries expound and and and compliment Avraham Avinu, "Wow, he woke up early. He's rezim makdimim mitzvot." You have to be zerizim, you have to be quick when it comes to doing mitzvot. But I heard something beautiful as well, learned something amazing. The compliment for Avraham Avinu wasn't the fact that he woke up early. >> [music] >> It was the fact that he was able to go to sleep in the first place. Think about it. Learning new learning, you never know. But the next morning, a person has to go and sacrifice, give an offering, slaughter his own son. Would he be able to sleep in such a situation? Of course not. He'll be tossing and turning. He won't be able to to sleep at night. But Avraham Avinu, our forefather, had so much emunah, the whole faith and trust in God, that God commanded us to do it. It was natural. It was normal. It was fine. It was good. And he was able to go go go to sleep. But he woke up with zerizut, with zealousness, with a quickness in order to do go and into the mitzvah. To teach us how great Avraham Avinu was as well is that how did he know not to go ahead and slaughter and do an offering for his son? There was a malach, an angel, that came to him. What does this teach us? There's a rule in Shulchan Aruch that a person is not able to get any divine presence, any connection, any Wi-Fi, quote unquote, working or connections with the malachim or angels or God unless you're in a state of happiness. Avraham Avinu was going to do Akedat Yitzchak, the binding of Isaac, his son, with [music] simcha, with happiness. We have to remember the rule and that is "Matai yagi'u ma'asai lema'asei avotai?" When are my actions going to reach the actions of our forefathers, Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov? We have to always strive to become greater and to do things better. We have to learn from Avraham Avinu one of two things. >> [music] >> And that is number one is emunah bitachon, faith and trust in God. Do it wholeheartedly. And last but definitely not least is to do it with Simcha, to do it with Oomph and do it with happiness. This is what we should take this message to heart. We should be we should merit to only hear good news about only goodness.