IDENTIFYING THE THEME OF PARSHAS VAYEIRA {המלצר נושא}

Okay, good morning everyone. Shalom aleikhem, baruch haba. We have amazing material today on parshas Vayeira. First, let's start. Take a look at your screen. If I could show you a safer that's eminently coming out. Check this out. Safer Igros HaTzaddik Mikhtvei Kodesh, holy writings, holy letters of the tzaddik Rebbe Nachman of Breslov Koin Huberman that he wrote to Harav HaTzaddik Rebbe Mordechai Leib Glatstein, my grandfather. Also included in it is the chiddushim of the tzaddik Rebbe Nachman of on nisuin, and this is being put out likvod yom hilula chamishim in honor of the 50th yahrzeit of the tzaddik Rebbe Nachman of Breslov. It's coming out imminently. And if you would like to participate in publication, please contact us right away. Okay, the first shiur today is hamiltzar nosei, identifying the theme of parshas Vayeira. I have to say it's not so easy. This is not an easy endeavor, but we have to at least try. Okay. So, here's the difficulty with parshas Vayeira. The challenge is that there are a lot of different uh segments of the parsha. First, you have and they seemingly have nothing to do with each other. First, the angels come and they tell Abraham that Yitzchak will be born. Then Hashem destroys Sedom. Then Abraham and Sarah go to Gerar. Then Yitzchak is born. And then the story of the Akeidah. Could So, could somebody please tell me what is the theme of parshas Vayeira? The theme of Vayeira? It's like 10 different uh episodes. It's also my Rebbe Bar Mitzvah parsha. And it's a long parsha. It's not an easy parsha, but it's a it's a it's good parsha to know because you could lain on the first day of Rosh Hashanah, you could lain on the second day of Rosh Hashanah. Um Chayei Sarah is Gladstein's Bar Mitzvah parsha. There, you know, you have less going on. But Vayeira, what is the theme of Vayeira? You ready for this? It's very simple. The theme of Vayeira is the birth of Yitzchak. That's it. It's the birth of Yitzchak. So, you say, "Okay, nice try. Just because you said three words, that doesn't make it that's the theme of the whole parsha. What does it have to do with the overturn of Sedom? What does it have to do with Avraham going to Gerar? What do you mean the birth of Yitzchak? No, the entire parsha is speaking about the birth of Yitzchak. You ready? Starts off like this. Avraham's on the third day of his milah, the angels come and tell him he's going to have a baby. So, what happens? Avraham Avinu's is told the news in 1 year's time he will have a child. And the rest of the parsha tells us exactly how the Ribono shel Olam, the mesavev kol hasibos, brought about Yitzchak Avinu. What? What do Sedom have to do? Watch this. Now that Avraham Avinu knows that he's going to have a child, look how Hashem brings the child. The angels go to Sedom. They rescue Lot. Lot and his daughters think nobody is alive in the world. So, Lot's daughters live with their father. Avraham Avinu says, "Wow, that's embarrassing to have a cousin who lived with his daughters. I'm out of here." So, Avraham Avinu, Rashi says, moved away from Sedom because he was embarrassed from what Lot did, so he went to Avimelech. Avimelech abducts Sarah. Hashem punishes Avimelech by closing his orifices. Avraham davens for Avimelech. Hashem says, "Oh, you're davening for someone else's orifices to be open? I'll open your wife's orifices and you'll have a child." So, actually the entire parashah were was one string of event after another to bring about the birth of Yitzchak. These are not isolated incidents. From the time you see, you read the parashah, you think Hashem tells Avram he's going to have a child in a year. The end of the parashah he has a child and everything else in the middle of the parashah you figure okay this is just what happened in the interim while we're waiting for Yitzchak to be born. No, this is not just what happened in the interim while we're waiting for Yitzchak to be born. The way Hashem brought Yitzchak to be from the report to when he was born was destroying Sedom, Lot ran away, he had no choice, they had no choice, his his daughters lived with him. Now Avraham Avinu is embarrassed, he goes to Avimelech, Avimelech takes Sarah. Now that he takes Sarah that Hashem plagues Avimelech, Avraham davens, and now "V'Hashem pakad Sarah ka'asher." Now you'll say, "Okay, that's pretty good. What does the Akedah have to do with it?" Well, well, firstly, what is birth? When you're born, okay, who's you? You is you and your wife. So, ishta k'gufoi. So, we need also not only Yitzchak to be born, the birth of Yitzchak is also the birth of Rivka, right? Ishta k'gufoi. But which takes place at the end of the parashah. But besides that, Yitzchak also needs a soul. Birth doesn't just mean the physical body. Birth means the soul. When does Yitzchak's soul come? Well, at before the Akedah, Yitzchak had a female soul. He had a neshama mi'sitra de nukva. That's why until the Akedah he's always called v'asha um "V'hinei nolad ben l'Sarah." Sarah had a a child. It's the same Sarah until the arcade it's like is never attributed to Abraham Avinu. That's because he had this female soul and at the arcade park on a smash so his soul flew away and he got a male soul and after that all you hear is a lot of it's like been Abraham Abraham holiday as you talk. So part of it's like birth his spiritual birth was the arcade. And furthermore his birth is the the birth of Rivka. So really the entire parish is by era you could sum up in what in a few words. The subject of parish is by era is the birth of it's like a Vina. First they're giving the report then you learn how hashem brought it to be through the destruction of Sodom. Abraham moves to Garar. He downs for a Vina. He has a child. The child is born. He has the Mila by the way we could add it's like Mila is also part of his birth. We know that on the day of the Mila is a person's spiritual birth but then it's like needed his neshama which he got at the arcade and he needed his wife's birth which is the end of the parish and once Rivka is born you could wrap it all up call it a day. That's the end of parish is by era. Okay, that is my best offering for the theme of the parish the birth of it's like a Vina. But I have another pretty good one. And maybe you could even argue it's just as good. You ready? Approach number two. You like that one? I thought so. I knew you'd like it. Here's approach number two. The theme of parish is by era is by era. I always like that one. The theme of the parish is and he appeared. And God appeared. Say what? Yeah. In the beginning of the Parsha, Hashem appears to Avraham Avinu. Which is, by the way, part of how Hashem healed him, by appearing to him. It was a great revelation. Hashem came to be mevaqer choleh. After he appeared to Abraham, God appeared in Sedom. Like the pasuk says, erda na ve'era haqa'aqas, I'm going to have to go down and see. And in fact, it says va'Hashem himtir al Sedom, God and his court, they were manifest, they revealed themselves in Sedom. There was a divine revelation in Sedom. And guess what? Avraham goes to Avimelech, guess where Hashem was? Vaye- vaye- vayar Elohim el Avimelech, God even appears to Avimelech. God appeared to Avimelech. Then, Hashem appears to Sarah. Like it says, va'Hashem paqad et Sarah. The Gemara says, we're going to see more about this. This is one of the three things that Hashem does not send a shaliach to take care of. Hashem does it himself. Um and you could perhaps even say that after Avraham Avinu comes back from Gerar, it says vayita ish el Be'er Sheva, vayiqra sham beshem Hashem Kel Olam. Avraham proclaimed God as the God of the world. Avraham was megaleh the kavod ha'Shechinah to the whole world by giving them to eat, to drink, and then to teaching them to be grateful to HaKadosh Baruchu. And then at the end of the Parsha, vayara Hashem me'rachok, Hashem appears on Har HaMoriah. Where Avraham asks, "Yishmael, you see God?" Yishmael says, "I don't see anything." He asks Eliezer, "You see the Shechinah?" No, I don't see anything. But Yitzchak saw. So, from the beginning of this Parsha, we don't have in Chayei Sarah God appearing repeatedly. We don't have in Lech Lecha God repeatedly appearing. But, this is the parashah of appearances, Vayeira. What's this week's parashah? Vayeira. So, it makes sense the name of the parashah encapsulates the subject matter of the parashah. The theme of parashah is Vayeira is Vayeira. Wow, if that's the case, you know what probably happened in this week's parashah? God was coronated. He became sovereign with all of those uh special appearances. So, in fact, you know how the parashah ends? It ends with the es macha. Macha is rashei teivos melech al kol ha'aretz. Melech al kol ha'aretz. So, the theme of parashah is Vayeira were the great appearances of Hakadosh Baruch Hu to Abraham in Sedom and to Avimelech through Abraham to the world and then on the Har Habayit. Okay, that's another possible approach to identifying the main theme of parashah is Vayeira. Vayeira. Here we go. Okay, next.