Rabbi Nissim Musheyev - Imitation of G-d

the portions of the Torah that we're reading now are the portions from the beginning of the Torah Brit and if you look into it and you study it so much C events are are in these par like to focus on one theme that I'm seeing throughout these portions um something that we could really learn from and grow from Ab has a revelation from Hashem and it says that Hashem appeared to abam he is connecting to him after his circumcision and ab as the RAB is explaining are now is now meriting a unbelievable Revelation from Hashem a connection from Hashem the highest he ever received after after having her circumcision he sees three people walking by and he says to Hashem Hashem please wait I need to take care of these three guests so the question we need to ask is how is AB allowed to do this how is AB allowed to talk to Hashem have a meeting with Hashem and ask him to wait we would never do that if we were meeting a president or a king we wouldn't ask him to wait to take care of the guests but AB did what was ab's logic and reason what was his source to do such a thing so AR rabis explain that AB understood what's greater than talking to Hashem what's greater than connecting to Hashem what can be greater what can be greater is to emulate Hashem to be Godlike God is a giver God God is constantly giving he created the world to give he created the he created everything to be a giver so we can emulate Hashem by being a giver so Hashem at this point is connecting and receiving greatness from Hashem and now he has a chance to be a giver so AB says I rather not receive from Hashem the greatest levels I rather be like AEM be a giver be the one who's giving and have guests and this is what AB did and he teaches us that the goal of each Jewish life and each each human being really and and and each Jew for sure Among Us is to be the ultimate Giver that we can be to be a notan to be a giver we see this throughout AB Rino's life that he's constantly giving and constantly helping we see this with the war that he had against the Four Kings in order to save his nephew L we see this we see this with all of our forefathers AB MIT and yob they are all givers and they're all trying to be an emulating hasem this week's portion we read about Rifka IMU we read about how elzar the servant of AR picks a wife for his master son Y and what is the one character Trad is looking for he's looking for the character trait of kindness again this is AB Marina's HMK Mark to be part of aam R's family elezra says I must test this girl if she's going to be a kind lady but not only a kind lady not only doing kindness in on a small scale but kindness on a big scale how does he test her if she's going to give him to drink and she's going to give his 10 camels to drink and that's what she does so she was merited to be part of rif mared to be part of ao's family through the trade of kindness again being giver and the word G Hebrew which is for Camel is the same word as g g is being a giver G A person who gives kindness so we can emulate this trait and we do and if you look around in Jewish history all of the kindness that Jews have done and are still doing sedom look let's look at the opposite of of of a given Community sedom sedom was destroyed because they were the antithesis they were the opposite of the trait of ab Rino of being a giver their ideology was survival def fitst no no kindness that was the law and at one point Hashem says I have no other no other choice but to have to destroy them and what is the neighborhood that Hashem destroyed what area is that sadom today that's the Dead Sea the Dead Sea where there's no life and the Dead Sea receives water from the Sea of Galilee and the Jordan it receives it doesn't give off there's no life in there if you are just a receiver and you're not a giver you're dead that's the Dead Sea so in this time in this difficult time that we're in Jews we could help each other by being givers to each other by by by by connecting to another Jew by being a giver in any which way that we can be a giver we're going to be able we're going to theem give strength to the Jews in Israel to soldiers in Israel the hostages to come out and all the Jews around the world to be safe shabbat shalom and have a great great great Shabbat thank you