A Kiddush Hashem... Today | Rabbi Meshulim Feish Ginsberg, Chuster Rebbe

There is a pasuk at the end of the Akeida, it will be said today, What does this pasuk mean? I think this pasuk is a message, clearly, to all the members of Vayimaen. HaKadosh Baruch Hu told Avraham, Take your son, that you waited for him a hundred years, and bring him as a sacrifice on the Mount Moriah. Avraham Avinu didn't waste time. He went early in the morning and harnessed his donkey and took along Yishmael and Eliezer and Yitzchak. And they were traveling for three days. The Satan put all kinds of different obstacles and traps to get him to turn around and go home, but it wasn't successful. The Chasidishe Sefarim explain, He saw HaMakom means HaKadosh Baruch Hu, המקום ירחם, המקום ינחם. He saw HaKadosh Baruch Hu from far. He wasn't the great saint, our forefather Avraham. He was a plain regular Jew, an ordinary Jew, that's going to have a Nisayon. They arrived on the top of the mountain, they built a מזבח and Yitzchak told his father, קשרני יפה יפה tie me very tightly. He lay down on the מזבח and Avraham took that long knife, and Yitzchak said, usually a 37-year-old young man has plans for his life, for his future, and he says: Father, שרפני יפה יפה, burn me totally, till I'm כולו ashes, and take the ashes to my mother, Sarah, and tell her, The child that you waited for 90 years, this is your child. She is going to have הנאה that her child went on Kiddush Hashem. This is what happened on the Mount Moriah. What went on in the higher heavens? HaKadosh Baruch Hu assembled all the מלאכים, שרפים ואופנים וחיות הקודש. He opened up a window, a skylight, and He said: Listen, do you want to see My pride? Not the great mountains that I created, the great oceans. ראו, look, בריה שבראתי. Look at this creation that I created, the father and the son, what they’re doing. With this I am proud. Avraham Avinu, when he descended from the mountain, he wanted to let us know, This wasn’t only then that there was a Kiddush Hashem. Not only in Treblinka, Auschwitz, Dachau, in the crematoriums, in the gas chambers was Kiddush Hashem. But every day, When? Today. When the Bochur goes out on the street to the Yeshiva, when the young man goes to his work, when the middle-aged goes to a meeting, when the older man stands in his shop, or he goes in an airport and he has to restrain his eyes from seeing what he's not supposed to see, you should know, even then, אשר יאמר היום HaKadosh Baruch Hu is assembling His whole heavenly military, and He's telling them: ראו, come and look, בריה שבראתי, look what I created. After so many years in Galus, a Bochur, a middle-aged, a young man, an older man are restraining their eyes and doing everything they can to stop seeing what they shouldn't see. Remember, next time, when the Yetzer Hara gets you and wants you to look, tell him: I would look, but Hashem is opening the window and He wants to take pride in me. Let me not disappoint Him.