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Rabbi Moshe Haber Perashat Vayera : Lessons of Abraham's Faith and Hospitality 11.7.25 · Rabbi Moshe Haber - Daily Mussar/Weekly Perasha

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  The parachat Vayera is one of the main parachute of Java Vino
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  and the details of this parachat literally unbelievable, every
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  detail of every part. So I want to just talk about the
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  opening part and again analyze the details of this process
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  where the Pasuka opens up. The Allah Hashem Hashem appeared
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  to him doesn't even tell us who him is.
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  We know it's Arava vino. How do we know you know what's
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  up Rahavir with Leslie passed showers.
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  So it's a run on continuation last week.
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  And where is this place? Sure, as she tells us there was
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  a man whose name was Mamre. He was the the person who gave
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  Rahavir, you know, advice regarding the mitzvahed me law.
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  In fact, going to many of the advice was to Abraham was
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  debating do it in private, do it in public, do it quietly, do it
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  publicly. And he told him he's keeping
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  Shashon, do it publicly. Don't be scary what anyone's
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  going to say. And Raham did so.
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  And therefore the Basu tells us that God appeared to Raham in
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  that place and mentions this man's name to give the man
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  credit in his hoot or would he recommended on behalf of
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  Rahmanino. So God appears to him over
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  there, Rahman sitting by the entrance of the tent on a very
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  hot day. Let's go to a couple of details
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  #1 it said that Hashanah appeared to him, right?
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  Trashi Livaqueta ho de Carlo visiting the sick.
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  Who's the sick? Abraham post Mila.
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  So the question is, how do you know?
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  How do they know that Hashem was visiting the sick?
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  Maybe we was talking to our Alvino, maybe it's appearing to
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  him. So the key is this.
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  The basuk says that Hashem appeared and doesn't say
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  anything else. It just Hashem appeared.
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  It doesn't say anything that happened with the appearance.
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  God appeared and then case closed.
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  Say the rabbi has a very important concept.
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  Where do you appear? When do you go to something and
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  not need to do anything more than just show up?
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  Visiting a sick and paying respects, those are examples of
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  visiting people are examples when just your presence is
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  enough. So we know that we're visiting
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  the sick because that's the situation where appearance alone
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  is enough now. And the parents needs to be not
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  like a phone. It doesn't need to be exactly
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  not a conversation, just being there and then the basuk says
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  that Avraham listening at the ancient way to the tent Kehumayo
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  in the boiling hot day. We know there are she you've
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  heard there are sheep. What does it mean boiling hot
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  day or she tells us Avraham, you know it was a man of Khesa, but
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  God did not want him naturally to have guests while he's
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  recovering from Brumila. So what does Hashem do?
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  God makes it the hottest day imaginable of all time.
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  But Abraham is still standing by the interest rate to the tent
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  waiting and hoping for guests to come and there's no chance in
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  the world any guests are going to come.
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  Worst thing going us say it. Worst thing going us he maybe
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  I'm not sure it's a good question.
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  Hashem take the sun out of a certain shell that it has some
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  sort of protective shield. Remove that shield on this day.
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  Shala Allah to the hobo or the hims that Abraham would not be
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  paying by guests. Maybe the hardest Day in
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  History. Maybe the hardest Day in History
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  if he's Evan David has some good, but a sorry up and died
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  telling the hottest day. And Abraham was sitting there.
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  I closed the door #1 Abraham was sitting there and there's
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  definitely no guests coming. But he wants guests.
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  So really sham do sends the angels as men.
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  We know the next step. So that's the next costumes.
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  The classic question. Here's again.
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  So you open up with B Cochleam. I'm visiting it.
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  And meanwhile everyone was by the antis way to the tent,
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  hoping and reading and anticipating the possibility of
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  guests, which are not happening. And then they come.
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  The classic question, why does God send angels as guests?
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  Because everyone wants it. Just remove the heat making it
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  to a normal day. Let's remove the heat.
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  All right, fair question. You, you you tried something you
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  don't want everyone to do. Today's not the day.
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  He wanted to do it anyway. OK, Sir, remove the heat.
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  We failed whatever, so to speak. Let everyone do his thing.
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  So we remove the answer is classic answer, simple answer.
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  And that is whatever how we knew in this situation will display
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  for all of us. The greatest example of Hester
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  of all time is this story, and it's what I wants this story to
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  play out for all of us to watch and learn from the story.
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  And so therefore, it needs to be a boiling hunt.
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  It needs to be that Raham was sick.
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  It doesn't really mean that God didn't want him to do his.
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  Rather, it means that God was trying to basically, in a
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  certain sense, basically test the Raham.
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  Again, you're a man of Hasid. You like Hasid.
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  Now let's see. And Rahama had to push himself
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  and then it had to be such an extreme situation where Hashem
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  had to bring angels to be the props for this example of the
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  greatest example of Khesid of all time.
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  And had it been warm and cold or regular day, it would not have
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  been as impressive. And the goal of here actually is
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  to have an extremely impressive scenario of Khesid.
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  That's why the heat stays and the angels show to bring on a
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  very impressive kiss. So the bazook says as the
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  classifieds. So the very debatable bazook
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  that he saw enough around lifts up his eyes by yard and he sees
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  I saw this. I can't remember where I saw it
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  twice. We see how this word he Abraham
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  lifts up his eyes and he sees the spot that's here here he
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  sees angels actually these people and he sees the location
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  of the akada. Why do we use the term Abraham
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  lifts up his eyes and sees answer literally is, is that
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  Rahal? I mean, he was a very humble
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  man. See him, he's looking for it.
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  He wasn't. That's the deep, that's the way
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  I will get to that. But the answer is that Raham was
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  a humble man and as a humble man, his eyes were always down.
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  He had to lift up his eyes to look out there to find people
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  and for the purposes that he wanted, like this one finding
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  guests and the other one finding Acedite Scott found location.
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  He changed his way. He changed his style even though
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  he's very humble to look out there in order to find people in
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  this example and to find academic as.
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  Opposed to a person that's always looking.
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  Exactly this phone of rights that they've had one purpose for
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  his phone of rights. He's got Van List a kill.
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  He had intention to look out and how many based on this shot,
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  because normally his eyes were down, but here he lifted it up
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  now. Also from the previous part of,
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  shall we? So I said I didn't see you to.
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  Sammy, Gary, Gert. He wasn't a person who was who's
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  randomly looking around. Very good, very good comparison.
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  So now we have the details of this.
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  Case and he says how pretty she was.
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  Yeah, it. Is now oh.
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  OK, maybe we're a doctor and totally a customer shot you,
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  but. Perfect have to look right.
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  He's not looking for no reason for anything.
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  You know, some reason he's looking for a but he saw another
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  yard the name so Shawn and Sheena, said he on the bold.
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  Behold, there are three people. The regular guy, but the that
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  boy to lose. And that's my regular guy.
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  He was a regular guy. He was definitely self-made men.
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  So you're saying like, how do you?
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  OK, I can understand the things related to him and Hashem being
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  at a higher level. What about like the stuff that
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  just the refining stuff that you know, we practice, try to
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  practice today to make us better.
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  How do you? So there's a unique trait or
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  Rava Javino that's very important.
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  That's a separate trait I rather speak about over the course of
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  Shabbat, and that is the term lechlechha.
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  Lechlechha de Zoar writes means Lech la azmacha do your own
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  thing about having maybe maybe his greatest trait was his
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  ability to create his own mold. And he was very defined and very
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  strong in that sort of dedication to making his own
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  mold. And that very, that included his
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  connection to Hashem, his development of his faith, and it
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  also included his way treated people and reacted to the
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  people. So he may seem at the end of the
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  day, an unbelievably impressive person.
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  All these details we're giving you, but really they're all they
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  came from chipping away and chipping away and trial and
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  error and fixing himself. In fact, that on bomb rights,
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  that when it came to Avraham's faith, it took to 40 years old
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  for him to develop his full faith.
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  So you see that Avrahavina was always chipping away and he
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  created his own mold. That'll be my answer to your
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  overall question here Savaizai Nava yard he sees Vinay
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  Shashonna seem and behold our three men.
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  The word behold is a strange word.
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  There are three men. Why behold but we know they were
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  angels actually so that means they came out of nowhere.
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  They weren't walking up to him. They just there so the word
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  behold that order Kaim says that Tanah wants to be honest to tell
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  you they weren't walking all the way there.
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  They just showed up. That's why you use the words out
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  of Noah need Savi Malav. They're standing there then the
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  bastooks is the word vayar again, and this is a very
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  fundamental double vayar. He saw and he saw this is a well
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  known double Asian. You know, some would say that on
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  bomb is all controversial constant over here.
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  But then on bomb feels that this image, the situation or is not
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  really actual or not behind his eyes.
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  It didn't really fully happen physically that Amban goes
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  literally to town. This is one of the more
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  controversial debatable discussion back and forth, at
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  least on a whole rabbit hole which needs more time, but that
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  Amban says absolutely not. This is all very real.
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  It doesn't appreciate that Amban for Moned and Wahim saying this.
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  Some say that the overall ideas that both are true.
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  It was by yard of vision. There were elements of a vision
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  over here and it was also by yard of an actual Both elements
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  are true with elements of our vision and the elements that
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  were literal at the double by Yar, for example, the Malachians
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  didn't eat, so he thought they were eating.
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  They weren't really eating. These different examples of
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  where he thought he was seeing things.
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  He wasn't really seeing things, but there were elements of
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  Rahama going to this time, I'm telling you now did actually run
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  and he did get the food and all those things.
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  So going to the Rahm bomb, literally, it might seem like it
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  was all a vision. Now the double by Yar was a
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  deeper message in the double and he saw or she one of the classic
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  points in and then as Abraham saw people saying me and he saw
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  that they're hesitant from coming up to him and what did he
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  do? He ran to him.
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  Listen to the wording exact by Yaros le Crotan MI PETA.
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  He ran to Greetan from the anxious way to the tent.
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  He rang from where he's standing, erased it, which
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  means. It says proceed so.
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  Exactly. It's even more he raced there
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  from where he's standing straight there, but he's talk a
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  lot of sunny bowed down now when they've done now why he run from
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  there? Because he's so and they're
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  hesitant to show up. I see a weak old man.
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  They're going to go to him. They may be passive as he thinks
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  they're people, but even if they're hungry, he's not going
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  to show off to his house. So he runs after them.
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  So that's why she and he wants to make sure to get something
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  that only comes because he's so and he's so clearly he's so they
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  were hesitant double and he ran and he raced there.
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  I saw upshot that he raced there.
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  I used you watched the whole way.
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  He was nervous If they showed up in the instant I didn't see them
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  coming. They must have run very fast or
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  something take advantage at any point.
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  So you watch them. So by yard by yaar means you
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  watch that to make sure they don't leave.
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  He's running and watching them the whole time.
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  That's why he says by yaar 3 times and by yaar it's and he
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  runs enough and then he does the whole act of Hesse to an
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  unbelievable way. He says these words.
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  Just just find his words and see the beauty of his Hesse.
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  I'll pull out his words and I want to tell you I could not
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  point for a second. Ayomer ayomar adonai by mes
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  simply speaking, he's talking to them.
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  He's referring to them as his master.
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  By the way, these are individuals who are Arabs and
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  the individuals whom he believes inspects is served Abdulazza,
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  not his type, not as anything. And your first name was his
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  master, IMNA Masati handbener. If I have found favor in your
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  eyes, Al Nahtavar, please don't pass lay al Abdehar from your
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  servant. He's referring to himself as a
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  servant, them as his master. He says the word please.
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  He says if I found favor in your eyes, he's asking for permission
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  to do hesit to them. He's asking for a rights.
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  Yuka Naam at Mayim, please take some water and wash your feet
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  and rest under the tree and I'll give you some bread.
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  They cap and let him. They say, I'll do Ibrahim, I'll
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  have a little bread and then you'll go key out of cane
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  because it must be a reason that you pass by your slave, me
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  Ayomanu. And they respond, Can't I say
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  kashedibata or do as you tell us?
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  You have in his wording a pleading, a reference of
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  servants. Was MDM Master a way he mentions
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  it. He says take a little water,
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  have a little bread, sit under the tree.
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  And he says there must be a reason why you pass by me.
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  And all this is hinting to the idea of Hesse.
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  How does Hesse work? Hesse it is meant to be.
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  Although we're giving, we don't act like we're giving.
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  I said it's meant to be and you're lifting the other person
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  up and they feel good. How do you do that?
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  By making it seem as much as you can, like they're doing you a
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  favor more than you're doing them.
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  Sometimes it's difficult to get that done, but you can't get
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  that done. So Raham refers to them as his
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  master, him as his servant. So now he's shifting that there
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  would be nice to him to let a servant serve his master.
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  He says words like please, I send him a favor for them to
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  come to him. He says take a little and I and
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  I don't want to do a lot. He makes it seem like it's not a
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  burden. Again, he's trying to play down
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  the Hassan aspect. In their eyes, not a burden.
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  A little water, a little bread, a little little visit.
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  And they respond in kind. Do as you said, which means they
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  didn't say thank you very much. They didn't sell.
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  Unbelievable. They say, can't I say Garcia de
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  Balata? Whatever you say will do.
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  Almost like you got pressured by the great aunt to come in for
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  the photo and you have no choice but to come in.
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  That's what that's how they're making it seem right.
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  You know that scene you're walking by and in sports or
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  something they say come in, come in, come in, you're like, OK,
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  fine. And that that's that's you
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  really are doing them a favor. In a sense.
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  Abraham Avinu was making it seem like that's what I am and they
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  acquiesce. And that's what a way and the
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  reason that's what are details of this has to that way was to
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  show us that's how people treating other people should
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  always be done. You should treat people and that
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  mindset with the way that they come out on the other end
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  feeling better about themselves. Was he doing that a favor?
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  He was absolutely done doing that a favor in his eyes.
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  They were stopping, they were passing by.
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  It was boiling hot and he did food and he gave them.
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  He didn't give them a little. They didn't stay for a little.
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  He gave them. We know the pursuit.
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  He got a caliper, he got hersin, he got them bowls of bread, he
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  got them everything, but the pasuk details his pitch to them
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  as they think he's doing them a favor or actually is it they're
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  doing him a favor or in actuality, he is by far doing
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  them the greatest favor. And there really is the constant
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  of how has that should be done. And that's what all details this
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  scenario as the greatest act of hiss maybe of all time for us to
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  realize this is how you do it. It's the way you do it, you
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  insist, you push, you offer, you do it and make it seem like it's
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  not a burden at all on your part.
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  You make it seem like you want to do it.
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  And ultimately that's the prophet.
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  He's in Abraham who did that. And in reality, he was he was
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  blessed in return. That's where the try gives us
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  these details to such an extent. All right to one point I want to
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  jump to the end. If I was shot just for 5
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  minutes, I. Always thought that it was that
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  it was Abraham acting the way he was, that what he did by
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  bringing people into the fold. And that's a side details
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  bringing into the fold. That wasn't the go.
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  Now let's just throw one more point is that we think hazardous
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  for the recipient. Just to add to this point, we
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  just said we think hazardous for the recipient.
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  It's really for our sake. Lamesh.
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  It's on Wednesday night. You're a fine person and a nice
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  person. A lot of our niceness comes from
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  the situations where we dealt with others and we gave them the
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  time of day, we gave them the money.
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  We get benefit from them, We get the, we get benefit and we
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  develop ourselves from it. I want to just jump to the end
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  of the pressure. That's point number one.
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  That's I think this is a very powerful coin.
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  I'm sure I'll say it over the course of Shabbat.
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  And that is at the pasuk's of the words and Hakeem Nisar
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  Abraham, Hashem tested Abraham, right?
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  And then after that it's like happens, God tells him, take,
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  please take your first born, your beloved, fine, He did have
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  a chosen son. So the question is asked is why
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  do we refer specifically to that case as a test?
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  Everything alive is a test, right?
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  Making money is a test. Raising children, being married,
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  everything's a test. So why having a health
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  challenge? Having this challenge?
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  Why refer to this Elokin Nisat Abraham Hashem testament?
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  Are you the same? Because of his his test, like
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  his personal test. That's true.
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  It was unique. No one has had these 10.
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  Kids, maybe it's not as big of a test, Not that any less.
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  It's like a person has a problem with Kabat or something.
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  So that's his test. First has, you know, be a
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  weakness. Like it's his Achilles heel.
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  That's. What I was trying to say I
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  shouldn't gave him a a tailor made scenario for how they go.
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  So there are she says that our sham specifically pulled out
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  very similar to your point pulled out his test in order to
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  prove our harmless strength. It's specifically fam the point
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  I wanted to bring out I found yesterday.
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  That is our idea. Most obstacles in life are
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  obstacles. What does that mean?
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  That means you're trying to make money, lose a buyer, deal with
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  something in the industry. Now you now it's a little harder
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  to breakthrough to make money. It's an obstacle.
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  What's your job? Very clear to work harder to
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  push through person trying to raise children and the children
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  and I think exactly the way they want.
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  What's your job? It's very simple.
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  It's an obstacle, but more efforts.
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  Pray push forward person's trying to keep mitts fault and
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  he lives in the community or an area where mitts fault are hard
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  to keep. My job is about beacon Even so I
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  push to every year you try to learn, you don't know what's
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  going on in the learning. What's your task?
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  Work harder to get to learning. Most situations in life, yes,
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  the ones that are normally referred to as tests.
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  What they really are, are obstacles to breakthrough.
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  What makes Arkady Izkha unique? And this is something that we
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  face in life. Sometimes it's in the news
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  situations, sometimes few have opportunities in personal
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  situations. And that is that the test itself
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  wasn't an obstacle at all to breakthrough to succeed.
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  It was instead a situation that seemed to be completely
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  destroying his life and and his job would not be to build
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  through it to breakthrough and make himself a better person to
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  where it seemed rather his test. Was to end his future, to end
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  his family, to end his promise, to end his dedication of his
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  life, to end his purpose of his life.
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  All that was seemingly part of his task.
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  He was in a situation where the challenge was not obstacle in
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  order to grow. The challenge was instead
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  outright complete confusion where he can ask the question,
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  why would I have this? It's not making me better.
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  It's not connecting me more. It's not making me stronger.
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  Dedications around its foot. It's only basically seem like a
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  difficulty that doesn't seem to have any perfecting purpose.
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  That's an isayon. That's a legitimate isayon.
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  Everything in our life is a challenge, but it's a challenge.
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  When you face something, you say what?
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  I'm trying to be a good guy, trying to be a good person.
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  Why would a Hashem face me with something that seems to be the
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  anti of that? It's a different kind of
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  challenge. Follow that point.
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  It's a whole different kind of challenge.
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  And that's the one that the one a man really makes his muck.
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  How do you respond to those? And you have a situation where
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  you're asking why trying to be a good guy.
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  Why would I try to make it more difficult to be a good guy?
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  I mean, you get more credit for that when you that's the one.
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  Well, how you respond to those what does makes you who you are
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  Exactly. That's the line.
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  Those are the ones we don't face.
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  Many of those, most of ours are Panasana, having children,
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  raising children, health. Those are all clear what you're
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  supposed to do. You know what you're a task.
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  That's exactly, that's a clear point.
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  And please, you don't know the why and you don't even know
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  what. All you know is I have to follow
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  the motions. And how we respond to those
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  situations are the ones that make us who we are.
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  And sometimes I'll give you 2 examples if I can.
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  News examples are ones that fit that bill.
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  COVID was one of those where it didn't seem to be a weight.
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  You can't learn better. You can't pray better.
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  You can't make more money. Seemingly you can't do anything
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  right. Why?
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  And this one right now we dealt with this past week is very
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  similar. You want to have better streets,
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  You want to have more money, You want to raise your children
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  better. You want to have safety, safety.
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  You want to have more connection to Israel.
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  All these things. And I shan't threw you a
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  curveball that doesn't seem to do any of those things.
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  Your response? How you react to those is what
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  makes you who you are. Avraham went from Avraham to
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  Avraham Avraham. He went from person who was well
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  liked by Hashem to a person who was the most beloved man that
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  Hashem ever had. How?
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  Because how he responded, how did he respond?
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  He went forward. He did it with energy.
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  He did what he has to do with excitement, and he did it with
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  clear faith and clear clarity, even while there's confusion on
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  his own. And that's how we have in
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  situations like these, in life like this, sometimes you face
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  scenarios where there's a white. I don't know why.
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  I don't see how it's going to make me stronger.
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  Yourself was really tested. Yeah.
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  But that very good example. You're right.
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  That's a good example as well. Because this is considered the
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  classic of the king. There's no how about how there's
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  no seeming gain in this. And Even so, he succeeded.
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  That's the idea.