(א) וַיְהִ֗י אַחַר֙ הַדְּבָרִ֣ים הָאֵ֔לֶּה וְהָ֣אֱלֹהִ֔ים נִסָּ֖ה אֶת־אַבְרָהָ֑ם וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֵלָ֔יו אַבְרָהָ֖ם וַיֹּ֥אמֶר הִנֵּֽנִי׃

We continue on with insights in to the well-known chapter that we say thrice on a daily basis, Ashrei Yoshvei Betecha. The very first Section of Ashrei, אַ֭שְׁרֵי יוֹשְׁבֵ֣י בֵיתֶ֑ךָ ע֝֗וֹד יְֽהַלְל֥וּךָ סֶּֽלָה׃ is found in Tehilim chapter eighty four,5. The Chida, his commentary Yosef Tehilot, rates in the Rama M’Pano, who asks the next issue: The correct Hebrew for this verse אַ֭שְׁרֵי יוֹשְׁבֵ֣י בֵיתֶ֑ךָ Ashrei Yoshvei Betecha, which suggests, “ Fortuitous are those who sit in Your own home,” really should be אשרי יושבי ב ביתך Ashrei Yoshvei B’ Betecha Privileged are the ones who sit in your house. Exactly what does “ Lucky are those that sit your house ,” necessarily mean? He clarifies that it truly implies is, “Fortuitous will be the men and women, who, they them selves, become the house..the chair, the dwelling place of God Himself.” So we study it as Ashrei Yoshvei Betecha, The ones that sit and grow to be Your house. They are Your hous e. They're God's residence. That is the job of each Jew, as we say, “Zeh Eli V’Anvehu/That is God, and I will create a dwelling place for Him.” The dwelling spot for Him isn’t just an exterior creating much like the Guess Hamikdash or maybe the Mishkan, but instead the individual himself . This concept demonstrates up while in the Alshech, who explains, the pasuk exactly where Hashem states V’Asu Li Mikdash/Make for Me a Mikdash, And that i’ll dwell in them . It won't say dwell in it ( meaning the Mishkan). “ I’ll dwell in them , implies the Jewish folks. Currently, we don't have a Mishkan or Mikdash. But Now we have our prayer. And after we pray, God dwells in us . We speak with God when we pray, due to the fact He’s there. When we pray, He will come down, into the extent that there is a Halacha that one is just not allowed to wander before a person when They are praying. The simple cause is for the reason that it is going to distract them. Though the deeper explanation is simply because after they're praying, the space close to them gets holy, like a Guess Mikdash, so that you can't enter that holy zone that's bordering a person if they're praying. Which describes, going back again to we talked about yesterday, how the pious men of old, would ponder for an hour or so right before they prayed. As we mentioned, the source was Ashrei Yoshvei Betecha/ Fortuitous are people that (simply just) sit and wait around. But now we have a deeper explanation: Privileged are people who grow to be God's home . How do we become God's dwelling? What provides the Shechina down? It arrives down only by means of assumed and contemplation. As well as the Shulchan Aruch provides down that these pious Males of previous would arrive at this sort of significant amounts of relationship that it had been almost similar to a prophecy.

So it absolutely was determined that you just were gonna make $100,000, and after that the market dropped therefore you misplaced $10,000 and you also wound up with $ninety,000. What is the primary difference? The real difference is, as we now see, in this manner, you obtain the kapara . You get the atonement for the money which you missing. You truly never ever got it, but God, in His mercy causes it to be counts for Kapara . But, claims the Chafetz Chaim, There may be even a higher level- Rav Yochanan Ben Zachai’s nephews gave The cash to Sedaka. So don't just can you find yourself you have been speculated to make $a hundred,000 dollars, but you shed $ten,000. But if you are taking that $10,000, give it to charity, it counts as a loss, but it isn't a decline, as it turns into a tremendous, incredible zechut. That's how Hashem operates the globe, in this manner of mercy. Just bear in mind, once we say, פּוֹתֵ֥חַ אֶת־יָדֶ֑ךָ וּמַשְׂבִּ֖יעַ לְכׇל־חַ֣י רָצֽוֹן׃ God opens up His palms and satiates to everybody, what his wills are. Hashem, open Your palms and make sure you give me everything bounty,” don’t say, “ Hey, it's actually not Operating, it's not coming in.” It's working , you're obtaining it, Nevertheless they're having it faraway from you, so that you can give you a kapara before you get it. So Really don't Believe These prayers were squandered. It truly is bringing you every type of atonements. Everything you might have gotten, and should have gotten, was taken far from you. The Pele Yoetz, in the topic of Daagah/stress, discusses this as well. He made use of the mashal of a king that tells a debtor that It really is not possible for someone to owe funds into the king and never fork out him. “ So I'll slide some cash by your doorway, and you'll pay me again with that. I am going to even depart you some leftovers likewise. I will Supply you with a little bit over you will need. ” That's what Hashem does. He presents us, and after that He tends to make us get rid of, and that's how He presents us the kapara . Which is how He pays us off. The Pele Yoetz cites a midrash that claims, Hodu L’Hashem Ki Tov, Praise Hashem, for He is good What is the ki Tov/very good ? That Hashem collects the debts in the best possible way for somebody. Your wine bottle breaks, your rooster dies, you stub your toe. God's mercy is ample in how He appears for methods for us to pay for back again, in essentially the most pain-free of ways. An additional mashal is specified of a king Having said that whoever committed a certain would've a big boulder dropped on him, and that boulder would get rid of the individual. Nonetheless it turned out that the king’s son committed the crime. So the king took the boulder and broke it into compact minor pebbles and experienced the pebbles thrown at his son, one at a time. פּוֹתֵ֥חַ אֶת־יָדֶ֑ךָ וּמַשְׂבִּ֖יעַ לְכׇל־חַ֣י רָצֽוֹן׃ God opens up His palms and satiates to All people, what his wills are. When it looks like you didn’t get Anything you wished, you probably did- but it had been taken clear of you prior to deciding to received it, in a method that will bring about you to secure a kapara . Have a beautiful day.

Just times following the Israelites crossed the Reed Sea accompanied by sufficient Divine pyrotechnics God presents them a check to view when they internalized the religion they professed at The ocean.

In his sefer, the Ben Ish Chai ( Parashas Nasso ), offers even more insights to the number fifteen and its relationship to shalom : · It truly is the amount of words and phrases in Birkas Kohanim, which culminates in a blessing of shalom . · Furthermore, he explains, a hand has fourteen joints, 3 on Every single in the 4 fingers and two around the thumb. For the hand to represent shalom, it requires yet one more component. For that reason, Chazal instructed us that after we produce a berachah with a cup of wine, we should maintain the cup inside the palm from the hand; With this place, it can be known as the Kos shel Berachah, the cup of blessing. The palm becomes the hand’s fifteenth part, So symbolizing shalom . · He connects this idea on the Chazal ( Berachos 64a) “Talmidei chachamim marbim shalom, Torah scholars enhance peace.” It's because the rabbis have amplified the instances for utilizing a kos shel berachah. These include things like Kiddush on Shabbos and Yom Tov, Havdalah , Birkas HaMazon , weddings, bris milah, and the night of Pesach. These are typically all instances in which we position the kos within our palm, calling into services the fifteenth ingredient of our hand, So symbolizing the Identify of Shalom . · During the six weekdays, we wash for bread twice per day, twelve moments in all. On Shabbos, We've three meals, which brings the 7 days’s total to fifteen. Shabbos is per day of peace because of the fifteenth meal, Seudas Shelishis, which brings shalom . In addition, the Ben Ish Chai teaches that Tu b’Shevat is among the most opportune the perfect time to pray for Arba Minim, the 4 Species we bless all through Succos. As we discovered inside bitachon our discussion on Succos, the four species symbolize unity One of the 4 varieties of Jewish individuals. How come we pray regarding these 4 species on Tu b’Shevat? The rabbis reveal that if we consider the trees on Tu B’Shvat, we see that they are bare. Tu b’Shevat marks the day on which, in accordance with the Gemara , the sap begins jogging within the tree. Then, on Rosh Chodesh Nissan, we can easily start generating Birkas Ilanos, the blessing we are saying upon looking at the tree’s buds start to blossom. The seasons progress till finally, we get there at Succos, whenever we harvest the fruit. As a result, the development towards Succos begins on Tu b’Shevat, whenever we pray for the necessary shalom from the Shivtei Kah, which lastly expresses alone over the Pageant of Succos With all the Arba Minim. Shevat could be the month, and Tu b’Shevat the working day, uniquely primed for our efforts to foster the middah of shalom and ahavas Yisrael.

If it remember to you, tend not to go on past your servant. (4) Allow a little drinking water be introduced; bathe your ft and recline under the tree. (five) And allow me to fetch a morsel of bread that you just might refresh yourselves; then go on—observing you have come your servant’s way.

..an historic narrative advanced during which Ishmael was deemed the intended sacrifice Which via him a novel marriage created between God along with the Arab Muslims.

A better, however extra enlightened emunah is usually that every thing at the moment is sweet—even if it superficially seems horrible. See When Undesirable Is Good for the stories of Rabbi Akiva and Nachum Ish Gamzu that illustrate how these two attitudes can play out from the resultant bitachon.

(יז) וַֽיהֹוָ֖ה אָמָ֑ר הַֽמְכַסֶּ֤ה אֲנִי֙ מֵֽאַבְרָהָ֔ם אֲשֶׁ֖ר אֲנִ֥י עֹשֶֽׂה׃ (יח) וְאַ֨בְרָהָ֔ם הָי֧וֹ יִֽהְיֶ֛ה לְג֥וֹי גָּד֖וֹל וְעָצ֑וּם וְנִ֨בְרְכוּ־ב֔וֹ כֹּ֖ל גּוֹיֵ֥י הָאָֽרֶץ׃ (יט) כִּ֣י יְדַעְתִּ֗יו לְמַ֩עַן֩ אֲשֶׁ֨ר יְצַוֶּ֜ה אֶת־בָּנָ֤יו וְאֶת־בֵּיתוֹ֙ אַחֲרָ֔יו וְשָֽׁמְרוּ֙ דֶּ֣רֶךְ יְהֹוָ֔ה לַעֲשׂ֥וֹת צְדָקָ֖ה וּמִשְׁפָּ֑ט לְמַ֗עַן הָבִ֤יא יְהֹוָה֙ עַל־אַבְרָהָ֔ם אֵ֥ת אֲשֶׁר־דִּבֶּ֖ר עָלָֽיו׃ (כ) וַיֹּ֣אמֶר יְהֹוָ֔ה זַעֲקַ֛ת סְדֹ֥ם וַעֲמֹרָ֖ה כִּי־רָ֑בָּה וְחַ֨טָּאתָ֔ם כִּ֥י כָבְדָ֖ה מְאֹֽד׃ (כא) אֵֽרְדָה־נָּ֣א וְאֶרְאֶ֔ה הַכְּצַעֲקָתָ֛הּ הַבָּ֥אָה אֵלַ֖י עָשׂ֣וּ ׀ כָּלָ֑ה וְאִם־לֹ֖א אֵדָֽעָה׃

(יא) וְאַבְרָהָ֤ם וְשָׂרָה֙ זְקֵנִ֔ים בָּאִ֖ים בַּיָּמִ֑ים חָדַל֙ לִהְי֣וֹת לְשָׂרָ֔ה אֹ֖רַח כַּנָּשִֽׁים׃ (יב) וַתִּצְחַ֥ק שָׂרָ֖ה בְּקִרְבָּ֣הּ לֵאמֹ֑ר אַחֲרֵ֤י בְלֹתִי֙ הָֽיְתָה־לִּ֣י עֶדְנָ֔ה וַֽאדֹנִ֖י זָקֵֽן׃ (יג) וַיֹּ֥אמֶר יְהֹוָ֖ה אֶל־אַבְרָהָ֑ם לָ֣מָּה זֶּה֩ צָחֲקָ֨ה שָׂרָ֜ה לֵאמֹ֗ר הַאַ֥ף אֻמְנָ֛ם אֵלֵ֖ד וַאֲנִ֥י זָקַֽנְתִּי׃ (יד) הֲיִפָּלֵ֥א מֵיְהֹוָ֖ה דָּבָ֑ר לַמּוֹעֵ֞ד אָשׁ֥וּב אֵלֶ֛יךָ כָּעֵ֥ת חַיָּ֖ה וּלְשָׂרָ֥ה בֵֽן׃ (טו) וַתְּכַחֵ֨שׁ שָׂרָ֧ה ׀ לֵאמֹ֛ר לֹ֥א צָחַ֖קְתִּי כִּ֣י ׀ יָרֵ֑אָה וַיֹּ֥אמֶר ׀ לֹ֖א כִּ֥י צָחָֽקְתְּ׃ (טז) וַיָּקֻ֤מוּ מִשָּׁם֙ הָֽאֲנָשִׁ֔ים וַיַּשְׁקִ֖פוּ עַל־פְּנֵ֣י סְדֹ֑ם וְאַ֨בְרָהָ֔ם הֹלֵ֥ךְ עִמָּ֖ם לְשַׁלְּחָֽם׃

. This can also reveal the extreme cruelty that we see manifested in how that some descendants of Ishmael deal with the conflict. Netziv of Volozhin indicates, “There are plenty of nations who conquer other countries to extend their empires.

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Blessed is the person who trusts in God, and whose hope God is. For he shall be just like a tree planted by the waters, Which spreads out its roots with the river, and shall not see in the event the heat arrives, but its leaf shall be inexperienced; and shall not be nervous during the yr of drought, nor shall it cease from yielding fruit.”

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