Torah Illuminated Series: Parshas Vayeira - Empowering The Next Generation For Their Akeida

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Daniel Glatstein’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

foreign [Music] avinu performing the greatest act anyone ever achieved he's taking his son realizes there's something unusual taking place dad and avraham responds hinanibani hineni what does the word hinani mean and haven't we seen that word before that word appeared in the very first pasok of the story of the akedah paragraph and it was after these matters avraham God tested avraham avraham he said avraham and avraham says it to the almighty and avraham says it to the almighty hinani behold here I am says Rashi this is the response of the righteous an expression of humility and Allah being prepared to do the building of Hashem so hineni is an expression of humility an expression of being prepared now I can understand why avraham would use that word when addressing the almighty he spanned it

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2. 0:39and avraham responds hinanibani hineni what does the word hinani mean and haven't we seen that…
3. 1:10and avraham says it to the almighty hinani behold here I am says Rashi this is…
4. 1:42addressing the almighty he spanned it he's standing he's addressing the king of the universe the…
5. 2:15today one of the great mashpium today he says that he has a lot of experience…
6. 2:46from this expression of avraham of saying from here we learn that just like one has…
7. 3:17says from gamliel we learn this astounding lesson that with the same humility that you speak…
8. 3:47sacrifice he says perhaps it's even a greater challenge than the akedah and the same way…

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