Parashat Vayera 5780:“ Our Father Abraham: His Loyalty to Gd and compassion for Mankind”

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The opening of this shiur, in Chacham Baruch Ben-Haim ztl’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Shalom we will share with you a few thoughts regarding the parasha the coming parasha that is Parishad Vieira this parasha has several subjects that are very important of course it it all has to do with our father Abraham as we have explained father Abraham as we have explained before how father Abraham was unique I mean no one can really equal him in his greatness in his way to do to perform deeds of kindness so we will try to develop a few thoughts that usually require explanation and usually it would be difficult to come to reach some kind be difficult to come to reach some kind of explanation that is decisive so we have to be content with whatever is said according to the commentators and according to the great rabbi such as the Rambam as well as the sages before first so we will discuss a few thoughts regarding a few subjects in this parish ah we have at least three the first one is having to do with the circumcision is having to do with the circumcision that Avraham performed on himself and the appearance of God to come to visit him as we read in the beginning of the parasha vieira elevation that God Himself showed himself to him that's according to the literal meaning we shall discuss this then comes the second matter in this parasha it has to do with the destruction of the city of sodom and the destruction of the city of sodom and gomorrah right and how Abraham is relating to that and the third the third subject in the parasha is very important one also one of those things that I that are difficult to understand that Hashem is is ordering Avraham to slaughter to sacrifice his son it's hot there's no

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1. 0:01Shalom we will share with you a few thoughts regarding the parasha the coming parasha that…
2. 2:06the destruction of the city of sodom and gomorrah right and how Abraham is relating to…
3. 4:47the third day after everyone on that population of Shem after the third day of the…
4. 7:22he came why did he come our sages said in the Talmud in Massa hat so…
5. 9:56make him feel happy as though you need him to be so happy to see him…
6. 12:32counted among the righteous however because he is the nephew of Avraham that's why he was…
7. 14:39that's where we see all the prayers of Jana and finally you knock him out and…
8. 17:16and the same thing also regarding the what God is asking him to go and slaughter…
9. 19:49for the sacrifice and now he cannot do the sacrifice of his son so God made…
10. 22:23kind of perfection maybe the mushiya then maybe then he can say that I feel the…

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