Torah Insights of Rabbi Balkany: Vayeira (Video 253)

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

Good evening. This week's parsha parshas Vayeira is very very colorful as most sedras are. Um I want to begin with a vort from Kad Moinem that they ask in the second pasuk of this sedra Vayisa einav vayara, that Avraham Avinu we know it was the third day after his bris milah and the third day is always the hardest and it was boiling hot outside k'choma yom. And he was sitting there and he was longing for a guest and suddenly he sees three people coming and he picked up his eyes Vayisa einav vayara v'hinei shlosha anoshim nitzavim alav vayara vayaretz l'krasam mipetach ha'ohel vayishtachu artza. So the Kad Moinem ask why is the word vayara and he saw twice in the pasuk? It tells us in the beginning of the pasuk Vayisa einav vayara. He looked up and he saw the people there. So why does it say that v'hinei shlosha anoshim nitzavim alav and then again vayara? And they answer and say because many times we see a situation or we hear about a situation and we're very enthusiastic and we're very excited and we're very happy that the Ribono shel Olam sent it our way for the s'chus of whatever the situation is. But sometimes a half an hour later, sometimes a day later the yetzer hara creeps in and says, "Listen, it is a beautiful opportunity. But do you have the time? Do you have the money? Do you have the availability to really undertake what you just encountered?" And the person is co- cooled off to a point that it disintegrates. It takes away the entire impact that was originally there. So the Kadmonium say that Vayara is stated twice because when he saw the those three, he didn't know it was

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