Vayeira: How Sarah Made the Malachim Uncomfortable - The Amazing Insight of the Chofetz Chaim

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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.

Progress. >> Parshas Vayeira. Vatitzchak Sarah leimor lo tzachakti vayakumu misham hanashim. Perush she vayakumu lashon zrizus. Sarah laughed. She said I didn't laugh. She denied it. And the malachim got up. So the Chofetz Chaim interprets the words vayakumu as a lashon of energetic alacrity. Kimikimum sheshama malachim alacrity. Kimikimum sheshama malachim eish keish Sarah. When the malachim saw that Sarah lied, miyad na'asa tzara l'hem among malachim shelo tzachakiv af rega. It got very uncomfortable in the room. It got very the the heat was turned up. The malachim were assuming they were coming to the house of Abraham and Sarah, which they were, and they thought they were coming to great righteous people, which they were. But as soon as Sarah denied laughing, va- the malachim turned to each other. Gavriel turned to Michael. They winked

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1. 0:00Progress. >> Parshas Vayeira. Vatitzchak Sarah leimor lo tzachakti vayakumu misham hanashim. Perush she vayakumu lashon…
2. 0:32alacrity. Kimikimum sheshama malachim eish keish Sarah. When the malachim saw that Sarah lied, miyad na'asa…
3. 1:03Gavriel turned to Michael. They winked at each other, and they're out of here. Ki ein…
4. 1:36the mal- the it is common in the medrash that the malachim all say kadosh at…
5. 2:11You don't have latecomers when it comes to Kadusha. It's only in Shulchan Aruch they have…
6. 2:43halfway through Yigdal. Because they never got the memo. They haven't gotten the memo of that…
7. 3:13And number two in general the Malachim modus operandi is reshus. Okay, we'll hold it here.…

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