Who was Yishmael?

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So, good morning. So, let's start with the parashah today. Parashah today is called Parashat Vayeira. Vayeira means he appeared. It opens right after last week's parashah closed, which was with Abraham's circumcision. Um and he was 99 years old when he circumcised himself, and now he's healing from his circumcision, and Hashem appears to him. From here, we learn that you have to visit the sick. Hashem appeared to Abraham to visit Avram to visit the sick. It's a mitzvah to visit the sick. Oops. It's a mitzvah to visit the sick. And so, um Hashem appears to um Hashem appears to Avram, and um and then, as Hashem is there with him, he sees three people coming. Now, he doesn't know this at the time, but these three people Oops. What's wrong with this thing? He doesn't know this at the time, but these three people are actually angels. And uh so, they The three And so, Avram runs over to them, and he goes to greet them and talks to them in quite some detail about the different things he prepared for them. He invites them over, he gives them water, he gives them food. He lets them wash up and rest under the tree and he makes them a whole meal and then they one of the men tell us where his his wife Sarah and he says she's in the tent and so the angel says I will return next

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1. 0:52So, good morning. So, let's start with the parashah today. Parashah today is called Parashat Vayeira.…
2. 6:29to run to the mountains. There is a small city near by called Zoar. Even though…
3. 12:37he has to. >> And Lot impregnated his daughters? >> Yes. That's [clears throat] what the…
4. 18:18circumcises his son Ishmael. At the time Ishmael is 13 years old. He probably could have…
5. 24:29I could have stopped it. I agreed on my own to circum- allow myself to be…
6. 30:40yikare l'cha zara, your future will be in Yitzchak. Don't worry about Yishmael, he will be…
7. 36:21he says that your doorstep needs to be replaced. So she Ishmael comes home, she passes…
8. 42:28that Yitzchak and Yishmael buried him, putting Yitzchak before Yishmael even though Yishmael is the older…
9. 48:11and his children were descendants were Arabs or Bedouins at the time. And furthermore, we know…
10. 54:21that Yitzchak that Asav himself, Yitzchak's son Asav, sorry, should Yeah, Yitzchak was able to influence…

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