Parsha Illuminated - Vayeira: "I am dust and ashes."

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

all right so paraa illuminated paraa via once again a jam-packed paraa um and the paraa begins with the famous episode where Aram is waiting outside looking for guests and Three Angels disguised as men come by abam invites them in and serves them a lavish meal and Rashi quoting the midash tells us that the reason why the midash tells us that the reason why there were three Angels is because each Angel was coming with a mission one Angel was coming to tell Sarah Sarah that she was going to have a child one Angel was coming was there because he was going to go destroy sadom and one Angel was coming to heal Abraham now we kind of just if we're familiar with that we kind of just gloss over it but if we think about it that doesn't really make so much sense because why would the angel who's on his because why would the angel who's on his way to destroy sodome be coming to A's house he doesn't belong there that's not where sedom is so why do all three two of those angels it makes sense they're coming to aram's house that's where their their mission is but the third one why is the Angel who's coming to destroy sedom stopping at Abraham's house so the I believe if I remember correctly says well actually he wasn't really planning to stop there he was on his way to sadome he was with

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2. 4:16of what we should be aiming for as people what our aspiration should be K the…
3. 8:54rorno so he writes that uh that he Hashem God wanted Abraham to understand that that…
4. 13:07opportunity to pray for sidom and uh and God wants us to to reach out to…
5. 17:45one Mitzvah leads to another Mitzvah he has the opportunity to DAV for these people the…
6. 21:59opportunity to show that to pray for them to show that he he he he really…
7. 26:41that's the reason why you should do it it's not that you should do it in…
8. 30:56saying then he seems that in his mind there's no difference he's saying if you saved…
9. 35:40become tame ritually impure then they the the process of purification involves the ashes of a…
10. 39:48B and that's why these two correspond to the Mitzvah one to the to the Mitzvah…

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