Parsha Perspectives for Today (Vayeira)

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

end of last week avraham avinu 99 years old performs a circumcision on himself what an extraordinary feat what a tremendous statement of dedication and devotion to undergo such a surgery to perform it on himself at such an advanced age without the benefit of anesthesia and as you can imagine he is recovering in our parsha he is bouncing back god appears to abram as even though he is busy recovering even though he is coming back he is healing he nevertheless positions himself outside of his tent because avraham avinu is always eager to be hospitable to host others to do for avraham to be denied or deprived the ability to play host would be more painful than to be in bed recovering from his circumcision for abram if he's not actively engaged in helping others that is a source of greater pain for him than circumcision without anesthesia so much to ref to recognize and appreciate about avraham and so much to feel responsible for as the offspring and progeny of abraham avinu to follow in his footsteps he raises his eyes and he sees vine there are three men hovering over three men standing over him he gets up and he runs with alacrity with zeal to greet them from the entrance of the tent

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