Parashat Vayera | How Lot Wanted to Eliminate Our Righteous Messiah | Rabbi Itai Ben Aharon

What’s said in this shiur

The opening of this shiur, in הרב איתי בן אהרון’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

He lays him on the bed, but he notices that the bed is a little too short. His feet extend past the bed, but he didn't attach any importance to it. He falls asleep, and this is the moment they are waiting for. The moment he falls asleep , on such a comfortable, pleasant mattress, he falls fast asleep. Suddenly, those Sodomites break into the room with an electric saw. And what do they do? They cut off his feet. Blood flows from them, such screaming, such cries—nothing helps him at all. They tell him, "Sir, here, a person must adjust himself to the bed.""The bed does not adapt to the person, but the person adapts to the bed." And so he screams and screams, but there is not much he can do. So, our Sages come and tell us that all the acts of kindness they did, all the bad things they did, they did under the guise of the Creator. "Wicked and sinners before the Lord exceedingly." When you would come to those Sodomites, may you be rewarded with commandments, and ask them: "Tell me, why don't you do kindness?""Why don't you practice hospitality?" They come and say to you: "Look at the building, what is written on this building?""House of Hospitality ." They didn't write "The Central Murder House," so what did they write? "House of Hospitality." Every single act of theirs, they would portray it as what? For the sake of Heaven. They would commit the greatest abominations in what way? Portraying it for the sake of Heaven. Therefore, "wicked and

Jump to a moment

1. 0:01He lays him on the bed, but he notices that the bed is a little too…
2. 3:34before God; they use God to justify their own evil. The Holy One, Blessed be He,…
3. 7:10explanation for why it happened. Our Sages say: For 25 years, the Creator of the world…
4. 10:44can you do, guests came to our house. At night, suddenly, what does Lot see? A…
5. 14:18were covered, and went back to Bnei Brak. When he reached Bnei Brak, what did he…
6. 17:50of salt, so they show her. Hiding behind Lot and looking—that's nice for kindergarten drawings, but…
7. 21:25the Sitra Achra. Beautiful, beautiful. So Moshe Feinstein came to visit the sick man, and that…
8. 25:01them. Every day he would kill Jews, until eventually, thank God, he repented. Why did King…
9. 28:37Naamah from where? From Zillah, where he had no intentions of having children . He had…
10. 32:08and the other loses nothing." The Rambam rules this in the laws of neighbors, chapter 7,…

Every second of this shiur plays inside Lehallel — a filtered YouTube library of Torah, music and shiurim. No ads, no comments, no autoplay.