Vayera - Teaching Angels How to Eat

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The opening of this shiur, in The Parsha In My Life - Rabbi Reuven Wolf’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

foreign we can teach angels angels are enlightened beings they are extremely enlightened beings um the rambam maimonidi speaks of 10 levels of angels and um and he describes the lowest one the one that communicates with people in Prophecy there is a communication coming through Angels like we see this week's in the Torah portion with the three guests that came to Abraham to avram avinu um those are the lowest form of angels called ishim and uh usually I don't know if he says it regarding the guests who came to avram because we know that they were the archangels the higher Angels but in any case um he says even the lowest of angels being that they're not mortal beings in encased in bodies of Flesh and Blood like us their their knowledge is way Superior to our knowledge and yet um but we're talking about teaching them Angels something not only teaching them something but teaching them how to eat which would be sound which sounds really ridiculous they don't have to eat why would we teach them how to eat in any case the question over here really is all about eating is the eating that we know of just a very physical animalistic type of um Earthly experience obviously it's pleasurable obviously it makes up a lot of our experi our our life both our essential living is dependent on food also so much of our enjoyment in life is associated with eating and socializing parties events um religious ceremonies um milestones in people's lives weddings bar mitzvahs circumcisions that we read about last week and the Torah all are commemorated with food and if you want to bring people together you're always more successful if you have some food for people to participate

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3. 13:00meaning that this is a type of experience that angels in general cannot reach the Angels…
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5. 25:27see it on the most outer outer outer crust of existence especially if we're not tuning…
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7. 37:14makes creation feel separate when say it's bad means it's not inherently bad because God created…
8. 43:26ask permission first from God if I can eat it it's God's he created it why…
9. 49:35but rather should become first translucent and eventually transparent so that we can literally look at…
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