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154 Vayera My Father, My Angel 031114

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Rabbi Mashiach Kelaty

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the power of failure from 3 years ago the real sacrifice is you and a real golden oldie from four years ago the science of satan so parad vira powerp packed paras plenty to choose from Um, I'm going to start off with let's go to perk where are we pay 18 and we will 18 and we will start talking about the miracle of the generation. What was that? That was when Sarah was told she was going to give birth. Now, you have to understand that was extremely unusual because she was very old at the time. Um, and it wasn't really likely that she was going to have a baby at that stage. Um, and we normally go through this uh Um, and we normally go through this uh episode and think, well, you know, she she laughed when she heard and she said, "How could my husband be a father at this age, etc." And uh, you know, she was punished cuz she she there was a bit of levity. I want to bring a slightly different twist on this because I saw interesting uh w on this from who says like this. Let's go to Puk 12. Sarah laughed when she was told she was going to become a mother saying so I'm I'm I'm way past childbearing age and I'm now going to have soft skin. My husband's old. These are not really factors that are conducive to motherhood. Basically, she was saying that she was past it and her husband was past it.

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  1. 0:32the power of failure from 3 years ago the real sacrifice is you and a real
  2. 5:12pull yourself up and you know take yourself forward and uh you know so this must
  3. 10:33before or at least not for many hundreds if not thousands of years. So that's all
  4. 15:13famous story about the rabbi who was in the sh who went he used to give
  5. 20:19because this was a seminal test for Avenu. By all accounts or by most accounts I
  6. 25:01or or or maybe also they say that the angels will cry that Yeitzak's eyes were
  7. 30:08father and he said here I am. He should say just go straight into the question.
  8. 34:48I read a beautiful story about the bob of a rebi schlom of Bobov. It was
  9. 40:05faith steadfastly dig his feet into the ground and don't move from there when it comes
  10. 44:46who had married somebody who was um quite a few years younger than him. And however

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