Sara's Laughter - Was Her Response Justified? (Parashat Vayeira)

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

[music] [singing] [music] [music and singing] [singing] >> We have a special dedication by a good friend of mine from New York, Yossi Kalimi, in honor of his son's birthday. His son is Reuven. Can't happy birthday. I don't know how old. Uh but he should have much nachas. Refuah Shleima to Leah Shoshana bas Yisrael asura and Moshe ben Rachel bat Shachor Leah Yisrael. Aliyat neshama, the mother of Daniel Goldstein, Leah bat Mordechai HaCohen, whose yahrtzeit is 23rd 23rd of Cheshvan. I thank you for the hakoras hatov. May the divrei Torah tonight be leilui nishmata. Uh again, as uh as is always the case in every parsha of the Torah, there really is uh so much to talk about. The Torah is infinite, Hashem is infinite. We have infinite topics and infinite perspectives within every single uh topic. So, how do you choose? So, I'm going to say uh maybe a few different unrelated thoughts, different parts of the parsha starting from beginning and getting to toward the end, but it'll be relatively uh quick. Uh the first issue I want to discuss very briefly is the issue of the double standard of laughter. You know, at the end of parshas Lech Lecha, Hashem already tells Avram that Sarah, your wife, is going to have a son, meaning Yishmael is not your only child, and it's not even your child in a sense. Sarah, your wife, will give birth to a child, and Hashem even told Avram what the name is supposed to be. Uh the name Yitzchak was not chosen by the parents. It was chosen by Hakadosh

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1. 0:02[music] [singing] [music] [music and singing] [singing] >> We have a special dedication by a good…
2. 6:14vatitzchak, she laughed, the Targum has it gachik, >> [snorts] >> which means laughing. With Avram,…
3. 12:25Hochma wants to say that Avram told her. I'm I'm sorry, not the the Or HaChaim.…
4. 18:36the Ger Rebbes uh years ago about uh it was in reference to in some Chassidic…
5. 24:44interesting aspects of the destruction of Sodom uh because of their cruelty, because of their selfishness,…
6. 30:51lehar'gecha hashkem lehar'go. Uh someone wants to kill you, you kill him first. All of that…
7. 37:00will spare the city is slightly different with different numbers. Sometimes he says, "I will not…
8. 43:09There is the aveira that you're doing and there is the mitzvah you could have done…
9. 49:20Shalem. Now, Yireh Shalem is not quite Yerushalayim. So, here the Meforshim bring it up to…
10. 55:32was of course the serve Hashem, and that was primarily by learning Torah and by teaching…

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