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The Yeshiva.net — hiva.net — Vayeira 5781

Выпуск: The Yeshiva.net — hiva.net — Vayeira 5781. Темы: family_education, health_mind. Поисковые термины: воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה, здоровье, психология, стресс, health, mental, בריאות, נפש. These angels were sent to carry out three monumental tasks described in the continuation of the story: A) to inform Abraham that Sarah would give birth to a child; B) to overturn the evil city of Sodom and, finally, C) to rescue Abraham's nephew Lot and his family who lived in Sodom[7]. And he said, 'Behold — in the tent!'" https://www.theyeshiva.net/jewish/867/print-view 1/4 10/31/23, 5:26 PM TheYeshiva.net "'I will return to you this time next year,' said [one of the men], 'and your wife Sarah will have a son.'" The continuation of the narrative makes it clear[6] that these three visitors were no simple men, but rather spiritual energies, or angels, manifested in the bodies and the guise of men. [10] The germ of the idea I heard from Rabbi Yisroel Twersky (Lakewood, NJ), who heard it from his relative, the distinguished Jerusalem Rabbi Baruch Shimon Schneerson (1912-2001), Rosh Yeshiva of Tshebin, and son-in-law of the famed Tshebiner Rav, Rabbi Dov Berish Weinfeld (1881-1966). In their longing to encounter holiness, they missed the ultimate point: that the authentic majesty of human holiness consists of a person's daily acts of love, selflessness, and graciousness performed amid the stress and lowliness of physical existence. This was not merely a communication of G-d's earlier promise to Abraham; it was also a response of an angel in awe of the revolution that Abraham introduced to the world, in which a human being in his ordinary daily behavior can build a home for G-d. "There was no atmosphere." Hospitality The opening of this week's Torah portion[1], Vayeira, relates the tale of Abraham sitting during a hot day at the entrance of his tent and observing three men standing nearby. True spirituality, Abraham was communicating to the angels, lies not in man's attempt to escape the trappings of the world, but rather in his commitment to drawing down light and beauty into the darkness of life. Abraham's revolution, the angel insisted, must have a future in the form of a family, and, ultimately, a people, charged with the mission to teach the world how to fuse heaven and earth. "And he said, 'Behold — in the tent!'" What Abraham was

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The Yeshiva.net

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22 октября 2021 г.

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Темы: family_education, health_mind