Parshas Vayeira: Avraham Avinu Eved Hashem

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

Why did the malachim come to Avraham Avinu on the third day of his milah, and why did they come to eat? A person is half malach and half animal, and the malachim came to see how the complete human handles eating, drinking and physical pleasure. Avraham Avinu served Hashem in every matzav, and that was his preparation for the Akeidah. The Panim Yafos reads the malach's two calls at the Akeidah as two kinds of mitzvos.

Key points

• A person is half malach and half animal, and the malachim came to see the complete human.
• Rabbi Elya Lopian: Avraham had taught that Hashem wants no child sacrifice, which made the Akeidah a nisayon.
• In the Panim Yafos, a mitzvah with bodily pleasure is harder to keep purely l'shem Shamayim.

In this shiur

1. 0:00Why the malachim came to eat
2. 4:52Avraham calling himself an eved
3. 6:36The nisayon of the Akeidah
4. 8:37The Panim Yafos on the two calls
5. 13:41A story of the Amshinover Rebbe
6. 14:30Every mountain and the Beis HaMikdash
7. 17:30A practical step before a bracha
8. 18:35Why Avraham listened to the malach

Topics

• Parshas Vayeira
• Akeidah
• Malachim
• L'shem Shamayim