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Vayeira - 3rd Portion
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Join me as we learn for today, the third
day of Tuesday parishes vira chapter 19
verse one.
And the two angels were walking slowly
and they finally arose arrived at Sadom
in the evening
and Lot was sitting at the gate of Sadom
saw them and he got up to greet them
and he prostrated himself on the ground.
What is the what happened here? If you
look there's something interesting in
the difference that when they come to
Ara they're called men. when they come
to Elo they're called angels why is that
we also see that the two angels came why
two so says
one was to destroy stone
and one to save lo that's the same angel
say that came to heal because every
[clears throat] single angel already
completed his mission had a certain
mission this one completed his mission
and saving and healing
are part of the same mission.
The third one that came to tell Sarah
that she was going to have a child.
He already did his job.
So he went and left and did not take
part in the destruction of Sadom
Angels. Why over here does he call them
angels
and by he called them men?
Because when a went and by a when the
was with them
he called them men meaning because the
divine presence was there and the malim
and the angels in the presence of the
divine [clears throat] are insignificant
to can be considered as angels because
the the divine presence is even greater
than them. So therefore in relative to
the they were considered men
another explanation of why the change of
language
that he was great
and he had angels coming there all the
time. So by him they were like men.
So therefore he calls them men but by
who wasn't accustomed to having angels.
It was something that his level was much
lower than
he calls them angels. But in the
evening,
did it take them that long to get from
to Sodom? Is it that far?
They left the middle of the day. What
took so long?
They're angels of mercy. And they were
waiting. They were waiting and waiting
and waiting to see.
maybe Ara will be able to find a reason
some defense on them on some merit that
they not should not be destroyed. So
they were delaying their mission until
maybe something would happen.
Was sitting at the gateway of it says
it doesn't say with but it says he was
sitting meaning
it was that day that they just made him.
It wasn't that it was all the time that
day they made him a uh they appointed
him a judge on them.
And
meaning even though was not the greatest
righteous person.
Even though light was in the city of
stone and he was influenced by the
people of the city of Stone. But what he
learned in the house of Ara, he never
forgot. And he learned that you always
have to honor guests. And therefore he
went to welcome these individuals that
he saw coming into Saddam.
And they said to Lot,
he said, "Lot said to the angels," now
my masters, now my lords, please turn
aside and come to my home. Come to your
servants home, rest over,
wash your feet.
You'll get up early.
You'll go continue on your way. Even
when they responded,
we'll spend our night in the square
instead
in the street.
Rashi explains and says as follows.
What is the word no?
Means now
you
are important to me.
Now that you came, I have the
opportunity to have you and to serve
you. Please.
Another explanation is now
you got to be careful from the evil
people around there.
They should not realize that your guest.
Therefore, I'm giving you advice.
Therefore, I give you something to do
that you should be careful and come over
to my home. [snorts]
Why does he tell them go to the side?
Take like a side road.
Do a side street. So therefore it will
not bring attention and people shall
they shouldn't recognize that you're
coming there.
Therefore he says come but he us doesn't
say come in the word but he says come to
the side meaning take the side entrance
or take the side row that nobody should
recognize where you're there
and rest over and wash your feet. Why
does he say first sleep over and then
wash your feet?
says it makes sense that a person first
goes to sleep and then they shower and
then they wash and even more so
he tells them first to wash themselves.
What's going on over here? He was afraid
of the people of Sodom. This is what
Lord said to himself.
If the people of Saddam are going to
come to me and tell me take out your
guest,
they'll see that they washed their feet.
They'll accuse me. They said ah
these people are here for two three days
to your house you didn't tell us
therefore he said
rather let them come into my house with
dirty feet
like this it look like they just came
therefore he tells them
first rest over and then afterwards wash
yourself
but they tell him and they refuse
They right away said we're going to come
over. We learn
here. We learn respect that if it's a
small fellow that a very important
person, if it's a regular individual,
you can say no, you don't want to bother
them. But when it comes to an important
person telling you something or offering
you to come, you should never refuse.
Nolan as we learned yesterday can have
many different languages, many different
interpretations
and only because so in this case as well
is telling them
we're not going going to your house but
we're going to stay in the middle of the
street.
Verse three,
he pleaded with them very strongly
love and they turned his way
when they came to his house and he made
for them a meal party a feast
and he baked matas for them and they
ate.
Verse three
love.
Why does it tell us already says that
they're coming to his house? Why does he
say love?
to tell us that they came through the
sideways mata. Why did he bake matz?
Because as we mentioned, when did the
angels come to home? This was just the
next day or later on in the day. So
therefore, it was pes
verse four.
They had not yet gone to sleep.
And the people of the city and the
people of Saddam
gathered around the home
surrounded the home from young and old.
All the people from every quarter.
Verse four.
Why does he have to tell us again the
people of the city, the people of
this is the way it's explained in
before they even had a time to lay down
the people of the city were already
speaking about meaning they were talking
about the the angels were talking about
it.
They were asking
what is going on with these people here
and he tells them most of them are evil
while they're still sitting and talking
and chatting about the people of Saddam
and it came to fruition what they were
talking about
the people of Saddam surrounded the
house and you can see what happened
that's the
simple interpretation is the people of
the city which is the people of Saddam
They were terrible people.
They surrounded the home
because since these evil people were the
people of Sodom and because of their
evil they were known the people of
Saddam are the evil people.
It was well known that the people of
Saddam were evil and sinful.
What does this mean? All the people
from edge to edge. All the people.
Nobody stopped. Every single person
participated. Meaning that they were all
terrible people. Everybody was part of
this.
Nobody stopped them. Nobody protested.
They didn't even have one righteous
person amongst them.
Verse five,
they called out to light.
We are the men that came to you tonight.
Take them out. bring them out to us then
so we can know them. What does it mean
we can know them? So Rashi explains this
was not just knowing them.
They wanted to know them in a uh in a
cruel way in an intimate way to sim with
them
like whenever he uses the terminology of
intimacy that a person didn't know the
man the person wasn't intimate with
them.
The Torah now continues with verse
8.
I'm sorry, verse six.
Lot went out to them by the door
and the door closed behind them.
And he said to them,
I beg you, my brothers, do not commit
such wrong. Verse eight,
behold, I have two daughters
who have never known a man. They have
never been intimate with a man.
I will bring them out to you and do as
you please with them,
but only to these men.
Do not do anything
because they have come under the shelter
of my roof.
I'm sorry. Verse eight.
Do me this favor that they came. Do this
favor for me.
Because these people came to be with me
in my home. So therefore, I have an
obligation to care for them.
meaning he explains the word under my
roof but he also means under that I have
to occupy myself with them to deal with
them to serve them to be there for them
verse 9
and they said to them
get out of the way we're not interested
in your daughters
and they said
this guy came as a sjourer
And he became now a judge.
And now we will deal even worse with you
than with them.
They pressed hard against the man
against light.
Very much so.
And they tried to break the door down.
So Rashi explains in verse 9 meaning
they told him get over here
come to the side. that he was distancing
himself.
Anytime you find the word means
means distance throw it far that he
would throw the incense that we see in
the book of numbers
it's from here and further
come meaning
don't go far away come close
this is a way of getting angry as
screaming at them as screaming at him
we don't trust you we're not afraid of
you we find someplace else the same
terminology
come close but don't touch him
move to the side before me
I will be able to sit next to you so too
in our case when he's talking about
you're trying to protect and your guest
that you brought into your house
how do you have the guts how do you have
the nerve to be able to bring guest into
your home Rashi continues to say is you
see over here it says twice and they
said why does it say twice because
there's two responses what they're
giving to load said number one that he
was going to give them the daughters and
number two that he said they came to
stay by me so first of all they say when
he said about the daughters they told
him come over here
like
we're not interested in your daughters
and this that he said
the very fact that he was protecting his
guest and saying they came to stay by
me. This is when they got angry and they
started saying the one guy comes
this a journey. He's a stranger.
You came from a fare place and you come
to sit shabbasa from another side in the
river longer and slated to live by uses
and you became over all of a sudden like
a judge and you start rebuking us that
you can have guest
when you're telling us what to do and
you're not listening to the customs of
the place
means the door
that is like the hinge the place we are
is to be able to open up the door which
was there to be able to unlock that they
should be able to get it.
So the angels that came they the men
said
the men the people
so the men stretched out their hands
they brought back into the home
and they locked the door
11 verse 11
and the people that were outside the
home at the entrance of the
miraculously were struck with blindness
from young and old
and therefore they tried in vain to find
the door.
Verse number 11.
There's the actual door which is called
delis.
That's the opening
that you enter and go out from.
What is san?
This is a plague of blindness which
doesn't allow them see clearly what was
going on.
What is this telling us?
The young guys were the ones that
started the evil transgression.
Therefore, where did the punishment
start with the young ones as well?
Now the angels start telling Elot to get
ready to leave the city
and the people told lot as follows. Who
else do you have here?
Son-in-law your sons your daughters
whatever you have in the city
you got to take out of here.
the simple interpretation of the verses.
Who else lives here that's related to
you?
Besides your wife and daughters that are
at home, anybody else
have a son-in-law sons bunnies,
daughters,
you got to take them out.
What is your sons?
The children of your daughters
that are married that may be in the city
that don't live in your home.
The medish gives another interpretation
meaning
being that the people of the city act so
terribly.
Do you even have an excuse to excuse
such type of behavior?
The whole night was trying to find and
defend the people to be able to remove
the terrible decree and say they're not
so bad and trying to find some type of
excuse. He says, "Look what these people
are want to do.
Look inside. Tell me what else you have
here. What else?" The words, "What other
excuses can you say for these
individuals? Look what you have here."
With this,
Lot had two married daughters and
therefore he went to tell them what was
going to happen.
Why is he telling them? Why do why do
you have to tell them to take out?
Because
we're destroying this place
because the outcry before Hashem became
very great.
God sent us to destroy it. Therefore, he
lo
after they told Lot what they're
planning to do. salot went to his
married daughters to tell them and he
spoke to his sons-in-law
of the people that married his daughters
and his daughter's fiances and he said
let's get out of this place
because God is destroying the city
and it was like a joke in the eyes of
his son-in-law
he had two daughters married in a two
daughters that were married in the city.
These two daughters that were living at
home,
these two daughters that were at home
were engaged, had fiances that were not
living in the home. And therefore, he
went to tell them as well.
Verse 15,
and his dome was breaking.
And the angels urged Lo saying, "Come,
come.
Take your wife and your two daughters
and hear
before you be you'll be obliterated in
the [snorts] an account of the city's
sinfulness
15 what is the word like the which means
he pushed them he said let's go we got
to get he was hurrying them up
the ones that were there
those that are here in the
to save them.
There's a lot of men here. However,
this is the simple interpretation
according to the verse. The word comes
from the word destruction to be
destroyed. They also might be killed.
The whole generation would be killed.
But as the tarum says the all be
destroyed.
Verse 15.
Verse 16, I'm sorry. Verse 16.
And she lingered.
And the men
grabbed her by the hand. She was
lingered. She wanted to take all her
stuff and the hand of took his handish
in the hand of his wife. The hand of his
daughters
with the compassion that Hashem had on
him. He took him out and he placed them
and he led them outside the city.
Why was he lingering? And interestingly
enough, if you look at the trump, the
canellation that's on the only very few
times they have this canellation which
is called the shell, it's a zigzag going
back and forth. And this is always used
when there was hesitation. You find this
here, you find it later. For
example, when Yoseph was being seduced
by the wife of every time there's a
little hesitation or questioning, you
have this
this long chall because there was a
hesitation. What was the hesitation?
He wanted his money.
[snorts]
What does it mean?
one was there as a messenger to help
them to save them
and the other messenger to turn over
Saddam. Therefore, he uses a singular
ter terminology
doesn't say and they said because only
one of them was saving them. Verse 17
was while they were taking them out and
he said, "Run for your life. Run for
your life.
Do not look back
and do not stop in any of the plain.
Run towards the mountains. Runs towards
the hills.
Be safe. So you should not be
obliterated with them.
Rashi 17.
What does it mean on your soul? was
because Lo wanted to save all this money
and all this stuff. So therefore, the
angel was telling him
it's enough that your life is being
saved.
Don't worry about getting money.
Don't look back. Why
truthfully you sinned and you were evil
just like them and you should be
punished with them. Only reason you're
being saved is only in the merit of
being saved.
Therefore, you don't have the right.
You're not worthy enough
to see how they're being punished and
you're being saved. And therefore, do
not look back or you will be destroyed
with them.
What is the whole plane? This was the
area of the area of the Jordan, which
Saddam was in its territory where Lot
lived.
go towards the mountains meaning to the
mountain
toward
that he's in the mountain that we
learned previously in the verse that he
moved to the mountain
even in the time of being saved
was still there as it says
he went to the place where his tent was
there to begin with
even though that it says later on that
moved and he was an elen Abraham
had a lot of real estate. He had places
all over the place
and it went all the way until
he what does it mean to be saved?
The way you should be able to get out of
it that if you run out of the territory
you'll be able to be saved and therefore
you will not be consumed with the city.
Call anytime you see the word in the
verse it means in old French to be saved
slipping out
for example as the fetus comes out of
the womb
or as a bird slips moves and continues
also they weren't able to the idolatry
were not able to carry the waste that
was with them and they therefore it's
they they had to get rid of it.
All different terminologies
in the verse where he uses the word.
Verse 18
said to them,
"Oh God, no." Verse 19.
Verse 18, Rashi
said this is God's name wasn't referring
to the Malik
because he says afterwards that I shall
be saved
so the one who has the power to give
life and to take away life
says
he was asking as a request from God
please [snorts] a lightly
Please don't tell me to run to the
mountain. No.
The word no means please don't force me
to go to the mountain.
Verse 19.
Your servant has found favor in your
eyes
and you were bound in kindness that you
did with me
to save my life.
But I cannot go towards the mountains. I
can't escape towards the mountains.
Lest the evil cling to me and I will
die. What does he mean by this? Rashi
says as follows. Text number n verse 19.
What does it mean that the the evil will
cling to me? And he explains lot was
concerned
when I was by the people of
God saw the actions my actions and the
actions of the people of the city
and I was considered a righteous person.
Therefore I was worthy of being saved.
But the problem is now that when I'm
going to come to Ara who's a righteous
person and I then will look like a bad
guy. So therefore I don't want to go
there until now when I'm by the bad guys
I look like a good guy. But when I'm by
the good guys I'm going to look like a
bad guy. We see a similar thing where
this similar thing they said to Elijah
did you come to me to mention my sins?
you came to me
and I was considered righteous amongst
them now you're coming to me
I'm considered a equal evil person that
means when I'm amongst evil people I'm
great but now that you come to me Elijah
I look like a bad person
what is then the angel respond
therefore please well I'm sorry the lo
tells the angel please there is a town
called Bella it's very close by that I
should be able to run there
and I and I can escape there
it's smaller
it is less
let me escape there
it is smaller
and I can survive
meaning that there. People haven't
settled there yet. It's new. It's a new
settlement.
Therefore, the anger of Hashem may not
be against it that much. They haven't
sinned that much.
What does it mean? How close?
It's only from the generation of
that people split all over and they were
building new cities and this was one of
them.
And each person was settling in their
places.
And this was in the city in the year
that Pelleg died
from that time until the stone was
destroyed
was about 52 years
because Pel died when Ara was 48 years
old and now Ara when stone was being
turned over and destroyed Ara was 99
comes out was only 52 years old. Narashi
continues. Kate said, "How is it
possible that Pel
that Pel should live for 29 years after
he gave birth to samehem if you're going
to count the amount of times B is 32
years
when was born
and from was born is another 30 years.
You have 30 plus 30 is 62
was born
29. So you have 62 + 29 you have 91
and then from when there from when was
born until was born is another
70 years
left with now 161. So you have that
means from when Abra was born was 161
years until Ru
then had another 48 years of Abra's
life. So you have now 209 years of after
was born
that year was the year when everything
split up was the year that they built
the tower and everything happened
when was destroyed
was 99 years old because that's when the
angels came to him. It was right after
his circumcision.
What do we see from here? What's Rash's
point?
That means from the generation of the
people that built the tower and God
split them all over the world until now
until the destruction of Saddam was only
52 years
and
delayed in people getting settled here.
One year
let me run away there please. No, it's
51 years. What we're seeing from over
here is that stone was only 51 years
old. And how terrible the people became
in 51 years
and has very few sins.
Therefore, you can leave me there and
I'll be able to live there.
The simple interpretation means it's
just a very small city.
Very few people. You don't have to worry
to leave it.
You don't have to kill the people there.
You can leave it and I will be able to
survive there as well.
This concludes the third Torah reading
of Paras Viraa.