Sparks from the Parshah- Vayera- No Words Necessary

If we wanted to learn and to see the prime example of what it looks like to go ahead and to ease somebody else's pain, the place we would look is the beginning of our parasha.

Avraham Avinu was in physical pain three days after his b'smila and the Rabban Hashem comes to me And yet, If you look at the Psukim, the Rebbe doesn't say anything.

He simply appears to Avraham Avinu.

There's no deeper.

There's no Amira.

There's no statement.

The Rebbe doesn't say anything.

Why? Why doesn't the Rebbe say something to make his pain a little bit easier? But perhaps the Rebbe is telling us that often a person thinks that when I go to B'manach HaMavl or I'm helping somebody, who's going through a difficult, challenging time financially or spiritually or emotionally.

I need to figure out the right thing to say.

I need to make sure I have the right story, the right vart, the right set of words in order to be able to go out and ease the person's pain.

The Rabban Hashem tells us you don't need to say anything often.

Just sitting with the person and saying, I'm here and I appear to you and I recognize you're going through a challenging time is it that the person needs in order to ease the person's pain.

And therefore, if we want to learn from the Rabban Hashem what it looks like, like to make somebody else's life a little bit easier when they're going through a challenging time, all you need to do is show up and say, I'm here.

I understand you're going through a hard and difficult time.

I'm here and I want to sit with you.

I want to be with you when you're going through a challenging time.

And we're able to do that often without saying any words.

We can go ahead and show the person and give the person so much more comfort when we try to find the right words to say.

Hashem should help that we should be Zecha, to learn from the Rabbani Shalom and to ease other people's pain by showing up and saying that we're here.

and we're ready to go out and to sit with you through the challenging times.

If we wanted to learn and to see the prime example of what it looks like to go ahead and to ease somebody else's pain, the place we would look is the beginning of our parasha.

Avraham Avinu was in physical pain three days after his b'smila and the Rabban Hashem comes to me And yet, If you look at the Psukim, the Rebbe doesn't say anything.

He simply appears to Avraham Avinu.

There's no deeper.

There's no Amira.

There's no statement.

The Rebbe doesn't say anything.

Why? Why doesn't the Rebbe say something to make his pain a little bit easier? But perhaps the Rebbe is telling us that often a person thinks that when I go to B'manach HaMavl or I'm helping somebody, who's going through a difficult, challenging time financially or spiritually or emotionally.

I need to figure out the right thing to say.

I need to make sure I have the right story, the right vart, the right set of words in order to be able to go out and ease the person's pain.

The Rabban Hashem tells us you don't need to say anything often.

Just sitting with the person and saying, I'm here and I appear to you and I recognize you're going through a challenging time is it that the person needs in order to ease the person's pain.

And therefore, if we want to learn from the Rabban Hashem what it looks like, like to make somebody else's life a little bit easier when they're going through a challenging time, all you need to do is show up and say, I'm here.

I understand you're going through a hard and difficult time.

I'm here and I want to sit with you.

I want to be with you when you're going through a challenging time.

And we're able to do that often without saying any words.

We can go ahead and show the person and give the person so much more comfort when we try to find the right words to say.

Hashem should help that we should be Zecha, to learn from the Rabbani Shalom and to ease other people's pain by showing up and saying that we're here.

and we're ready to go out and to sit with you through the challenging times.