Parsha Shiur: Vayeira

The first offering is from the beginning of the Pasha.

Avraham Avinu is recovering from Brismila and three malochim pass by to tell the good news that Avraham and Sarah are going to have a child, says the Pasuk.

This is the first box on the page.

I'm going to return to you in a year's time.

And your wife, Sarah, will bear a child.

And Sarah is listening.

They're old.

Now, on the Pasuk, that Sarah laughed, and again, as Rashi points out, there's a difference between Avraham's reaction and Sarah's reaction.

The laughter of Avraham was a very positive, rejoicing laughter.

But Sarah was considered that she didn't believe it.

Now, the Sepharono says something astonishing.

Why didn't she believe it? Says the Sepharono, because she laughed incredulously, like this cannot be, because she thought this was just a bracha of a Novi.

Like that with Elisha.

And it wasn't a shlichas from HaKadosh Baruch Hu.

It was just, it wasn't a message, a bracha from HaKadosh Baruch Hu directly.

But rather it was a bracha of the Navi.

and therefore the novice great as the novice he's not going to change the fact that she's a very old woman and that naturally biologically she's not going to be able to bear children to restore her you know her youthful years where she's able to bear children in her very old age that's a form of that's in the that's a remit and therefore she didn't believe and the only way you're going to be able to sort of change nature in that way, is either directly from HaKadosh Baruch Hu, or through tefillah.

Now, in the Sefer, the Sitra Elyon, he picks up on this sepharano.

Look at this.

That this manal picks up on this sepharano.

You see from here the enormous power of tefillah.

That Zohar understood that this nais, that she is a 90-year-old woman, could bear a child.

That miracle cannot be achieved by a blessing alone.

Only if Hashem would command it.

like it appeared with HaKadosh Baruch Hu to Avram, that that's what would happen.