Venue: Kehillat Shivtei Yeshurun (Ramat Beit Shemesh, Israel) Kehillat Shivtei Yeshurun (Ramat Beit Shemesh, Israel)

History:

Period of Tanach 

Machshava:

Avraham,  The Avos 

Parsha:

Chayei Sara,  General,  Vayeira 

Personalities:

General 

Collections: Rabbi Haber Yaacov Beginnings

Description

Rabbi Haber discusses the lives of Avraham, his wives, children and their family dynamics. The Jewish people are the “tweak” of the world. That is, we are the people who must adjust and fix the nature of human exigencies on creation to align it with Hashem’s plan. Avraham is universal, many nations lay claim to Avraham. Yitzchak was narrower, and Yaakov was narrower. The 12 tribes were narrower still than the Avos. The Jewish people of today are the result of all that tweaking. The point of the Jewish people’s function in Hashem’s plan is not that we should bring people to believe in G-D, but that we should make the world into a home for G-D’s presence. Yishmael is not the evil person that we usually think he is, he was actually....