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This week’s
parsha is Parshat Lech Lecha. We know that Sarah Emeynu wasn’t able to conceive
children. Sarah wanted to make her husband, Avraham happy by giving him the
most incredible gift on earth, a child. So, she decided that she would give her
Egyptian maidservant, Hagar, to marry her husband, so that way he could have a
child with her. Rashi says, Sarah made that choice so that she could benefit
from Hagar by raising the child in the way of Hashem. She then told Avraham and
he listened to Sarah and he married Hagar.
Hagar
immediately got pregnant and started to look at Sarah in a less respectful way.
Hagar felt that Sarah was superficial and just looked spiritual on the outside,
since she couldn’t get pregnant right away like Hagar. Everyday Hagar would
humiliate Sarah. However, Sarah Emeynu didn’t respond back to her, she
kept silent. After a while, she decided to get rid of Hagar and remarry
Avraham.
The Targum
Yonatan says, that Sarah Emeynu came to Avraham Avinu and said; ‘look how much
I sacrificed for you. Hashem said Lech Lecha;
you should leave not me. I gave
my maidservant Hagar to you and now she is embarrassing me to no end. I was
violated twice, by AviMelech and the Plishtim.’ She continued, ‘with all the
pain and suffering that I have undergone, I am certain that Hashem broke the
judgment against me of not having children.’ Avraham agreed and remarried
Sarah.
We learn an
incredible lesson from Sarah Emeynu. She knew that she had a bad decree set for
her; however, she knew how to change the bad decree. The tool to
change your fate is to accept all the embarrassment and suffering people bring upon and not respond back, but rather to swallow your words. Let the
embarrassment be an atonement for your sins.
The Gemara compares
those who accept the embarrassment, to the light of the stars that shine
forever. “The embarrassment of sin atones for sin.” - Rabbi Eli Mansour
Next time
someone embarrasses you, don’t say anything back because it’s your lucky day,
your bad decree will be erased! That’s exactly what happened with our mother Sarah.
She knew she had to go through atonement in order to erase the decree. There after, she was pregnant!
Shabbat Shalom!
By: Esther
Shamayev
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