Sicha Level 3 - Chayei Sara

3 people got their answer right when they finished davening: moshe, shlomo, eliezer
moshe: davened to Hashem by korach that the earth should swallow them up
shlomo: fire came down
seems to say that its based on their personality, these are great people –they all share a common thread
Q: Where does eliezer come in? And he even surpassed them & got it while he was still finishing davening.
Q: If it’s a personality thing, these are the ONLY 3 people that were answered right away?
Q: If it has to do with what they were davening FOR, then what was so special about what they were davening for?

Beis: What does it mean to be answered just as you finish davening?
Rambam: a baal teshuva may surpass a tzaddik because he’s so intense he cries out and right away he answers.
“Hateshuva mikareves es harichokim” yesterday this person was far & disgusted – now he;s loved and close to Hashem – but why does
Why does the rambam separate the being close to Hashem and being answered right away into 2 separate halachos?
To show that there are 2 levels in teshuva:
1. you become close with Hashem
2. you become ONE with Hashem with dveikus – therefore your requests are answered right away
When you take something from someone and it takes time – you know you’re not one with that thing. It doesn’t take time to move your food.
time and space are dependant on each other.

daled:
maybe it’s dependant on the type of thing they were asking for.
Shlomo: asked for shechina to rest in bhmk
Moshe: asking to get rid of Korach
Eliezer: marriage of Yitzchak

these are the 3 types of unity in the world:
the bhmk – the ultimate of Oneness in the world
korach – ki Hashem shilchani

THE BHMK – the very first time there was an expression of something physical – defined by time & space – this had an expression of G-dliness
Makom screamed out bilti makom!

Korach – when is a person united the most with Hashem? During nevua – not saying his own words. They become one with Hashem to the point of what they see, think & speak is Hashem. This is expressed through Moshe Rabbeinu – ki Hashem shilchani – I’m not here on my own – You sent me. Moshe asked for it & the earth opened up. What does it show us? That Moshe was One with Hashem.

Tefila of Eliezer: sometimes the servants of avos had greater speech than their sons
Chassidus explains:
Who are the banim of the avos? Me, you… - this was matan torah
Who are avdei ha’avos – eliezer etc
Matan Torah was the ultimate expression of the unit of elyon & tachton.
Before matan torah elyonim & tachtonim couldn’t mix.
Unified it with something that transcends our world – elokus
Matan torah happened because of the 2000 years before it – but everything that happens after matan torah also is affected by what happened before it
The very first time there was an idea of elyonim & tachtonim was the marriage of Yitzchak & rivka.
Yitzchak avinu was the very first child who had a bris at 8 days old – past all of avraham’s tests – akeidas Yitzchak – olah temima – never left EYH
Rivkah came from the exact opposite – outside of eretz yisroel – her family
‘vahuya lbasar echad’ – that job was entrusted to eliezer
When avraham & sara got mitzvah he didn’t have the bris yet so he wasn’t an olah temima – they lived in charan in a state of impurinty
Mayseh avos siman lbanim – the sign & nesinas koach of this is that it gives the power & strength for matan torah

zayin: shlomo & moshe were answered when they finished davening
eliezer was answered while he was still davening
shlomo & moshe – a person being unified with Hashem – still 2 separate things – 3 stages – before nevua, during nevua, and after nevua
Same with BHMK – there can be a time when we can’t see giluy elokus in the bhmk
But torah is even more unified – can never be changed – from the beginning its one and it will always be one – torah is the ultimate of oneness – oraysa vkudsha brich hu kula chad – totally one with Hashem
It has a higher quality than the bhmk & nevua – they were 2 things that were made One
Torah was always one – therefore elizer was answered even before he finished asking

Ches: on the pasuk – vayihi hu terem kilah ldaber – unifying the world with gdliness
Rebbe rashab says 2 types of unifying the world with gdliness
Hasholaich imarto aretz: the hamshacha that comes down through seder hishtalshelus, level by level, until it gets down.
Mhaira yarutz divaro: its so fast – comes right down to the bottom
What's the difference between them? It depends where its coming from – if its from a level that has a shaychus to seder hishtalshelus, it goes down through seder hishtalshelus
If it’s an above & beyond level it can just jump over the whole process
Their davening was so great that it reached the above & beyond level & therefore they were answered right away
Elizers asking for Yitzchak – who’s shoresh is in gevurah – the gevurah ‘expedites it’ – comes even faster – while he’s still davening
When we get something down here from the level of seder hishtalshelus its like when you unite 2 things. But when or ain sof comes down – what's higher than seder hishtalshelus – it’s only always Oneness – the world is completely one with Hashem