Did Avraham Want to Sell His Wife? – Daily Shiur by Rabbi Eliezer Berland Shlit”a

BELOW IS A SUMMARY OF TOPICS FROM THE DAILY SHIUR OF MOREINU HARAV ELIEZER BERLAND SHLIT”A FROM THURSDAY, THE NIGHT OF 9 MARCHESHVAN 5786, PARASHAT LECH-LECHA, AFTER MA’ARIV: 1. We thank all those who came to the rally. All those who came had all their sins atoned for.  There should have been a million men. 2. Today is the yahrzeit of Rabbi Yisrael Karduner. Breslov is only about learning Gemara.  If you made it to Shuvu Banim, learn double the time. 3. Sunset is getting earlier. The earliest is 4:40 PM.  Adam HaRishon fasted from Rosh Hashanah until Chanukah. 4. Adam HaRishon observed Chanukah twice. Enosh turned it into “Saturnalia,” the fire festival. 5. The wayward and rebellious son – at the age of thirteen, it’s already possible to see if the child is a murderer. 6. Study the Rashi about Adah and Tzilah, who wanted a get (divorce document) from Lemech. He was the greatest tzaddik and the most helpful at home, but in the end, he murdered two people. 7. They said that the Tower of Bavel was built because every 1656 years, the firmament collapsed. So they wanted to make supports for the firmament, because exactly 1656 years had passed. 8. We were at the border until 12:00 noon on Erev Rosh Hashanah. Rav Gershon Edelstein said that a person must marry a woman who will correct his mistakes.  The Edelstein brothers walked on foot from Migdal HaEmek to Lomza. 9. During the decrees of TaCH and TaT [the Khmelnytsky massacres], there was an incident where a wife didn’t believe witnesses who said they saw [her husband] killed. In the end, the “dead” man came on foot and relate how they came to kill him, and the soldier who was supposed to kill him said, “You – I won’t kill.  You remind me of my son.  Pretend as if you’re dead.”  He lay for eight days under corpses.  Rabbi Yaakov Emden said, “I will no longer free agunot.” 10. “So that it may go well with me for your sake, and my soul will live because of you.” How could Avraham have said the king will take you and I will gain money?  Rather, Avraham saw that when he descended to Egypt, the angel abandoned him, but it did not abandon Sarah, so he said to her, “So that…” – that your angel will protect me. 11. The girls should finish Tehilim until chatzot and afterwards say chatzot, and whoever wants to stay awake, stay awake.