Vaera: 5782 - "Whoever truly wants it – Hashem reveals Himself to him": Rabbi Abush Bruk and Rabbi Shimon Zonnenfeld of Nachlah with a brief insight on Parshas Vaera, at the conclusion of the Daf Yomi shiur of…

00:01 Speaker 1 Yes, Rabbi Brook, please.

00:03 Speaker 2 “I appeared to Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov.” Rashi says, “I appeared to the forefathers.” What is Rashi... everyone asks, what is Rashi telling us here? Who doesn’t know that Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov are the forefathers? Rather, Rashi means that Avraham and Yitzchak were each a forefather in his own right. Yitzchak wasn’t a forefather just because he was Avraham’s son. That’s why Rashi considers it important to say this: Yitzchak was a forefather in his own right, and Yaakov wasn’t one just because he was Yitzchak’s son.

00:45 Speaker 1 That fits here.

00:46 Speaker 2 They tell a story about Rabbi [unclear], Rav [unclear]. A Jew came to him, and he asked, “Who are you?” The man said, “I’m the grandson of...”—some important person. “No, I’m asking who you are, not who your grandfather is.” And the Avnei Nezer once said... In the end, well, his father was a doctor, and then they would bake bagels. So once they asked him about family lineage. People were talking about “my father, my grandfather.” He said, “No, my father told me that a fresh bagel is the tast... the best.”

01:34 Speaker 1 Come closer. Listen, we can’t hear you, you know.

01:37 Speaker 3 I want to add to what Rabbi Brook said. “I appeared to the forefathers”—to whom did Hakadosh Boruch Hu appear? To the forefathers. Avos can also be understood in the sense of wanting, of desire. Whoever wants Him, Hakadosh Boruch Hu appears to him. I heard that from Rabbi Brook.