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Visiting the Sick

Practical Parshah—Vayeira

By Mendel Kaplan

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Topics: Parshah, Visiting the Sick, Vayeira

G‑d’s visit to Abraham following his circumcision teaches us some important guidelines in how to properly perform the mitzvah of bikkur cholim—visiting the sick.

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	Rabbi Mendel Kaplan is the founder and spiritual leader of Chabad @ Flamingo in Thornhill, Ontario, he also serves as a Chaplain of the York Regional Police Service.

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Posted: Nov 10, 2011

question

where in the scriptures say that angels only speak Hebrew? When the angels appeared to abraham didn't abraham speak semitic language? similar to ancient Hebrew and even before that in the time prior Noah, Enoch?

Posted By YAZMIN TAYLOR, new carlisle, OH

Posted: Oct 20, 2010

Response!

Please watch it again! Of course there is more to this "revelation" than a get-well visit. As mentioned in this very class in the name of the S'forno & the name of the Ohr HaChayim and numerous midrashim there is certainly "more to it." But that wasn't the focus of this particular class...

Posted By Rabbi Kaplan, Thornhill, ON

Posted: Oct 19, 2010

Vayeira

This may be true, but is there no more to the visit? Elokainu came to visit the father of a nation of priests. Is it not possible that at this time He came to ordain the Avraham as the priest the begets a nation of priests. It seems that this visit is more profound than even the mitzvah of visiting the sick.

Posted By Billy Washburn, Poteet, Texas