[Avodah] A few notes on Parshas Vayeiro

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Q: Why did HKBH 'complain' to Avrohom - "Lomo zeh tzochako Sarah"?

After all, if a few itinerant Arabs tell a 90 year old woman that she will
soon become pregnant - isn't she justified in laughing it off?

True, Sarah was greater in neviyeh than Avrohom, but - al pi pshat - it is
quite obvious that she didn't realise that this promise was coming from
Hashem. (Ayen Ramban - posuk 15)

And from Rashi (18:16) dh 'Leshalchom' it is mashma that even as they left,
Avrohom still thought of them as guests - not malochim.

(See the Or Hachaim Hakodosh (18: 13-15, some very nice pshat on these
matters.)

Also, lechoreh, it seems that Avrohom didn't talk too much to Sarah - even
important matters - eg. Hashem's promise to him (Lech Lecho 17-19) that he
and Sarah will have a son !!

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"Ba'asher Hu Shom (21:17) - Rashi: "Achshov ma hu? Tzaddik.."

But only a few pesukim earlier Rashi repeatedly accuses Yishmoel of AZ, GA
and shefichas damim and that he went out 'letarbus ra' (pesukim 9,10,11,14).

This is a tzaddik??

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Baal HaTurim (19:12) says that "Boaz yotzo miS'dom" ! Y
es his wife Ruth did.   But Boaz??

BTW the Baal Haturim (19:26) writes that Lot's wife was called Irit.

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