<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; ">One of the most beautiful comments on the scene of<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; ">Avraham and the three men (malachim) was </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; ">given by R. Shalom Roikeach of Belz who noted that<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; ">in 18:2, the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline; ">visitors</span> are spoken of as standing <span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline; ">above</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; ">Avraham [nitzavim <span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline; ">alav</span>]. However, in verse 18:8, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline; ">AVRAHAM</span> is<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; ">described as standing <span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline; ">above</span> them [omed <span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline; ">alehem</span>]. R' Shalom<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; ">points out: At first, the visitors were higher than Abraham<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; ">because <span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline; ">they</span> were angels and <span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline; ">he</span> a flesh and blood human being.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; ">But when he gave them food, drink and shelter, he<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; ">stood even <span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline; ">higher</span> than the angels. </span></p></body></html>