| Sunday | Cheshvan 9 | 5704 | | Torah lessons: | Chumash: Vayeira, first parsha with Rashi. | | Tehillim: 49-54. | | Tanya: Now, the celestial (p. 559) ...nations of the world." (p. 561). | |
When my father was four or five years old he went to his grandfather, the Tzemach Tzedek, on Shabbat Vayeira, and began to cry as he asked, "Why did G-d show Himself to our father Avraham - but He does not show Himself to us?" The Tzemach Tzedek answered him: "When a tzadik decides at the age of ninety-nine years that he should be circumcised, he deserves that G-d appear to him."1