Parshas Vayeira Shabbos Times Erev Shabbos Shabbos Day Plag HaMincha 6:21pm Latest time for Shema 9:44am Candle Lighting 7:26pm Shabbos Ends 8:28pm Shkiya 7:44pm Shul re-opening Shaarei Tefillah is very excited to be re-opening for Minyonim Please Note Anyone over 16 must be fully vaccinated Vaccine certificates must be supplied to Rabbi Berlin or Craig Goldberg To register for Minyonim please speak to Rabbi Berlin Short Vort on the Parsha After being informed that she was going to give birth to a son in a year's time, Sarah laughed in denial of such a farfetched possibility. Hashem was displeased with her response and He said to Avrohom (Bereishis 18:13, 14): "Why has Sarah laughed... Is anything beyond Hashem?" The Ramban explains that Sarah was blamed for her response because she should have believed the angels, or at least answered "Amen, Hashem should cause it to happen." Rav Wolbe points out that Sarah had no idea that they were angels, she was ninety years old and the blessing was probably perceived as a way of a kind guest saying thank you. Nevertheless, she was taken to task for not saying "Amen" because nature and age are not players in the Heavenly ballpark. Her ridiculing the possibility of bearing children demonstrated a slight lack in her emunah. In a similar vein, Chazal tell us (Brachos 10a), "Even if there is a sword placed upon a man's throat he should not refrain from pleading for mercy." People often resign themselves to negative situations since they feel that there is simply no way out. They even convince themselves that there is no reason to daven for salvation, since they perceive no natural way for them to be extracted from the dire state of affairs. Truth be told, they might have been put into that very situation to compel them to come to the realization that there is a way, and only one way, out of any problem: to daven. After all, "Is anything beyond Hashem?"