Q&A: Abraham’s Ushpizin
Abraham’s Ushpizin
Question
It is known from the words of the Sages that our forefather Abraham observed the entire Torah. People therefore ask: if so, who were his ushpizin in the sukkah? Had Isaac and Jacob and Moses and David already been born????
To explain the words of the Sages jokingly, as though they did not really mean it, is heresy and mocks the words of the Sages—may God have mercy and protect us. To say that our forefather Abraham, the holy of holies, did not merit the level of the ushpizin is of course something that cannot even enter one’s mind, God forbid—may God have mercy and protect us. Abraham spoke with angels, so all the more so he would speak with the ushpizin. And if the soul comes to him year after year, then Abraham, for example, would know that he had a grandson Jacob, and would know that “through Isaac shall offspring be called to you,” and that does not seem to fit the verses.
A tremendous difficulty!!! What is the answer?? Thank you!!!
Answer
Has Purim arrived and I didn’t know it?!
But behold, I have written what came to my mind on this grave topic, although I know that I am but a worm and not a man, my right-hand pillar and mighty hammer-blow. And so as not to leave the page blank, and out of holy affection for the honorable sir—once it has arisen, it shall not descend. And this is my beginning, with God’s help.
Surely every novice scholar knows that everything is contained in the Torah, and Abraham, by the force of his intellect and the greatness of his sharpness, found in it through equidistant letter skips what the heretics call “Quantum Torah,” and even connected it to the theory of relativity, Heaven forbid—something that never entered the mind or grasp of any of those heretics and scoffers, may their names be erased (indeed, they are hinted at in the scoffers of the generation who laughed at Sarah). Therefore it appears that the hidden secrets of the world and the great deep were revealed to him, and with the strength of his hand he reversed the axis of time. Consequently, you can well understand that he was born after his descendants (and some say he even had a twin who flew to the moon, and perhaps all of us are like that, which is why we seem younger than him), and thus it works out nicely that they all sat with him in the sukkah, and some say in the ark (according to one tanna, Noah’s ark, and according to another tanna, Moses in the basket).
And I further found that his sukkah was on Mount Moriah, and as is known, there the Ark does not take up space; and were I not afraid, I would say that the same is true regarding the axis of time—and it is obvious.