Peace between you & your wife is very VERY important. (5 minutes)

0:01And we learn here in this week's parasha, when in chapter 18, verse 12, after the malachim, the angels, come to Avraham and tell him, "This time next year you're going to have a son." Hashem said to Avraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Shall I indeed bear a child now that I am old?' Is anything too wondrous for Hashem?" Here you see that Hashem actually altered the words. Sarah didn't say, "I am old"; she said, "My husband is old." So what happened? Did Hashem forget?

1:27What happened? So Hashem is telling Avraham, Avraham, your wife says that she's old. Why? Because Hashem knows, as the Creator knows His creation, that if He tells the husband, if He tells Avraham, listen, by the way, your wife said that you're old, Avraham's going to take it to heart. He's not going to like it. "Well, my wife thinks I'm old. Maybe she doesn't like me anymore. Maybe she'll look for somebody else." The guy's always going to be jealous. He'll be 150 years old and still going to be jealous. Anyone that loves his wife has to be jealous. Obviously, if you're righteous, you contain this jealousy. But that's also the reason why a righteous husband will never let his wife walk around immodestly, half-naked and all that stuff. Never. Why do you want to share your diamond with the rest of the world? For what? What benefit do you get out of it? That everybody has in their mind, pictures of your wife naked. Is this what you want in your life? Forget the parnasah. People thinking about your wife naked. There's something wrong with you if you actually like that. Forget the parnasah. Forget all the segulot. Forget all that stuff. There's another guy in the world that thinks of your wife. There's something wrong with you if you're okay with that. There's something wrong with you.

2:53So Avraham here is getting news from Hashem that his wife thinks that she's old. But she didn't say that; she said he's old. But Hashem is telling him that He changed the truth. In essence, we're only allowed to say because that's what happened. It's only written in the Torah. Hashem "lied"—He changed the truth. For what? For the purpose of Shalom Bayit. Because if He would have told... Avraham, that his wife thinks he's old, Avraham could be upset at his wife and it could create shalom bayit issues. That's how important shalom bayit is. Hashem Himself wrote a few verses in the Torah. It's not a theory. It's not some perush. It's not some commentary. This is what's written here. Chapter 18, verses 12 and 13. Literal Torah. You don't need Rashi. You don't need me. You don't need anything. Read it yourself. This is what it says. So if Hashem decided that Shalom Bayit is so important that He is okay with signing off His name with something different from the truth, you think that it's okay for anybody to go to some grave or anywhere and put his Shalom Bayit on the line even for a second? Even for a half a second? You think this tzaddik in Uman?

4:21where his body is buried, do you think he wants you to put your shalom bayit on the line? Do you think the Rebbe from Lubavitch wants you to put your olam on the line by calling him Mashiach, by calling him God, by calling him whatever he's not? It's complete nonsense. People have to start learning Torah from the sages, from Hashem Yitbarach, and stop making up this craziness that they're spreading, because it's not doing anybody any good. So with that being said, we see that this week's parasha already teaches us a very, very important life lesson. Number one: if you want to have the blessing of Hashem in your life... you must have Shalom Bayit. Because Hashem Himself obviously put His name on the line for it. And also, as we talked about last week, how in the act of Sotah, Hashem allowed us to erase His name for the sake of Shalom Bayit.