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Torah Portion -
LechLecha
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Written by d fine
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The Ramban asks a poignant question at the start of our sedra. Whereas the Torah gives some background info about virtually all other tzadikim, when it comes to Avraham we are simple told ‘HaShem spoke to Avraham saying…’ Where’s the introduction as to who Avraham was? The Sefas Emes used to cite this question often, giving a new answer almost every year. One year he answered using the Zohar, remarking that ‘HaShem called out to everyone. But Avraham was the only one who listened.’ The idea is that HaShem is constantly telling us messages; whether via nature, current events, or personal happenings in our own lives. We just need to make sure that we are on the right (spiritual) wavelength to be able to tune into these messages.
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Torah Portion -
LechLecha
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Written by d fine
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At the start of Lech Lecha, HaShem commands Avraham, in what is his first of ten tests, to leave his family and birthplace to come to Eretz Cena’an. The problem is that at the very end of parshas Noach (11:31) we were already told that Avraham left Uhr Casdim (his hometown) and reached Charan. How does it make sense that HaShem command something that Avraham had already fulfilled? There seem to be three main approaches in the Rishonim here. Rashi writes that the command was not for Avraham to leave his birthplace (he already had done that), but to distance himself further from his birthplace. The Ibn Ezra differs and writes that HaShem commanded this to Avraham before he left Uhr Casdim. The Ramban is our third opinion. He holds that Avraham’s hometown was not Uhr Casdim, but Charan. Thus, Avraham was in his hometown (Charan) when HaShem commanded him to leave there
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Torah Portion -
LechLecha
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Written by D Fine
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When the time comes for Avraham to separate from Lot, Avraham poses the following deal to Lot: 'the entire land is in front of you - if you go left I'll go right, and if you go right I'll go left' (13:9). The Netziv asks an interesting question here. Why does Avraham need to move here; let Lot go left/right and Avraham should stay where he is? Why do they both need to move in opposite directions in order to be apart? The Netziv answers that Avraham wanted to
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Torah Portion -
LechLecha
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Written by Rafi Jager
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And there was friction between Avram's herdsmen and Lot's herdsmen...and Avram said to Lot 'Let's not have friction between me and you and my herdsmen and your herdsmen'(Biraishis 13:7-8). The Netziv explains that Avram told Lot that he was afraid that the herdsmen's fight might spill over to them, as it says in Mishlei 17:14 "The beginning of strife is like letting out water". ie.If you
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Torah Portion -
LechLecha
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Written by Benjamin A rose
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The first Posuk in this weeks sedra starts with Hashem telling Avraham avinu to leave his homeland his neighbours and his father's house. Hashem then says "I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you, and I will make your name famous, and be a blessing." I have to ask.. what is the big test??...
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