Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz - Weekly Torah Portion: Parshat Lech Lecha

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[Music] [Music] this para really begins the story of the Jewish people until this point we have the creation of the world we have Noah who is the father of all Humanity we have the destruction of that world the rebuilding of a new world but the tree keeps on narrowing as the ram writes originally you know hadish fulfilled his obligation you know the whole the whole human race would have been the nation of God so to speak but what happens is that Humanity shows that it's not worthy Humanity shows that it's not worthy Humanity gets excluded this group gets excluded this group gets excluded and finally everything boils down to this Abino and of course the process of limitation continues because AB has and and yes gets excluded and Y has yob and ASV and asov gets excluded right Hashem is choosing choosing choosing it's like if you ever look at that Google Earth right you start off with a picture of the Earth and you go you know continent country City Street house you know narrowing narrowing narrowing narrowing narrowing narrowing narrowing narrowing narrowing and uh what's interesting is this you know let me just digress for a moment here and that is uhz who's a you know religious woman and a very esteemed scholar and teacher of Kish although we don't quote her that much in Yeshiva but again she was a a very religious woman she once made a very interesting observation that we sometimes are so used to certain midrashim they're so famous to us they're so welln that we literally think they're in the Kish we think they're in the Kish when in fact

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1. 3:35did not go into that fiery furnace thinking or knowing he would be saved he was…
2. 7:44that we know from the oral law actually does not appear in the written law so…
3. 11:52that I care about I'm going to get involved I don't I don't mean I'm not…
4. 15:59Hashem has a qualitative evaluation so one Mitzvah might equal a million of Etc but however…
5. 20:06a land that is not theirs and they will serve they will be servants and be…
6. 23:47aam her original name was Sarai and the hay was added to Abraham and Sarai became…
7. 28:00of the he is the infusion of kadha Into the gashi Now it's no accident that…
8. 32:05have to get away from the world a little bit because the world is going to…
9. 36:11within the most physical parts of ourselves now this is a very important idea uh you…

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