Parsha Illuminated - Lech Lecha: Avraham's Outreach and G-d as Sha-dai

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Hillel Shaps’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

all right par illuminated for par so par is a packed para so many things that we could talk about I want to start at the beginning and then skip to the end so uh so in the very beginning of the paraa after God tells Abraham to travel to the land of Canan so the Torah tells us this is the First Source I put on the page it's braus 12 verse 5 took his wife s and his nephew all their possessions and the souls that they had here we translate acquired or made inan and they left and they went to the land of can so the mid picks up on this language this terminology the souls what does it mean the souls that souls what does it mean the souls that they made in what does it mean that they made Souls Rashi quotes this mid very uh briefly but the mid says that if all the inhabitants of the world were to assemble no to create a single net they would be unable to inject a soul into it so what does it mean that they in other words we cannot create life so what does it mean the souls that they had created so what does it mean the people that they made here it mean the people that they made here they translat the people that they made what does it mean the people that they made so the mid says the explanation is that this refers to the prelit that they converted in other words in normal English it's people that they um that they courted and taught about m about their being one God and encouraged to follow them in their way of life and uh and fine and then it goes on to say why is it in the

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1. 0:03all right par illuminated for par so par is a packed para so many things that…
2. 4:40up and he would call to the world and teach them that there's only one God…
3. 9:55but part of his part of his trait of kindness was not only to give people…
4. 14:40uh and Abraham would name the wells well this is the well that's called you know…
5. 19:54about so uh so God makes a covenant with Abraham it's based around Brisa it's based…
6. 24:38trusting of God and uh and all is everything is in the hands of God and…
7. 29:47there was a conversation between re AA and uh and a certain Roman general tus Rufus…
8. 34:28testifies to God creating the world what he says look about my world everywhere you see…
9. 39:37summation of his of of what he says um he says tamim in the human character…
10. 44:15that that uh we're the Servants of God now that's very uh very very what we…

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