Parashat Lech Lecha | Go Find Yourself

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The opening of this shiur, in Rav Dov Ber Cohen’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

This week's parsha is a major parsha, awesome, sweet, powerful parsha. And Hashem basically says to Avram, the first Jew, "Go to yourself. Lech lecha, go and find yourself." You know, most people don't know who they are anymore. They're just trying to fit into some social media personality that I need to be and very, very disconnected from themselves. And we always teach that yourself is pure spirituality, goodness, um love, joy, connection, sweetness, playfulness. It's all positive. You are pure and holy, an expression of God. And Hashem is saying to all of us. Remember when the Torah says Lech lecha, he's talking to you, every single one of us. Go and find yourself. Go and Go and live the life you're meant to live. My son was actually born in parshas Lech lecha. Isn't it cool? Although he was meant to be born in parshas Bo, three three months later. He was born three months early in parshas Lech lecha, but they say that the angel is teaching the child Torah in the womb. So, the angel said Lech lecha and the baby was like, "I'm out of here." And I got I got let's go. Bam, comes out and it's like the He actually came home from the hospital three months later on parshas Bo. So, he left at Lech lecha and he came out Bo. And it's like, "There we go." So, this is what we're doing and this is

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