Become Rich, respect your wife. Two Motifs of Travel (Parsha Lech Lecha)

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

this week's torah portion is the portion of god tells avraham to leave your home and then he says number one you should leave your land number two leave your birthplace number three leave your father's home and you have to go to the land that i will show you five details here why all these details furthermore when a person leaves his country and he travels to another country usually you first leave your house then you leave your community then you leave your city then you leave your country and here in the torah seems to be the opposite god says leave your arsaha leave your country then leave your community malataka then leave your house and go to the land where i will show you so why this setup why this order furthermore god tells avraham what does he tell him go to you that doesn't make sense he should have simply said lech go journey move start going i'll tell you where to go why the double terminology lech go to you it really makes no sense i'm not going to me i'm leaving the place where i live i'm going to you so it's not to me that i'm going rather i'm coming to you so why the double terminology here to travel the answer to all of these questions is as follows pertaining going and traveling every jew every person is considered to be a traveler each one of us is constantly moving in contrast to the angels that are considered to be static they are in one place but we are movers and shakers we are trailblazers we are constantly moving

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1. 0:00this week's torah portion is the portion of god tells avraham to leave your home and…
2. 3:05abraham avinu is now in israel considered to be the highest place in the world and…
3. 6:12gave you that decent because he wants you to have a greater asset he gave me…
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5. 13:12i will show you by doing this you will live a much richer life i will…
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