153 Lech Lecha The Man Who Walked Where Angels Fear To Tread 271014

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

The first ark. So in previous shim, we've talked about how this was the second of Aramu's tests. First one was when he was thrown into the fire. That's not mentioned in the Torah because for many reasons. One reason is we don't want people to sacrifice their life for Hashem. We want people to live their Hashem. We want people to live their life for Hashem. So it's not a the Torah didn't uh uh put it directly in the Torah. It's in the midrash. But here we see the second test. Now what type of test is this? Hashem says to Araminu, just go out, go to the land, go from your relatives, from your father's house. And what am I going to do for you? Would you mind closing the door, please? Thank you. I'm going to make you a great nation. I'm going to bless you. Your name will be great name will be great and you yourself will be a braha. Hashem is promising him the world. So what type of test is this? Hashem is is saying look you know if you leave you're going to get the best. So one answer is that the test was that Aramavina had to leave his comfort zone. Now people are very fussy about where they live and their environment. It's not very si easy for a person to to even

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