Lech Lecha: Your Life, Your Mission | Rabbi Ariel Mizrahi

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

Okay, good morning everybody and thank you for joining us on this beautiful Monday morning as we are studying together a new God says to Abraham go for you to a unknown land [snorts] to the land that I show you. And this is the first explicit test of Abrahamu. Maybe there was another test according Maybe there was another test according to our rabbis that was a little earlier. But we know has these 10 tests and the first test leave. Go. And it wasn't an easy test. You should just know it wasn't an easy thing to leave. Abrainu wasn't a a nobody. He wasn't unsuccessful. Abram was very very powerful already. He had many many powerful already. He had many many students. The pasuk says that he had to leave with all the with all the souls all the people that he inspired that he converted if you will. So Ramavinu is very very very talented very very successful very very wellknown. He already defeated the famous Nimrod who threw him in a fire. So Abraham is is got some, you know, some uh support. He's popular. God says leave. Now back then there was no Zoom. leave. Now back then there was no Zoom. There was no social media. So if you leave, you can't take your fans with you wherever you go. Today if an athlete goes from one team to another, the fans, they still love him and they still watch his games in the other city, in the other state that he's playing for. It doesn't matter where you are. I could still watch you and follow you. [snorts] Not so back then. A rau leaving meant drop, stop, drop, and roll. You have to get rid of everything. It wasn't an easy test. It wasn't an easy test.

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1. 0:00Okay, good morning everybody and thank you for joining us on this beautiful Monday morning as…
2. 3:08to now leave the company. You have to work on your own. You may get a…
3. 6:14but the obvious question for us today that we have to explore how is it even…
4. 9:19of health or poverty or whatever it is. And everyone has different circumstances. No two people…
5. 12:26pass this test. You can do it. You may not. You may fail. You have free…
6. 15:31Maybe it's your spouse and it's easy for you to knock them and say, "I don't…
7. 18:34Trial number one is where you get to this huge moment where you build up your…
8. 21:46If instead of killing them, they would torture them a little bit every single day, then…
9. 24:56And so this is our para. God's talking to Abraham. He's talking to me and you.…
10. 28:04And everyone's a different kid. Some kids are this, some kids are that. There's no uniform.…

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