Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz - Weekly Torah Portion: Lech Lecha - Our Origins

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thank you everybody hope you're all doing well and having a good man so really this Parsha Begins the story of the Jewish people everything else was prehistory Adam and Eve and Noah very important of course but now we get down to us our Origins and our Origins are of course who comes to have Ram avino a man called avram it's not avraham yet it's avram and God tells him when avraham is 75 years old you are to leave your land and leave your father's home and leave your family and go to a land I'm not even telling you where it is just keep on going I'll tell you when to stop uh and this is avram's faith that he goes to God as it were one very interesting point that one has to ask is why did God choose avram and he tells avram from you I will make a great nation now we do know there's a whole backstory of midrashim about the greatness of avrah mavino God shows avraham because when he was a young a young man he recognized God according to one view he understood about God when he was three years old according to another view 40 years old there are other midrashram that talk about how he was spreading the idea of God to all of the world there is a medrus that his father was an idol Merchant Terra

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1. 0:24thank you everybody hope you're all doing well and having a good man so really this…
2. 4:34of avram discovering God at the age of three not there the story of avraham teaching…
3. 9:11based on avraham is an eternal love so the morale says quite beautifully the very fact…
4. 13:50some commentaries say this was a dream sequence now there's some commentaries learn Hosea did not…
5. 18:33are microcosmic of our relationship to God so if you think and you'd analyze you know…
6. 23:10King Solomon says in the Book of Proverbs Hashem he who God loves he chastises and…
7. 27:13so Rashi says it was 430 years from the Covenant of the parts until the Exodus…
8. 31:52when God came to him and said I am giving you a Mitzvah of circumcision and…
9. 36:30that doesn't care if it dies what if it views this type of death as a…
10. 41:03even before the water reached their faces the rats dropped dead it was very very interesting…

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