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Lech Lecha - War of Abraham and the Final War

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Parsha Podcast with Ari Goldwag

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you're listening to the weekly partial podcast recorded with hashem's never ending assistance in ra Israel 5775 2015 this week's para is par the Torah gives us the story ofo of Abraham and the Commandment of God to go to the land of Israel and the statement of God the blessing of God that that Abraham and his progeny would be blessed all those who bless the Jewish people all those who bless Abraham will be blessed wherever he goes he will bring blessing with him comes to the land of Israel the Torah enumerates a few different stories a few different uh occurrences that happened around ainu the one that I'd like to focus on specifically today is the story of the M the war between the Four Kings and the five Kings as we read the psim the Pim tell us about this whole War the five Kings battle against the four the mighty ones conquer the weaker ones then Abu comes along and he's able to destroy those forces return the people of sidom return his nephew Lo and bring them back and you know free them from captivity Etc now in looking at the story and looking at it through the eyes of the medish there's something much deeper that's going on in this war you know as I was thinking about what to speak about this week on the paraa you know we have the story of of Abraham and Sarah and them being captured Sor being captured the story of Lo the interaction between ab and l l choosing to go to Stone we have the story of

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  1. 0:00you're listening to the weekly partial podcast recorded with hashem's never ending assistance in ra Israel
  2. 2:02it was the first time that there was war in the world this war was not
  3. 4:44dig deeper in order to understand it but it says like this from in the name
  4. 7:28because of T because of you're studying the Torah so to as a result of your
  5. 10:03happens what happens Abraham comes with his servants with his men with 318 of his people
  6. 12:34the world something major is going to happen something major is going to happen that's going
  7. 14:45trying to pull him into the war and something that's going to happen in the future
  8. 17:25what happens in the end he loses the war AB Abraham comes and destroys all those
  9. 19:58and and God won't just give Abraham all the good that there is just you know
  10. 22:39people throughout history have done the same thing we've been there we we've never tried to

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