Lech Lecha - The Middle

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

Hi, this is David. Welcome to the para in five where in five minutes we try to give you insights into the para to hopefully enhance your shabas par. And so we begin the story of the Jewish people there's a very interesting that points out that right at the beginning it says That seems unnecessary. They all left to go to and they came to. Why is that necessary? Says it's for because the end of paras Noah ends with the ninth generation from Noah. Aam is the 10th. The ninth generation was Aram's father Terra. And after he saw the miracles that happened in orism, he set out says the he wanted to be he came to and he stopped there. But started the journey but he did not finish it because he saw [clears throat] Erit Kanan was the place to go. Why? Even during the mobble they noticed that the marble did not affect like everybody else. Uh it did rain over Eritell and uh although it got flooded because the water came in from every because the water came in from every place else but it didn't rain over it they understood this was a makum kadosh they knew this already. That's why shame sets himself up in Jerusalem on the harabas and makes that [clears throat] makes that his uh place because shame of course well is the the the son who captured the most what Noah was trying to do in the world and he becomes malit and he keeps that going. So um say a special place. So after the terrible

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1. 0:00Hi, this is David. Welcome to the para in five where in five minutes we try…
2. 0:32That seems unnecessary. They all left to go to and they came to. Why is that…
3. 1:06he came to and he stopped there. But started the journey but he did not finish…
4. 1:37because the water came in from every place else but it didn't rain over it they…
5. 2:41father did not. So the philosophy of ter was middle of the road or kazdm is…
6. 3:14thrown into the Kaish he says if Aram comes out of there then I will declare…
7. 3:47tuti and when it comes to the hundreds column you have a choice between ra and…
8. 4:48choppers with Abraham and Saturday night. The best of both worlds. I go in the middle.…
9. 5:19And couldn't do it. And his son Har couldn't do it. And Har's son Lot couldn't…
10. 5:49choice. Either follow God or follow Baal. But don't be Jews for Bal. Make a choice…

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