Lech Lecha: What’s So Special About 75?

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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 Rabbi Laskin with the Parsha in 5, where in 5 minutes we try to give you a little insight into the Parsha. Parsha's Lech L'cha. I've always felt that Parsha's Lech L'cha is really the beginning of the year because Bereishit and Noach is really the story of the world. Starting with Lech L'cha, we start to tell the story of the Jewish people. As Rashi explains in Divrei Hayamim, when you lose a pearl in the sand, you dig around in the sand till you find the pearl and then you know, you toss away the rest of the sand. So, when we start with the story of the Jewish people, that's that's the main part. And how old is Avraham Avinu at Lech L'cha? 75. How do you know? Cuz the Posuk says Avraham Avinu is 75. It's really pretty straightforward. The only problem is that Rashi makes a calculation that at the Bris bein habetarim he was 70. Now, how you work out those 5 years, that's for a different discussion. But this much is clear. Even though the story of what takes place in Lech L'cha has an incident that happens when he's 70, we introduce the Parsha, Avraham Avinu is introduced when he's 75. Why is that? So, you know, numbers have significance. And 7 and 8 are two numbers that are very important. 7 is this world. And whenever you see the number 7, you're describing this world. The 7 days of creation, the 70 nations of the

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1. 0:00Hi, this is Rabbi Laskin with the Parsha in 5, where in 5 minutes we try…
2. 0:30sand. So, when we start with the story of the Jewish people, that's that's the main…
3. 1:01Even though the story of what takes place in Lech L'cha has an incident that happens…
4. 1:32world. 7 is the number that basically captures this world and the description is I think…
5. 2:03It's the little hexagon in the middle of the Magen David that hold the little six…
6. 2:36When he finally gets on to the ark, he tells them to wait another seven days.…
7. 3:08the seven Noachide laws. And then Hashem makes a bris with him with the rainbow, the…
8. 3:3975 is seven and a half. Because Avraham Avinu is coming out of the world which…
9. 4:09him into the eight. And he says, "When you make that transition from the seven to…
10. 4:40capturing that power of that eight, the holiness, which takes you beyond the limitations of this…

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