Know Who's Leading You! - Parshat Lech Lecha

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

Some of today's most creative writing isn't to be found in novels. You'll find it on Airbnb. The description of the apartment promised spacious living rooms, a fully equipped kitchen, and a peaceful location. Five stars, wonderful reviews. The photographs showed a stunning apartment flooded with sunlight with panoramic views of the Mediterranean. And then you arrive. The panoramic view of the Mediterranean turns out to be a glimpse of something bluish between two gray apartment blocks. Provided you stand on the chair blocks. Provided you stand on the chair and lean out of the bathroom window. The spacious living room is spacious enough for two people, provided neither of them moves. And the peaceful location is directly above a nightclub. It's certainly peaceful after the last drunks have staggered out of there around 6:00 in the morning. Welcome to the world of expectations. At the beginning of Parshat Lech Lecha, Hashem tells Avraham Avinu, "Go for yourself from your land, from your birthplace, and from your father's house, to the land that I will show

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1. 0:00Some of today's most creative writing isn't to be found in novels. You'll find it on…
2. 0:32blocks. Provided you stand on the chair and lean out of the bathroom window. The spacious…
3. 1:02house, to the land that I will show you." And what happens when Abraham arrives in…
4. 1:32sacrifice of Torah, surely Hashem will arrange things so that our sacrifice is rewarded. And then…
5. 2:04was to transform him into Avraham Avinu, to create a person whose relationship with Hashem was…
6. 2:34tell us what to think. But none of them can tell us what tomorrow will bring.…

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