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Rabbi David Kaplan - Weekly Torah Portion: Lech Lecha - Part 1

2.8K views · Dec 23, 2015

Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

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page 54 so uh the Torah says like this go from your land in your birthplace and your father's house to Father's household to the land which I will show you so right here you have the First Command the first statement in the Torah first time we find a communication to Abino this is the first time the Torah says says anything to V that God talks to it's the first time that talks to it's the first time that that that that the Torah says anything to AB Hashem communicates with Abino page 4 Page 54 page 54 and uh um the uh it's the first command that he gets which is go traveling okay now the first thing we want to understand is what's the difficulty here this is considered one of the tests for aino now what's the difficulty over here go start traveling where I'll show you so there's a rule in where I'll show you so there's a rule in life there's a rule in life that uh uh you know imagine I would say to you the following I say uh you know I want you to um I'm going to give you a ticket I want you to go down to the airport and when you get to the airport I I'm going to give you a ride you get a limousine ride to the airport and waiting for you in the airport is going to be a ticket a first class plane flight on an LL flight where are you going I'll let you know I'll let you know get on the plane I'll let you know see you get on the plane then you find out you're going to Spain and where I what am I going to do in Spain uh when I when I get to Spain

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  1. 0:32page 54 so uh the Torah says like this go from your land in your birthplace
  2. 4:08and they're whipping you and everything is everything is difficult Z which is true but there's
  3. 8:11so to put a man in that position was called a I don't see any time
  4. 12:19go and then it's never as good as you thought but wandering is because or wandering
  5. 16:26get away from the dirt of your surroundings then you will be sucked in to the
  6. 20:31everybody else says it's okay so I should say it's okay too that's what the Torah
  7. 24:40the new curtains that I bought I don't envy you gentlemen because I don't know what
  8. 28:42it by the way tongue is one of those things that is they either love it
  9. 32:51abandon your father your elderly father you know what the Torah is teaching you the Torah
  10. 36:57were asking so we were asking about the story of of Yehuda and Tamar right so

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