Torah Insights of Rabbi Balkany: Lech Lecha (Video 203)

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Good evening. This week's par is paras and there is a famous question which is posed. The medish asks why is it that akures did not tell a where he was going. He said go out. He was 75 years old. And he said, "Leave where you live. You And he said, "Leave where you live. You grew up. It's the mad. This is your home. Leave." But he never said to him where he was going. And there's a few to root him. And one I want to share with you is that when a person is told, if he would have been told where he's if he would have been told where he's going, then it would have made the steps he took to get to Erit Israel. it would have been a her mitzvah. We know that there's such a thing as doing a mitzvah. But there's such a thing also as the preparation which there's different type of rewards for the preparation a person in this for the preparation a person in this world every movement that they make. If it's lashem shamayim it increases the value and the shine of the actual action and getting to the place is part and parcel of that. So if he would have said you're going to leave your house and go to Isel the whole trip to Isel the whole trip going to Isel would not have beenar it would have been the preparation and the dealing which is a lower type of aus and it would have brought him to Erit Israel which would have in the destination and the mitzvah because he was told to go there. But because he wasn't told, he was just told

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