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Lech Lecha - BIG Name | Rabbi Shlomo Farhi

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Rabbi Shlomo Farhi

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Good morning. Good morning, Rabutai. Welcome to breakfast of the class. Breakfast of the class today is dedicated and learning for this week is dedicated by the Daniel Slobe Torah Center diamond donors Stanley Shalom Freda Carry and loving memory Stanley Kerry Benetes also for and continue help for my friends. Let's begin. We read uh in the par about something We read uh in the par about something very interesting and Hashem says, "I want you to leave your land from your place of birth from your house. I want you to go to the land I'm going to show you." Now what's interesting is our rabbis tell us 10 difficulties 10 challenges Abraham was Abraham challenged with 10 different was Abraham challenged with 10 different challenges and he passed all of them that's what tell us he passed all of them so last night actually in the mousar class the boys mus class we talked about what is the importance of this Mishna and the challenges that Abraham Ainu underwent per se. However, I want to point out one thing and it's something that we find in the in the itself. In the we say um every single day actually you are Hashem our God that you chose Abraim. You took him out from the When do we say this? every single day of the year. There's no days off from this. It's right before um the aashir. We say It's right before um the aashir. We say it every single day. Now, I want to just draw your attention to the words of the for a minute. You are Hashem, our God. You chose Abraim. You took him out of and you made his name Abraham. Now for those of us who have been following in the par you'll know that actually we're skipping a little bit of material here.

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  1. 0:00Good morning. Good morning, Rabutai. Welcome to breakfast of the class. Breakfast of the class today
  2. 3:45furnace of fire. She Abraham. When does God make Abraham's name Abraham? Only later after he
  3. 7:20So really it should have said Aam. Why did it become Abraham? Cuz initially it was
  4. 10:51You took him out of the furnace of fire. Abraham and you made his name Abraham.
  5. 14:27That's the concept of but the point is that the water that you cooked is so
  6. 18:11So my friends from the very beginning when Ara's name is still Ara when Ara has
  7. 21:45for so long that they spent time choosing and gathering and putting together and paying for
  8. 25:18life. My friends, one day this guy who's plotting through life week after week, year after
  9. 28:56is saying that. But 24 cents a bure. I mean, what in the world? The guy
  10. 32:31that there's a silent killer of a growth growing inside of his body. Within days, they

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