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Rabbenu Bachya | Parashat Lech Lecha - "Who do you believe in?" - Rabbi Alon Anava

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Rabbi Alon Anava

Rabbenu Bachya | Parashat Lech Lecha - "Who do you believe in?" - Rabbi Alon Anava

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[Music] so we are in we are going to learn from the teachings of about the and it says in the beginning of the I will bless the ones who bless you and the ones who curse you I will curse them that's what hasem told Abino what do we learn from this something very simple we learned from that that the people of used to curse abrah ainu and also used to insult him and attack him and meim is to to mock him and to disregard him didn't didn't treat him nice so told him why are you bothering staying here just go to the other land that I will show you and then and over there whoever blesses you I will bless him whoever curses you I will curse him that's what the ran explains also he says the Torah is not going into length about all the disagreements arguments lawsuits violence and so forth that was between Abraham and the tenants or the civilians the inhabitants of the of the uras the same way that the Torah doesn't go in length in many other things here he says Doros the generation of Enos but the Torah is not really going into length after all you see that Paras starts when Abraham ainu is already 75 so he says here listen the Torah doesn't go in length to explain about what was going on there but he summarizes it

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  1. 0:00[Music] so we are in we are going to learn from the teachings of about the
  2. 3:44inas but nevertheless wasn't a nice place to hang out in but it says here that
  3. 7:26type some people would worship Idol that they would think that that's what's going to make
  4. 11:16you designed what's the nature of the planet and that's it you can't come and worship
  5. 15:01explain another part and then we can summarize the whole mid it says in the mid
  6. 18:43you says that in the Merit of abah Jew and Rain would come down to the
  7. 22:31sorry we end by saying what does it mean maybe I pronounce it wrong ludd him
  8. 26:18CER but everything is around a name maybe I'm saying the term wrong but it has
  9. 30:03changed the idols now are flat screens and they're big it's the same idea and the
  10. 33:56but then it's going to be in a more obvious way so practically what we want

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