Parsha Perspectives for Today (Lech Lecha)

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The opening of this shiur, in Living with Emunah - Rabbi Efrem Goldberg’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

he doesn't give a destination he doesn't say where he's going he doesn't give coordinates he says go to you go discover who you are and what your life is about how does one discover who they are we've spoken about this a lot in the past i'm not going to revisit it at length now but how does one discover who they are the answer is that you have to transcend your background your dna your surroundings you have to transcend so much about you in order to discover who's the real you you have to peel back all of those you have to peel back all of those layers you have to peel back the layers of your land the culture and its impact on you of your relatives the genetics the dna of your father's household what did you hear around the shabbos table that doesn't mean that we reject where we come from the opposite we embrace it and we accept it and we celebrate it however it means that while we accept it and when we allow it to us and form and inspire us simultaneously we're on a journey of to discover who we're on a journey of to discover who we are why doesn't hashem give them the coordinates allah arts we've spoken about this too in the past because hashem wants us to cultivate within ourselves that sense of searching of yearning of being seekers of looking of being a doresh so hashem doesn't give the answer he doesn't spoon feed spoon feed he says into it follow your spiritual intuition extend your spiritual antenna we spoke about this a lot in the context of hashem not giving us

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