Short Thought for Parshas Lech Lecha | By Rav Asher Weiss Shlit"a (5786)

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Asher Weiss’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

is the beginning of our story. Many times I ask young American yeshiva boys, who was the first in history? The first Jew in history was the first in history. Says yes was the first Jew and he was the first and was a giant. No, that's a was the first one to discover. No one taught him and he found aesh and writes tens of thousands of people flocked to learn from about so we would expect a ro to have a utopian life of blessing and nas and calm and serenity. No, it was not to be. Again and again put him to test. And what are those about? Many times I explained that is a lot of in his introduction to mas is not only simon whatever the did affected all the generations of cloud Israel and all the see the nephish we had throughout the ages everything comes from the med says and threw them into a fire and they were salvaged. They weren't harmed. A shame tells the angels from above. Kiss the lips of theum writes that the letters or are the same letters as her voice. her voice. So when this demands requires the bal is the letters the gave the to every generation. So invo we usually learn on tishabove and everybody knows the story of a mama that sacrificed seven children when each was asked to bow down to

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2. 0:34and was a giant. No, that's a was the first one to discover. No one taught…
3. 1:35And what are those about? Many times I explained that is a lot of in his…
4. 2:37A shame tells the angels from above. Kiss the lips of theum writes that the letters…
5. 3:46and each and every one of her seven children of a hashem of nephesh and they…
6. 4:55quote everything. If Kazal tell us this is what she said, it must be something positive.…
7. 5:31I had the strength and the courage and the ability to be. Thank you. So when…
8. 6:34different magalim different circles as closest circle is family. That comes before anything else. Your children,…
9. 7:35where you were born, the people you grew up with and leave your family and go…
10. 8:37So when we learn we need to feel and understand and we learn the story of…

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