In Their Footsteps #1 - The Right Intuition and the Test of Lech Lecha

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

okay good evening thank you so much for joining us again my name is rabbi hillel chaps most of you know me i think and uh i run a links links is a project to the greater washington community colwell when things are normal lynx has a program weekly at the jcc with uh a class like this but also one-on-one learning opportunities um and we hope that we'll be able to get back to that soon well that's been on hold now for hold now for too long um so i'm excited to start a new topic tonight we titled the the series in their footsteps life lessons from our patriarchs and matriarchs whenever we come around the back of the beginning of the of the torah back to parsha's voracious genesis it's always exciting because i i i love and i know maggie loved the stories of the the avos the forefathers the patriarchs and the imagos the mothers and the imagos the mothers the matriarchs and there's just so much there and uh so i was excited to choose that as the topic for this next series and uh and we're going to explore their lives and try to take away some good lessons that are relevant to us um this coming week's parsha which is basically our first introduction to avraham abraham

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1. 0:05okay good evening thank you so much for joining us again my name is rabbi hillel…
2. 5:44we all can uh can still hope to grow and to and really use the the…
3. 11:53strange reference is this not written in the book of the of yashar it's written in…
4. 18:06the father is forgiving the father um has unlimited love for them hopes for what's best…
5. 24:17some who take that approach that's why avraham felt indecative but there's another approach and there's…
6. 30:21beginnings and we're gonna talk we'll come back and discuss it more a little bit soon…
7. 36:32logical progression that he did when he later encountered nimrod so we saw in the midrash…
8. 42:43he was able to come to the conclusion that there was just one god and not…
9. 48:51willing to sacrifice himself and be thrown into the fiery furnace by nimrod to stand up…
10. 54:59your yeah i mean it could be hard to leave home but uh is that really…

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