Listen to Your Wife – Parshat Lech Lecha

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

off with the question. You remember from yesterday we left off with the question. Why why does Rashi say whenever he says we are brothers uh well, let's not fight. We're brothers, we're relatives. I know Shem and Nachum so Rashi remember Rashi said that they look alike. How are Avram and Lot look alike? And uh we asked yesterday what's the significance of that? What does that mean that they look alike? So what's the what what what what does got to have some sort of bearing? Okay. So then what does Lot do? We're going to come back. We're going to answer the question in a second. Va'yisa Lot as an of Lot raises his eyes Va'yare Kikar ha'Yarden ki kulah mashkeh. He sees the entire area of the plains of the Jordan. Lifnei Hash-m Sodom v'Amorah. This is before Hash-m overturned and destroyed Sodom and Amorah ki gan Hash-m k'Eretz Mitzrayim bo'acha tzo'ar. So Lot Va'yivchar third line third line from the top page 60. Lot sees hey, that looks like a pretty fertile area. Va'yivchar lo Lot es Kikar ha'Yarden. Va'yisa Lot mi'Kadem. Lot travels away. Va'yipardu ish me'achiw. They separate from each other. And here you have Lot who's been raised and he's been uh what do you call it? He's been raised and and nurtured and by Avram Avinu he's had the values of our page 60 the values of Avram Avinu have been instilled in him. And what does Lot choose to do? He chooses to go off and where does he go? Look at one more pasuk. Va'yivchar Avram yoshev Avram yoshev b'Eretz Kena'an v'Lot yashav b'Arei Kikar va'ye'ehal ad Sodom. He pitches his tents. That means he sets up his dwelling and he reaches the land of Sodom. And who are these people? The the Torah doesn't mince words over here. The Anshei Sdom Ra'im Ve Chato'im La Hashem

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1. 0:00off with the question. You remember from yesterday we left off with the question. Why why…
2. 4:05plucked a tomato, they found gold underneath. Now, when the Midrashim talk like that, it generally…
3. 8:08fall into the fire. He's the one who threw Avram Avinu into the fire. So, it…
4. 12:47mean we, kemosabe?" >> [laughter] >> So, now Avram Avinu is with Eliezer. Two guys are…
5. 16:50do you have them do Do you have to try to save him? Only if you're…
6. 21:26"Avram, take your wife and leave." "Take your wife and leave." There are commentaries that say…
7. 25:34a woman becomes pregnant? When she becomes pregnant, she What is it? I mean, she don't…
8. 29:40no no no. That doesn't work that way. Okay. So, she runs away. And then the…
9. 34:18Basically everything. They've got two things. There are only two products in Saudi Arabia. There's oil…
10. 38:29"Where are you coming?" Amy is a boss. The bottom of me sorry give her to…

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