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Rabbi Moshe Haber Perashat Lech Lecha: Avraham's Ascent: Faith and Mission 10.29.25 · Rabbi Moshe Haber - Daily Mussar/Weekly Perasha

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We saw which is really the real story of our vino and there are
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multiple lessons, ideas, an opening in the.
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You have this new job of leaving your land, your birthplace and
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your father's house to the land. And I'm going to show you.
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So this is considered. According to many, it is the
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first. He's going to see the first Test
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around, around vino or second test, many of us the first,
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right. So we have to figure out no more
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what the test exactly is. But right away, there's a point.
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Generally whenever God Hawks to a prophet about history, he
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always appeared to him first. Abraham vino.
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It started with his speech, Yom Hashem of Abraham.
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Hashem told Abraham, Yeah, it starts with the speech.
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It doesn't start with Hashem appearing to him.
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And this is the question, why is that the case?
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Right. It's a basuk that talks about a
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raha meeting, finding Hashem. It says shimmy, now you heard
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me, you heard that you're hearing Hashem.
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No clear ear, close. Listen to God.
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Rahm's original understanding of God is called hearing.
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Not seeing every other prophet we've had at some degree saw
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some, whatever that means, saw an image or something.
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So the first question is that you all made a shingla maham.
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Hashem appears on maham, but not image, just sound like look how
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I want you to travel from your land, from your birthplace or
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from your father's house, allowed to shout ika to the land
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I'm going to show you. Second question is this.
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Why does not Sham tell him where to go?
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Carter Tharman, how wants you to leave?
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Why does Hashem not tell him where to go?
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I'm going to show you. Why not tell only God?
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National says. And by the way, I'm going to
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make you into a great nation. I'm going to bless you.
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I'm going to build up your name and you'll be blessed.
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Those who bless you will be blessed.
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Those who curse will be cursed. And the bastooks as Abraham
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went. So opening points like this,
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What was the test of LA? What exactly is the test?
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The idea is the main test and there are multiple angles.
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The number one test is going without any idea what you're
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heading to. Going without a plan, literally
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stepping foot, leaving a settled situation and going a bowl with
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no plan. That's a little.
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People often ask, how could this be part of his 10 tests?
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How could he be in the same set as being stuck in a famine with
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the same set of having set out, taking his captive, or being
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involved in a massive World War academies?
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How could Abraham having to travel many people have to move?
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How can he be a stupid deal? And the idea is not having
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clarity of plant, not knowing where you're going to is the
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test. All right, now let's get a
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little deeper. So it starts with Hashem
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speaking to him, not appearing to him.
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The basuk says Abraham goes, I'll get to how he goes in a
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second. And the basuk says he comes to
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his arm place and then by he comes to the land of Canaan by
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Yira Hashem Alabama, Hashem appears to him.
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I'm going to give this land to your children.
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My even charm is Baek like Hashem, Hanidah, Allah, Abraham
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bills and Miss Baek to the God, not just God to the God who
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appeared to him. So you have all of a sudden a
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mid trip Hashem appears to him and Abraham those Miss Baek to
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the God who appeared to him. We describe God that way.
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What's the message? The message is that the original
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test was not having a Clara, the original test was having never
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seen God, which means in a sense going a little bit blindly.
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Then he gets to the land, He's going the whole way, not knowing
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what he's going to do. What's going to be Hashem
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appears to him. Hashem appears to him as a
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degree of saying He is your reward.
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The having faith, just listening to me when I ever seen me, and
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now God will appear to him. Rahavine brings the Qurban or
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brings them builds him as Bayach to the God who appeared to him
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means he reached the next level because of his faith.
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Without knowing what God seemed like, without having a plan, he
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went blindly. Hashanah appeared to him and he
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brings builds him his barrel. So that's the degree of a Raham
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displaying faith. That's the opening test of I'll
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see more of the same set. The Pasuka when I Raham came, it
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says the words that Akanani Azbarnitz comes to the land this
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Lechlika and it says the Kanani were in the land then at the
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time, right, right. Thought she Kanaan.
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The lamb was eventually called Ed's Kanaan and she says Kanaan
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was middle of taking over the land, conjuring the land as
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Abraham came to visit. Really Sham owned the lamb.
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Our original original then the Kanaani was the son of Ham start
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to take over the land and when were they taking it over when
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Abraham while Abraham is coming to visit he sees knot or maybe
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his enemy convert the lane. So I've asked this question.
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What is the symbolism? What is the messaging the fact
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that what us while he's walking on land while he's taking a tour
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of his future birthplace, his future home.
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Then at that time the county would take it over.
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Why not have it at the county? Why'd God make it?
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That is us. So I think this is part of the
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idea of Abraham displaying faith.
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And it's this point that is you'll see throughout the
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parasha, you'll see that every time Raham goes on to a next
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stage, next stage, every time Raham goes from stage to stage,
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he's always this. I didn't, I had no plan.
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Then it became clear what's going on.
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Then the next stage, I have no plan for the next step.
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It then became clear. Next, it's like us with life.
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I don't know what's going to be getting married.
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OK, It's clear. Honestly, we have been chosen.
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Then it gets clear. There are two at school, this
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business, all right, everything, every different degree is
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another layer of faith and lack of knowledge.
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So maybe and the best suit is the words are Kanani Ozvah
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audits. When the Kanani were conquering
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land at that time, it was a test of Rahm saying you told the
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coming in and eventually you're going to get it.
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And now you have to see your enemy literally take over right
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now. And that requires more faith to
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believe that as they're taking over, you're going to trust
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Hashem telling you look at this land.
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It's the enemy taking over. It's going to be yours someday.
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And it's a continuation of Abraham climbing the ladder of
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faith. That's what I think as bond is
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beings. OK, now I want to go back to the
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beginning of the parish. I want to tell you that first
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point a Snooks is Arachem told Abraham Leche.
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You should go me Artsuka from your land, from your birthplace
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and we bet Avika from your father's home and then you go to
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this unknown place. The order, as we all know we've
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heard us before is out of order. You walk out of your father's
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house, you leave your land and then you this is from your
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brother, it's the office of Pasuk says leave the land.
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The land is usually the last thing to mention here is
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mentioned first. Your birth was mentioned 2nd and
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you follow his house and mentioned third.
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Why is it the case? Why is it mentioned out of
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order? So first it says leave the land.
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I told you I want you to leave Brooklyn, right?
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I would say leave E 3rd. Then I would say right, you
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leave Easter. Now I say leave Brooklyn.
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Then I would say leave American. I wouldn't say leave America
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Brooklyn. No, doesn't make sense.
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That's the question. So the idea is this.
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Thank you. The the simple answer is, is
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that this was a test. That was a test.
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What was the goal of this test for the central test of Rahm's
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faith? What was the purpose of this
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travelling? Well, every test, whoever Ham
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had had a purposeful outcome. What was the goal of this Trump?
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To go to a new place. He went to that new place and he
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lasted that long to leave. So what was the goal of you're
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representing travel. The goal of left with hell was
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around test our fresh around you found out Shem to bend Leslie
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Barshaw. The goal of this test was that
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can a man really establish? Now if you're going with the
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idea of starting fresh in your mindset and there there goes.
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First, leave the general influence of your countryside.
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You live in America, you have an American influence, leave that.
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Then leave, let's call it Brooklyn, the community style.
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Then leave your father's home, which is probably the most
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strongest influence that he has to break free of.
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So because that was the goal of the test, Hashem did in the
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opposite order, because the ultimate goal was to leave the
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mindset of his father's house. That's why it goes in that order
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because we're climbing the ladder as Abraham is climbing
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the ladder of gross. Now let's notice, unless you
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probably shut up, the Basu said that I remember Hamas father
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doing told us his father doing. So you think when Lechlaca
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happens she's fall best to airing?
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So why does he leave his father's house, leave the
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family? What does it mean then Madras
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says that although we mentioned Lazar, there's a Ham's fall fast
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to it. The reality is when he started
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his track of his father was still a lawyer.
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His father was still alive. He's the leave is fall behind
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and says if a dodge around Vino was very concerned.
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I don't want to leave. I don't want to leave my father
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right. I'm his father.
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I want to serve my father on relief.
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And then the dodge said that God told him in this specific
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situation for you, but you are Abraham.
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I'll explain why in a second for you.
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You're the one guy who doesn't have to require me to take care
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of your father. You can go, as Jim said, and I'm
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going to put this story in the order as if his father passed
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away before he traveled so that Raham can feel fully secure.
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They didn't do anything wrong. So God wrote the Torah where
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Raham's father is listed as passing the way.
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And then we mentioned that lechha, where in reality Lechha
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happened while this father was still alive.
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All right, It's a clear Medarsian.
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It's a very well known concept. You read that before, No.
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So the question, what's the question is why?
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Why would I, Chantal Abrahavino to leave his father while as far
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as the light, why would he tell them that you're the one man
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history who doesn't have the requirement of him?
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Are we going to do that? That's the question.
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Yeah, but is that the only reason why he didn't want to
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leave? Because he was a mitzvah he was
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commanded to do, or he would be commanded the way they make the
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plant. The issue is Abrahamino didn't
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feel comfortable leaving his buy his home and God wanted as we
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said before we say it goes on the steps leave your country,
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leave your city, leave your family because you want to
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change the main and the only way I shouldn't could change the
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main breaks free breaks free from his family style.
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You understand how behind me this?
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Hand understanding of that already because he moved away
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from all of this his. He did travel a little bit, by
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the way. We're fun to.
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Travel then the. Mentality.
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Yeah. So the goal of here is that even
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though Ravino was on the right projection and he was definitely
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thinking the right way and he's influencing people the right
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way, he still needs to break free entirely.
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And that requires leaving his father while his father's still
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alive. And the only reason why this is
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OK when never would this be recommended ever.
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The only reason it's OK is be that Raha vino, as we'll see,
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becomes a brand new man. He's not your regular example.
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The Avot are called the shortest, recalled the route.
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They're disconnected from what came before them.
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Everyone else that we've ever had is all based on the lineage.
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The only people, only one in history who has no connection to
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the lineage in our mind, no one says he's Tedak's son.
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You don't go around with Tedak's son.
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We don't say our real legitimate forefather is Tedak.
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No one ever says that there was a disconnect.
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It was a cut off because Abraham was telling anew being there and
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great and free. That's why he had to be told was
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false alive to leave. Hashem didn't wait for his fall
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the best the way. That's what he's told us now
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wait. That's why the Torah, like we
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said, mentioned Arvah's father passing as if he passed if he
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could breakthrough. Now when God tells Abraham this
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test, God tells him, I'm going to take you to a land that I'll
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show you as we said, and then Hashem says the following.
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I'm going to make you into a great nation, you personally
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become a green nation and I'll bless you and I'm going to raise
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up your name and you're going to be a source of blessing to the
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whole way, which means Hashantal Abraham, you know, big
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challenge. You got to leave the outbreak
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free, OK? You have to go into the unknown,
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we said. But then God told him all these
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blessings. So my question is this.
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Why would Hashantal Abraham the outcome?
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You're cheating the system. Basically, you're telling around
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we do a big test. You're trying to test things.
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What are the shaman doing by telling her?
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Rahan, you're gonna be blessed, singing better off.
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You're gonna be wealthy. If someone told me as you travel
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to a different city, I can make a lot of money there.
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It's not a test, especially if it's gone, right?
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If my brother told me or cousin told me, I'd go.
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It's God telling me how many trusts got.
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So what's the big deal? What is it?
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And really, there's multiple questions.
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What is that more what I shall do now?
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I think like this, when Hashem said these words, I'm going to
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make you into a great nation. I'm going to bless you.
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When I build up your name, Great nation meant he's going to have
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children bless you meant he's going to be wealthy.
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Build up your name meant everyone was going to talk about
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our Raham as the Jew. I said.
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I meant those three things. It couldn't be the reason that I
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shouldn't tell that Raham the outcome, the goal.
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And it was God wanted our home to know as you travel, you need
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to make sure to accomplish these three things.
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You need to build a family. You need to work on.
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I'm sending you there. I want you to build a family
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there. You need to work to make money.
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I'm asking of you to try to accumulate wealth and you need
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to build up your name, which we're building up Hashem's name.
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So it wasn't Hashem giving up Raham the answers or giving the
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result. It was giving him a mission.
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That might be why he told him. I'll prove it to you.
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Except the wealth piece doesn't really.
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We'll see what the wealth goal is.
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We'll see what the wealth goal is.
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Good point. Well, he uses wealth to take
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care of other people. Some meno.
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I'll prove it to you. Listen to this Wassouk say.
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Oh, it's Baron. Huh.
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So how was Baron? Yeah.
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Yeah, we are. Are you wanting to have kids?
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OK. So we'll see.
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Listen, no control over there. So you have to trust as a dude
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if he should loot for these three areas.
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And you'll watch in the storyline can help a shot as he
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does it shall look for all three so Sarah is barren right Basukh
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says when Hashem told him this So again the flow is he's given
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a major test to break free of his family of his father's home
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of the influence of the real life while as follows.
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So I'm told that there's a purpose of your trick for these
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outcomes. We said it's kind of giving it
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away but it's not it's giving him a mission Steve that make
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sense. Now let's see how you can tell
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Abraham got the memo. Basukh says Abraham Abraham
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Abraham went cachet de Bella bashem like all I told him to
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do. But either he told lot Lord came
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along with him that Abraham was a certain age, 75 years old when
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he travelled the Ikak Abraham ET Sarah Ishtar.
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He took his wife that lot been a he took a lot and he took all
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that he owed his property with him, writes the order Haim I saw
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today, Orachaim says when the Torah says the words He took his
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wife and he took a lot and redid his words.
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May I find a view exactly? I can't find now, he says at one
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point you see that Abraham travelled and it was him, Lot
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and his wife. We mentioned love God before as
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well. Here we see.
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Yeah. And Leslie Parrish, I listen to
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this. Leslie Parrish I mentioned
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whenever Rahm was going with his father, it was Tedak took
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Abraham, Lot and Sarah. Sarah is mentioned after Lot
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right now. Prasha, it says Abraham
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travelled with his wife, Anlot. His wife is mentioned right next
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to him, says the order, ahem. I saw earlier today, I can't
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find another, says the order ahem.
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That when God told him these three promises, you're going to
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build a family. Abraham had originally separated
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from Saddam because she was unable to have children until
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now. He had separated from her
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because she was barren for so long.
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He now was told by God you have a mission to build a family.
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He did it his salut once again he took Sarah back.
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That's what the basuk says to that point he travelled with
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Sadah and unload Sadah was next to him, but really she was not
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because now he's trying again because God told him you're
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going to build a family. That's one example.
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OK and they travelled, they come to Kanan fun.
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Then the Basuk says after in Kanan, the heat of body says a
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farm in the lamb. So that was our first one.
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There's a famine in the land. There's the basuk.
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Abraham went down to Messiah. You know the story he tells his
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wife, we're going to go down to Egypt.
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God told him to go to canal. He comes to canal, there's a
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famine. He sees the landing, there's a
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famine. He has to leave.
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He goes to Messiah, says Abraham to his wife and said, ah, we
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have to leave. So now we're going to go to
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Messiah. I see that you're beautiful.
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This line he Nanayadati. I now know that you're
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beautiful, right? Rashi?
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He didn't realize the beauty of his wife until this moment.
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OK, Is he going to go with the Mitzayim?
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He's afraid they're going to take here, says Abraham.
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He says these words. Valya, when the Egyptians see
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you and they hear that you're my wife, they're going to kill me
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to take you for Paro. Therefore I ask how you say
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you're my sister. And then he says why?
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Then say to say he's a le man ye tabli BA gurdev so that I get
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some payment because of you. So the Egyptians give me gifts
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when they find out you're my sister.
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So Abraham say right and I'm going to be able to live.
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First of all, I get paid and second of all, they won't kill
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me. Raha Vino is not weird.
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Isn't that strange? You're planning a mission to
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make some money? Not very weird.
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Strange, right? It's a very Jewish set already.
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I'm going to make you say Jewish, but fine.
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And and the way they ask the question, even better.
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You got away all those years down tongue is white.
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She was pretty by the way. Good morning.
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I supposed to get it as a guy on.
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There and you tell us so I now know you're pretty vagious.
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But actually after 40 years though, I now found out you're
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pretty. This is the weird one.
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Exactly. So how isn't this?
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Why would he say it? Tongue.
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Huh. Definitely saw it that time.
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We'll go on and try it tonight. Exactly.
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So now why would you say that line I want to make you know.
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Yeah, I get gifts. She says in order you newly
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mounted out in order that they give me gifts.
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He's telling his wife that I want to basically use you as
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well. I think it sounds ridiculous and
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it's fulfilling God's mission. Oh, that's the answer answers.
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Hashem told him you have to amass wealth.
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Why Face has it so Abraham is telling Sadat.
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If we're in this predicament, I can do one or two things.
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Either I could say I'm a stranger and they'll take you
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and won't get anything out of it, or I can't say I'm your
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husband, they'll kill me. I have three choices.
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Husband dead stranger no purpose or say.
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They take her. How does that work?
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He knew the guard protected him. He had no choice.
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So really there's the question. The more the high situation,
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right, the more he tell me the reason he said say you're my
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sister is in order to create his mission to build a mission of
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making money because I shan't talk do so.
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That's the angle, All right. What happens in that story?
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They saw it, said all. They took her and Abraham was
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given basuk, says Ola Harvaham ETI Babura.
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Abraham became very wealthy, but he looked son Ubakar Vahamori
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Vahadi. One day he got loads of money.
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This is the sign exactly. And Pardo tried or this tried to
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touch her and Padua got stricken all sorts of diseases cleaning
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the toucher and he told Abraham, why do you tell me?
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Obviously she's married to you. That's why Hashem is punishing
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me. Why did you tell me?
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And that's it. He left Abraham left to all his
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wealth that goes into the Lord's story.
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So where do you amass his wealth?
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He amasses wealth through this story.
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So he went back together with said I was here earlier because
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I shouldn't told him to do anything too.
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And he made wealth over here, right?
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Next up, I probably shot his. Whatever means to the wealthy.
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Why is wealthy? Because.
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Not that it's a video, but it's it's not hidden in a bank
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account, right? It's all it's all a physical
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product that you had no strength and no army or no what?
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How is nobody just taking it from you and then you can be
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done? I'm assuming along with this you
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have slaves and you have. They can.
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Who gave you the money and gave you the army?
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Good boy she I can then stronghold.
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A lot of the votes are very strong.
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I don't know Sir Raham, that's a big question.
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Raham goes him and his wife and now all his money and then it
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says lot lest Aya Allah Raham in the sign who they stole the
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whole of Shiloh, the lot E more negba.
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So the exact process in the place was he went down to Kanaan
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based on what he had to leave Kanaan to seeing it and seeing
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God and attain another whole faith to go to Messiah to make
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that money. Basically with Salah being taken
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to leave Messiah and I'll go back to Kanaan.
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All right. And he goes back to Kanal with
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Lot and then they have the law challenge, you know, the law
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challenge. The law challenge is Abraham the
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Basukzel is very wealthy if Abraham covered no, he's very
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heavy with wealth by Mcmee, by Casa Ubizahab.
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He became extremely wealthy and he's travelling.
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And what happens is Lot also got some wealth because there's no
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process somehow, and the land could not handle the two of
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them. Lands can handle it to them that
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wealthy. There was a fight between
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Abraham's shepherds and Lord shepherds, and the Basuk says
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Abraham told Lot We don't want to have a fight among brothers.
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Therefore you go one way, I go the other way, Joe way.
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You go, you go hello call. I have the whole land in front
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of you. You choose one lane, I'll choose
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the other lane. You go right, I go left, you go
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left, I go right. Basuk says Law lifted up his
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eyes. He saw Saddam, he saw how
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beautiful he was and he went that way.
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I've heard a lot, a lot at cold Shariah then, but he saw a lot.
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Mckeden travelled away and they separated, right?
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By the way, Saddam was terrible place.
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So was he aware of that before? Yes, that's why he went, that
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part of why he went then the Basui says So right there you
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have a question. What's wrong with Lot?
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Lord is travelling Abrahal vegan?
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He's part of the Lechlachar travel.
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How does he go so wildly off to go to Saddam when he's given the
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one chance to separate? He goes to Saddam.
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All right. Then the basuk says the next
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words. Sham Ahmad al Abraham.
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Sham told Abraham right at the Lord travel.
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God said, I want you to see the land of Canaan again.
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Lift up your eyes, lift up. Because Abraham used to walk,
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says the clear car. So today the Rahm used to walk
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with his head down. Lift up your eyes and look at
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the whole land. I want you to see the beauty of
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the whole land or the air. Look at the north, the South,
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the east, the West. I want you to see it.
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All right. God reappeared that Abraham once
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Lot left, right. Rashi, only once.
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Lot the Rasha says Rashi Lot the evil 1 left that Hashem appeared
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to Abraham again. That's pretty strong.
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Lot the Rashon, what's going on there?
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So I ask you a couple of questions.
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One, what's evil? You can't with Abraham's family?
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2 why did Abraham take him in the 1st place?
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Travel, right? What's going on?
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And thirdly, why did they separate?
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Because what? Abraham let Lord go because it's
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such a small fight. What's going on over here?
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His Lord, his nephew, he's not his nephew.
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Are they close? Are the childhood the other?
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Are they not all right? So the answer like this, he told
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you lechlacher from the beginning was a mitzvah to leave
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his family's word. Really Abraham was supposed to
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shake off everybody loath did not supposed to come.
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The basuk said in the beginning by Yelek, he told lot Lord went
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with him. He says he took his wife and
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Lord came with him So he didn't take I mean he didn't take Lot.
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Lord take the loan Abraham even while he is doing Lechha, trying
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to get close to the garden away from his family and that way of
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life, even while he's doing it, he's still limited by the
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baggage, which is Lot. It was lot of Rashad Lo was a
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strange man. He was a follower of Abraham,
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but not a follower of God. That's his define.
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So he's following Abraham and a Brown's way of life, but not
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really following God. So you can call him Arasha once
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he separates and God appeared only as the Lord went away
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because so Lord and Lord was there.
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The lechlachow is not complete. The lechlachow is leave the
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family. Don't carry any of that way of
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life with you and Lord is a problem.
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And therefore it waited till all left and then the question was
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why did Abraham separate with lots of small little fight
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between shepherds. The answer is he was trying to
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shepherd all along separate all along.
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He needed the opportunity to separate military.
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No, I want to go to the next spot right after this.
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Let's go to review a few points and that will be the next step.
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You have the War of the Fortune of the Vikings coming up next.
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All right, so, so far, what do you have?
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Abram was told. He asked why was the order out
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of order. The answer is the main thing
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he's leaving his family mentioned that his father passed
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away. He mentioned and that's even
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though it turns out his father didn't pass away 'cause it was
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really a way of telling about leave his family.
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He was fall beyond that was the idea.
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And then we said he's told three blessings.
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So what's the big deal? Why would I shouldn't tell him
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the blessings and Hashem is giving around a mission
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statement. The mission statement is you
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have to go and fulfill these three blessings build a family
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takes that our back amass money. He tried to do so to the
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settlement science situation and build up Hashem's name.
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I got a list Shameka build up your name, which really means
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build up Hashem's name and that last part when did Avraham Vinu
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build up or rebuild up God's name.
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What we're saying to parishah had a theme any of the mission.
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When did he build up God's name. So it comes now next part of the
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parishah, the battle of the four kings and the five kings.
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What's the story? It was it was a war between the
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world basically four against five and the four kings are
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stronger and they beat out the five kings and they captured
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Sadomo and Abraham. Vinu heard that Saddam was
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capturing Saddam holds is the home of his nephew Lot as brush
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as low was. And as much as Raham wanted to
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separate him, he still want to protect him as Abraham is going
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to get involved in that fight on behalf of his nephew.
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Lords for reading the dashi regarding this fight, this war,
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you see the craziest things possible.
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A man with a very small army gets involved in a war, World
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War, and somehow he wins. What is this story?
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Why is this even here? What's the beauty of the story?
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Protecting his nephew? What's the story?
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Right? Listen this the names of the
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four kings are all names of the hint to evil.
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One name is Beram Melok, the name of the kings.
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All evil names. Beram Melok, Saddam, Berah is
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evil, Berisha, Melok Amora. Berisha is another name for
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evil, Rasha, sin of a name for it, sin of the name for evil and
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shame ever is also. All these names were all names
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for evil people, right? She says Berah meant Raala,
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Shamaine, Vidala, Briot. It was a king who was bad for
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Hashem and bad for people. But Rashad, the other king, was
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so high, she says he was elevated in his level of
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reshoots. Shin of meant Sonia a Venus
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Shabbat Shabbaim Avisha. Shame he's an enemy of Gar.
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Shan Ebert is a person who is a rebel of Gar.
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So these kings in our Bahamas getting involved are all
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terrible people who don't believe in Hashem or worse, they
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hate Hashem. That's how long?
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So now he asked the question again, why is he getting
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involved in this war? What's he doing?
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The answer is there a Raham's purpose in this war?
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He said he had three missions. Have a family make wanting and
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raise up the name. The purpose of this war was to
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raise up his name and therefore raise up God's name.
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And my Braham's name is elevated.
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God's name is gonna be and the original Hashem said, I got the
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list, Shamir Khan, to raise up your name.
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That's what this war was. He's been feeling the last leg
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of the mission. How is he raising up God's name?
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Because he goes into this war and he wins the war and it's an
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open miracle, says the pasuk. You see clearly right
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afterwards, Pasuk says. After Abraham wins, they bless
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him and they say. The people come on board.
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People come on board. Baruch Abraham, Blessed is
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Abraham the God elevated, the God who owns the heaven and the
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earth. They were not talking this way a
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minute ago. Blessed is God who shielded him.
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Again, Abraham, Hashem is the protector of the Jews.
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Send me call. And therefore, because they were
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so impressed by Abraham, you know, they gave him a lot of
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money and then they offered him a lot.
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And Abraham said I'm not taking a thing Ayomara ram al men al
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Saddam hadim mutti adi, I swear al Hashem clash arts I'm not
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taking even a shoelace. So we'll get to that in a
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second. But right here you see a
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fulfillment of the third leg of the mission to raise Hashem name
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to raising his own name by allowing a miracle to happen and
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showing the gods on the side of the Jews.
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That's what happened. Keep that clear.
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Now it's going to question around earlier figured out a way
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with Messiah to facilitate making money.
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He basically used his wife when she was being take captive as
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barter to make some money. Right?
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Cosmician here. In the war of four against
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survive kings, he does the opposite.
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They're offering the money fully deserved because it's loot from
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the war which he deserves. He won the war.
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They only offer him a tech anyhow and he says I'm not
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taking anything. I'm not taking a strand or even
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a shoelace. I swear he says I'm not going to
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take a thing. What's the difference?
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Why earlier by Muslim did he create and facilitate wealth?
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So why over here in this story and it comes to fighting the
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war, did he turn everything down?
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What do you think He was fulfilling mission by mission.
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I think that's the answer as well.
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He understood that I shouldn't put him in the first, but they
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came in for the sake of fulfilling the mission of making
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money. That was it.
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Nothing else happened out of that.
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So OK, he did it here in this war.
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He already had the money. He was already very wealthy.
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This is a different purpose. This is conditionship.
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And if you would take money in the conditionship situation, it
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would diminish the condition because if you would flood the
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war and he would take some money and say, oh, he's a very strong
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warrior and he's in it for the money.
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Earlier, they could have said that it wasn't Khadija Shem
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time. Here in this scene, it's Khadija
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Shem time. So therefore, he stays focused
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on his mission ahead and he will not deviate.
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Even a drop. It doesn't go away at all.
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That's the idea. All right, These are some of the
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concepts as the war ends. And the bazook says after that,
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that sham appears to Abraham Vinu and says, don't be afraid
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of Raham. I'm going to give you children.
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Rahm says honorary children and then God bless SIM.
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I would give us a whole bust of the parasha.
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It's only 1/2 percent of the time if it tend to one they want
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other content. So where are they at OK the last
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concept that's that's constant in this parasha.
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It's very important is the lesson for life in the muna.
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What's the goal? You look at the parasha and you
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really slowly you'll see everything is Iran does this
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that shall appear as fan Iran. There's another thing God
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appears in a different way. Third thing, God appears to him
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and tells him a little lined each thing you have like a story
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and it you know intermission shall appear as him.
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Another story shall appears again.
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What's the goal of all these appearances?
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What is his goal in this process?
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So there's one more theme in our power shot.
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He said the theme of is to leave the family, leave that way of
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life understood The theme was also to fulfill these missions.
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Life is a mission clear third theme and the overall main
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lesson we could take away farmer how vino is a person has to be
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willing to go into the unknown and faith really is going into
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the unknown and even worse going into things that seem
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challenging Hashem in the beginning in Lehlehat told
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Abraham you're going to build up your name.
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You're going to have children and you're going to be wealthy.
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Do these three things travel. You have those three things and
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he did that worked out or she writes in the beginning that
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Abraham was told to travel three things were about to be at risk.
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His name was going to go down the drain because you have a
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reputation in Brooklyn. If I told you tomorrow I want
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you to move to Kentucky. Who knows me in Kentucky.
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Nobody knows me, right? Name is going on the drain.
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Having chosen, I don't know why, but travel is considered, I
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guess. I mean, physically travel is to
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be constantly on the move. It's difficult to have chosen.
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I'm making money as well. You said, oh, do you build a
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business? You do your thing.
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If I tell you keep moving, keep. He wasn't just travelling.
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He was a wanderer for a while to go from place to place to place.
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He went to Canaan and then had to leave because they're a
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famine. Then he went from inside him.
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So the three things that God blessed him with were really he
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was at risk of Raham, of losing out all these two things.
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So there's another purpose in Alpinasha, the other purpose of
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the shaman, Raham. Every step you're about to take
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seems like it's Harfi, seems like it's against success, it's
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against having a family, and it's against having an Ian.
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I'm going to bless you those three things.
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What I'm telling you is, is that I want you as a Jew to follow me
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more than you follow your circle.
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I want you to follow God's path more than you follow what makes
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sense. That's the lechlerc a la de Shar
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Eka. Go to the place I'm going to
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show you, which means going to a place that you don't really know
38:38
what's going on. And even though it seems like
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you're diminishing all these three areas, you're somehow some
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way going to get stronger. That's the third message of the
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opening of our parashas. I mentioned these blessings to
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tell them. It seems like it's going to get
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worse. Someone's going to get better.
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Now, why is Alpha Shah have all this intermediaries intermission
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or some pierced hand? Something happens, Shah pierced
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him. What's happening is as Abraham
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wanders and as he puts himself into a more lost seemingly
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situation, and he should be in the worst predicament somehow,
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Abraham has faith. And because he has faith and he
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travels further and he goes further, God appears to him.
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Then he does it again and God appears to him in a strong way.
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He does it again and God tells him more.
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That system is the more you go down the track of saying I'm
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going to go with God over going what's practical, The more you
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go down and say I'm going to follow Hashem's lead over going
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what makes sense, the more Hashem will appear to him in
39:44
this supernatural new kind of way.
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So the parishah seems to be that someone's going sideways, yet
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somehow, some way, this person is getting more successful and
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somehow, some way, this person is getting a bigger name, right.
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If I would have told you before Abraham started, Abraham Aveeno,
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before he traveled, was in a very settled state.
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He was building up his name. He had a wife, no children.
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He was building up his life and he was influencing a lot of
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people. You know, the right Kurt's done.
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Abraham was influencing a lot of people where he was.
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Regarding Hashem, so he had a name, he had a business, he had
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family of some degree, and now he's being told go against all
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that. What he's being told in essence
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is have faith and dive into a situation that's still birthday.
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And that's why step by step Hashem appears to him.
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Then he does another thing, God appears to him a little more and
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then another guy appears and the final one is this all which will
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close it. None of that.
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Hashem says come outside. Hashem says come outside and
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look at the stars. What is this?
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Come outside, look at the stars. Hashem tells him the nation is
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going to be about the snow. You've ayoza otahuta ayoman
41:05
habed nashamayima. Look at the sky with sportaco
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havim and count the stars into Halle Sportel town.
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Can you count that? And Hashem tells him that will
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be your children and Abraham trusted God and that was very
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good fan very mean by Shem Shem considered that a very
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impressive zahut that Abraham trusted this last part.
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Why did Hashem say come outside, look at the stars.
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Is there a a message in to come outside?
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The idea of come outside means I'm taking you out of normal
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life. I'm taking you out of practical
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life. You are Rahavino, a childless,
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the Abraha vino physically unable to have children and if
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you follow the normal path, it's going nowhere.
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So the guy says come outside based on your faith and you're
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building our faith-based on our branch.
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John, your lexical so far. Come outside and I'm going to
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show you that you can have children like the stars.
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You're going to have a humongous people in the biggest nation in
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the sense and an unbelievable nation.
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And that's based on Abraha Vino proving himself to lexical and
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the Rabbi's say each test was another level.
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I'm not to lose this concept because each test was another
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degree of displaying the fate. Now I'm going to go with Hashem
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over what seems no right for this.
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So this is going to repeat the three teams.
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I'm not sure if I second this in the order, but the three teams
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were #1 leading Bet Aviha. That's why he was told if I
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passed away, even if I didn't pass away, it's real as if he
42:42
did. That's why Lot was a challenge
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because Lo was still part of the family's house and Abraham was
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only completely in loveless. Hey let Lof leave very easily.
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The second thing was a man on a mission. 3 missions which we've
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showed through our parisha wealth, family and building up
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the need to war. And the third concession.
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And the Third Point is, as Abraham dived into a situation
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which was against everything that was natural and in the name
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Marie, you'll be trying to build a family and he has Panasa and
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he's going against that and it seems to hurt him.
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And he keeps building and building.
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At the end, he goes outside and looks at the stars.
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That's the sense of I'm following it.
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I'm 100%. And that last point, by the way,
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is the essence of a Jew, the essence of Abraham Binu.
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And I would say for all of us who can be a little bit
43:33
unsettled from time to time of life, it's our lesson for life.
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Whether it's a, the United States of America issue, a local
43:44
issue, a family issue, a business issue, we can always
43:47
say, even though it seems like I'm going against what's normal,
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I'm going against blessing, if I follow with my faith of Hashem,
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I'll be perfectly fine. That should be a mindset.
43:59
And I'd stick in with the hysteria that we all might kind
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of feel currently regarding what's going on this week.
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You know, and Charlie is a miracle.
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But I don't know. I went to vote.
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And, you know, there it's all Jews lost.
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But it's free rough and it's not looking good.
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But the reality is we all voted already with him.
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I remember words. The reality is, is that even if
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it's supposed to be a power, even if go ensemble, right,
44:30
don't go somewhere. Here's the situation.
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Even if it doesn't turn out the way we want and Charlie does,
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but even if it doesn't, the mindset has to be, you know,
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people talking about it. It's funny.
44:44
I picked up what time is it the parents open.
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I picked 2 minutes to now. I picked up a book from Hayek
44:50
and Ievsky Random. Someone says look at this daily.
44:53
Friday till 4:00, Tomorrow till 5.
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So I pick up and I look at the back of the book and the back of
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the book. He says some things, some rules
45:02
of life. I knew.
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He says something called Pacha. He talks about unhealthy Pacha.
45:07
He's for example, people who say because of certain situations
45:12
they're moving. He says that's not healthy
45:15
pocket for some people. That's not really people do that
45:18
all the time. I said it's really not
45:20
translating what you're seeing. Probably understand.
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Oh, Hashemi, you're all saying fine as you were before.
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Don't allow hysteria to say I happened to someone.
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I happened to pick this up yesterday.
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Are those not exactly. It's it's a quote from yes, so I
45:37
picked it up and remember reassuring for me.
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I know that the people who talk about going here or going there
45:42
don't really make sense. I understand that, but you want
45:45
to be confident that it's the right way of thinking.
45:47
Well, if you're going to move, you're missing either way.
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They're the worst gummies. So the Mexico, let me say,
45:53
where's the option like exact. Anyhow, we go a different way
45:57
and we trusted we're going to Hashem's best, even if it seems
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like it's going against an Angel by boat.
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OK, let's start with this.