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Mizrachi Inspiration 6 · Rabbi Benjy's Shiur

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  Mizrahi inspiration sheer number six when the Mizrahi movement
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  was founded in the 1800s in order to help facilitate a state
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  for the Jewish people. Because anti-Semitism had made
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  it impossible for Jews to live in Europe, and that was the
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  prevalent thinking amongst many in the Jewish world they were
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  prepared to work with. Every Jew wasn't about measuring
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  the level of observant, how righteous they are, which is
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  really an outshoot of an outgrowth of an ideologies of
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  philosophy that says that love towards all of mankind isn't an
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  abstract ideal, but it's a mitzvah, and every mitzvah has
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  numerous details and minutiae of how exactly to fulfill the
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  particular command. Included in this general love is
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  the love of all people, independent of their
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  righteousness or their connection to the Jewish people.
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  There's another example of Avraham's love for all mankind,
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  of sweet your hood of Avra Musica Cohen, Cook's son, sat as
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  follows. Teach us from the Torah famous
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  narrative that a quarrel broke out between the shepherds of
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  Avram and Lot. A conflict of opposites.
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  Avram said a lot that there be no quarrel between me and you,
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  not between my shepherds and yours.
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  Avra wanted to rectify the problem between them.
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  Separate yourself, he says. You will take to the left and I
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  will go to the right. If you want to go to the right,
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  I will go to the left. And Lot moved on to the wicked
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  place of Saddam. But the people of Saddam says
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  the Tara were very wicked and sinful before Hashem.
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  The Tara tells us that Lot went E say the rabbis, and Rashi
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  quotes it on his commentary. He took himself away from He,
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  from me, from Hashem who preceded the world.
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  Why was Hashem described as he who preceded the world?
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  Lot separated himself from Hashem in contrast to Avraham
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  who was connected to his creator, Lot said.
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  I don't want to have a Shane Avraham Scott.
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  Not interested in that back story in our days.
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  What if we call someone who says he doesn't want to do anything
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  with Hashem, call him a heretic? We label them.
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  It's a heretic Co fairy, never it.
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  In contrast to Avram who is connected and can bonded with to
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  Hashem, Lot doesn't want that attachment.
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  But in the course of time when Lot is kidnapped, Avram here
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  that is his nephew is gone, has been taken away.
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  His nephew is the unbeliever, the one who doesn't want
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  anything to do with the God that he has sacrificed so much for.
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  What does Avraham do? Straight away he launches the
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  rescue mission. Avravino was a great educator,
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  so the Travis clearly says, for I know that he will command his
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  children and his household after and they will keep the way of
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  Hashem. Avram is the one who educated
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  mankind to recognize the Creator, to be Kadosh, to be
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  holy, and to come close to Hashem.
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  And in line with this he enlists his students in battle.
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  This giant of spirit and of Emuna of faith reveals himself
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  as a military commander who inducts his yeshiva students,
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  the people who are studying about belief in God, into a war
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  for the sake of who of sake of a heretic.
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  He takes his people who are studying spiritual matters,
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  living in this world of belief in God, to rescue a nonbeliever.
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  Here, Abraham's great love for all mankind is revealed.
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  A key to a true appreciation of of Svidya Hood's teaching was
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  the awareness that he wasn't only talking about Avraham, he
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  was speaking about us today, both in our individual lives and
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  our lives as a nation. We have to always apply the
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  Torah stories to ourselves. But this video was teaching us
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  to understand ourselves and our time.
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  We could guide our lives on the proper path of Torah.
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  Our attitudes to the challenges of our time were to be learned
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  from Avraham Avena. So let's not just study these
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  stories in the Torah when we're children and we know them.
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  Basically, what does it mean? He risked everything to rescue a
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  heretic, to rescue someone who denied the very thing that was
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  the center of his life. That is the case.
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  Then we must extend our hands to every Jew.
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  Never leave every Jew. Never ignore every single
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  person. Not to rescue them, to bring
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  them close and to stay connected.
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  Have a wonderful day.