Oct. 26, 2023

Resetting Your Life: Lessons from the Turning Point of Avraham

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Season 5

Imagine resetting your life completely, wiping your slate clean of all influences, and starting anew. That's exactly what God commanded of Avraham, the patriarch of the Jewish people, in the transformative phrase 'Lech Lecha.' This episode takes you on an explorative journey back to this critical turning point in history, as we unpack the significance and interpretation of this seemingly redundant verse.

We unravel the layers of meaning contained within this divine command, suggesting that it represents the various levels of influence our surroundings have on us - our homeland, birthplace, and family. The episode challenges listeners to follow in Avraham's footsteps, resetting our lives, shedding our preconceived notions and putting our faith in the guiding light of the Torah. We delve into the complexities of embracing such a change and the impact it can have on our own lives and humanity at large. Strap in for an enlightening journey through the foundations of our faith, drawing lessons from our ancient past to illuminate our path forward.

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This is where it all begins.

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We have reached parashas lech lechah, we are now about to meet Avraham soon to be Avraham, the patriarch of the Jewish people.

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And right at the very beginning of the parasha, we bump into the phrase that would change everything and begin the journey that we are still on to this very day, by Yaimer Hashem el Avraham.

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Lech lechah, go for yourself, leave, get out of this place and start a new life.

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The positive continues.

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Leave from your land, may artsacha Umimilad etchah, and leave from your birthplace.

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Umimilad etchah, and leave your dad's house, el-arzashel-arrakham.

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The verse seems to be very superfluous.

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If he's already left his land, then he's surely, just by way of fact, also left his birthplace.

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And if he's left his birthplace and his land, well, he's most definitely left his father's house.

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Seems out of order.

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Pasha just should have said lech lechah, may artsacha leave, and we would have known.

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But it would seem and it makes sense is on the reshainim that this was to be for Avraham Avino a factory reset, a total deletion of all of the cookies on the device and all of the stored data.

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Start a new life.

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Go to Qanah and all of the different impressions that have been made upon you from your land and from your friends of your youth and from even your father's house.

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Delet them.

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So it would make sense that the order is in level of how strongly one is influenced and affected by his surroundings, for we are affected by the American way outside of our homes.

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We do care about staying up with the times.

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That is, leave me, artsacha, leave your land, ume maleiladitschal.

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Let's suggest that that's your friends of your youth, of your birthplace, where we are perhaps even more connected with the influences of our past, our birthplace, and the ultimate sacrifice to wipe this device clean and start.

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It was even your father.

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Ditch terror, move on, forget everything, make the ultimate sacrifice and lech lechha, go for yourself, crown jewel of the Pasek, and our clarion call as Jewish people is al-ha-ha-arets, go to the land.

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I say Areka that God will show and this new device and in this new life, it will be what the Torah says and we will act only by being guided.

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May Hashem's holy, holy Torah.

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For us, maybe it means that we need to plow the land and get rid of some of the predetermined notions of what we may have.

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Let's enter into our land, of how we process.

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Things should be into our minds, into our thought process and restart with the factory reset of what does the Torah say and what is al-ha-arets, the land that God will show us, for it is very hard to plant on a land that is already planted on with our own self-understood and youthful mistakes.

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So go start anew, like Avrum, start your life by taking that one small step for yourself and one large, massive step for humanity.

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Let the Torah tell you what to do and let the holy Torah guide you.