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Friday, October 26, 2012

Beit Orot: Orot Haparasha - Parshat Lech Lecha

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Beit Orot and Rav Dani Isaac, Rosh Hayeshiva?

So that through them The האור Light, The רפואה Healing and The אהבה Love of ישועת יהוה Yeshuath YHWH may come back to הארץ The Land of Israel?

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OROT HAPARSHA 
Parshat Lech Lecha
From the teachings of Rav Dani Isaac, Rosh Hayeshiva
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And Hashem said to Avram, get yourself out, from your country, and from your birthplace, and from your father's house, to the land that I will show you." This is one of the ten tests with which Hakadosh Baruch Hu tested Avraham.

There would appear to be a difficulty here, for Hakadosh Baruch Hu promised him, "And I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you and I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing" (Beraishit xii, 2), and Rashi explains: "Since travel causes three things - it reduces childbearing, reduces one's money and reduces one's fame - he therefore needed these three blessings, and he was promised regarding children, money and fame." If that is the case, then any person, even the most simple, would agree to leave his house and travel to a distant land in order to merit children after so many years of longing for a son, as "Avram was seventy five years old when he left Charan."


To resolve this difficulty we will examine the conduct of Avraham Aveinu, as opposed to that of Lot.

The first time Terach leaves Charan he takes "Avram his son and Lot the son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, the wife of Avram his son..." (xi, 31), whereas Nachor, son of Terach does not leave with them for the land of Cana'an. Thus Lot is a part of this traveling, one that shows an intuitive inner connection to the land of Cana'an.

Later Avram is commanded to go to the land, "and Lot went with him." The Torah continues: "And Avram took Sarai his wife and Lot the son of his brother, and all the possessions they acquired and the souls they obtained in Charan..." (xii, 5). The Torah describes the family relations between Lot and Avraham, and from this we can understand that Lot will be Avraham's successor (at least in the meantime, as long as he has no child of his own). The expression "And he went with him," also indicates that he traveled with a true connection to Avraham. After this, Avraham is tested again - "And there was a famine in the land, and Avram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was oppressive in the land" (xii, 10). Rashi explains: "'A famine in the land' - in that land alone, to test him, whether he would doubt Hakadosh Baruch Hu's words, who told him to go to the land of Cana'an and now is causing him to leave it."

Clearly the descent to Egypt is not a test for Lot, as Hakadosh Baruch Hu did not command him to go to the land of Cana'an, yet it can be assumed that these questions occurred to Lot, as he knows about Hashem's promise to Avraham, that He would bless him in the land of Cana'an, and that this promise is not being fulfilled. We do not know if Lot continues to stick to Avraham and his ways full-heartedly or if he has his doubts. It is interesting that the Torah does not mention at all that Lot went down with Avraham and Sarah to Egypt, and only after all the incidents that occur to Avraham and Sarah and their being sent away from Egypt does the Torah add: "And Lot, who traveled with Avraham, also had flocks and herds and tents" (xiii, 5). It can perhaps be suggested that the Torah hides Lot's traveling with Avraham to Egypt to teach us that Lot's relationship with the latter stood at a crossroads, whether he would continue to travel with him, with all his heart and through an identification with Avraham's spiritual path, or whether he did not possess the inner strength to continue Avraham's path and that his walking was alongside him, i.e. as an equal who is going on his own independent path rather than as a subordinate.

Thus the Torah does not describe Lot's traveling with Avraham to Egypt. Yet it appears that in Egypt the process of separation between Avraham and Lot began, one that would end when they returned to the land of Cana'an, when "and Lot traveled from the east [me'kedem] (Rashi: 'A Midrash Aggadah [states]: He took himself away from the Ancient One [kadmon] of the world, saying, "I have no interest, neither in Avraham nor in his G-d') and each man separated from his brother" (xiii, 11).

Up until this point we have not heard of any property belonging independently to Lot, and only now when they return from Egypt do we learn that Lot possesses "flocks and herds and tents," implying that when Paroh dealt well with Avraham he also dealt well with Lot, and therefore the latter now owns his own property. As well as possessions, he also has "tents." The tent expresses a person's independent and unique path, as we learnt in Parshat Noach: "May G-d widen Yefet and may he dwell in the tents of Shem" (ix, 27), meaning that the external beauty will enter in and connect to the tent of Shem, that the lofty and Divine path of Shem, symbolized by the tent, will be connected to Yefet. We learn from this that as soon as Lot comes into money, his wealth changes him and he stops acting as an inferior towards his uncle Avraham. Therefore the Torah writes: "And Avram went up from Egypt, he and his wife and all he possessed, and Lot with him to the south." This contrasts with what was stated above - "And Avram took Sarai his wife and Lot the son of his brother, and all the possessions they acquired..." Back then, Lot was connected to Avraham and his wife, and only afterwards are the rest of their possessions noted, whereas our pasuk first mentions Avraham and his wife and all he possessed and only afterwards does Lot's name appear, teaching us that now two groups exist, and that Lot is no longer wholly linked to Avraham's group. Nor does the Torah mention the family relationship between Lot and Avraham, as opposed to the description of their traveling to the land of Cana'an, when the Torah emphasized that he was the son of his brother, teaching us that the family connection is no longer significant. Likewise the Torah writes that Lot ascended with him, as an equal. We learn from this that money blinded Lot's vision, and he now has a new, independent outlook. The Torah tells us that when Lot and Avraham split up "And Lot lifted up his eyes and saw the whole of the Jordan plain, and it was well watered everywhere, before Hashem destroyed Sedom and Amorah, like the garden of Hashem, like the land of Egypt, on the way to Tzoar" (xiii, 10). Suddenly Lot is seeing new things, yet his entire outlook involves the external matters of wealth and Sedom's material plenty while ignoring the wickedness of the residents of Sedom, about which the Torah already provides hints at the same time that Lot is examining the place he will travel to, informing us that it was "before Hashem destroyed Sedom and Amorah," indicating their wickedness. This opening up of the eyes reminds us of the sin of the Tree of Knowledge. On that occasion the snake says to Chava, "and your eyes will be opened" (iii, 5), and afterwards: "And the woman saw that the tree was good to eat, and that it was desirable to the eyes, and the tree was pleasant to make one wise" (6), and then "the eyes of both of them were opened" (7). It is clear that this external opening of the eyes implies the closing of an inner reflection on life. Avraham, the father of the Jewish nation, acts to correct the sin of Adam Harishon. Lot, who is unable to connect to such a lofty mission, falls backwards into Adam's first error. The disengagement process begins in Egypt, and therefore the Torah emphasizes that it was like the land of Egypt, to teach us that if there is no true connection to the word of Hashem, foreign influences can cause as great a fall as Lot experienced in Egypt.

This approach can help us answer our opening question. While Hakadosh Baruch Hu did promise Avraham descendants and fame, this itself formed the central aspect of his test - would he fulfill the divine command for itself without any thoughts of benefit or gain. We must fulfill the mitzvot due to our connection to Hashem, and from the love of Hashem in our hearts, and from the knowledge that these are absolutely Divinely commanded actions, and we must not think of the reward that comes with them.

 
If Avraham will fulfill the Divine command for the sake of truth, despite the promise of a reward, his lofty stature will be made evident, and the process of the correction of Adam Harishon's sin will commence, through a true life that is centered on the cleaving to Hakadosh Baruch Hu. This process will be completed only through a nation that lives in such a manner, and this is what Hakadosh Baruch Hu promises Avraham: "And I will make you into a great nation."

An additional test that appears in our Parsha is the war with the four kings. We will attempt to explain the test according to the approach we have chosen. We would have expected that the relationship between Avraham and Lot would have been completely severed after their split up and Lot's distancing himself from Avraham and his G-d, yet the Torah tells us that "[And] they took Lot and his possessions, the son of Avraham's brother, and they left, and he was living in Sedom" (xiv, 12). The wording of the pasuk is unusual - we would have expected the Torah to write: "And they took Lot, the son of Avraham's brother, and his possessions," but the Torah wanted to teach us that Lot is now connected to his possessions, and is no longer connected to his righteous uncle. The additional comment, that Lot was living in Sedom, is also apparently superfluous, as this is already known to us, but the Torah wanted to inform us that Lot is deeply linked to Sedom rather than Avraham.

Yet since he is the son of Avraham's brother, Avraham does not shake him off, but rather prepares for a moral and just war in order to save Lot. This is why the Torah emphasizes: "And Avraham heard that his brother had been captured..." (xiv, 14), and again: "And he restored all the property, as well as Lot his brother and his property he restored..." (xiv, 16). The family connection between Avraham and Lot is renewed, after it had been severed by Lot, following the trip to Egypt.

There are those who are "zealous for the word of Hashem," who distance themselves from and hate others, all for the sake of Heaven. Avraham Aveinu, who was meant to be "a father of many nations," undergoes a test - whether the separation between him and Lot will affect him and leave him indifferent to the latter's fate, or whether his love of his fellow man (that comes from his love of Hashem) will lead him to prepare for war. Avraham indeed passes this test, and this is a sign for future generations that Am Yisrael must increase love and light.

There is no doubt that love is first of all felt between brothers (such as Lot and Avraham) and only afterwards as love towards the entire world (such as Avraham's test to save Sedom). In these difficult days of painful and bitter arguments amongst ourselves we must increase love and brotherhood, and only through this will we merit be'ezrat Hashem, the building of the third Bet Mikdash.

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Please Say Yes to Abba Yahweh and His Laws.
It is written in the Koran:
‘1. Surah Al-Fatihah:
1. In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful.
2. All the praises and thanks are to Allah, the Lord of the 'Alamin (mankind, jinns and all that exists). 
3. The Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful.
4. The Only Owner (and the Only Ruling Judge) of the Day of Recompense (i.e. the Day of Resurrection)
5. You (Alone) we worship, and You (Alone) we ask for help (for each and everything).
6. Guide us to the Straight Way
7. The Way of those on whom You have bestowed Your Grace, not (the way) of those who earned Your Anger (such as the Jews), nor of those who went astray (such as the Christians).

This is the 'start' in the Koran......
For more, what the Koran is teaching about: ‘Muslims Hate Jews, Christians all other faiths’ ‘Their Guide Book says to kill, behead and burn all non-believers’ click:
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Please read the Mitzvoth go to: Positive Commandments and the Negative Commandments), easy to read. It is very important to know them. I don’t ask you this to become a good Jew! But to learn who you really are. That you can find your real identity.  In a good understanding of the rest of The Scriptures. And that you understand that Rabbi Shaul is talking to a real Israel,

1Co 10:1  I do not want you to be without da'as (knowledge), Achim (brothers) b(in) 'Moshiach, that Avoteinu (our fore Fathers, you Yehudah and Ephraim! Nobody else.) all were under the anan (cloud),

(‘Achim (brothers) b(in)Moshiach are Yehudah and Ephraim who were all under the anan (cloud). The seed (literal) of Abraham, Yitzhak and Ya’acob) read it for yourself :)

Exo 13:21 And Yahweh went before them (Yehudah and Ephraim -Israel) by day in an ammud anan (‘Pillar of a cloud), to guide them haderech (the Way); and by lailah (night) in an ammud eish (‘Pillar of fire), to give them ohr (light); so they could travel yomam valailah (day or night);
Exo 13:22 He took not away the amud heanan (‘Pillar of a cloud) by day, nor the ammud haeish (‘Pillar of fire) by night, from before HaAm (the people, Yehudah and Ephraim) and passed through the sea.
Exo 14:22 And the Bnei Yisroel (Yehudah and Ephraim) then went into the middle of the yam (sea) upon the yabashah (dry land); and the mayim (waters) were a chomah (wall) unto them on their right, and on their left.
Exo 14:23 And the Egyptians pursued, and went in after them into the middle of the yam (sea), even kol sus (all horses) Pharaoh, his chariots, and his parash (rider).
Exo 14:24 So it came to pass, that when came the watch of the boker (morning), Yahweh looked down on the machaneh Mitzrayim (camp of Egypt) through the ammud eish (pillar of fire) and of the anan (cloud), and caused confusion over the machaneh Mitzrayim (camp of Egypt),
Exo 14:25 And turned awry their chariot wheels, that they drove them with difficulty; so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the presence of Yisroel (really when Yehudah and Ephraim where together, not like today); because Yahweh fighting for them against the Egyptians,
So let we further listen what Rabbi Shaul has really to say:)
1Co 10:2  And all into Moshe Rabbenu were given tevilah (a ‘mikwah’ immersed) in the anan (cloud) and in the sea,
1Co 10:3  And all of the same spiritual okhel (food) ate [SHEMOT 16:4,35; DEVARIM 8:3; TEHILLIM 78:24-29],
1Co 10:4  And all of the same spiritual drink drank, for they were drinking from a spiritual TZUR (Rock) following them [SHEMOT 17:6; BAMIDBAR 20:11; TEHILLIM 78:15; 105:41], and that TZUR was Moshiach (Yeshuah – Yeshuah Yahweh).

And now one of our neviim:

Hab 1:1  The message which the prophet Ḥaḇaqquq saw.
Hab 1:2  O יהוה, till when shall I cry, and You not hear? I cry to You, “Violence!” and You do not save.
Hab 1:3  Why do You show me wickedness, and cause me to see perversity? For ruin and violence are before me. And there is strife, and contention arises.
Hab 1:4  Therefore the Torah ceases, and right-ruling never goes forth. For the wrong hem in the righteous, so that right-ruling comes out twisted.
Hab 1:5  “Look among the nations and see, and be amazed, be amazed! For a work is being wrought in your days which you would not believe if it were told.
Hab 1:6  “See, I am raising up the Chaldeans, a bitter and hasty nation, who is going through the breadth of the earth, to possess dwelling places that are not theirs.
Hab 1:7  “They are frightening and fearsome, their right-ruling and their exaltation proceed from themselves.
Hab 1:8  “Their horses shall be swifter than leopards, and more fierce than evening wolves. And their horsemen shall charge ahead, and their horsemen come from afar. They fly as the eagle, rushing to eat.
Hab 1:9  “All of them come for violence, the direction of their faces is like the east wind, and they gather captives like sand.
Hab 1:10  “And they scoff at sovereigns, and princes are a laughing matter to them. They laugh at every stronghold, for they pile up earth and seize it.
Hab 1:11  “Then shall he pass on as a wind, and transgress and be guilty, and ascribe this power to his mighty one.”
Hab 1:12  Are You not from everlasting, O יהוה my Elohim, my Set-apart One? You do not die! O יהוה, You have appointed them for right-ruling, O Rock, You have established them for reproof.


Hab 2:3  For the chazon (vision) is yet for a mo’ed (an appointed time); it speaks of HaKetz (the End), and does not lie; though it tarry, wait for him

Moshiach— see: Sanhedrin 97b,
It has been taught; R. Nathan said: This verse pierces and descends to the very abyss:11  For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though he tarry, wait for him; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.1211 For the Vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though he tarry, wait for him (Moshiach); because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
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]; because he (Moshiach) will surely come, and will not tarry.

(11) Just as the bottom of an abyss cannot be reached, so is it impossible to grasp the full purport of this verse (Rashi).
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Hab. II, 3.

Believe…..
Hab 2:4  Hinei (behold), his nashamah (soul) which is puffed up is not upright in him; but the tzaddik (righteous) shall live by his emunah (believe).  

Through Moshiach, Yeshuah from Yahweh who give you emunah (believe)…..

Gen 15:6 And he believed in Yahweh; and He credited emunah (faith)] to him as tzedakah (righteousness).

Please read the whole book of HaNavi Habakuk?

The Koran teaches us that you have to die…….

 But, please Yudah (Jews) and Ephraim (most Christians) Listen to His Voice:
Hab 1:12  Art thou not mikedem 
 (‘everlasting’ also said of Moshiach, indicating Moshiach’s eternal divine nature: Dan 7:14  And there was given Him (Moshiach) dominion, and honor, and sovereignty, that all people, Goyim, tongues, should pey-lammed-chet. [1] (worship as deity) (see Dan 3:12, serve, reverence as deity Him (Moshiach). His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and His (Messianic) Kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.] see Michah 5:1[2];)  
Yahweh Elohai (my Elohim) Kedoshi (my Holy One)? We shall not die. Yahweh, Thou hast appointed them (these Chaldean) for mishpat (ordinance); O Tzur (Rock), Thou hast ordained them (these Chaldean) for reproof.
Maran Rabbeinu Yeshuah and Rabbeinu Shaul are teaching that you, Yehudah and Ephraim all Israel, come together to the same point as where you were when you said:

Deu 5:27 Go thou near, and hear all that Yahweh Eloheinu (our Elohim) shall say; and speak thou unto us all that Yahweh Eloheinu shall speak unto thee; and we will hear it, and do it.

But don’t ‘make’ from one of them Rabbeinu Yeshuah, Rabbeinu Shaul or Rabbeinu Mosheh another ‘mighty one’ but accept them in your live for what they really are….

Please take it serious what Abba Yahweh is telling us in:

Deu 18:15 Yahweh Eloheicha (your Elohim) will raise up unto thee a Navi (prophet) from among thee, of thy achim (bretheren), kamoni (like me..... 
 Exo 32:30  The next day Moshe said to the people, "You have committed a terrible sin. Now I will go up to Yahweh; maybe I will be able to atone for your sin."); unto him ye must listen;
Deu 18:16 According to all that thou desired of Yahweh Eloheicha (your Elohimin) Chorev (to be burnt dried up, ruined, wasted) in the Yom HaKahal (day of the congregation), saying, Let me not hear again the voice of Yahweh Elohav (your Elohim), neither let me see this eish hagedolah (‘great fire’) any more, that I die not.
Deu 18:17 And Yahweh said unto me, They have well-spoken that which they have spoken.
Deu 18:18 I will raise them up a Navi (prophet) from among their achim (brethren), like unto thee, and will put My words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.

Joh 10:18  No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have samchut (authority) to lay it down, and I have samchut to receive it again. This mitzvah I received from HaAv (the Father).
Deu 18:19 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not listen unto My words which he shall speak Bishmi (in My Name), I will require it of him.

Joh 8:28  Therefore, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, When you perform the hagbah (lifting up) of the Ben HaAdam, you will have da'as (knowledge) that Ani Hu [YESHAYAH 41:4; SHEMOT 3:14-16], and from myself I do nothing, but as HaAv (the Father) of me taught me, these things I speak.

Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiah Yeshuah – is Yeshuah Yahweh. Like it is said in:

Gen_49:18 I have waited for Thy Yeshuah (Salvation), Yahweh.
Exo_15:2 Yahweh is my oz and zimrah (song of praise), and He is become to me Yeshuah (salvation); He is Eli (my Elohim), and I will praise Him; Elohei Avi (the Elohim of my Father), and I will exalt Him.

And not a half-god, or another mighty-one who came between HaShem and us! (Not, ‘It Suph’!) I believe many of us (Jews and Ephraimites!) have to learn that!
 [1] Dictionary of the Talmud. M. Jastrow p. 1178 פלח
Please let us come together in Prayer (by singing/praying The Song of Moshe and The Song of The Lamb) and Teshuvah in the Love of Yeshuath YHWH. Yehudah, Ephraim and all 'the called out ones',
Until comes in fulfillment,

Zec 12:10 And I will pour upon the house of David (The whole House of Israel, Jews and Ephraim), and upon the inhabitants of Yerushalayim, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourned for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.

Isa 11:13 And the envy of Ephrayim shall turn aside, and the adversaries of Yehu
dah be cut off. Ephrayim shall not envy Yehudah, and Yehudah not trouble Ephrayim.
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