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Lech Lecha 5762 - October 26, 2001
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Introducing Abram, age 75… Sarah's abduction… Lot relocates to Sodom… the Covenant Between the Parts… Hagar and Ishmael… Abraham's circumci-sion..
Introducing Abram, age 75… Sarah's abduction… Lot relocates to Sodom… the Covenant Between the Parts… Hagar and Ishmael… Abraham's circumci-sion..
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The Blanket
He sat down at the head of the table, and, naturally, our inclination was to look away. We didn't want to embarrass him.
He sat down at the head of the table, and, naturally, our inclination was to look away. We didn't want to embarrass him.
The View from Above
A wave of pity swept over me. I was filled with great compassion, for my body, for the life I had wasted, for my loved ones who would remain in this world.
A wave of pity swept over me. I was filled with great compassion, for my body, for the life I had wasted, for my loved ones who would remain in this world.
"I will make your descendents like the dust of the earth" (Genesis 13:17). As the dust of the earth is everywhere, so, too, will the people of Israel be scattered from one end of the world to the other. As dust is treaded upon by all, so, too, will Israel be treaded upon by all. As dust erodes all metals while it itself lasts forever, so is it with Israel: all nations disintegrate, while they persist.
— Midrash Rabbah
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The world is a place of constant change and unrest.
Each point in time is distinct from the point before and the point after.
Each point in space is its own world, with its own conditions and state of being.
It is a world of fragments, a perpetual rush of traffic and noise.
Look at your own life: You do so ...
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