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Lech Lecha: Journey to Greatness

Join Abraham on his transformative journey as he leaves his homeland and embarks on a path of faith, blessings, and becoming a source of blessing to the world.

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Lech Lecha: Journey to Greatness

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  2. Textos Base Gen 12:1 Ahora bien, YHVH había dicho a Abram: Vete de tu tierra, de tu parentela y de la casa de tu padre, a la tierra que te mostraré. 2 Y haré de ti una nación grande, y te bendeciré y engrandeceré tu nombre, y serás bendición. BTX 3 Hashem le dio a Abram: “Vete para ti de tu tierra, de tu patria y de la casa de tu padre, a la tierra que te mostrare”.“Haré de ti una gran nación, te bendeciré, engrandecerétunombre y serás una bendición. ToratEmet

  3. Peshat • Go forth: go to you, for your benefit and for your good, and there I will make you into a great nation, but here, you will not merit to have children. Moreover, I will make your character known in the world. — Rosh Hashanah 16b, Tan. • that I will show you: He did not reveal the land to him immediately, in order to make it dear in his eyes and to give him reward for every command. Gen. Rabbah 39:9 • In Depth-Chabad.org

  4. Textos Bases • 13Pero las personas de Sodoma eran muy perversas, y pecaban contra D’os. La Tora Viviente-jabad.org • And the men of Sedom were depraved in their wealth one with another, and they sinned in their bodies; they sinned with open nakedness, and the shedding of innocent blood, and practised strange worship, and rebelled greatly against the name of the Lord. Targum.info

  5. Midrash • Jub 18: 14 And in the time of rejoicing they would all rise and lay hold of their neighbor’s wives, and some, the virgin daughters of their neighbors, and they enjoyed them, and each man saw his wife and daughter in the hands of his neighbor and did not say a word. The book of Jasher: J. H. Parry

  6. Peshat Sforno • To a specific are shown in vision. Bereshit Rabbah 39:5 • "We tried to cure Babylon But she was incurable. Let us leave her and go, Each to his own land" (Jer. 51:9). "We tried to cure Babylon" -- in the generation of Enosh. "But she was incurable" -- in the generation of the flood. "Let us leave her and go" -- in the generation of the dispersion. "Each to his own land" -- "Adonai said to Avram, 'Go forth.’” • Sefaria.org

  7. Peshat Midrash Tanchuma, Lech Lecha 3:4 • Unto the land that I will show you (Gen. 12:1). The Holy One, blessed be He, did not mention any specific place. This indicates that this was a trial within a trial, as in the case of a man who embarks upon a journey without being aware of his destination. What did Abraham do? He took his possessions and his wife and departed: • Sefaria.org

  8. Targum And Abram took Sara his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all the substance which they had acquired, and the souls whom they had proselyted in Haran, and went forth to go to the land of Kenaan. And they came to the land of Kenaan. JERUSALEM. -And the souls of the proselytes. Targum.info/Targum Jonatán

  9. Remez • And he called in the name of G‑d (12:8) • Said ReishLakish: Read not “and he called (vayikra),” but “and he made others call (vayakrei)).” This is to teach us that Abraham caused G‑d’s name to be spoken in the mouths of all passersby. How so? After they ate and drank [in his home], they wanted to bless him. Said he to them: “Have you eaten of mine? Your food has been provided by the G‑d of the world! Thank, praise and bless He who spoke the world into being!” • Talmud, Sotah 10a - In Depth-Chabad.org

  10. Remez • Abram traversed the land (12:6) • Everything that happened to the Patriarchs is a signpost for their children. This is why the Torah elaborates its account of their journeys, their well-digging and the other events [of their lives]. . . . These all come as an instruction for the future: for when something happens to one of the three Patriarchs, one understands from it what is decreed to occur to his descendants. Nachmanides • In Depth-Chabad.org

  11. Midrash Rambam • Mishneh Torah, Laws Concerning Idol Worship 1:3 Libro de Jubileos • Cap 11-12 Ética de los Padres 5:3 • With ten tests our father Abraham was tested and he withstood them all—in order to make known how great was our father Abraham's love [for G‑d]. Chabad.org

  12. Midrash Sefer Yashar • Cap 9-12 • Estrella/Nacimiento • Yeshiva • Ídolos • Nimrod • Salida

  13. Sod • Go you from your land, from your birthplace and from your father’s house, to the land which I will show you (12:1) • “From your land”—from your will. (Eretz, the Hebrew word for land, is etymologically related to the word ratzon—will.) “From your birthplace”—from your emotional and behavioral self (which is the product of a person’s environment). “From your father’s house”—from your intellect. The Chassidic Masters • Rabbi Elazar said: "lechlecha" means: "for your own sake, go away from here and rectify your soul, advancing your [spiritual] level.”Leaving Home-Moshe Miller

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