Ari Goldwag - Noach - Avraham's Beginnings

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with Ari Gold Wegg recorded with a gems never-ending assistance and rubbish Misha Israel 57 79 2018 this week's purchase purchased knock and although most of the partial deals with the story of Noah the flood etc I'd actually like to focus at the very end of the parsha which speaks about the beginning of the story of Avraham Avinu and before I get into the Rambam who speaks at length about the origins of Avram of Abraham just want to comment about the fact that there's a question we can ask we need to understand before we start and that is why is it that our parsha the way that they're split up cause all our seaters when they split up the parshas so we have the entire story of noah here in our partial right and and the parsha should end with the end of the story of north but it doesn't gives us the generations leading up to Avram Aveeno and then it starts to tell us the the roots of our home where he came from and in next week partial we find out that Shem says to him Leclerc ah go to the Land of Israel but why is it that the Torah was split up by our sages in such a way that we have the story of Noah and our movie news story begins already in parsha snoc it's not only true in this parsha but if we look at the previous parsha at last week's parsha precious precious genesis so we see a similar thing there where it speaks about the it speaks about other my reaching the first man it speaks about the generations leading up to Noah and then before telling us the main story of Noah it tells us the beginnings of not where he came from and then it closes partial spacious why is it that there's like a a there's something the beginning of the story it's like it almost sounds like you know tune in next week for the next installment of this parsha of the parsha series you know like the Torah was split up it seems like why isn't it just split up here give me this story give me this story finish this story in one partial Y is why is it's you know stretch over into the next Barcia and and if you pay attention in the purchase that are coming we see that the Torah does continuously the Torah gives us the next story and it kind of the the way that the parcel split up is in such a way that the story that's starting in next week parsha really starts at the end of the previous weeks parsha so what's the idea behind that why does the Torah do that and it's an important introduction to trying to understand the story of Aram which we get the beginnings of in our part at the very end of our parsha and that's what I want to talk about so we need to understand this point first and I think that the idea is is pretty simple the idea is straightforward that the Torah is telling us a story I'll ask another question why is it that the Torah gives us all all of the the the history of the world basically starting from the creation of the world the first person that ever existed under my Rishon giving us the generations until Noah then the generations the ten generations until Avram Aveeno telling us the whole story so Rashi the beginning of the Torah and the beginning of British ask the question why isn't it harder to give us a codicil ahem why doesn't it start with the first myths for the Jewish people are going to receive the mitzvot of küçük a dish of the new moon okay but I'm gonna ask a different question why does the Torah begin with the story of Adam and Eve why is this Torah Torah begin with know what is it tell us know why does it tell us all the history this is a book that's made you ad that's intended for the Jewish people start with the Jewish people start with Avraham Avinu here's the first one or stay with Yaakov of Green who tell us about Jacob and his twelve sons that's that's the most relevant to us why is it tour telling us all of the history giving us so much background before getting into the story of which seems to be the main part of the story of the Jewish people when they go down into Egypt etc why do we need to know all of the history and I think that the answer to the second question which is about where the tour starts and also the first question which is about why the Torah we get we get the beginnings of the next parsha in the previous parsha it's really the same answer and that is because we need to understand that we have no present we have no current reality without a connection to the past the the current reality is a continuation of a previous reality the if the classic statement is those who do not learn history are fated to repeat history right if we don't learn from our previous mistakes but I want to say on a deeper level the the world the the world that we exist within the stories of our lives themselves are really a continuation of the stories of our parents lives you know there's a there's a there's a coexistence there's a what's the word I'm missing the word but there's a overlap that's what I'm looking forward between the my life and love of my kids my parents life in my life my kids lives and and their kids lives and we're seeing that in the parsha we see the overlap the toric tells us about this person he lived so long he had a child and that and then he lived so long after that child let me here but the next person it's telling us the depth of the message here is that the beginning the the life of the previous generation is part of the life of the next generation and the overlap is important because we need to understand that our lives are significant and and the continuation of our life is our children the continuation of their life is their children and so but it's all a continuous cycle there's a cycle that's going on and we need to understand our lives in the context of our parents lives we need to our children need to understand their lives in the context of their parents lives our lives and there's a continuation that's going on and there's a cycle that's going on and we need to look to the Past and order to understand the present and we need to in order to understand the future we need to also look at the present we need to see the overlaps and we need to see that zette totally busy this is dependent on this we need to understand to begin order to understand ourselves you need to understand our beginnings that's the bottom line of what I want to say so we need to look at Avram Avinu we have a small piece of his history the beginnings his his beginnings starting in this week's parsha at the end it'll of the store no because really Avril Lavigne was a continuation of North right North was the East sadiq he was the one who was righteous the Torah is all about giving a lesson to the Jewish people the Jewish people at its essence are is the righteous one it's the one who is going to teach the world throughout the generations the past over three thousand years we have been the ones who are teaching the world the righteous ones of all generations are the Jewish people big adult in a general sense so we need to look back at our movie know who was the righteous one in his generation we need to look back enough was the righteous one in his generation we need to look back at other Mary Jean who was the righteous one in his generation who spoke face-to-face with God in order to understand our way of interacting with the world in order to understand how we are to understand the world and we need to understand our beginnings which started with avril lavigne oh and his beginnings we started with Noah and his beginning to start with autumn we need that entire beginning to understand who we are we can't we can't start the Torah with the story of Yaakov in with Jacob because he's not he came he came into existence within a context and that context is significant for us only to understand that so with that introduction that eight-minute introduction I'd like to give you a few thoughts that the Ramban brings about the origins of Avraham Avinu where he came from what land did he come from where did he live who was he what was the essence of who he was and what was the essence of his beginnings in his teachings of monotheism and his teachings which were against everything that was going on at that time right we'll see very soon all right I'm not gonna speak too much more I'd like to read from the Rambam he says like this I don't see how much of it we can cover open e'terica obvious Barretts mulatto toe all right before I read them bun we got to read inside of the Torah okay by feet Erika okay we're now we're speaking about Tara who was the father of Avram Aveeno he by he parachuting Shana Tarek lived 70 years viola's Avram is naharis Horan three suns Ramna and harem the a liitle is Tara Tara Kalidas Avram it's not as hard a hard holiness looked so what happened after that Tara had these three sons are enough horn Horan Horan had a son named bloat okay and load is gonna be one of the important characters and the stories that follow because he's going to follow Avraham to the Land of Israel verse this is in chapter 11 verse 28 my Yama's Horan ALPA night Eric Aviv Horan who was the father of load he died in a tragic event as well soon see no man he died his father was still alive Tarek was still alive Barrett's mulatto toe in a land that he was born in but were cosden in or costume wear costume is the word the word or we'll see what it means a costume is the land of the chaldeans by you cough Avram then just read a few more took him make a cover of enough Allah have no shame shame issues Avram suraíh Abraham married Sarah whose name was originally Sarai the Shamy age is not for Milka knockwurst wife's name was mocha and we need to know that because she's going to be the grandmother of rifka I may know pass her on the daughter hard avi Milka avi iske the daughter of horns owner married his niece okay now let's get into the room but because we're was album from so it tells us that Horan was from the he died in the land of his birth or cosden the room ban says that where we're gonna speak about where was I born what was the story or what's or costume what is this place or war means name is just a name but it could also refer to fire so Rahman quotes Rashi tells us a very famous story which is not included in the tour interestingly Custer Raja gay their if they're a little bit Saint Robert singer Rashi writes what our sages say tarik evil Al Ahram vinolift need enumerate al-sharia Salaam officially halo cut locution Abraham was somebody who was a monotheistic believed in God and so he destroyed all the idolatry all the idols of his father's father had a store when he was so idols and that was considered sacrilege at that time to destroy idols and so Aaron was thrown into the fire for his sacrilege because you said was preaching monotheism a horn Yasha llamar horn his brother said like this am i from that's a funny show like if Abraham wins so I'll be on his side and Nimrod not say honey shelf Nimrod who was the king with throne Abraham into the fire if he wins if Abraham dies so then I'll be on Nimrod Sasha Neitzel Aram Abraham had had a miracle that happened and when was thrown into the fire he was saved Michel Miyata so they asked her on whose side are you on or let me show alimony he said I'm on the side of Abraham usually fairly keep shaman is rough he was thrown into the fire and he died he was burned is that were costume interesting story so that's the or of cosden the fire were can mean fire of the Chaldeans we're not comparing or Vika another explanation of the word were can be a valley with hey knock came back room kibosh em him I rise to finally call her Rebecca a monkey correct were we find in other places that the word or can refer to a valley okay now the Rabanne says it's very interesting sometimes he says that Rashi is right sometimes he says Rashi is wrong sometimes he says that's not the main shot and the meddra SH that Rashi quoted is not the the Posche up shot or the main shot in the verses I mean understanding hey Nisha cute Arab cinemas heh-hoo MS says Iran bond here that the idea that our sages taught us in this regard is true it's the true and the proper understanding of the verses it's the ripe shot anemia virus I'm gonna explain it aquafina Lord Allah bear it's Costin a man was not born in landed Chaldeans Kiev a savanna shame how you who is a random is from the seed of shame one of those sons of Noah the cosmic election or arts is beneath calm and the Chaldeans that land and all the land of Shinar which babylonia those were the lands of the sons of calm a custom I'm gonna buy which was a different son of Noah Kosovo my Aguila Iram huh every my caste doesn't refer to Abraham as a child in her first name as in every a Hebrew sieve the verse says in Joshua chapter 24 verse 2 Aaron our Yahshua was say hmmm Tara have you have Rama V knock first of the fact that the the tariff the father of Abraham and the father of nahor lived in a land on the other side of the river that's the that's the a ver every every is mean I've shown a veranda or the other side of the river and that's the where the word Hebrew comes from it's from the word Ava Ludmila's may i l'm sorry Tyra sheesh I'm told I said meow azúcar Siva has a vehicle my sovereign even our can understand exactly what this is saying here but what is the idea that he'd lived there forever it teaches us that that that's where they were originally from that's what it means and and the verse tells us that I took your father Abraham it's another puzzle over there in Joshua I believe I took your father Abraham from the other side of the river so that's where he was originally from the other side of the river what's that reference to variety of her River man proves it he never heart the horn high yo the horn went to Karim where is Karan Karan is on the other side of the river back in the lands of the eye remains as he's going to say Mejia Malcolm Tara work as the mariner if the place where knocker was from was were cast in the valley of the Chaldeans in the land of Shinar Acosta super keep it say Sameer cosden laka Ito Rock Avram bin binoy the light been Haram been benign circular simce no unicorn issue merits chasms that would mean that not hora had been left in the land of the Chaldeans but that's not the fact of Alba Ana's says there on Bona the truth is okay so where is he from it's important again it's important understand where is a from from where is Abraham from look just like it's more intimate first understand where are we we know Avram was originally not from the Chaldeans he was originally from a place called Karan which was in the lands of this sons of shame which was his his his birth family about the MS Harris mulatto Tom Eretz Aram he behave Aherne are the true land where he was from was on the other side of the river in the land of the aramean zucchini an offensive isomer Elam and that was the inheritance of his father's forever because of I'm a man named Shane the verse tells us in regards to the sons of shame I him I show me a massive anthems Safra higher Hawk Adam who shame Coelho it's a general location it refers to the city arts I some the because I'm in irani and Haney Buckman boy a Bihari Academy refers to the root of of the king of Bullock who was from Olaf and Marv was from lote who was from Horan who was from the same the same chain as the same lineage as Abraham where were they from around here who have I said Ben how arts AHIMA eylem he and his fathers are from that place forever okay so that's the the bottom line that's the bottom line now I'm skipping a little bit because he just were basically repeats and brings another proof - he just said mean it's how highly bun of Haggadah Elmira my knock over a baron are at Subway so originally Terah had two sons in his original land in the land of horror he had Aram and Nava hallelujah my rambha no alerts costume then he went to the land of the Chaldeans who shall know that Lebanon Iran that's where his youngest son Horan was born in or costume initial no carbon not even a vahana air beat your Horan and he left behind his son not in the land in the city of Karan but should not be rahi mr. sheba mikumiku toe the Zetas mares without they were causing a shaman article Harlem father it says in the land of his birth it's a reference to the fact that Horan was born in that place okay so we have a VRAM born bottom line we have a VRAM born in the land of Harlan the land of the Iron Man's we have harem born and we're costume lands of the Chaldeans where Horan dies and I'm a cool-ass the names of God can be silver cod Manya okay we find this idea also in the safe fair commercial cause of our robber and who come an old safer that speaks about the generations of the certain ethic generations the nation's another robbery boo him the Rambam writes this Maimonides kiss curious a reverse economy stream k our machinery could have a caller called a Siham honcho of them Hamish area was land born in this land of Kuta well there are man's and he fought with the general beliefs of the people of his times that were they were Sun worshipers even nos and I'm enough I say basis soya interesting he gives a slightly different twist on the story the king there which is Nimrod threw him into the threw him into the jail I never met a cop I see my random shaman here and he had arguments with him for him for a long time my heart Paul Carmela she asked assault of art say she was afraid that he would destroy his land he would destroy their belief system yeah Savannah autumn a moon awesome take them away from their beliefs the guard cell could say arts cannon Akash luggage hallelujah he took away all of his wealth and he and he exiled him to the edge of the land of Canaan you know called Parnevik mohkumat who bear its constant Knutson a slower-moving only sniffs our sister Rambam that some kind of miracle happened him there either it was a hidden miracle should necessarily voice Emma flat ceiling that he'll he put it inside the heart of the king to save him shallow you me said oh not to kill him but it's us any basis search in Oakland I che he freed him that would have been a nice Nestor all right nice my foursome she literally keeps on an edge we need something clear ever say no or that he'd there was some kind of open Mara Cole where he threw him into the fire and he was saved like our sages say okay so that's this the the ROM bombs idea so to sum up what we have so far number one he was originally from this place called Horan he was from a place or Kuta in land of the Arameans he ended up in or cast him or some kind of miracle that happened there either hidden miracle that he was saved he was let he was allowed to go free or it bore he was saved from the fire that's the bottom line now the Zosia Marcus vanish I'm assured to see you coming or Kasdan this is I skipped a small section here but it's this if he has a little bit of a going off on a tangent reserved genre huh cost money I show my shirts you see from your cosmos is the car as arts has eyes Laurita God says later on in chapter 15 verse 7 Hashem who took you out of the land of cosden to give you this land in order to inherit it Camilla sexy secret elemental neighs the fact that Shem says I took you out doesn't say I took you I took you out right so that implies keylime Russia and the cactii c'mere cousin I took you from a line of costume lor I would say see if I took you out should see me Moz gear Oh sir he took Abram out of incarceration Tamar I sure hate to see how Maris was trying like Hashem says I took you out of the land of Egypt which was because we were incarcerated there we were unable to leave a sham took us out we're in loss a snake hearts has lice the rich stuff i gay I took you out of there to give this land to you as an inheritance give me a CIA sign your costume oh yeah I read on the front of the south she got Leno she likes art I eat from the time that he left or chasm from the time that I Shem cause I'm Urkel to happen and he was taking out God's plan was to give him the Land of Israel now what happened and this is important the tariff RV theorem haaa me believe um yeah my ocean eat social flare its cannon Ceramics cosmic I'm Ellen they intended to go already at that point when when there was a when the miracle occurred and Abraham was saved from the fire from that point already Terah Abraham's father and Avram himself had decided that they were going to get far away from the land of Nimrod yet to a land called Israel Hilliard's can only stropping merits kasnian popular melech because they were free of the king he car and car Vlad Atacama Suffolk Hassler Coulomb hora was very close and everyone spoke the same language so everyone would understand what they were saying the election around in solution and both places spoke Aramaic rosula castle I assure lo you smile - I know I'm Mela ah Who am I he wanted to go to a place where they will be able to speak privately in their own language and the King wouldn't hear about it okay so what what's the bottom line here the bottom line is I'm not going to read the next section but he says that Aram and they went back to harren intending to to kind of close up close up their things and then head to Eretz Israel they ended up getting stuck in corn for a bit and ultimately tarik dies in Caron as the posse tells us and Abram is commanded in next week's partial by a Shem to go to continue his original thought and to end up in the Land of Israel and this is really essentially what I want to focus in on this final final point which is that Aram already knew he had to get away from the land where he was where he had started up all these fights with the people the inhabitants there and they were fighting him tooth and nail and he knew he had to leave that place in order to end up in a different place where he could be who he was without being stopped by the people of the place he didn't end up doing that though he wasn't able to fulfill that desire Hashem had to specifically command him to complete the desire and the interesting thing about this is that we see from Avram we see from Abraham's life that he he has this original place where he lives he has this other place where he runs to and he ends up back in his original place and then he gets told to to head off the air to sell the land of Israel we see that there's a certain intuition that he had there's a certain guidance that he got without a Shimon even explicitly telling him that he should head to arts resulted Land of Israel he was the trajectory of his life was bringing him to a certain location to that place called artists fell to the land of Israel that's just where he was headed why because that's where all the winds were blowing still there were things that stopped him from getting there and he had to get an explicit command from Hashem and I think that what we see is that often in our lives Hashem leads us to a certain in a certain direction so many times he leads us in a certain direction he guides us in a certain direction he wants us to to figure out on our own that we're supposed to get somewhere sometimes the lessons or the guidance that Hashem gives us is explicit sometimes the lessons a Shem and and over the guidance that Hashem has for us is implied it's just like this is where it's things seem to be heading it's not clear it's not open it's not absolute but it seems that way okay so so the the story of Avram is really a foundation for us to understand on an individual level and also on a national level that that there are there are travels the Jewish the Jewish people forever are traveling we've been traveling through gullets through that many countries we've been through we're still travelling even today I just traveled personally to - I was in the States I came back home and throughout the travels throughout the just the ongoing winds as they blow in our lives they send us in all these different directions and it's true personally and nationally the Jewish people have been blown hither and yon you know in all these different directions but throughout it all sham is sometimes doing it so that we get there in a way where it's not clear sometimes a Shem is it guides us in a more clear way it's up to us it's up to us as individuals and as part of a greater community to recognize to try to recognize to try our hardest to recognize where is it that Hashem is leading us where is it that we're supposed to go where are we supposed to be I live in the Land of Israel and for me I've seen so many so there have been so many signs that this is where I'm supposed to be sometimes it seems like the winds are blowing in a different direction it's not so clear I need to find guidance I need to ask I need to ask for help from those who know the Torah the idea here is that we see from our Medina that we understand that Hashem guides us in different ways sometimes explicitly sometimes covertly and we need to try to understand the signs to look for those signs and to seek them out and to follow them to follow the to the land and Shem will show us so I want to bless you and please bless me and should help us that we should look for those signs number one number two we should see those signs and number three we should be zip it to have the clear signs if we're not getting the signs that are not as clear thank you so much for listening have a wonderful Shabbos this podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of listeners like you for more podcasts like this please visit www.carmensognonvi.com/newsletter [Music]