Lech Lecha - 3rd Portion

Join me together as we learn hitas for Tuesday third section of parshas Lech Lecha. Chapter 13 verse five. The gum the light of Avram and Lot as well was accompanied Avram. I had seen a vacant lot and he acquired sheep and flock and tents as well. Verse five Rashi tells me why does it say Avram? Avram that he goes with Avram. So it is telling us where did he get this from? And most of the story of all the wealth that Lot got me got him how did he get all this wealth? Avram was only because he was accompanying Avram that he able to acquire such kind of wealth. However, the shepherds of the pasturage of the land was not able to tolerate the both of them. Couldn't support the both of them. Because they had their many possessions and was very extensive. They were not able to remain together. They could not remain together. Rashi tells us what does it mean they couldn't remain together and that there wasn't enough pasture. They know say some meaning there was not enough pasture. Not all mcneam for Avram's sheep and for Lot's sheep all in the same place was not enough for both of them. Therefore they had to separate in two different places. This is a short hand way of writing. You have to add one word into the verse. The land was not able to hold them together. Was not able to tolerate. So if you look over here the word says the land and the land cannot hold them. What does it mean couldn't hold them? Couldn't hold wasn't enough pasture for both of them to have. That's why if you look the word Nosa is written Balashon Zochor in male terminology because it's going on the word that really should have been been there Mira which would be a male terminology. The Torah now continues with verse seven. By here if by Mira Mikna Avram and there was an argument between the shepherds of the cattle of Avram Mira Mikna Lot and the shepherds of the cattle of Lot. The K'nani the P'rizi was Arutz and the K'nanites and the P'rizites were then the ones settled in the land living in the land of that they were passing through the land of K'nan. By here if Rashi 7 telling us why was because there was a lack of pasture for the both of them. Caused that there should be an argument. What was the argument? Fisha Yireh of Chaldea Shoyim because the shepherds of Lot were bad guys. They were evil. Umaru Behemtu Besta Achayim and they would take their animals and bring them into strange fields and other people's fields. The Avram and the shepherds of Avram Yichyu Amale Gazel would rebuke them by the fact that they are stealing. The Hayim on the other hand the shepherds of Lot would say Omrim they would say Nikna Arutz Avram. The land was given to Avram anyway. The Lot in Yireh and Avram doesn't have a child. He doesn't have any heirs. So because of that because Yitzchak wasn't born yet. Lot Ben Achiv and Lot is his nephew. So who's going to inherit everything that Avram has? Yorshay. Lot is going to be his heir. The Aims the Gazel so therefore we're not stealing. We are just taking something that belongs to us. Eventually. That's why the Torah answers and says the K'nani the K'nani of Amor the K'nani of P'rizi as they ship Arutz because who's really settled at the land at the time with the K'nanites and the P'rizites? The Yitzchak of Avram and Lot wasn't yet Avram. So therefore they had no right to go into other people's fields. Verse 8. There should not be an argument between you and you. Between my shepherds and your shepherds. Cuz after all, we are relatives. Verse 8. Rashi tells us what is the word we are brothers literally. We are not brothers, but this is a terminology which is used. We are relatives. The measure says Damon with cluster upon him, they looked like one another. And therefore, he said your image are giving off a bad image for me. Therefore, Avram suggests the following. Look, the whole land is here before you. He put it in the mail line. Separate yourself. Therefore, please separate yourself from me. If you're going to go to the left, I'll go to the right. And if you're going to go to the right, and I will go to the left. Rashi tells us and explains what this means. I must wait a minute. Verse 9. Wherever you're going to be, I will not be too far. I will not be too far. He doesn't mean that I'm going to go in completely opposite direction. Wherever you go, I will go too far. I'll still be there to help you and to protect you. Saved over. At the end of the day, like we know, what happened? Actually, Lot needed Avram's help. When it says Avram heard that Lot was captured, as we're going to see later on in chapter 14, Avram comes there to save Lot. What does it mean? And I'll go to the right. I mean it. I will turn myself to the right. Just like it means and I will go to the left. I will turn to the left. If so, how come then the dots that are under the two are different. So then it shouldn't have been aimina with a tsere. It should have said aimina with a patah. Rashi tells us this is usual. We find this in other places in the verse as well. In the book of Samuel he uses the terminology lehaiman with a with a with a with a tsere. And he says ula hasmil and then the for the left he will use a patah. And it doesn't say it there with a patah lehaiman. So we see that the fact that the right uses a tsere and for the left he uses a patah is not something unusual. It's found in other places in Tanakh as well. Verse 10. And Lot looked up. And he looked up and he saw. Lot looked up with his eyes and he saw the whole plain of the Jordan. That it was all irrigated. It was a area that there were rivers, there were places, it was a nice irrigation as we'll soon explain in Rashi what this means. This is all before Hashem destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. It was like the garden of God, God's own garden. Boya and this extended all the way until Zoar. What does it mean Rashi explains to us what and how beautiful this area was. It doesn't mean that it was full of water, that the whole plain was full of water. These were lands that were had a lot of water, very irrigated. Because of that it was able to have beautiful fields and pasture and a lot of nice meadows there. This was before God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. And their meaning this has to do with what's going to happen later on as well with the people of Sodom and Gomorrah. Oh yeah, Asa and Mishael. Before God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, that area, that plain was Kiga Na Shem. It was so beautiful. It was like God's garden. Leelona's to plant trees there. The Arabs betrayed K Arabs betrayed like the land of Egypt. One of the things that was unique about the land of Egypt that it was self-irrigated because of the Nile River. Lezra so things that planted there were very nice. Boya hot tire. This extended all the way until ah, tire until tire. Who met the Shagada there shall ignite. However, this is a simple interpretation explaining about the beautiful pasture and the beautiful land and trees that was there for them to and why Lot was attracted to it. The mattress to puts a negative twist on it as well and says I'll show how you stupid Zima. He says that the reason what it was really referring to that it was full of water is telling us that the people there were very promiscuous and there was a lot of negativity and um lack of behavior accordingly in how they should behave. Bacha loy loy da because of that Lot chose Mishu Nosam to tell to live in an area and in a neighborhood of bad people as it's explained the Misakta Harish in the tractate of Harish. Verse number 11. I eat fried loy loy da and Lot chose for himself is called Kika Yarden the whole plain of the Jordan by E select me Kaden. And Lot then traveled what first westward but from the east me Kaden from the east. I you part do Ishmael of him and they separated from one another. Kikar what is the word Kikar mean? Mishael means a plain like Unklus translated. Me Kaden So again we have over here what direction things are going. So, over here he explains us Rashi tells us "Mika them." Meaning from east towards west. No some eight love from he traveled from where he was by Abraham, which was me me Rafa from the east for a whole lot lawyer and he went the matter of issue of from to the west of Abraham. Nim toss off you look at the actual travel plan and the map that little took. Now he say I mean me Rafa he went from east and the matter of towards west. Medicaid got the mattress tells us. What does this mean that using the terminology for you saw that he traveled that he moved away? He see at my he moved himself away me God my natural I don't know from the one that created the universe. I'm already said "EFC labor from labor the curve." He was so told Abraham I'm not interested not in you Abraham and not in your God. I'm a not impossible to have either of them. And therefore the Torah continues then and tells us what and how the people of Sodom were all about. The ancient statement the people of Sodom are lying the heart of him verse number 13 for ancient statement of heart of him and the people of Sodom were bad and sinful by a sham to God be a word very much so. Rayan Rashi explains why does he use this terminology they were bad and sinful. Rayan they were I'm sorry we just missed one verse. Verse number 12 go back Abraham Yasha better at scan on Abraham settled in the land of Canaan the light Yasha the area kicker and light settled in the cities of the plane as we mentioned by yellow at stain and he made it pitched his tent until Sodom. What does this mean to the Torah tells us Rashi says Rashi number 12. By yellow light himself lived in the plains of the in the cities of the plane. However, he made many many tents not the oil him. He pitched many tents to for shepherds and for his cattle and Sodom and to the city of Sodom. What was about the city of Sodom? Now verse 13 and the people of Sodom were bad and sinful to our chem. What does it mean they were bad and sinful? So Rashi tells us how does this work out? And he says The alpha became lay nimna light mean uh malish nimon. Even though they were very bad and still and all Lot did not withhold himself from staying with them. And because of that he integrated with them. And I be saying London become and from here is our our sages have taught the shame the shame yerketh. The name of the wicked should rot. That whoever names says something about a bad person, you should make sure to mention how terrible they were because he tells us about the people of Sodom and at the same time immediately he tells us about their behavior. Why does he have to tell us about the behavior? A to tell us what happened to Lot, why he decided to go with these terrible people but telling us that evil people you have to mention how bad they were. Raw him, what does it mean they were evil? The gufam that physically the way they behaved was terrible. The toym that they were sinful the mamoynum with their money that the way they were sinful with their money as well. The shame very much to Sodom that these evil deeds and their sins yay demribaynum they knew the greatness of almighty God and they believed in his existence but still and all umiskavnim limribay they went with intention to rebel against him. Verse 14. The shame of Abraham and after him said Abraham he parted after me after Lot separated from him. So now lift up your eyes and see from the place you are to the north and to the south. The kingdom >> [clears throat] >> The kingdom to the east the yama and to the west. Why only after parted like after Lot left? So Rashi explains in verse 14 calls man say he may as long as Russia was with him. The divine presence was not with Abraham separated from him once Lot left that's when God reappeared to Abraham. And he tells him that all this land that you see to the north to the south and to the east and to the west is called this whole land that you see and it will be given to you to your children for for eternity. Verse 16 The sand is make your children as the dust of the land. As numerous as the dust of the land a person would able to count. If a man was able to count the dust of the earth and comes you then they will also be able to count your children. Verse 16 What God is saying is as follows. Meaning not that he's saying that one is going to be able to count. Mondays the same way nobody can ever count the particles of dust. So too nobody will be able to ever count your children. Verse 17 Come Get up. Rise. He is and walk through the land to its length and to its width. The car at the Nana because it will be given to you. God tells him to go along the length and breadth of the land because the land of Israel is his to acquire it, to make it his. As it says, and it's explained in many places that one of the ways of acquisition is to acquire something is to create a boundary. And by God telling him to walk the length and breadth of the land, it was this was giving him the ability to make the boundary and acquiring the land that would be given to his children. It was given to him. Vayal Avram, and Avram pitched his tent vayel vayavi and he came vayeshev be'elonei Mamre and he settled in the plains of Mamre asher becheveron that was in Chevron vayiven sham mizbeach lashem and he built an altar, a mizbeach, to Hashem to bring a sacrifice on it. This conclude in Mamre, what is Mamre? Rashi, shem adam, the name of a person, the plains of Mamre that belonged to the individual by the name of Mamre. This concludes the third Torah reading for Lech Lecha.