Do You Have A BackBone? - Lech Lecha On Fire

[Music] I once walked into the BMG Library looking for a certain safer and I ran into my friend shmu Bogart and after shmooing for a few minutes I asked him for a ver from his illustrious grandfather re Bressler who's the rashash of the Scranton Yeshiva and he told me the following fantastic ver the famous Giant O desperately wanted to marry aam's wife sah thear MCA says that Sara was one of the most beautiful people who ever lived on Earth and O desperately wanted to marry her the I'm sorry says o hears that aam's nephew L was captured and he de decided here's my chance he ran with Glee to tell aam that L was captured by the mighty Kings of those days and o o thought that abam would run off to save his nephew get killed in the process and S would finally be his we all know the story abam did not get killed and he successfully extracted Lo from his captives and O's whole plan was foiled so let's let's take a step back for a second what in the world was O thinking with this plan how crazy did he think Abraham was that he would inject himself into an international War consisting of some of the mightiest most brutal nations in human history the modern day equivalent would be one man attempting to save his relative being held captive by the North Korean army in some impenetrable Fortress what it's crazy so what was O thinking why in the world did he think that amam would actually go ahead and fight to get load the answer says R Bressler lies in the word h this pu of describing O's attempt to persuade Abraham to go and save Lo is one of the only times in the entire Tyra that aam is called aam normally he's just called a here he's called aam H why is that the word h literally means he came from the other side of the river but it's used specifically here to Brand aam as the one who had the courage to stand up for his beliefs even if all the others were on the other side the entire world is wrong he said yeah billions of you go wrong he stood firm in his convictions even in the face of sneering and laughing and eye rolling from others he believed in it so deeply that no amount of ridicule and Scorn could make him change his mind that was amam he discovered monotheism in a world of polytheism and was mocked and laughed at the world over he was persecuted and ab abused he was thrown into fiery furnaces it made no difference to him he was firm as a rock o knew this about Abraham o liked this trait very much in Abraham for it meant that when he would hear that his nephew's life was in danger it made no difference how crazy it would be to help him OG knew that Aram was a man who did the right thing for only one reason and one reason only because it's the right thing to do even if it meant waging a war one on 10,000 some call it crazy others call it dedication o happily ran to tell avam H iy the man of passion and motivation that his nephew was captured hoping Abraham would die but he didn't he survived Jews throughout history have been called the Hebrews a derivative of the word iy it's because infused in our DNA is the passion and pride that aam exuded it doesn't bother us that the world thinks otherwise it doesn't bother us that we get ridiculed and scorned we're not deterred by Terror and discrimination that no other religion ethnicity country group nationality has ever G gone through besides us every now and then there's some form of Calamity catastrophe tsunami earthquake bombing Etc and the whole world will send its humanitarian Aid and prime ministers will show up and the Red Cross will come and the UN will come and the Jews also send a delegation we send zaka it's there to help it's there to bury the dead but often what the news outlets don't show you is that weeks later when all the news outlets are gone and all the dignitaries are gone and all the presidents are gone and all the UN members are gone and all the Red Cross and all the humanitarian is gone you know who's still there in the thick in the rain in the sleep in the snow in the tsunami in the earthquake in the war zone you know who's still there look at and pleading and hoping to find another Yin zaka it doesn't make any sense but they're still there because we have roots of Pride that go back thousands of years aam taught us stand up for what's right for it's the right thing to do [Music]