Be A Blessing - Rabbi Benjamin Yudin

in this week's par of we are introduced to Abraham Abraham is called by the yes in this weeks of Torah Abraham oh Abraham my beloved God says I love Abraham why what does Abraham do that makes him so beloved to God so I'd like to suggest two possibilities one in the very beginning when Hashem entices Abram and says come on I want to you to leave your home it he says to him and you shall be a blessing what does that mean it means that you shall bless others how does Abraham bless others by literally sharing of his nature to and with Society the Torah tells us abam comes to Canan and what does he do after God says to Abraham this land is your land I'm giving this land to your children promising us to the Jewish people that this land of Israel is ours Abram builds a m he builds an altar 12 verse 8 what does he do there he calls out in the name of God says the ran what does he doing and I quote for you this ran and that is he called out the in a great voice God's name in front of the mod he informed o Soo he informed the world about God that there is a God there's a Creator there's someone that is there that directs life about us where he came from says the ra then he want to listen now that he comes to God promised him Those whom you bless I Will Bless he became literally what we were called today and it might not be very popular today but he was a missionary he went out and spoke to people the Torah says the souls that he made in he brought with him says the ra there were not a few but there were tens of thousands so many people that he did so what is the idea the idea is that a leader who has something good he doesn't take it and keep it to himself he shares it with others this is the ideal the gamar says in that t we praise the Jewish woman every Friday night is part of the Torah of kindness is on her lips is there a Torah of kindness and a Torah that of kindness yes the Torah which is shared with others is a Torah of the Torah of kindness the Torah that you keep to yourself is a Torah but not a Torah of ab is a leader because he reaches out and touches everyone that he can to share the goodness IM if you learned a great deal of Tor so the first way of understanding is don't pat yourself on the back why that's why you were created to learn Torah but another beautiful way of understanding this mishna is if you learn Torah to don't keep the Torah which is good to yourself share it with others when you walk into somebody's room and you see a picture on the wall without you saying anything without the person living there saying anything they as much as say wow the person on the wall That's My Hero that's my model who is it is it a basketball player three feet up in the air trying to get a jump shot is that the kind of is a girl supposed to have an actress you know on the wall or no we have a picture of quote a God we have somebody who has achieved not only learning Torah by and for himself but teaching and thank God to others we conclude with the ton of debate Leo that says that a person should always say Hal I'll be able to reach Abra and yob and how could you do it each and every one of us as we say every morning before the shma has give us the ability to study and to teach we're all teachers we all have the capacity to put our arm literally figuratively around the next month and share with them the precious Torah that we have