Lech Lecha: Hostage Rescue & Revenge - The Revolutionary Approach to the War of the 4 & 5 Kings

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[snorts] Okay, we have an amazing topic today and we're going to talk about rescuing hostages and we have really new information about the king of Sodom as well as the flow of paras where the para begins and Hashem tells Abra look I'm I'm telling you what to do but this is for your own good this is not for me this is for you if you look in the record of the war of the four kings and The five kings. We know that the four kings were very powerful. That the four kings battled the five kings in a place called Hassidim. The head of the four kings were was somebody by the name of Kadar. [snorts] Kadar. They served him for 12 years. For five years, the f for 12 years, the five kings served Kadar and then they rebelled for [snorts] 13 years. In the 14th year of the rebellion, Kadar had enough and the four kings came to battle the five kings. And in doing so, they captured light. And now Abraino here is that his brother was captured. And the question is, well, Light's not his brother. And Abrao basically risks his life to capture to uh to to rescue this hostage Light from the the clutches of the Kadala and the four kings. And in doing so, he also rescues the king of Saddim. But there are a few things we need to analyze over here because throughout this perk per yodal in safer bacius when it describes by the way what's interesting is that obviously the four kings were very powerful because they were able to conquer the five kings. If I could just ask uh please don't make marks on the maramakis on the screen because it if you could kindly raise it. Thank you. So the the four kings were obviously very powerful because they were able to defeat the five kings. But the question is which one of the four kings was like the guy in charge because once the story gets going it's all about and then he's listed first And then it says that so that soar is ranked first and not only that in Kadal is the only name mentioned. So for 12 years they served is the only name mentioned and then in the 14th year of the rebellion and the kings with him. Who are they? We don't even say their names. They're so not important that we don't even say their names. Okay. So that begs the question because in the opening of the story it says Why is Kadar batting third? Now the whole story is the leadoff hitter. He's always mentioned first. Now this is not like baseball where the best hitter bats third. Now it happens to me in my time. The best hitter would bat third. The hitter with the most power bat fourth. But I think uh nowadays there's a big debate. Sometimes they put the best hitter second. But this is not baseball. Usually in the Tyra the first name listed is the most. So why throughout the story is only mentioned. Some uh sometimes he's mentioned first for example in PK test sometimes he's the only one mentioned like in Pik Dal and hey and yet in PL we have a different character mentioned first Amrael what do you mean Amrael what it's all about he's the main character over here isn't he the the focus of the story. He's the most powerful of the four kings. For the rest of the story, it's all about him. So why does the Tory begin? [snorts] So, so another question is who is this Amrafel guy? Cuz he's the king of Shinar. Rashi says he's Nimrod. He told Abraham, "Jump into the fire." How does Rashi know Amrael is Nimrod? Maybe Amrael is Amrael. Maybe that's his name. Maybe when he was born by when his father got aliyah his father saidimel they gave him a tislo you know how do you know his name was nimrod and he's called because he told Abra maybe that's his name so the says nah It can't be his name because we know who the king of Shinar is. The king of Shinar is Nimrod. It says which is Shinar. So obviously Amra Rafel is Nimrod. So the question is if Amrael is Nimrod then why do we give him this funny name Amra Rafel? Just say Nimrod. I understand Amrael must be Nimrod. But well who asked him for a nickname all of a sudden? He was never called this before. Why all of a sudden now is he called Amrael? And furthermore, like we began with the order is striking throughout the rest of the episode um is always listed first. The 14th year and the kings with him came to smite the Rafim. So all it mentions is Kadala. Rashi says why him? because he's the balam so he's taking responsibility the rebelling against him or in test kadar is mentioned first so the lavush in his commentary is bothered since kadar is the head why in alf is amrael mentioned first now we know the four kings conquered sadim and they took light hostage They They took light. They kidnapped Lit. They took Lit his possessions. The son of the brother of Abram. So now we're identifying light is Abram's brother. Haron's son. Okay. So why does Aram have to risk his life to save him? After all, Abra told him not to go there. Light tells Aram, you know, I want to go to Saddime and has greener pastures. Ara says, no. L said, I'm going. So now he gets captured. So why does Ara have to risk his life to save him? So let's begin over here with the question of the Arizal. This is a very unusual puk. You may not notice at first, but upon further analysis, it's highly unusual. The Pik says they took Lit and his possessions, the son of the brother of Abram. So it almost sounds like who's Lit? We don't know. But you know who his possessions were? His possessions were the son of the brother of Ara. This is out of order. It should say the Why does it say Litush? His couch wasn't the nephew of Abra. He was. So it should say they took Ly his nephew and his possessions. Not they took Lit and his possessions the nephew of Abraham. That gives a cababalistic answer. [snorts] That result says that it wanted to write it wanted to say the Sushi Ben. Why? Because it's rash rava. It's rash rava. Why? Because rava was a of light. Rava's soul was captive in light. So [snorts] therefore it's spelled out light is rava. It [snorts] wanted to allude that ra's soul was in light. >> [sighs] >> Rab Schwab gives another beautiful answer. Rab Schwab in the Mayan Bashva he says how was it that light who traveled with Aram and appreciated Aram. How was it that Raa just abandoned Aram and he went off the straight and narrow and went to Sadim? Didn't he see the shina on Aram's tent? If you were in the proximity of an avam, then wouldn't that be a lifealtering experience? How could Lord abandon Aram? And the answer is there was something that was mafik between light and a light's car, L's possessions. Lit allowed his possessions to get in to interfere between him and a [snorts] even though light knew in his mind that in terms of his rnas he's of course better off in the environment of a but his possessions got in the way between him and Ara it interposed it was a between him and a or the way I like to say it is lit became so connected to his possessions that he identified himself with his possessions. You know, you have some people they are ben tora ben aliyah they happen to drive a nice car. Other people they're nice car driving people. They don't just happen to drive a nice car. They're nice car driving people. They become so affiliated and connected to their car. They are a Lexus. They are a Tesla. They are whatever car they drive. That is not just something that they own. It identifi it personifies them. Lit became lit. [snorts] Okay. So according to Rab Schwab the Pusigans coming to tell us the reason why Lit abandoned [snorts] Abraham who he was his student is because he ultimately came to the level of Abraham and so much so that Hashem wouldn't even speak to Abraham so long as Lit was with him and the reason for this the go of this nefil was Lit's possessions >> [snorts] >> But let's analyze this further. So Aram hears that Lloyd is captured and he gs himself with his warriors, 318 men. He chases the four kings until done. And the kilasai reiterates what we asked before. Why did Abrau sacrifice his life to save Lloyd who is a Russia? Does isn't there a principle those who hate God we hate? Furthermore, why does it say that Aram heard that his brother was captured? Lloyd is not his brother, it's his nephew. Why doesn't it say Ben? Why? He's not his brother. Dan in his commentary to the Kish explains that the reason why Avan went out to war against the four kings is because this wasn't just a regular war a war like any other war where they're waring where they're battling a ruler or they're trying to conquer it's the hashem the four kings came to battle god therefore a went up nephesh and he put himself bes to rise up against them. But why exactly is the war of the four kings a war? Why would the how in what way were the four kings battling Hashem? Okay, Marv Rabai, fasten your seat belts. Here we go. The story of the four kings and the five kings like you never heard before. Earlier on in the para says, "Let's not fight. says, "We're brothers." Rashi's bothered. They're not brothers. They're uncle and nephew. [snorts] Sarashi says it means they're relatives. They looked similar. Okay. So, why is that not a reason? Why is that a reason that they shouldn't fight? So what? They look similar. That's a reason not to fight with someone. So if you look different from someone, you could punch them. But if you look like them, you shouldn't fight with them. What difference does it make how you look? So the explains he offers the following approach that a says to since we look the same people are going to think I'm the one who's shephering my sheep in other people's field they're going to suspect me on stealing so told you can't do this the bas also explains that was afraid that people would mistake him and fight. Since they look the same, they could come to fighting. Each one could claim your money is mine, my money is yours because the line of demarcation is blurred when we look the same. The mascul explains a different approach that Aram was saying that the fact that we look similar means that there is a some kind of internal spiritual connection between us. Therefore, it's not appropriate for us to fight. Okay? But why is this being brought in this context that Abraino heard his brother was captured? So what Amraino only went to rescue light because lit looked like him says oh he looks like me so let me go rescue him. What kind of is that? So it says something very interesting in the safer of that based on this idea that a and light look the same. We could understand why Nimrod wanted to capture light and why this was considered hashem. Back in the day, a man by the name of Terak came to to Nimrod and he said, "Nrod, my two children, they went off the Dak. My son Abraham broke the Azara." So Nimrod said, "We got to throw him in the fire." And amazingly, Abrainu came out victorious from the fire. And Nimrod came out of that battle ashamed, embarrassed as a loser. His entire philosophy was shattered. His belief in the idols was completely destroyed. After all, the one who broke all the idols emerged unscathed from the fire. And Nimrod never forgot it. Now Abrainu left Oracazm and he said you see idolatry is empty. The idols have no power. There's only one true God. And Abrau who is miraculously saved. He always wanted to take revenge against Nimrod who threw him in the fire. But Nimrod would never live this down. So Nimrod said, "I have a great idea. If I could c if I ever get my hands on light and persuade light to follow my ideology and light looks exactly like Abraham, people will make a mistake. They'll think that Abraham [snorts] was captured and Abraham came to the belief of Nimrod and therefore the says when the says that they captured light and his possessions these possessions are not just his couch and his car. The possession was they captured the great possession that light had that he is the son of the brother of Abraham that they were going to going to persuade light to abandon the faith of Abraham and embrace idolatry. Therefore when Abraham heard his brother was captured says why they capture light what's what is the main general over here. Omar is the main general over here. Om is the main superpower. Why are they capturing light? Oh, it must be it's because Amrael, who's Nimrod, he's part of this rebellion. He's part of this uh team to try to squaltch the the rebellion against Kadar. And he got his hands on light because light looks like me. And now he'll tell everyone that he captured me. There's a safe tel of Rabbi Ysef that Abrau entered the in order to be Shayim. How so? You know why Amrau risked his life? Because [snorts] Rau didn't do it for light. Ravenu did Shayim because when Nimrod threw Ara into the fire, it made a great kid of Shashem that Abrau reigned supreme over Nimrod. But now Abra was afraid that if Light gets killed, people are going to say that Nimrod killed Aram. And even though Nimrod was losing, losing at halftime, but by the time the fourth quarter was over, Nimrod won. He pulled it out in the final minute. He killed Abram. In fact, in the safer kilas Morai he brings a a story that a certain daran once offered. I don't think there's any basis that this is an actual medish, but this is just like an illustrated account of maybe what was going through Nimrod's mind. He tells the story that one time Nimrod needed he ended up in Abrau's tent and Abraino gave him to eat and to drink and when Nimrod picked himself up to go said wait wait wait a second your bill. So Nimro said what do you mean I thought you're the biggest I the rumor has it you don't charge for your hotel says where'd you get that from? I don't charge human beings when they stay in my hotel. But you're a god, Nimrod. You know, you say you're a god. Gods I charge a lot of money to. Not only do I charge money to gods, I charge gods for all the people who who've ever stayed in my house. So Nimrod got an exorbitant bill for all the guests that Aramino ever hosted. So So Nimrod said, "No, no, I don't have money on me." Aram said, "What kind of god doesn't carry American Express card? What do you mean you don't have money on you?" So, Nimrod was forced to concede that he wasn't a god. Ravino says, "I don't believe you. You need to sign on the dotted line." And instead of signing the credit card, sign on the dotted line, you're not a a god. So, Nimrod had no choice. So, Aram says, "If you sign on the dotted line, you're not a god. Then I you won't have to pay like everyone else." So Arau then took this settle and he went around showing everyone. You see even Nimrod himself doesn't believe he's a god. But now Nimrod is fuming. He says if I ever get my hands on Ara I'm going to I'm going to ring his neck. So but Nimrod had a great idea. Instead of getting Ara, he'll capture L. Light looks exactly like Ara and now he'll be able to say that he defeated Ara. So that's why Abrau went to rescue light so that Nimrod will not ever be able to say that in the second half of the game at the end of the game uh Nimrod defeated Abraham. Now we have no makar in Kazal that the story happened. It's just a night nice mushall to explain the motivation of Nimrod to try to capture light. Dear friends, fasten your seat belts because this is a lesson in learning in general. Throughout the story, there are two narratives. Well, let's call it there's the New York Times narrative and then there's the narrative of the if the New York Times was reporting this war, there is no question they would always record that the main protagonist was he the world's superpower. He's the main king. you know, you have uh in the United Nations, you know, you have certain European nations and then you have presidents of third world countries and they have different rankings. There's no question is the bala and when the Torah records what happens throughout it always says he is the main character in the story. However, the Tory is not a newspaper. So even though is the main protagonist, but why is the Tory telling us the story? So the Tyra opens up May Rafel. It was in times of Amrael. Who's Amrael? Am Rafel is Nimrite. Why are we calling him Amrael? Why don't we call him Nimrod? Because the Torah is trying to explain to us why we're recording the story in the first place. You know why we're recording the story? Because Nimrod was so self-conscious his whole life. You know, Arino defeated him. Aravino embarrassed him that if he could ever make that story be forgotten and somehow capture Araino's lookalike nephew, then he'll be able to tell people the story never happened. And in the end of the day he was victorious. So from a historical narrative of course is the main protagonist but from the Nimrod and now why do we call him Amrael? Because we're trying to say why the story is recorded. It's recorded because Amra Rafael is trying to hide that he threw Ara into or Kazdm by capturing light. And Araino needs to show the world that nothing will ever dampen the great miracle of Orcazdam. So Amraino has to go rescue his lookalike nephew. So the lavush writes [snorts] that the reason why amra is written f first is to explain why the toy is recording this in the first place. This whole story was written because of Avam that if the four kings beat the five kings it shows how powerful Ara was. So even though Nimrod was really the third most powerful but when the story opens it recorders him first because that's the whole reason he got involved in this war and the whole reason the Tory records the war. So even though the main political figure is but from a standpoint of hash why the Tory records and why Abrau is getting involved it's because of Amrael. Now watch this says there's another stream taking place in this nar narrative. You know why Amra Rafel is involved? You know why Nimrod is mentioned first? You know why he's called Amrael? Because listen to this because Hashem wants to give Arau the opportunity to take revenge. You know, we live in an era when people say, you know, revenge is is a bad thing. You know, it's revenge is uh there's something wrong with revenge. No. In it says that sadic rejoices when he sees revenge never got revenge from Nimrod for throwing him into the fire. However, the Lavush writes, "The reason why Araino didn't take revenge right away is because right after um Nimrod threw Ara into the fire, Nimrod saw that Abrau had miraculous protection. He signed a covenant with him. He made a brisk shulling with him. So Armainu could not take revenge. But now then Nimrod went to war against the five kings and he took light hostage. So now Nimrod broke the ceasefire. You see after Nimrod friends after Nimrod threw Aram into the fire. They made a ceasefire. Now you know where the ceasefire comes from. You ever hear now you know where the word ceasefire comes from. It comes from the covenant that Nimrod made with Abram. He said, "I'm not going to throw you into the fire anymore. ceasefire. But once Nimrod captured Lit, so Nimrod broke broke the ceasefire and Arainu said, "You have 48 hours otherwise it's not going to be good." So Abrau came and he said, "You touched my nephew and the reason you captured him is cuz you want to tell people that you won the war. No, you're dead meat." So now Abrau comes to take revenge against Nimrod. says the Lush, listen carefully. How does the para open? Hashem tells Abraham, "You go. This is going to be good for you. I'm going to [clears throat] make you a great nation." Hashem said, "You go to Israel and things will be good." You know what? One of the great things that happened to Ara by going to Israel that the the five kings try to rebel against the four kings. Am Rafael took Lloyd hostage. Ara came to rescue Lloyd and Abraham kills Nimrod and he Abraham kills Nimrod. That's the heck from the beginning of the para. We may have mentioned some of these ideas before that is a the says that since in the beginning of the para Hashem promises Abra you go to and things will be good while part of the blessing and part of the goodness is rejoices in seeing the revenge that he has against Nimrod. That's part of the that's the fulfillment of the of that's the fulfillment of it. That's the fulfillment of the of now the cherry on top is going to come in the end. I never said it before. [snorts] So the whole reason why Abraham Au went to rescue Lloyd is because Lloyd looked like him and and he saw that Nimrod put in full page ads in the paper that even though Arau was leading at halftime by the time the game was over I Nimrod captured Aram who told Aam that was captured the refugee came. Who is this refugee? Rashi says o who survived the war. What war? He survived the war. The four kings Rafel didn't kill him. The medish rabba says it's o who survived the mabel. The the pullet was kabashan. So it comes out that o lived a really long time. He lived in the time of the mul and he he wasn't killed until Mosa killed him. So let's think about that. The mabble was uh the mabble was well before the time of Abrau. Many hundreds of years before Abrau the Tory was given in the year 2448. So that means o was killed like in the year 20 1948 24 48 was killed like in the year 2488. That means lived like 1500 years or so. No. What year was the year of the flood? Anyone have that date on them? What year was the year of the flood? It was a long time ago. put it this way. O was at least 1,500 years old, right? Was about um O was approximately 1,500 years old, maybe a thousand years old. Why did he leave so long? So the moral deals with the uh longevity of but the lavush says no. You know why was to live so long? because he gave Abraham of Enu the great possibility of taking revenge against Nimrod and it's a very big sim when Sadikim are able to avenge their enemy. Hashem was Marak the Yim of O in the times of the Mabel until from the times of Mabel until the the war of the four kings and the five kings. Why the says why did first live from the Mabel until the war of the four kings? because otherwise there's no way O would have been able to survive such powerful kings uh the the war of the four kings and Hashem wanted o to be able to tell Aram that was captured. Now did it for ulterior motives. He wanted a to get killed and that he'd be able to marry Sah but from the fact since provided a being able to take revenge against Nimrod therefore he lived so long. So look how beautiful parl is. Hashem says to Abram, "Go leave and go to Israel and you go to I'm gonna shower you with blessing." The next thing Abrau knows is he has to he has to go into a b war zone and rescue light. What exactly is the braha of that? But ultimately was it brought about tremendous braha. It brought about such great braha. And the braha was even though the real war politically was kad against the five kings but there was a side character there. His name was Nimrod but we're going to call him Amrael because we're trying to explain a frame. It was 656 flood or 1656 flood >> 1656 >> 1656. So that means uh okay so was almost a thousand years old you know so that's still pretty old that's older than most people on the sh now you know so [cough] um provided a great sima because there's a side character Am Rafel who gets involved he feels it's his chance to finally take revenge against Aram and now I want to show show you the ultimate irony cuz when Abraino is trying to rescue light he's passing by a certain area and what happened bey quotes it that the melim fell into a pit of mortar of cement and what happened was that when Abra was passing by, the Melik Sadim levitated out of this bar and because there were many people who never believed that Amra was saved from or Kazd but now that Armu saved light and thereby saved the king of Sadim. They believed in Abraham retroactively. Listen to this. It's Rashi says that when the Melik Sadim was miraculously saved from the pit, everyone acknowledged ordroactively. Look at the great irony here. I call this right back at you. Why did Amra Rafael get involved in this war? To capture Lit. Why did he want to capture Lit? because he wanted to claim he captured Aram. Why do he want to capture Aram? Because he wanted to tell people, you see, Aram was never saved from Orcazdim. The miracle never happened. It's fake news. The media made it up. You see, I captured him. Or Kazdam never happened. So Amrael's goal was to dampen Orcazim. And it turns out through this war that Abraham saved Lit who Rafel captured by Abraham going out to war. Miraculously the king of Sodom is saved and whoever questioned or caused him before now believed in it. And who do we have to thank for disseminating to the whole world the the veracity of the story of Orcazim? Am Rafael. So Amrael thought he was going to extricate the memory of Orcazdim. Turns out Am Rafael disseminated and promoted the events of Orcazdm more than ever before. So this is the ultimate irony we call that Nimro thought he was going to finally make orcas and be forgotten. No, he made sure that everyone would believe in it forever. And this is really the theme of the para is about all the benefits that occurred to Abra by going to Israel including not only verifying that orcasm happened but also being able to take revenge for Nimro throwing him into the fire in the first place. So this this week this week's para is about the complete rescue of hostages and not only the rescue of hostages but the revenge against those who took them in the first place. So may that be ominous for uh and have a great day everyone. >> Thank you. Amen. Is there are we having chance for a second form of separation from the ramp? >> Yeah, we're working on it but unfortunately not for this year. >> So yeah. >> Yeah. >> Excellent. Excellent. Okay. Thank you. Cultter. >> [clears throat]