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hasem said to AB go for yourself from
your land from your relatives and from
your father's house to the land that I
will show you and I will make you a
great nation I will bless you and make
your name great and you shall be a
blessing I will bless those who bless
you and him who curses you I will curse
and all the families of the earth will
bless themselves by you so it's
interesting because the wording here
betrays what these tests are really all
about out all the tests that we go
through
that go unto
yourself go Hashem tells Abraham onto an
adventure of
self-discovery these two words reveal
the truth of what aram's tests uh are
all about that's what a test is is a
test of
self-discovery and so so we see each
test takes Abraham out of his comfort
zone one step at a time and let's
remember that these tests were not
they're not like the tests that are
given by Flesh and Blood where the
tester is seeking to learn something
about the person being tested no these
tests were were not for Hashem to
discover anything about Abraham Hashem
knows everything Hashem formed Abraham
in the womb and he knows Abraham far
better than abrah knows himself these
tests were for Abraham himself to
discover who he is these tests were
Abraham's journey of self-discovery each
of these tests expanded the depth and
the range of his faith and his trust in
Hashem and brought him to higher levels
of growth and righteousness which is
what all of our tests do if we just
believe in the midst of it while we're
in it we know that it's from Hashem and
that it can do that then Hashem gives us
the strength to emerge from it having
grown even closer to him when Hashem
takes us out of our comfort zones to
these deepest unexplored territories
both in the outside world and on our own
Hearts we're given the opportunity to
apply our faith to entirely new new
facets of our Essence and really thereby
become new people we become people whose
entire Destiny can be fundamentally
altered by virtue of the fact that the
test itself has transformed us into a
new person than we were before perhaps
the you know the preest aam and Sarai
were destined to die childless and for
laoren but the post test Abraham and
Sarah well they were destined to change
absolutely everything that we know of
the world and bring Hashem to the
consciousness of all of mankind bring
the world ultimately to his complete
Perfection that is what these tests
allowed them and propelled them to do
you see it's it's it's just up to us
whether we embrace the change whether we
trust the challenges whether we boldly
Venture forth into an entirely new and
unfamiliar reality or we fight the
change we doubt the Divinity within the
changes and we insist on staying well
within our comfort zones you know each
test seems to not only it it doesn't
only confirm whether the previous test
was truly internalized but it also takes
us up to the next level above and beyond
where where we're Beyond where we could
have ever imagined that we would be able
to walk with Hashem hey this is Jeremy
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