MIN TORAH PORTION - PARASHAT LECH-LECHA פרשת לך-לך — 20

hello friends how are you i think hour and a half maybe a little bit more before shabbat here in israel i'm in my studio in in jaffa eliezer here or here i don't know yes it's in the galilee and the mountains over here so uh yeah in the north what amoka is is is in a female when you say to a female is deep and so it's it's so like a mc is also a valley so this is this is uh the name of this play of the place up here so we always feel in the mountains we feel the spirit and we feel the deep energy so i hope that we could share it together all of us so it's a good uh to see you here with us and yeah bring us the the feeling from the from the north that we will all uh will come to you we come to you with our souls because we can't actually [Laughter] okay so um okay let's start a very important portion talking about avraham at the first time it's the first time that we're going to meet avraham the man our father yeah our father that uh changed the history so i want to do a lit a small zoom out and then we will go deep inside the portion as i'm telling you every shabbat it's very hard to talk about all the things that's happening in in the parasha in the portion but we're going to focus on a couple of specific points that we're going to to put the light on and to speak about them but if i'm going to to speak about where we are in the bible so we had a better sheet portion then noah and all the the the flood and everything that we spoke uh in the last week and now the first time we are hearing about someone called abraham uh god telling him that he he promised abraham that his sons and his grandsons will lead the world and that is going to spread all over the world and he uh promised him the uh the land of israel islam is wanting to to israel and then suddenly get ordered to go to egypt and i'm not going to go deep to the to the story and we are hearing in this parashai the first time on someone called lot that in the next week we're going to hear a very interesting story about all the things that happened to to lot um and something else yeah the cousin of um yeah and there's something else important that you want to just to say in a sentence yes also on our parties um is like you said is the promise that uh that hashem gives the promise to abraham on the future it's also the birth of his first son of ishmael um also the change of the name then god's changed changed their name but i think maybe let's start from the uh the the the name of the power shot and and symbolize so much symbolizes so much about about vino that he is the character he's the model he's he's the first one he started he started two movements movement of faith and movement faith in god and one god and the movement of and the fluid individualism and if people people think that sometimes liberty it demands um um denial of of a higher existence but actually a true individual um is involved in the reason of the world and fixing the world and this is the whole movement of afraham that he discovered god and that he discovered hashem and you will speak soon more about this about about the beginning about about his stories but but i do want to to to focus on and the first order that that hashem that god told abraham is it's a mystery he doesn't know where he's going to he's going out to a journey without knowing to where this journey is but god promises him from the beginning you're going to yourself you're going to to to the truth of of your existence in this world and this is this is the true journey it's journey that demands from us to be sent always sensitive to reality around us um it demands from us all the time to feel that we are in a mission this mission isn't to convince others this mission is because we are part of the global world we have responsibility and and and and and and this is this is this is the whole movement that my father started but in order to do this movement we see that god tells him to go to yourself to a true individual and to find your present for the whole world what only you could win and no one else could bring and not from a place of competition from a place of bringing bringing bringing the value that's needed to the world if every person would would be as totally individual so we would all complete each other we could we would be in harmony yeah and because because everyone has his own uniqueness and that's our connection with the oneness of god because the oneness of god puts every person alone with god and but in order to go to to there we need to go first of all that's what they say and in the comments from the place from from the com the comfortable place that we that we think we know already yes we need we need to go to discovery we go to go to the unknown and and and also sometimes we think that that that it's not only the environment that we come from it's also the country mullet in hebrew means and the the word moulad it's like it's where you were born it's so what's born inside of you also our characters we don't really know who our personality is we discover personalities through our actions through our actions we could always change we could always be the person that the people that we want to be and also me better also also also from the house of your father you know our we every generation has a new message of discover of the glory of god to the world every generation peels another another shell and discovers another another level of light and and we need to always be in our discovery in this movement of believing in the positive development that we're always in the process that's growing to to to to live more and more god's light also and and it's also in the general world and also in every individual in every person and then our our individual development is connected with with the redemption of the whole world this is the movement of vino brother thank you and and and i think that that one one thing that's really uh i didn't understand it until until now is that god telling him go to you actually in hebrew is like go to you is like it can be go to you as bots yourself go to yourself but it can be at the same time go alone because it's like it's like i'm going alone with myself so i think that every time that you are trying i feel it and and i think in the history you see it a lot that when people trying to change the world uh they're walking along when they try when you try to lead something sometimes with your ideas you are walking alone and you are you need to lead the idea and the beginning at the beginning people may be not understanding what you want so this is uh like something that that i saw and i the things that i said that i didn't understand is when he entered to israel after a couple of uh i don't know days or weeks i don't know maybe you can tell me uh he had he understand that there is no food in israel in the land of israel so we left to egypt and it's like it's very interesting how sometimes uh that's what i felt but i would like to to hear what you think about it how sometimes you are walking in a way alone as i said when you try to lead and to to to lead for something and then suddenly you need to change your plan like it's not it's not that that you are that you have like a profit like uh purpose and everything like going i want to surprise you i want to surprise you yes we spoke about the subjects that we're going to speak but your son is called ifrin ifrit and they call abraham and and i thought about this and and just i remembered you know you know that that that this is this is a why why is afraham called aisha the man that passes is is is it come it's in hebrew it's like ivory is hebrew but the the source of the world the word is a man that has the ability of sin beyond me the ability to pass all the time to the beyond and the true individual like you said that that goes alone is that you take full responsibility of choice of choice so so we stand in front of the challenges but we understand that the signs of god are all the time the challenges that he brings us for our true choice and sometimes the situation is difficult but it's not it's not it's not to punish us it's it's to it's to it's to find the strength inside of us to to do the right choice and to pass on to the to the to the next level and that's where we all discover as humans and this is one of your arm symbolizes exactly and you call your son like that brother yeah i felt actually when when we called ivory uh ivory you know in in the jewish faith for for those who i i will look at the chat in a moment and i will answer to you and we will move to the next subject but uh i don't know if you know but we are doing of course that you know that we are doing a brit millah this is uh one of the things that we we will read in the end of this uh polish actually um but in the day that you are doing it uh to the suns in the in the eighth date of their uh from their births uh we need to call them in in a name so it's it's a lot of stress strain to uh it's um you know you have like eight days to decide what is the name of your son so for me it was very hard basketball first but yeah stressful that's that's the word that i uh looked for um and we didn't know what was going to be his name we had so many days and in the way to the blitz like maybe five or ten minutes before the the the ceremony we we decided honestly because we felt that we want to go to the deepest place in the whole oldest place that we can't that we can uh in our history like that he will be the first one like that's what we felt um and and yeah i really love this uh this name and and my son of course i love him yeah yeah he's totally he's totally yes uh um you know he's he's a totally huge individual you so you know like you see you see that he came from his father you know beautiful and you so wow yes yeah so yes okay so as i as i told you i think sometimes when i'm doing when i'm doing lives um i'm i'm telling you that in in uh when we read the bible so we have the shot the things that as i told you before in the beginning like what's happened what is the stories um and then we have the drash and the secrets behind the words so from now i think that where we will start to speak about the things uh inside as as butzer started um and i want to tell you to to to tell you a story about avraham story that we are telling that khazal telling this story is the all these people and it's an old story uh that went from father to son for years and we believe as a jew that this is like uh if we want to to understand the whole story so we need to to read those stories too um that behind the the the words of the bible or behind the things that we can understand that we need like explanations so there is like a beautiful story that explain who is of lamb so to the father of abraham the father of abraham had a store of uh help me with the word i forgot sculptures sculptures yeah avan one day went to the store and just broke everything and when i do it really short and when the the all the friends of his father and uh the customers entered to the store they said what what you did you got we're gonna get punishment well what did you what you do they are like they are our god so avram said if there are our guts how can i block them uh how can it be so i do it of course it's uh it's uh i do it very short uh i try to do it very short this story it's a little bit more longer with more details but the message here is that from the day that he was young um avraham understood that something grown in in this world that there is one god and this is maybe the the beautiful thing that avraham started to do in this portion that we're going to read is that you see that is he's a fighter ali as a yeah he's a fighter but at the beginning what he goes until the end exactly goes until the end so at the beginning we we we see that he's like a spiritual uh fighter at the end of the of the portion we see that actually he he know how to fight uh but his fight is fighting till the end with his beliefs and i think that that is at the same time that we're talking about travel we can speak about sacrifice because he decided to leave everything because this is what god said and this is something that of course um you need to be very special man but you need to be with you need to be someone with a lot of belief and i think at the first time in history uh we're going to see in this portion the idea of one god and this is like something that changed the world now we are living in a world that a lot of people believe in god like um you can go everywhere and to say uh that we have one god and people will say amen but in those days it wasn't it wasn't like this people didn't understand what he want and it was something new um so how can we deal as as people as we said before that want to do something new and to bring something new to this uh word without to be alone and this is like a little bit connected to what what we said about lechon what you said and i think i will do a small break to read your question on the chat and then we will go to the next subject about um [Music] the name of avram because at the beginning of the portion this is not his name yes his name in the beginning and without the h let's say like this h a um avraham well i want to put it in a moment like i i just wanted you to see it um i will do a shared screen for a moment okay um let me know if you see it okay and [Music] okay so like we've seen over here um thank you um so we could we could see that in the beginning the name of um and sarai was uh without the hay hey like like we could see it's it's a it's you you pronounce hey like a h um but um yeah i prefer to see you to see you like you know and uh you know we have this over here so now we're gonna speak of the idea thank you brother yes so um [Music] like you said before there there is a there is different ways um uh and all the ways for sure connect to each other of how to study the torah so like you said there's first step shot it's the simple story um but in the fourth level and then rem is is is a hint and then it's already it's the big it's the ability of understanding the philosophy of connecting different stories but there is also so does the secret um and and the and the secret interpretation so the kabbalah so we are from zfaat and our area is the area of swaz so we are allowed it allows us to go more to the interpretations of the secret we feel that this is things that that god revealed to us and the the letter hey symbolizes um uh could symbolize two things uh one thing is if we pronounce it in hebrew hey alone that's how he's saying so it's hey it's please please have please take him please have or we could say ha ha and this is something very very important because to be a totally a total individual like like obama and sarai that go like we said you know until the end with the truth willing to sacrifice but what makes the difference between being moved by commitment than being moved by ego being being moved by hey i deserve everything everything is for me to say the world is mine it's it's it's mine out of responsibility every person needs to say that now if a person says the world is mine i i deserve everything everything needs to come to me i'm done so you take the hay you take the hate to ha and it's called in hebrew this is nothing you know it's like you say this is the messiah this is the messiah but this is hey so hey yes every person has a character of of abraham that he was alone in the world alone in the world he that's how we saw the world that's why he could have connected to everyone as people that also stand alone with god he could have respect them could have seen their soul because he was in a movement of seeing others and and and that's the place that that that gives birth to to reality that's the place that that god gives us the presence of of strength he gives us a strength a present that could give us the strength of birth then after they got the hey they could have they could have given birth together after both of them got the hay yes before they couldn't give given birth this is what gave them just the strength of birth so i would just put it in the in the order of the of the story so avram and sarai actually avram and sarai they couldn't uh get birds so uh give birth yeah give birth yes so um so you said that after the the ch the the the name changed so the wh what happened to them with it like what happened what happened to them they got they got um god hashem gave them the present of of um fixing the world and fixing the world it's it's and it's it's being part of a chain that always grows towards the final redemption and for that there is a movement that movement isn't the movement of the and then all what you need to do is convince other people to be like you or to point you um because you are the and and that's the subject that's taking the place of god but being in a movement of birth yeah sarai couldn't give birth abraham and you will speak about that soon yes also he had a place that their connection their true connection and their true eternal connection was was was was actually um accomplished and promised um um in a way that there's also a structure of promising um our eternal movement and that's been always in a movement of growing through giving what what does it mean that i really grew my ability to help more that that that to be to to to be to be better for for for reality that that's that's that's that's the true reference not if i grew more um because because i was duh and he wasn't the no no it's not it's not it's not that's that's that's that's the place of of of idols that's the place of building new sculptures of our generation you know something that uh that i see very interesting that when you want to say uh as you said the hey when you say da in english it's the same you put it in the beginning um and when avraham um got the hay he got it in the middle so one this is remind me something that uh my my grandma telling me all the time that if you want a deep belief you have to be all the time in the middle all the time like to take from here and from here and from there and to listen to everything but to stay in the middle and i don't know it just jumped to my head uh very much thank you very much yes yes very much very much very much yes yes and also you see that that um you know [Music] so you know that what brings us to the edges of discovery is is the movement of singing is the movement of opening our heart is the movement of sharing our heart and our heart and then then we could then we could discover always new places but always be in our center like you said you know i i want i'm i'm in the middle because i'm we're not we're not we're not in extremes and the world is round yes so you see sometimes if you go to like to the to the to the biggest extreme so then you connect with the other side so then you're in the middle middle and that's the place of going with the movement of the heart of singing that's and and still always wanting the connection and and the connection is what makes us people of middle because every subject is right what is the timing that's the question and that's why we have dialogue because dialogue we could also not agree but we understand that every opinion is important because it's part of the process decisions it's what is the timing god allows us to be part of that but if we don't sing if we won't sing rather if we want it then dance and we won't be with our hearts open so we'll be always would be always a movement of ego and and that's the place of being done that's best place of creating a culture a culture of competition in in a way that that has no measurement it has no measurement besides winning the other and not and not winning the situation competition is for for me like it took me a lot of time to understand it and i'm trying to remind it to myself every day that competition is not to be in focus because each one of us have his own journey and when you start to be on competition you're going out from your uh road and you start to be in a different places that you don't have to think that you that you you miss your journey that's right that ashley said that god sent uh angels to him to told her ah you mean to a girl yeah to tell her to have that she gonna have a son so i will i will speak about it a little bit so um avraham before uh god told him to go to go to to the land of israel and actually there is a lot of secret in this in this person we can speak about everything about his journey and why he went from here to there it's like a lot a lot of things but um before this he knew how to read in the sky in the stars he knew how to look in the stars and to to understand about to get messages from from god to the to the stars to numbers and things um and when he looked on the on the on the stars he saw that avraham and sarai won't have kids uh and when god told him that he's gonna have a kid um when he was i think 86 yeah yeah and when he was eight when he was 86 ishmael ishmael yeah so so yes ishmael was the first son but he was born to hagar but yeah i also saw then she was still called sarai she saw that she can't give birth so she told abraham yes you know i want you to have children so right but they but both of them together sarai and abraham um and avram then couldn't bring uh the the their child uh to the world together they couldn't bring isaac that isaac is the son of jacob the son of israel so the things that happened that the father he told god how can you tell me that i'm going to have a son if i see in the stars this is how we we are we're talking uh that i'm not going to have a son and so god told him yeah avraham and sarai won't get uh not going to give birth but avraham and sarah will have son and i think that we this is for me it was the the the the beautiful things that that one of the beautiful things that i ever saw in the bible i don't know it's just it's so beautiful the the this message uh why for me it's so so interesting and beautiful because sometimes we are putting on ourselves things that we think about ourselves uh and and there is all the time there is reasons we we have reasons because this is where i grew up and there is reason like this is uh the way i think i don't good and i have i have no um [Music] good uh i don't know how to to do this things and this thing so he's better than me on this and i know that i know how to i don't know i'm a musician so i can't work on it this is something that i put on myself uh but when sometimes there is a good reason for this because this is what you see and this is what this is the truth of the world and it's the same things here with avraham avram sits in the stars and is like he started to understand that this is who he is he won't have a son and that's it and we need to remember as believers we need to remember that as god created the world he can create new future uh for each one of us and there is nothing that we can say about ourselves uh for sure nothing uh maybe that we have a soul that's it but yeah we could see also we could see also now with the covet you know it's it's it's it's you know we could say whatever we want but we always always humanity's shrine is trying to control discovery is is to discover but it's a movement because because because god gives us the opportunity to discover always more and more but if we think that that it's pretty it's pretty pathetic i'm sorry movement the true movement of of of of uh science is is a movement of faith because it wants to discover always more and more not to be in a place of saying oh now we discovered now we discovered the truth oh now but okay but next generation we would we will discover the true truth and then what our truth and now would be limited okay so so be like this already now just be a bit humble how can you know that that the science is sometimes like as you said i don't want to say pathetic because it's it's can it can it's it saves the world sometimes you know when when scientists doing things but as you said no no no no i am i i'm saying i'm saying scientist is the movement of faith because you're discovering you're bringing today i thought you said what i thought you said a why do we need always to deny why we always need to deny that that's the point yeah bring more facts no discover more and more and more bring more and more information but yes we're we're we are always in the control of of the creator and suddenly some one thing could come and yes we'll discover the medicines and everything that's that's part of us being involved in fixing yes but being in a humble movement being um so it's opening ourselves also to positive new opportunities not only for challenging opportunities that will bring the disease and then we as humans will need to fix it and while we want to fix we don't know what other damages we do and i'm not going into any opinions over here yes but but but but yes i am saying um that only the difference is is is do was discovers science is it is important it's but humbleness and that's the movement of avraham that god told him you know nature right and the stars you see that you're not supposed to give birth but but i could change nature because i created nature and i create nature every day from beginning so there is a structure but but there is a creator to the structure and and and the creator is is is is that as with us his dynamic creates the world all the time from beginning and and this is this is our presence of being part of this and then we open ourselves also to discover presence that maybe our logics can't um uh discover because we're all limited how much percents do we the sciences we we use from our from our iq you know how how much percentage do people do do we really use so there is so much potential that we didn't get to yet and who knows amen i see here that ashley said that um not ashley mary said that uh sarai laughed on abba father when he uh told her that abraham and at the time she was really old and that's why it's god she said it's hot it's like yeah in hebrew it's like to laugh like not he left like god did something funny something like that this is the next portion this is the next version so let's let's so let's leave it fit for next version huh yeah i'm good so i'm gonna go get organized for the uh for the shabbat now and shabbat shalom brother shabbat shalom i love you so much brother i miss you [Music] all right so um so if you have any uh questions or something that you want to say it's a good moment it's a good time i think that i will play some what do you say you want me to to bring the guitar let me know here in the comments um and that's it i think so uh write me here in the comments if you want you know what let's try to meet on the on the on the piano [Music] so i'm gonna read your comments so let me know if you want to ask anything and to say anything so just let me know let me know if you see if you see me here all right [Music] america [Music] hello [Music] foreign american [Music] oh [Music] america [Music] all right i'm going to open the chat to see what you know what you're writing for me [Music] okay we love you over and for hello aileen hello um wesley said magog is and woman all right i don't know um [Music] sure was the br uh was the bread and the fish music or sure enough for you what wesley tell me who you are what what do you mean no okay thank you mina uh you want me to sing with me matana i see oh you want me to sing uh sals 150 okay so i think i will bring the guitar what a moment i want to bring my guitar ah i hope it's it's tuned so let me know here if you if you love the way that we are doing the the portion the pavashad uh if you love it so let me know if you want us to do something a little bit different so we'll let you know um it's important for us to to be boy i will do it on piano uh songs 150. all right um so please let us know if you you want us to do something else or something in a different way if you have any question about this portion because it's a very long portion it's really hard to speak about all the things in the portion in a moment in 20 minutes all right [Music] south one second i need to check it [Music] okay [Music] hallelujah [Music] foreign [Music] all right let's see what you are writing for in the chat okay it's actually very refreshing that you bring us back everything to remember everything thank you ashley uh we're trying to speak about uh to focus on on things that we think is important and maybe like a little bit different than what we're speaking uh that you can read just when you read the portion um dj said love this torah portions new uh i learned new insight every week yes thank you i'm happy to know [Music] you want another song you want another song or are you going home what do you say uh [Music] celebi said yeah amazing brother i can't forget your daughter's singing yeah i can't forget too wow because yeah it was amazing um okay okay okay okay [Music] very fine okay let's do rafana uh rafana please heal last song and then i will go back home to shabbat where hour from now the shabbat was going to enter and then i will need to close the phone we're not allowed to to touch any electric um nothing actually just to be with god and with the family that this is something that sometimes i feel that god and family is like similar [Music] alone [Music] venice [Music] oh [Music] um [Music] is [Music] oh [Music] me mommy [Music] all right so shabbat shalom to you from jaffa from israel the promised land of avraham and yakov actually the promised land of israel and the more that we would go uh forward and in the future um we will speak more about the portion and we will see how the history and all the things happening right now and the the story of the bible everything is connected and in this place where i'm standing right now sitting right now it's a place that that i'm sure for 99 percent that king david king solomon the you know they they maybe to walk uh here maybe i don't know um [Music] so yeah it's all happening again the jewish people came back to their land the their story is starting to that the prophets uh starting to to fulfill uh the their prophets it's happening right now we are seeing it so all i have to say to the end of this video is thank you for being here with me thanks god for all the good that he is doing for me and for all of us um today when you are walking uh [Music] wherever you are when you are eating where whatever you're gonna do for don't forget remember that the prophets the things that the prophet said happening right now so try to think how you as a person where you stand in the history when you want to be um in the when when the the books of the history will be uh wrote in and then i hope that we will choose all of us we will choose the right decision um to go with our our belief and to go with our truth life is around it and we will not be afraid we will never be afraid to be sometimes alone we don't need to be afraid from it so that's it shabbat shalom i love you so much please help us and share this video if you want if you love it please write me in the comments if you didn't understand something if you want us to change anything if you have any idea if you love it if you don't love it let us know because this is the way we can become better and better and that's it shabbat shalom you