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Toldos: HOSTAGE IN GAZA? - What Ever Happened to Avraham's Converts?

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recording in progress okay good morning friends if I may a question that I've been asked many times over the years and that's one day we we hope to discuss it further is we know thatu made many g converted many converts the r writes inar the end of par Al that abrau gathered thousand tens of thousands and the question is you know what ever happened to these people where' they go how come we don't read about them doesn't want to marry off to them in fact we don't find that they had any ever lasting Kum they did not seem to remain in their belief what happened to these people what happened to the in test also in the Y at the end of it says that all the slaves that were circumcised withu they did not last it seems like they reverted back to their to their bad ways they did not last and the question though is how come we don't find any reference to them we don't find any illusion to them you know whatever happen happened to them where' they go so it's interesting if you look in in this week's par on the then dug them and he called them the names that his father called them we have this whole story that all the wells that abam dug and the P stuffed up so red what is that all about says that these Wells are AIS to the G that were Abraham because they were very easy to accept the amuna of Hashem just like a well easily receives water and the opening of their hearts which was clogged up was called digging and the pushim at of jealousy stuff them up and this is what it means by because and before in the times of Abraham they were filled with and so the P filled them up with AF har is called afar this is uh this is the explanation in in fact the adds that we find in the gar that when somebody speaks AI carus we sayt um dirt in his mouth we see that heresy is a reference to dirt so when the when it says the pish and filled it up with dirt it means they reverted them back to their heretical ways and then y prevailed and he brought them back to the good this is what it means by it's interesting if you look in the of the the rambam says that Abraham planted in the hearts of these G went back and he taught and he returned them it's interesting the language the ramam uses to refer to what y did is he returned and he taught them the question is we don't find anywhere that y went back and taught the gay aside from the fact we don't find the made converts but what is the slush in the ra uses and according to this it comes out very nice that the refers to by the way the also writes in the that all the wells that that the slaves of Abraham Doug and the p and filled up with dirt red the Rama also says it's referring to the gum that were convert in the times of Abraham and went back and he converted them so this the of the ra is very good and the of the r is actually the exact of the the adds that the word is gatria G be is 203 is gatria and this is a reference again to the fact that all the G thatu made the so to speak return them back to their bad ways and red them it does not fully answer the question okay so what ultimately happened to them but it does seem like these Wells dried up because they never went down to with Yu and even though the of the r is that um in any event the story of the of the converts and the Tam of Abu sort of continues in this week's para in the episode of the is and apparently the Philistines uh influence them to go back to their bad ways and red digs them and what does it mean he called them the names that his father called them so the explains very interestingly thatu taught them his own uh life Mission focused on he he recognized that and creation was a manifestation of God's and through that he converted many and the Philistines influen that the says that the word pish him is amazing word right we're dealing with the Philistines in Gaza amazingly you know the the Palestinians which we see so much uh disaster coming from that area the gamat the word pish this is unbelievable is 860 10 times mid did you know that the Philistines the plishtim Palestinian 10 times m it's so to speak the epitome of you seeu taught the world and the way the Philistines so to speak covered it up and counteracted it is because they are the epitome of mid they're 86 time 10 they're on steroids did you know that pish is 86 * 10 it's unbelievable so was able to show is but he's namely he's able to show that all of is really the backdrop of and that theid are the ofid and the so he was able to show that even though they were influenced by he was able to show that the source of M is was the so he went back and he dug those Wells and he called them the names that called them showing that the root of mid is really mid so it's the same name he didn't say well I'm going to influence you with a different approach in life AB taught you said I'm going to teach you no he called it the very same names that Abraham called it namely but I'm showing you a different understanding of that all the you see in the world is really sourced in the so that's an amazing discovery that the pish were the ones who undid what Abu accomplished and him is gria mid um * 10 86 * 10 okay I want to invite everyone to an amazing share we have tonight the topic of tonight's share is welcome angels and now leave the amazing controversy of Shalom have a good day everyone call