Lech Lecha - The Chosen People | Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

hi I'm dski welcome to the para in five where in 5 minutes we give you a little insight into the para that you can use to Cate at your shabas table is the introduction of ainu the first two paros more or less cover the first 2,000 years of human history we get that out of the way now we get down to business with the Jewish people and we start with aru and it starts where God says to abam rinu go on a journey and I will make you the chosen people and you will have health wealth and time to enjoy it right he promises some children wealth Fame yeah I promise you Fame and Fortune and everything that goes with it yeah and so he sets out on his journey and as soon as he gets there it's well a famine now he has to leave he goes down to Egypt and they kidnap his wife right wow this chosen people deal is really working out great right he gets his wife back he comes back toel and he has a fight with his one remaining relative Lo who they decide they're going to separate and lo through what can only be described as a poor life decision decides to go and hang out at Stone and then the four world powers joined together to destroy Stone how powerful were these people they were powerful enough that they wiped out O's people OG the human Mountain had to run for his life away from these Four Kings and they destroy Stone they capture them and they take him into captivity and abam finds out and he goes to war against the four world powers the people who decimated OG's people now to be fair he had Eleazar with him yeah and he goes to war and he fights the war and he rescues L who then goes back to Stone some people just don't get it yeah and uh now he's childless for 10 years he has no children so he has no choice he has to take another wife and his second wife and his first wife end up fighting those of you who have more than one wife you know this is not uncommon and so uh they started arguing you know and fighting and uh and uh so Sora tells Abraham to send Huger away and he sends her away and the angel tells her go back and listen to Sor and comes back and this goes on right the brisban ofarim is out of chronological order so it basically goes from the age of 70 to the age of 99 for 29 years and then Hashem says so how do you like my bris you like this you like this deal we made of being the chosen people wait I got one more surprise for you bris MAA I was saving that for last so this is the chosen people it reminds me of the old Jewish joke where Goldberg says God is it true that we are the chosen people and he says yes he says do me a favor choose somebody else once in a while this is the choos chosen people right why because what does it mean there's a chosen people God loves all people God is the king of the entire world he cares about everybody but he sees the world is a mess so he says to Abraham listen you look like you're a sincere guy and you really want to help make the world a better place so let me show you what this world is there's hunger and there's crime and there's war and there's infertility and there's family strife and your job is to solve all of the world's problems that's what I need a chosen people for if you want it we sign it in the flesh and you're going to pass it on to your children and this is going to be forever but the chosen people means that we were chosen to make the world into the world that it could be we're here to do God's work in this land as he says to you go on up ahead and fix this world and the chosen people are in this world here not because we're going to get you know uh because God doesn't like everybody else and just wants us it's because he understands that we're here to be an and a to fix the entire world and bring them around to an understanding of Hashem chabas