Shnayim Yomi - Lech Lecha - Rishon - #1

[Music] 19 generations after the creation of the world in the year 1948 avraham is born to terrach was a man who manufactured and sold idols in a society where nimrod was ruling the land of babylon imposing idolatry upon everyone this is all avram knew this was the society he was brought up in however from a very young age three years old he started questioning all of these concepts saying there must be something much greater than idols and idol worship there must be a creator god and he was right it took him time but he finally found hashem and hashem revealed himself to avram at age 75 in the year 2023 god tells avram and from the home of your father where did he tell him to go to god says to the land that i will show you basically avraham didn't know where he was going yet he still went and this according to the rambam was the first of the ten tests of faith that god tested and so it was to come to the land of israel who does he come with the torah tells us he comes with his wife sarai with lut his nephew and with kola nephesh all the souls that he made in all of the other human beings that he brought closer to god and pulled them out of the swamps of idolatry having said that as soon as he gets to the land of israel god shows him the entire land back then it was called the land of canaan and he tells them this is for you and for your descendants at that point avraham makes an altar and he blesses and he thanks god then hashem sounds a curveball this curveball is his second test this was a famine imagine coming to the promised land and right away there's a famine he has to leave and avram leaves and he's going to egypt to escape the famine on the way down he tells his wife to say that they are siblings in order to save himself you