TheYeshiva.net - Torah Or Lech Lecha: Removing the Foreskins of Existence

hello this week is patches lakla home so we're going to learn a mind meditative alien passion / Los all the moment we're going to do as you can see on your PDF is the laker eoh shimka Avram this is the my med where the Alta Deborah explains on a mystical level on a Hasidic level the significance of avril lavigne whose name being changed he started out with one name of rum then he had his name changed to Avraham you have to explain both why he's a name was initially Avram and why it was later changed to Avraham but first a story there ever I would have arrived in New York and 1941 in let's say may his father mother feel the cab was already here the feeder cable was quite limited physically at that point in his life and naturally the rebus stood to a great degree in the forefront of the activities of lubavitch at that time he oversaw all the outreach work and the various other organizations at the Field Academy ran but there ever was as we all know incredibly dedicated and loyal to his father-in-law de fier de que debe and everyone said revealed an interesting little detail and that was that frequently while there were events happening in the shul that used to be called in those days downstairs the previous level would turned out an intercom and listening in other words that ever our rabbit was making a CMS actor or otherwise fab ranking or making some kind of a talk on whatever topic it was and his father-in-law the previous level would listen in so that ever said he always felt strange about that because it's a well-known thing that when you stand in the presence of it ever you keep quiet then you show respect and deference here he was leading an event that was his role that was a responsibility with the full awareness that his father-in-law is listening in had his father-in-law that ever been in the room that ever would have been silent but to him it was essentially the same thing the Frida club is listening to him and yet he leadership role and that ever explained in effect that he struggled with this here i am talking and that ever who is my teacher is listening in and the answer that he gave was doses fostered a bevel this is the devas warned trevor wants that we should rank never once that we should have these conversations never once for us to take initiative and that's part of the reason he's not in the room he's upstairs to give us space and therefore although it's quite uncomfortable because all of us know that then evan is paying attention nevertheless we do what we must do and there ever finish telling the story as it was at that time after the previous ever passed away that there's still the presence of that ever yet his evacuating his departure on some level gives us an opportunity to be able to sort of speak bring ourselves forward this story is consistent with a an idea found in Cassidy's in anger motor that says that when one is in the presence of a king they're not allowed to make a muscle move a muscle now that i make any kind of motion it's done the presence of the king you can't even point with your finger the time that is considered quote standing in front of the king is when we pray when we daven lachemann yesterday here comes the question isn't god always around is not always present aren't we always in the residence of god and as a consequence that would inhibit us terribly we would be able to move just as we cannot move when we daven and of course the answer is that this is the upside to why God hides the world as we experience it seems to be without obvious presence of God this concealment which is a great challenge to us also creates the framework in which we are able to do what we need to do to ultimately reincorporate to bring God back into this world that he created and make this world into his and that's the heart that's the soul that's the spirit in this particular moment to explain the need or the justification for the sort of speak evacuation the emptying of this reality from a revealed presence of God not only to challenge us and to hide from us but the create opportunity which will allow us to be able to do what we need to do to be sure in the tanya section to value a chapter 6 paddock volvo of shoddy coger una the other day I said something incredible he says Obama has said you bona which means literally the world was created through kindness but the out that I've interprets it a little bit different he said oil immersed in the word Helen the concealment of God which is the creation of the world is a great act of kindness if God would not hide we would have no opportunity and God's concealment is not about concealment it's about creating an environment in which we were able to what we need to do and what must we do bring God back into his world and this model this insight explains and justifies the fact that Avraham was initially called Avram the letter called Elohim alternatively for 99 years of his life he was uncircumcised in a particular point he needed to be circumcised