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e-TiM Parshat Shavua 5781 with Rabbi Joel Finkelstein: Parshat Lech Lecha

Rabbi Joel Finkelstein

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The Haftarot: How to Profit from the Prophets (Parshat Lech Lecha)

Dr. Moshe Sokolow

Class

When Did G-d "Calculate" The End? An Inquiry into Berit Bein haBetarim

Rabbi Aviad Tabory

When Did G-d "Calculate" The End? An Inquiry into Berit Bein haBetarim
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Lech Lecha: In Defence of Terach

Rabbi Jay Kelman

Our rabbis famously debate the righteousness of Noach. Was he a tzadik only relative to the corrupt society in which he lived, or was his righteousness that much greater because he attained it in such in a corrupt generation? While they debate the…
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Lech Lecha: Counting Sheep

Rabbi Jay Kelman

"And there was an argument between the herdsmen of Abram's livestock and the herdsmen of Lot's livestock, and the Canaanite and the Perizite were then in the land" (Breisheet 13:7).   Abram, Sarai, and Lot returned to…
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Parshat Lech Lecha: This Is for You

Rabbi Jay Kelman

The Divine choosing of Avraham marks the beginning of Jewish peoplehood. Tellingly, this relationship begins with G-d's command (obeying G-d's commands is the primary function we have) lech lecha,"go for you from your land, your…
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Lech Lecha: A Loving Son

Rabbi Jay Kelman

“And Terach’s years were 205 years, and Terach died in Charan. G-d said to Abram, Go away from your land, your birthplace and from your father’s house to a land that I will show you” (11:30-12:1).  These two verses…
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Lech Lecha: Informed Consent

Rabbi Jay Kelman

Judaism and modern western thought both teach the supremacy of man's freedom of choice. For modern man, freedom is rooted in the notion of individual rights, guaranteed by the United States Constitution or the Charter of Rights. Man has the…
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Lech Lecha: Finding G-d

Rabbi Jay Kelman

"G-d said to Abraham, ‘Go away from your land, from your birthplace, and from your father's house to the land that I will show you' (12:1)". Abraham is seventy-five years old when he begins his trek to the anonymous land…
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Lech Lecha: The First Child

Rabbi Jay Kelman

"Sarai said to Abram, 'G-d has kept me from having children. Come to my concubine; perhaps I will be built up through her'" (16:2) Abram and Sarai represent the first recorded case of infertility in the Bible. In fact, in the…
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