Beit Midrash Torah Portion and Tanach Bereshit

Lech Lecha

Parashat Hashavua - Torah Portion - Lech Lecha

Cheshvan 10 5780 | Baruch Gordon
Beyond the 4 Amot Judaism starts with the Land of Israel
In this week's Parasha, Hashem commands his first command to the first jew. The commandment is to move to the land of Israel.
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Cheshvan 6 5780 | Rabbi Yossef Carmel
The Renegades of Beit El
Parashat Hashavua Lech Lecha
Cheshvan 5 5780 | Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
A Palace in Flames
Covenant & Conversation Lech Lecha
Cheshvan 10 5779 | Rabbi Yossef Carmel
About a Refugee, Merits, Treatment of Women, and Covenants
After Avraham’s nephew Lot was taken captive by the four Mesopotamian kings, the Torah relates: “The refugee (palit) came and told Avram the Hebrew, who was dwelling in the plot of Mamreh the Emorite, the brother of Eshkol and Aner, and they were members of a covenant with Avram” (Bereishit 14:13). Among the many things to ask about this pasuk: Who was the palit and from what did he escape? What is the connection between the palit’s arrival and the friends in whose company Avraham was dwelling?
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Cheshvan 10 5779 | Rabbi Stewart Weiss
LESS IS MORE
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Cheshvan 9 5779 | Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
Lech Lecha 5779 Four Dimensions of the Journey
Covenant & Conversation Lech Lecha
Cheshvan 9 5779 | Rabbi Daniel Kirsch
Lech Lecha 5779 At The Shabbat Table
Lech Lecha Basics of Financial Laws
Kislev 2 5778 | Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
Inner-Directedness
Covenant & Conversation Lech Lecha
5778 | Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Rimon
"Whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?"
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Cheshvan 4 5778 | Rabbi Yossef Carmel
“The Canaanites Were Then in the Land”
Hashem’s command to Avraham with which our parashah begins is listed as one of the ten tests that Avraham was asked to pass (Avot 5:3), and some say that it even included two tests (Avot D’Rabbi Natan 33). We will try to explain the difficulty of the task, which made it so highly regarded. The first sub-section of the parashah ends as follows: “Avram passed through the Land to the place of Shechem, to Elon Moreh, and the Canaanites were then in the Land” (Bereishit 12:6). Why is it significant that the Canaanites were in the Land at this time, and why does the Torah stress the word “then”?
Parashat Hashavua Lech Lecha
Cheshvan 4 5778 | Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff
May I pass up this mitzvah?‏
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Cheshvan 9 5777 | Rabbi Stewart Weiss
FOLLOW THE LEADER, PLEASE
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Cheshvan 9 5777 | Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff
A Chinuch Primer
In parshas Lech Lecha, the Torah (Bereishis 14:14) refers to the chanichav, the people trained by Avraham Avinu to believe in Hashem and observe His mitzvos.
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Cheshvan 5 5777 | Rabbi Yossef Carmel
Not a Place to Worry about Time
Our parasha opens with a description of Avraham’s “aliya” – “… and Avram was 75 years-old when he left Charan” (Bereishit 12:4). Despite this pasuk, Chazal had no problem in positing that the Brit Bein Habetarim, which appears in the Torah three perakim later, took place when Avraham was 70 years-old (i.e., five years earlier). One cannot even explain that that brit took place when Avraham was in Charan or Ur Kasdim because the p’sukim hint three times that it was done in the Land that would be given to Avraham and his descendants as an inheritance (see Bereishit 15: 7,16,18).
Lech Lecha Parashat Hashavua
5778 | Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Rimon
Why was Abraham chosen?
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Tishrei 23 5776 | Various Rabbis
Ein Aya Shabat Chapter B Paragraph 76 Appropriate Oil for Shabbat
Ein Ayah Lech Lecha
5775 | Rabbi Dov Berl Wein
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5774 | Rabbi Shaul Yisraeli zt"l
“How Will I Know …?”
Parashat Hashavua Lech Lecha
Rabbi Dov Berl Wein
Avraham's Challenges and Successes
The Torah shows us the challenges of Avraham And Sarah. In spite of all of these troubling details and incidents as recorded for us in the parsha, there is a tenor and tone of optimism and fulfilled purpose that permeates the entire parsha.
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5772 | Rabbi Dov Berl Wein
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