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Lech Lecha: Avraham Avinu "Creates" Torah - The Earthshattering Chiddush Gleaned From the Ramban

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A good the walk, I guess in the walk. Rashi learns that at the Brisbane have a sermon, the various animals that egg mashalashas, the is mashalashas, the I am mashalash. They were split in half because it was a treaty and the parties would pass before between the split park parts. However, the Ramban learns it was more than that. Because why does it say mashalashas? What does mashalashas mean? He brings from even Ezra mashalashas that the animals were 3 years old. However, the Ramban rejects that. In egla is no longer an egg lad 3 years old. It's a par. Therefore, Ramban learns that mashalashas means like Targum three animals of each. And the reason three animals of each, it was a remez that the descendants of Abraham would be magriv and oil and and a shalom and the Ramban says the and the are all one. And the Ramban says the reason they were split is because carbon ice are all cut up. The ice are all cut up. All animals are the oil into pieces, the shalom into the shake and shalom the and the according to their fats. And that's the reason why the bird because because we're not by carbon of a bird. You don't split it. The Ramban goes on to say when the vultures came to the carcasses, that's a remez that the nations of the world would come to be carbon ice and we would shoo them away. The Ramban then says the the tire is referring to the turtle dove which is only kosher as an adult. And the is referring to a young bird the ben however now the Ramban has a question because is referring to a young All young birds are called the how did Abraham know that Hashem meant a dove a young How did Avram know that referred to a yoina, a dove? The Torah is explicitly the Torah, a turtle dove. But, a regular ben yoina goizel could mean a young any kind of bird. The Ramban gives two answers. Answer number one, "Haven Avraham has in his heart." Avraham knew what Hashem meant. He knew he meant a dove, specifically the species of a dove. But, then the Ramban says something astounding. The Ramban says, "I hear of ben yoina burtzina." Avraham picked a young dove. The cost of baklava by men who have a king. And the Torah endorsed the decision of Avraham. The reason why in Vayikra only a dove could be used as a carbon if is because once Avraham selected it, Hashem forever endorsed that selection. So, it comes out, think about it, the influence Avraham Avinu had on the Torah itself. Avraham chose the yoina and the banishment endorsed the decision and the selection of Avraham Avinu. We always talk about Bereshit safer yetzirah. That first of all, the actions of Avraham created the history of the Jewish people. According to Avraham Avinu, the When Avraham passed the various tests, it affected the personality of the Jewish people. And now we learn Avraham had a role in creating the Torah itself. Avraham's selection of the yoina made it that the banishment would select the yoina for future carbonix. But, come to think of it, this is a paradigm and a lens to view all of Bereshit. Because all of the life choices of the Kedoshim are legislated. They're all ratified in the Torah. They're all codified in the Torah. We learn from them. They became Torah. The Torah wasn't given yet and yet all of their life decisions and all of their actions and all of their midos are in the Tyra. They came first and just like the Ramban says Abraham's choice of the Yona the Tyra endorses really all of the life of the obvious akadoshim. The fact that it's recorded in the Tyra means their life has been ratified by the Tyra that we learn from it it is Tyra. Abraham as the Ramban says ushered in 2,000 years of Tyra. Not only because he was Kyrie Hashem but actually his life was a living Tyra that later became codified in the Tyra itself. Here is one prime example. His choice of the Yona became the choice animal for carbon ice wishing everyone a good luck.