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and welcome everyone to a special
edition of
all
on I'd like to share with you this week
two fundamental pieces in
the that are important to our
understanding of who theer was and
important to our understanding of the
times that we're living in
today in his opening piece in
this is Page L the
first he raises a very intriguing
question we know when AR a was in orasm
he broke the idols of ter of nimro he
was proactive in fighting
idolatry and he was thrown into the
fiery furnace and he risked his life to
fight
idolatry and yet we don't find this type
of reaction of Abraham when he comes to
Canan we don't find him breaking idols
and it's not like in Canan there were
were no Idols the garar tells
us that on on every Mountaintop on every
Hill it was full of
idols and yet we don't find AB Rino
taking the same position and the same
stance that he did in orasm why is
that server says something very
important
he says that in or kazm people didn't
listen to Abraham arrau tried to spread
monotheism his belief in
a one kind God they didn't accept it and
therefore ainu had no
alternative to prevent people from
idolatry and to educate people other
than proactively going out and
destroying the idols but he was putting
his life in danger well so be it so be
it there's no other way there's no no
other form of communication education
was not working but when Abu came to
Canan the Torah
says he called out in the name of Hashem
he taught the world
about and they were receptive they
listened to him he amassed the r says
tens of thousands of students he was no
longer authorized to proactively go out
and break ID
well he would be risking his life well
what says should he rely on a miracle
can rely on a
miracle should he anyway go out and risk
his life no says he was not authorized
to do that because since he has tal well
who will theim go to for guidance for
instruction for direction in life since
says the people were listening to him he
was effective in his education and
communication in the land of Canan he
was not authorized he was not
halachically allowed to put his life in
jeopardy and break the idols well then
who will be instructing and guiding and
directing his students now this is a
very revealing piece of the because as
uh perhaps we know the foremost was a
great Marb always concerned himself with
fulfilling the Mitzvah of harb and his
students and this reveals to us
the responsibility that fores a rebi has
toward his students that he may have to
alter his educational approach having in
mind that it's important that the rebi
always be secure because otherwise who
will guide the
students another amazing observation
of is an observation
in
the takes
and and his possessions and his
students it
says he went out to go to land of with
a but he
arrived the land of with
a has two questions
firstly the word Kanan is extra once it
says he left he went out to go to the
land of Canan why does it have to say he
came to land of Canan it should say he
came
there why
again furthermore why the first time
with
the and the second time with the kamat
well for those who are familiar with
dick we would know right away the first
time the word Kanan is on the Trum on
the word Kanan is a Zak
God and therefore it is not a absolute
stop and therefore it would be a the
second is by a and therefore would be a
comat
nevertheless the feels that this is
something to study in the realm of and
says as
follows tells
Abraham I'll let you know where to
go butu immediately said out out to
Canan why did he set out to Canan why
does he go to the land of Canan Hashem
didn't tell him where to go AB knows
exactly what is the chosen land of
Hashem he knew Canan
is and therefore that is where Abraham
is
headed now it is well known the land of
Canan is does not tolerate sin like we
find
in don't contaminate the land so the
land vomits you out and therefore people
living in AR Israel for them to be able
to stay there have to be pure of sin
free of sin otherwise the land cannot
tolerate them so Abraham ainu expected
to arrive in the land of Canan and see
people who are open to Kusa receptive to
kadha people on a a very high level and
what happen happens he gets there and he
sees cananim and we know the acts the
behavior of the cananim were
abominable they act in a very degrading
immoral way their
were were an
Abomination so Abraham set
out he went out to expect to receive a
people who were open to kadha receptive
to kadha
growing that's not what he
found they were sealed shut they were
closed he didn't understand it isn't
this isn't
this how does the land tolerate it the
reason is say the land tolerated it
because the people were
there just to occupy it and guard it and
protect it until clao got there and if
their sole role is not really to be
inhabitants but just to guard it for the
Jewish people who arrive later the land
will keep him there so therefore Abu
comes he was expecting to come to land
of
Canan open to kadha he arrives where
it's Canan a Land close to kadus Hashem
says let me explain to you why this is
so immediately appears
in God
Appears I plan on giving this land to
your descendants that's why it's Canan
that's why they're not receptive to
kadus otherwise not a chance the land
would tolerate them so this was hashem's
answer to the question Abraham had why
are they K why are they not K answer
they're just guarding it for the Jewish
people until they get there so these are
two ideas for the the second
idea is important for us to bear in mind
today as we are so concerned with our we
always have to remember and recognize
this is a land that is attuned to our
Behavior and the higher level we live in
the more will be able
to lovingly accept us and beckon all of
us back to wishing everyone a chabis
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