Lech Lecha - The Middle

Hi, this is David. Welcome to the para in five where in five minutes we try to give you insights into the para to hopefully enhance your shabas par. And so we begin the story of the Jewish people there's a very interesting that points out that right at the beginning it says That seems unnecessary. They all left to go to and they came to. Why is that necessary? Says it's for because the end of paras Noah ends with the ninth generation from Noah. Aam is the 10th. The ninth generation was Aram's father Terra. And after he saw the miracles that happened in orism, he set out says the he wanted to be he came to and he stopped there. But started the journey but he did not finish it because he saw [clears throat] Erit Kanan was the place to go. Why? Even during the mobble they noticed that the marble did not affect like everybody else. Uh it did rain over Eritell and uh although it got flooded because the water came in from every place else but it didn't rain over it they understood this was a makum kadosh they knew this already. That's why shame sets himself up in Jerusalem on the harabas and makes that [clears throat] makes that his uh place because shame of course well is the the the son who captured the most what Noah was trying to do in the world and he becomes malit and he keeps that going. So um say a special place. So after the terrible experience with Nimrod in Orazdim, Terra says that's it. I'm going to I'm going to become au and he gets to and he says not bad is not bad. lot of potential here friends and he stays there and therefore it says by Abraham says the sworno he set out to go to and he got to he completed the journey that his father did not. So the philosophy of ter was middle of the road or kazdm is really evil and is really kadosh. So I'll get to the middle and this set up a relationship where you find this attitude continues. Hurin was the same way because when Hurin sees that Aram is about to be thrown into the Kaish he says if Aram comes out of there then I will declare myself for Hashem but if he dies I'm switching sides and going over to Nimrod he was waffling he was straddling the fence he wasn't sure which way to go he was buffic and that's why this points out that the letters of Harun's name are the middle letters hey is the middle letter of alfess and uh nun is the middle letter of yud tuti and when it comes to the hundreds column you have a choice between ra and shin they're the middle letters har is the middle couldn't really decide and so too with his son lo his son load a says to him listen your uh row son your shepherds are are stealing and robbing we can't stay together let's split up' So what Loa have said is I don't want to leave you Abraham like Russ said to Nami says I'll pull my people together. I'll get things organized. I'll make sure that we're spiritually aligned. But he didn't. He looked and he saw stone and he said stone is really beautiful. Yeah. And uh but it's also very evil. Yeah. As the pic testifies that people were evil. So it says val ad stone. He didn't go to stone yet. He picked his place somewhere between Abraham and stone. And he figures I could spend choppers with Abraham and Saturday night. The best of both worlds. I go in the middle. As [clears throat] the Kutska says, the middle of the road is where the animals go. I had a poster when I ran and see why that someone got me that said lead, follow, or get out of the way. Make a choice. How long you going to straddle the fence? You got to make a choice. Yeah. Go this way or go that way. And couldn't do it. And his son Har couldn't do it. And Har's son Lot couldn't do it. But the Torah testifies, Abraham said, "I'm going to take a position. I'm going to go where I belong." And he finished the journey. And that's the story of the Jewish people. We don't straddle the fence. That's what Eli Novi said to us. You can't straddle the fence. Make a choice. Either follow God or follow Baal. But don't be Jews for Bal. Make a choice where you're going to go. And so the Jewish people are the people who for better for worse who are still alive today, who are still around after 3,000 years have made that choice that we're going to stay on the side that's right and not try to compromise. Every movement in Judaism that has tried to compromise and waffle have fallen by the wayside. And only the people who remain true are still taking the path and that journey of Abraham chavas.