The Greatest Mitzvah Redeeming Captives: Parashat Lech Lecha

So is told by and commanded by a kadosh to leave. Leave his comfort zone. And in the process his number one talmid aside from his number one Talmid was his nephew Lot. Lot decides to leave Ara and go to Sum. Why? There's more money over there. There's more materialism over there. And also, there's no rabbis over there. So, my rabbi is not going to have the ability to TELL ME WHAT TO do over there. It's not going to tell me what to do, what to give, if I'm allowed to steal, not allowed to steal. Lot goes. And of course, as the par tells us, a war begins. The five kings versus the four kings. In the process, the disaster of a lifetime happens to Lot where he becomes a hostage. Why does he become a hostage? Why don't they just kill him like everybody else? They killed a lot of people. Why did they just kill him? Because he looked exactly like Abraham Aavinu. And the Midrash says because he looked like Abrahamu, these kings wanted to show their people that they captured Abrainu because they knew that Abrainu is the man of God. He's the most powerful man in the world. But if they captured him, he's a prisoner. Then they really are the kings of the world. So what happens in chapter 14 verse number 14? It says, And when Abraham heard that his kinsmen was taken captive, he armed his disciples who had been born in his house 318. And he pursued them as far as Dan. Interestingly, even though this was not originally part of the sh of course a kadosbu sends us many messages and we listen to different students, different colleagues, different I thought that this was an absolute must even though it doesn't have much to do with the topic at hand of Hashem knowing the future yet. Here we see that lot nishbah nishbah means became captive and of took action in the world today many rabbis and non-rabis have decided that everyone that is secular every Jew that's a Shabbat Everyone that is keeps nothing is A IS LIKE A captive says our dear who is our not only our editor but also boned just came out with item he's been working with for many years he brings an extraordinary kush And he says, "Rav, I" he heard, he tells me, he says, "Rav, I heard from your lectures when he was helping us with my book that you said that even if somebody is a nishb, is a nishb is a captive baby, secular Jew, he's a captive baby. Okay, don't leave him. Don't leave him captive." And he says today look we see it in the parish saw that lot is l is captive. What did went and went to war to go free his nephew. So he says so even the parad tells us exactly what you said in the ex is exactly what you said in the book. Even if you want to conclude that everyone is a nishb you leaving him nishba why you leaving them captive? Why are you leaving them? Go help them. Go do kiru. Go help them do chuva. Get them one of these kiru boxes. Help people. Just today, one of my students told me that she gave out some of our kiru boxes to our co-workers that were Jewish and they were literally they fell off their chairs. Never seen anything like this. Wow. It's so amazing. Started watching it on the spot. Started watching on the spot. Over the holidays, we gave out dozens of them to people we we had in the uh in the synagogue. People I never met before. People, most of them didn't even know who I was. Not that I needed to, but they now met me. They opened it up. Wow. I never seen anything like this. Businessmen, developers, all types of uh people from all walks of life open up, start watching it. You start seeing these people literally leave everything and start watching it. The next day they come up to me. He's like, "Wow, I watched the the first thing the movie. It's amazing." And then the other one says, "Listen, I started watching. I couldn't stop watching it, but it's 19 hours. I had to go to sleep eventually. I couldn't watch the whole 19 hours." I'm like, "It's okay. Don't worry." Another one told me, "I watched it until the battery died." I said, "Don't worry. There's a wire inside the box. You connect it, it recharges." The box is making a revolution in people's lives. As I told you time and time again, it's the greatest gift is given not only to but to this generation. It's the ultimate tool to do without saying a single word. Everyone says yes, I want one. In fact, one of my students told me today she gave it out to those co-workers and one of our non-Jewish co-workers saw it. She became jealous. How come I don't get one? How come I don't get one? So she asked me, "Rabbi, is it okay? She's not Jewish, but she's really nice and can I give her one?" I said, "Okay, okay, give her one. Give her one. It's okay. She'll do chuba at the very least. She'll become a righteous no perhaps maybe even convert to Judaism just like this other dearest student in England." The point is this whole concept of that everyone is a captive baby like is not necessarily a uh something that agree on across the board. In fact, the vast majority of do not agree with it as shalom writes in ink yud the 10th volume in 55 in in Alif here clarifies exactly the situation. He goes over through with endless sources as he usually does about the different that talked about this said that one said but he concludes the answer as follows. He says, "Although all of these matters that the have brought regarding the Tinob pertaining to the secular people are relevant in remote places that do not have any Judaism and most of the people there are idolattors. This is not relevant to our places, meaning to our Jewish communities whereby these people see synagogues, bidash, the uh the uh study halls, and they see with their own eyes many religious Jews that keep Shabbat like the Alaka says. May there be more. And yet these secular Jews are still not deterred from desecrating Shabbat. Therefore, you cannot consider them, but rather consider them like idoltors. So one way or the other, whether you want to be like the few lenient that have said or the vast majority of like and countless others that said there's no tinoishb today like said nobb today and so on. Regardless do something about it. help people do chuva. Where can you learn it from? Abrain. Who's better than Abrau? From from Abra started.