Zera Shimshon Lech Lecha 2026 Rabbi Berger

Okay, good evening, Maran Ribbons, I welcome to Parshas Lech Lecha, Zera Shimshon. Thank you for any time. Thank you to the Orach Chaim Beis Medrash Orach Chaim for hosting this sheer. Tonight's sheer is Zera Shimshon, letter Parshas Lech Lecha, letter Gimel. It's on page Koof Vav. Tonight, the sheer is sponsored Refuah Sheleimah Meheira for Chaya Shoshana Ruska bas Rivka Leah. L'ilui Nishmas my father, my mother, Yitzchak Levi Halevi. Rebbe Yisrael ben Rephael and Reb Nosson Tzvi, the Mir Rosh Yeshiva, ben Reb Aryeh Meir. ben Eliezer. Refuah Sheleimah Rivka bas Devorah. Yeshua ben David ben Devorah Sarah. Malka Freida bas Rochel Bryna. It's here. Who added Shmuel David? You added, good for you. Yashar Koach. Okay. Maran Ribbons, let's go. Zera Shimshon has a massive chiddush in Eis Gimel. Lech Lecha to the land that I shall show you. Arecha is a funny loshon. The Zera Shimshon, this is I'm going to go out on a limb and say this is one of the biggest chiddushim I've seen in the Zera Shimshon in the years that I'm learning here. In this shot. So stay till the end. Okay? I share our echo that I'm going to show you. It's good? The subject is the land. I share error lecha. What's the lotion our echo? How did we take the lecha and the error and combine it and slice it and make it into one word? Why not I share error lecha? That would have been very normal. What's going on here? When does it say that Avraham Avinu was told where the land is? What happened between that first passing in this passing? It seems like he knew where to go. Rashi said he didn't tell it to him right away, but eventually he did tell it to him. Because we don't find the passing says that he had to. Now I just want to say subvert over. The shame the Kodesh. The Kodesh says I share our echo. But I'm not telling you where to go. Avraham Avinu had angefangen game. Started to go. >> Where I shall tell him to go? >> Right, but he didn't tell me. It's gay. So, wherever he's going to go, it's going to be up to Hashem. Right? I don't know what I'm talking about. But, wherever if the guy is going to say go there, so until he doesn't get there, he's not in the place where Hashem said. Here, every step the guy is going to say go. Reb Aryeh Finkel He was my mesader kiddushin. Reb Aryeh Finkel asked for Benish Zichrono Levracha. He was busy. He was making seder kiddushin that night for Reb Yitzchak Averni's daughter. So, he sent Reb Aryeh to be mesader kiddushin. Reb Aryeh was a baal machshavah. Reb Aryeh was a very holy Yid. >> [snorts] >> They say about Reb Aryeh, his son, Binyamin Do you know who Binyamin is? He's He's the mashgiach. He's Reb Aryeh's son. Binyamin Binyamin said over his father, once a person came to be menachem avel like a baal teshuvah. They said, "How [clears throat] you here?" He said, "Your father made me from." "The father made made you from?" He was an Orthodox baal teshuvah. He said, "I was sitting on an El Al flight going to London. Reb Aryeh was going to raise money to help the Mir Yeshiva. I was sitting next to your father. I was chilloni legamrei. He would take an apple. >> [snorts] >> He took out an apple and he started making a brachah. Never in my life In my whole life, I never saw anybody talk to the Abishter the way your father spoke when he made that brachah. When he said "Atah Hashem", it looked like Hashem was in front of him. And when he thanked him for the apple, he was so genuine, I became frum from his byrei pri oites. Just from observing his byrei pri oites, binich geworen frum. Reb Aryeh Finkel was once called in by Reb Leizer Yudel. Reb Leizer Yudel said to him, "Reb Aryeh, I have my cousin, the Eis Chana Finkel. She lives in Yerushalayim. Ich will mit sie reden. Bring her here." How we doing with the Yiddish so far? >> I I need help. >> You need help? He's A Okay, okay. I We have a cousin. I need to talk to her. Bring her to me. So, she said he says, "I'll be sayda, bring her. Wo wohnt sie?" Where does she live? In Yerushalayim. Aber awu? >> Where? >> In Yerushalayim. >> But where? >> Here's 50 liras. Go bring her. Reb Aryeh hailed down the hailed down a taxi. He got into a monit. The He said, "Siman na." He said, "La'an?" "Sa." "Sa." You know what "sa" means? Go. Go. You have to be an Israeli to appreciate this. "Sa." "Just go." He goes and he goes, "Ad kama tamshech?" When the money hit 50 liras, which is what he gave him, he gave him 50 liras back then, he said, "Atzor." "Stop." He gave him the 50 liras. He walked out of the car. He was in Gilo. >> [snorts] >> He went to the first person on the street. He says, "Garfunkel on my kin binyana zeh?" El ha'oretz zeh. You go to the land I share I reckon you're going to get to the right place when you follow the gets up with and be talking you'll get to the right place. That's a kind of shot over here in this policy. There are reasons why we are using the word I reckon instead of a relic. When he gets to Jerusalem he calls the place after the Isaac I share your by her husband you are. The shame shall learn. Shame been lawyer called it shall learn. I'm a good what should I call this place? If I call it shall learn I will be upset. If I call it lawyer shame will be upset. So he called it shall learn. He made two words together shall learn. pure shame shall said that call shall learn. Do you know why shame gave that name shall learn? Cuz shame felt the shame of us of Israel. He called it based on how I get spirit how he felt about this land. call my name in your name I say >> Everything that I may say could offer, he felt this in this city. Could going be you too. It was physically everything a person could dream of. That's the show them. Abraham felt the my love of the nation. It's the nicest place in the world. Where heaven and earth kiss. It's the one place down in this world where you could see the base of miracles as the mission that happened in America daily. God brought down a fire of heaven. No matter how much it rained, the fire never went extinguished. The pillar of smoke that went up, no matter how windy it was, it never dispersed. It was a place in this world where was evident. A beautifully physically religious. Here comes the word. Jerusalem gives itself, accommodates those people depending on their my law. Meaning, shame called it shalom because we are gish, he felt our the spirit, his spirit he he lived its goodness. Do you know why he could call it that name? Cuz he lived through it. Cuz he felt it. This was the appropriate name. Anandra didn't give it that nomen cuz the auritz didn't provide for somebody else what it provided for shame. He could give it that name because he got it. The Hakima meaning the shubis Matzviset one of the names of Israel is Tsvi. Matzviset means bizarre up Israel is munching and Israel gumbo. Israel is when people are there, it expands. When people are not there, it shrivels up. The name of rule of the come stay Ephraim passage of Torah to come solo that Arachi brings down it actually like picked itself up and became more halik because of Avinu got it. The name of God of life of Arats go to the side. Now by the way, I want to tell you years ago, after 40 years ago, I remember I was in my early 20s. Either I was married or not married. I was walking back from the Kaesong up Rakov Agran. >> Old city? >> What? From the old city back to Rechavia. You know where the Super Solis by the side up Rakov Agran that little hill over there? I'm going up and I was walking with the Yerushalmi Yid who fought in 1948. Who fought in the war of independence. He was already a Yid, so we're talking about 40 years ago, and he was already a Yid in his 80s. We're going slow. He said, Eretz me in Yiddish. He rega, I'll I'll translate, don't worry. He regazen mit mein eigene Augen, with my eyes. The lands that the Araber, You know what that means, right? Thank you. That the Araber had, those lands, they were choyel, zamt, sand. Yidden zeinen hereingekommen, Yidden came in, and like within a year or two, deshe, grass, trees, it's like the Eretz transformed. It transformed. When the were there, the Eretz wouldn't give anything. When we came, s'iz zich gebiten, it changed. It accommodated. It's called a heilige land for holy people. And we say by davening, "Yishama l'cha v'nifta l'Avraham v'sartem v'avadtem, what is going to happen? Lo s'is s'is shvein v'lo yam, you won't be able to be sustained, but Eretz toki eschem." Eretz Yisrael lends itself to the people who belong there. Zogt der Zera Shimshon, listen to a pshat. El ha'aretz asher not Eretz l'cha, that I'm going to show you. El [clears throat] ha'aretz asher areka, that through you this land will become great. I'm going to show how deep is that tzaddik, cuz the land that areka means I'm going to show you through the land, not Eretz l'cha as her land. Let's see it inside. The Cain and Thea called his brother from Lechlucha. When you go into Israel, also terrible to you are going to see how the earth which earth Erits Israel that's Irgun will accommodate and will start growing in ways that it's talking to you and being habit you. So you will become Michoel Dick through Erits Israel by the way the land is giving itself over to you. That says the Zera Shimshon is what I want to say in our not Erits Israel but I reckon I'll show you through the land. The Enika Olam The world will know the world will know that you are a manish all those people who made fun of you. You didn't want to go with them in the dark like we spoke about last week. You were a holdout. You didn't want to do like everybody else. You didn't want to buy down. The land itself will become gibenched. I once said a vert. When Adam Rishon ate from the Sadus it said or Adomah. Right? The land didn't give itself. Avram and Yitzchak and Yaakov we say over all the time. What's the job of Avram Yitzchak and Yaakov? To fix the gum of Adam Rishon. Together as we go now through parshas Shmoi Breishis Lechlucha Right? We'll learn how the others manish had They built Adam's Torah until Adam created Adam. Cain and Abel called Adam. They're the name of the not Messiah case. >> I'm Korean Adam. [clears throat] Go you man out called Adam. They've been named Noah. They're not Messiah. The real Adam the oretz shouts to to the real Adam. In English that means to say it accommodates a real person. It's only ore for a person who brought ore to the land. Over the eaten the hall a lake in my town of Shamayim and Shamayim oretz that broker that you said I'm going to tell you Shabbos. You know why? By the best of men. Because Sadiq is so Adam. So the Adam becomes a site for the Sadiq. If the Sadiq is a site for the Adam, the Adam becomes a site for a Sadiq. When Abraham Avinu was around, he gave food to everybody. Imagine somebody comes over Abraham Avinu and he says, "Can I eat in your house?" Sure. "Can I bring my wife?" Absolutely. "How about my kids?" Yeah, "I've got 10 kids." No problem. "Can I stay for 2 days?" You could stay for a week. As a matter of fact, you could stay as long as you want, right? So where is the clolah? Where's the clolah? There's no clolah not with Abraham Avinu. There's no clolah. You know what? Says the Zera Shimshon, "Here the Torah Kodesha gives out Elo oretz asher areko. When you show up, the whole Yerusha Eretz Yisrael is going to start becoming plentiful." When my Adam yesh lo my sheina and Ami shall Kodesh Boruchu lo chazel the goddess of oretz. Lefisha Rama atzmi even base base oretz midaber. Abraham Avinu changed his weeks again. He knew where to go. The Lomer Haven because it says asher areko the hainu asher era ois cholo oilam. The world the earth will bring it. When you go into this land and you see all of a sudden it starts growing lush and gavaldic etc. Then you're going to know that's your land. Cuz the land will respond to you. Because you also oretz toisef las pi kish nich Abraham Avinu Then everybody's going to say, "Look, you see we knew this already once. Why? Because the first person who got who was shame, he when he got it, he called it shalom because he had so you're going to have the same thing that he had. >> Look at you shalom and then look at Gaza. >> One second. Now you now it says this is here comes the kicker. We ain't done yet. Now Based on this, we have a whole new appreciation on the next part of the hummus. This was an he had to go to sign. Says the what's the big deal? So there's a hunger. So he goes away. I'll come back afterwards. As he promised him kids. It took a few years, a long time, but eventually he gave it to him. So big deal that okay, there's a this is a big look what the says. Is he going to second-guess the and the said go to and it's going to be good, but it doesn't have to be right away. Maybe it's by the kids. It didn't happen right away. It's so he went to and he came back and then afterwards. I will I'll tell you what the big deal is says the says. I'll tell you what the big deal is. The said to him, "You're going to be a superstar and the land will accommodate [clears throat] you and grow for you. What do you think Avraham Avinu looks like when he comes to Eretz Yisrael and now there's a hunger? So now Esav shvatz far de punim. Now it doesn't look good anymore. Oh, you showed up and now there's a Who are you, big shot? Look at what the Zera Shimshon says. His tzedek is going to be known. So obviously as nisht as a greater tzaddik. And you're going to say when after it comes back, then when he comes back then it is going to happen. Yeah, they're already going to say mazel zoch. It has nothing to do with you because when you came in it should have happened on the first time, right? show. I did that, but when you came in it was bad. The teretz is that I'm The ma I'm going to get to that soon. Vi We could say like this. If Shem came to Eretz Yisrael, it was his land. He belonged to him cuz Noach gave it to him. So that he the land accommodates him. Avraham Avinu comes to Eretz Yisrael, it's not his anymore. Kena'anim oz ba'aretz. The Kena'anim already took it over. So even if he is coming, he's an oreach. It doesn't really belong to him. Says the Zera Shimshon. So therefore, what the Eibishter did was he brought him to Eretz Yisrael, nothing happened. Then he sent him to Mitzrayim. When he came back from its rhyme, he came back full of Zahav v'chesed. He came back very wealthy. Now, when he came back and he had money, now Eretz Yisrael started growing fruits like crazy. What's up, Shas? Says the Zera Shimshon, because if he would have come back first, when he first came, Atzchiskat kein gelt. Avram didn't have any money. So, what does he get from the fact that Eretz Yisrael is producing all this fruit? He doesn't have any money to buy it. And he brings a raya. It says that when Avram Avinu came back from Mitzrayim, he paid off all the houses, cuz when he had left, he didn't pay for his lodging. He didn't have any money. So, what's hot there from them that Eretz Yisrael is going to be so plentiful if he doesn't have the money to buy it? So, mamila, he came to Eretz Yisrael. In the meantime, er hot nicht kein gelt. Er hot nicht kein gelt. I don't need that Eretz Yisrael should make any produce. He goes to Mitzrayim. He comes back with a hoyin rav. And now, Eretz Yisrael starts producing. Why do you think that happened? Cuz now he has the koach and the buying power to buy it. That's what the Zera Shimshon says. Let's see it inside. Let's see it. >> [sighs and gasps] >> Zog der azoy. Ram dam dam ni We're going to do page kuf hes. La ni'as da'ito pushmi kor lecha shachari b'soifa parsha. Avram Avinu always knew where to go. Shall my l'ksiva yikach Terach vayeitzei l'leches Artza Kena'an. I He went to Artza Kena'an. Terach already went. Ksiva oretz b'hei hayedia. Mashma vada'i shehi oiso oretz shehis'kalam alav Hakadosh Baruch Hu l'leches misham. When it says I'm Zera Shimshon learning that like Rashi. Rashi says he didn't know where to go. I'm telling you didn't know where to go. He says so we mentioned in the previous parsha. He knew that he had to go to Israel. But what's the dish? Some typical. El Horitz. Stop. To the land that I mentioned beforehand. Why? I share a record. So you should become great in this land. So people should see how great you are. But there's no goodness right now. I want to be in the land is empty. The entire why was the but the world is going to say we should have but it's only from muscle. The carrots is like they say in the original What I example I said I'm going to show you from the original says the original. >> [snorts] >> The original tells the following story. And the original is explaining how and what they did by sending him to Israel making a row sending him to Israel getting him money and then coming back. Says like this. Once upon a time they came to make raise money for coming. There was a named Abba Yehuda who was over mix with he would always give money but I ain't over. He lost his money. They came they would always get a nice big check from Abba Yehuda they would get a big check over the sky but kind of awesome. He went into his house. He looked terrible. His wife said to him Why is your face why you have such a sour face? The rabbis are here for money can go. She said she was a bigger than him. You have one field left. Sell your field 50% give it to them you keep the other 50%. Also came. But I was saying awesome lamb. He gave it to them in the spiral over by saying you and they got you'll get back whatever is brought to go away from you you have will come back. He went to go plow his half field. There was like a sinkhole that opened up a bar as cow sunk and broke its foot. He went down into the hole to bring him up. And he a treasure. I'm a little niche Ragley Rossi. Thank you Hashem for making my cow break its foot. Thank you for breaking its foot. They and they came back a few months later. Where is Abu Yehuda? They said Abu Yehuda nobody can go visit him. Man Yoko who can even see him? Abu Yehuda is got Abu Yehuda is Abu Yehuda has everything. He's a big he's a big big giver. Abu Yehuda he went back to the way he was. Boy they said how are you? They said so he said I'm a few lost him. Pay pay pay us. You feel showed fruits and pay pay us. You feel worked. He didn't take any credit. You feel you gave me a that I was worked. I'm even though other people gave more than you. We're putting you top of the list. Why? Because you give it with the nicest way and you give it with the most appreciation. Says the the way the animal broke its foot and that was the big issue so to the famine in Arizona when I run came was the biggest tiger. Read it inside with me. So there the fact that there was a hunger was for him. Avram didn't have any money. So, what's he going to have from the fact that Eretz Yisrael starts spitting forth all of these fruits and all of these things if he can't even afford it? When he went down to Mitzrayim, he took up lodging and he didn't have money to go out and pay. He had to leave a chiyuv and promise, "I'm going to pay you back." And he paid it back on the way back. And he can't even buy it. He doesn't have money. So, therefore, the Aibershter said, "You're coming to Eretz Yisrael on your first round, zilcho. Going to It's going to be a rough. You go down. The Asher Avram, and Avram became wealthy. He got all of those presents. >> [clears throat] >> Everybody [snorts] saw when Avram came and had no money, the Eretz Yisrael gave nothing. When Avram came back the second time and he had the buying power, then Eretz Yisrael gave for Avraham Avinu. And ad hayom hazeh, the Eretz that we have, Eretz Aviseinu, when we live in Eretz Yisrael, and if you do it the way the Ribono shel Olam wants, the land accommodates us. And the land is good to us because it's our land. And chalilah, when not, then the land will not. But as the Ribono shel Olam is showing us, even sometimes when there's something which is schlecht, "Trust me," says the Aibershter, "for me, only good comes out. So, even if there's something bad that happens, I'm ultimately doing that for your good." To be able to see the goodness of Hakadosh Baruch Hu the way Avraham Avinu saw it in everything that he did. Rebbi Chananya ben Akashya says, "The reason that Kodesh