Friday, 11 November 2016

Parashas Lech Lecha

Our Parsha this Shabbos is Parashas Lech Lecha. 
Here HaShem comes to Avram and tells him to go from his land Ur Kasdim, from his relatives and from his Father's house - 'El Ha'Aretz Asher Ar'Echa,' - "To a land that I ( HaShem ) will Show you (Avram)." 
When HaShem came to tell Avram to "Lech Lecha ," to go from his home , HaShem did not even tell Avram where he was to go to. Usually, if we start a journey,we know its destination. If you were approached and told to pack up all your things and leave all that you know and all the people you hold dear including your family, and to just leave but not know before you leave,to where you are being sent ,there is a very slim chance that you would go.Avram on the other hand was totally faithful to HaShem. He did not need to know where HaShem was sending him . It was enough to know that HaShem spoke and Commanded and in total faith he would listen without question . This is a total display of Emunah Faith in the Creator . He left all those he knew , to go to a land that he never knew and to a destiny he knew nothing of yet, just because G-D Commanded it . He did the same when HaShem asked him to take his son Yitzchak to the Akeidah, where HaShem Told him to go to a land that HaShem would show him.Before he left, he did not know where that would be. 
Avram had grown up in Ur of the Chaldees - Ur Kasdim among idol-worshipers, yet Avram stood by G-D and went against the wrong of his generation,to the point where he went into a fiery furnace to prove his faith in G-D ,in front of the man Nimrod (to whom Avram would not bow or lower himself ) even when others did.In front of Nimrod who had him put in this fiery furnace , Avram escaped unharmed. Avram,unlike all others of his time, walked erect and would not bend lower than the statue of Nimrod that was in the forecourt of Nimrod's palacial abode.All others bent low as they passed the statue, but not Avram. Avram would only bow to the One and Only True Living G-D HaShem . News of Avram's actions in his Father Terach's idol-making shop reached Nimrod, where Avram had smashed all the idols, leaving the hammer in the largest idol's lifeless hands and Nimrod never forget this holy man,even to the point of when Nimrod attacked the cities and kidnapped Lot,Avram's nephew .Avraham with Eliezer his faithful friend and servant were forced with 318 men (the Gematrical value of Eliezer's name) to go and defeat the armies of Nimrod (Amraphel ),seeing Avram as a rival to his (Nimrod's) need for deification.Yet Avram stood firm in his resolve and bowed only to HaShem. 
This was the Avram, who had found G-D , in hiding, in a little cave he was put in by his Father, to save his life from the king when Avram was a little boy.
This was the Avram that HaShem appeared to and told him to "Lech Lecha," to go to where HaShem would send him . 
We note that within the Hebrew words "Lech Lecha," are the reasons for HaShem's Command.One of these reasons was that HaShem wanted this special holy man to spread HaShem's Holiness among men and where Avram was living at the time, Avram's holiness was kept closed in like a bottle of precious perfume that needs to be opened to spread its sweet scent to the World . So HaShem told Avram to "Lech Lecha," - to go "Lecha," for you (Avram's sake ) so that Avram could spread his holiness to the World and also so that Avram could continue to grow spiritually closer to HaShem . "Lech Lecha," also means "Go to you," the true you , Avram , the one who is the carrier of the life mission of bringing people to HaShem. "Go to you," meant go to whom , you (Avram ) really was , within himself , the true you (Avram ) whose purpose is to bring the World back to the true belief in our One And Only Creator HaShem and the proginator of a Jewish people who bring HaShem's Laws to the World . That is who Avram was and is .Thus , when HaShem told Avram to "Lech Lecha," HaShem was telling Avram to go to his true self and purpose.The children of Avram, are to do the same. They are to be a light unto the nations,teaching the true faith of the One True G-D .
Each of us needs to find the true 'us' - the true 'mission ' HaShem put us here for . But first, we need to be like Avram, who trusts in full faith without needing proof, that G-D Commands us what He Commands us. This is where Avram started. With the true belief of G-D and faith in an unknown outcome . It was enough for Avram to know that HaShem Created all things and is All-Knowing and thus, HaShem Knows what He Commands us.Avram trusted HaShem and so, HaShem granted it to Avram as 'Tzeddakah,' - 'Righteousness.'
HaShem loves us all . Wherever HaShem sends us, is always for the good. When HaShem Sends us somewhere , Telling us "Lech Lecha," if we look deeply , we will see that HaShem is saying ,"Go for you to you ," to the true you that is you, for your sake of betterment so you can grow spiritually toward Me ,HaShem . All we need to do is to trust in full Emunah faith in the Creator of Creation and in His Torah Commandments , for our good . We don't need to see the final picture. HaShem Will "Ar' Echa," - "Show us," all in good time . All we need to do is trust in Him and follow Him wherever He Sends us . 
The words "Lech Lecha ," in Gematria come to the number one hundred , which are the minimum number of Blesssings a Jew is to say every day,shown to us by Dovid Hamelech.If we take this number 'one hundred ' and bring it to its deeper Gematria , it comes to ten, which are the Ten Commandments and the Ten Utterances that HaShem used to Create Creation and bringing this number even deeper, leads us to the number 'One' which refers to HaShem , The One And Only True G-D . Thus every "Lech Lecha," journey we take for HaShem , leads us to HaShem The One And Only True G-D . This is a Commandment for all humanity , for our one and only purpose for living is to "Lech Lecha, " - "Go toward HaShem ," and bring others toward HaShem . Let us carry this thought with us always and always remember that HaShem Says to us all , "Lech Lecha ," - "Go for yourself , keeping My Torah Laws and come to Me , HaShem .
With love to HaShem , I wish HaShem with love , a very beautiful and special Shabbos Kodesh with love and to all, a very beautiful and special Shabbos Kodesh with love .

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