This Shabbos is Parashas Lech Lecha.
In this Parsha,HaShem asks Avram to 'Lech Lecha'-'Go for yourself,' to the land HaShem would show him.At first, HaShem never told him where he was being sent.Only that Avram must trust HaShem implicitly and leave all that Avram grew up with and go 'For himself.' This was the first of Avraham's Ten Tests.
The Words of HaShem are ,' Lech Lecha,' - ' 'Go for yourself,' showing that the Command was for Avram's sake.
Why would leaving behind his family and going to a place Avram never even knew, be for Avram's sake?
The answer to this is the answer to life itself.
HaShem Created Creation.HaShem Knows every corner of it.It is only HaShem Who Knows what is needed in this Creation He Created,and so it is only His Word we should trust , on how to live. When we follow His Torah , we don't need to worry about tomorrow , or where to go. All we need to do is trust HaShem as our Guide . The action of Avram trusting HaShem, to Guide him, showed with perfect faith that Avram totally believed in HaShem and that HaShem Knew Creation as only The Creator could, and thus, Avraham's action of following HaShem without needing to know where, proved without a doubt that Avram was acknowledging the Truth to the World that HaShem , the One and Only G-D , Created Creation , and when Avram listened to HaShem, he knew he was putting his destiny in the Hands of the One And Only G-D , Who Knows all and who would , without a doubt , have Avram's best interests at heart . For all that HaShem Commands of us and the tests in life we go through , is purely for our own good and benefit .
HaShem thus told Avram to 'Lech Lecha,' - 'To go for yourself,' for Avram's sake, for all that HaShem does, Knowing Creation in Its fullness and what is needed for the good of each part of It , HaShem always does for us and for our good. Thus HaShem told Avram 'Lech Lecha,' - 'Go for yourself,' for it was for the sake of Avram and his progeny that he would now have in its time , that HaShem was sending him, with his wife Iscah Sarah and his nephew Lot and the people he had brought to True belief of HaShem as One.
More than anything else, Avraham wanted a son, and only away from Ur Kasdim, was he and Sarah to have a son,one of the referred to Blessings that HaShem tells Avraham he would receive, near the beginning of this Sedra,that HaShem Would Make of Avraham, a great nation in the land 'That I Will Show you', so HaShem told Avram also to go for himself, for out of Ur of the Chaldees, would Avram have his precious son Yitzchak.
Our Sages say that Avraham was like a bottle of sweet perfume, that sweetens the air when it goes out of the bottle.Only when Avram would go out from Ur Kasdim into the World , could his true essence teach the World about HaShem, The One And Only G-D .
Life is filled with its own tests and obstacles that sometimes come and , from this Holy Parsha, we can learn, that all our trials , are purely for our own good . It may not appear so at the time , but in all things , HaShem does all ,for the good , for what we truly need , to gain holy life everlasting under the shelter of HaShem's 'Wings.'
HaShem told Avram to 'Lech Lecha,' which does not only mean ,'Go for yourself,' but can also mean , 'Go to yourself,' for it is only through faith in HaShem and listening to His Torah Laws and being the holy people we can be, that we can truly 'Go to ourselves,' to make ourselves who we really are within , in holiness.
As Avram was told to go and fulfill his true potential and become who is truly was in holiness for his own sake, so must we fulfill our true potential in and of holiness and become who HaShem Knows and Wants us to be , purely for our own benefit and for our own good and for the good of Creation , by the Love of HaShem .
I wish HaShem with Love, a Very Special and Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh with love and to all, a very special and beautiful Shabbos Kodesh with love.
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