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Lech Lecha: A Faithful Journey

Rabbi Jay Kelman

The Torah provides very little biographical information. Rather, it highlights significant events in their lives from which we can deduce and debate the lessons we the reader – to whom the Torah is addressed - are to glean. Much background…
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Parshat Shavua 5784 with weekly guest speakers (Lech-Lecha)

Ruth Shane

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Lech Lecha: Family Feud

Rabbi Jay Kelman

“G-d said to Avram, go away from your county, your birthplace and your father’s home, to the land that I will show you” (Breisheet 12:1). While it is self-evident that Avraham would take his wife with him, it  is not at all obvious that his…
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Parshat Shavua 5783 with weekly guest speaker (Lech-Lecha)

Rabbi Gedalyah Berger

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Lech Lecha: A Man of Faith

Rabbi Jay Kelman

“And G-d said to Abram, ‘Go forth from your land, your birthplace and the land of your fathers’” (Breisheet 12:1). With nary a word, Abram picks himself up and, along with his wife and nephew, departs for an unknown land. Yet his stay there is short…
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Parshat Shavua 5782 with weekly guest speaker (Lech-Lecha)

Rabbi Jay Kelman

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Lech Lecha: On the Move

Rabbi Jay Kelman

Sefer Breisheet might be described as the book of movement. Beginning with the heavenly spheres and moving to birds, fish, animals and humans sefer Breisheet depicts much movement.   Adam and Eve were forced to leave Gan Eden, Cain was told he…
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e-TiM Parshat Shavua 5781 with Rabbi Joel Finkelstein: Parshat Lech Lecha

Rabbi Joel Finkelstein

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The Haftarot: How to Profit from the Prophets, Parshat Lech Lecha

Dr. Moshe Sokolow

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Lech Lecha: In Defence of Terach

Rabbi Jay Kelman

Our rabbis famously debate the righteousness of Noach. Was he a tzadik only relative to the corrupt society in which he lived, or was his righteousness that much greater because he attained it in such in a corrupt generation? While they debate the…
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