Weekly Sidra: Lech Lecha (Go for youself) Torah Portion: Bereshit / Genesis 12:1-17:27 Haftorah: Yeshayhu / Isaiah 40:27-41:16 In this week we find two covenants which God makes with Abraham – the covenant between the pieces and the covenant of circumcision. I will focus on the former covenant. This covenant was placed after Abraham’s victory over the conquerors of Canaan when he set out to rescue Lot. After the covenant, we find Hashem’s commitments for the Promised Land, pledging its conquest, outlining its boundaries and detailing the people who will be replaced by Abraham’s seed. “When the sun set and it was very dark, there appeared a smoking oven, and a flaming torch which passed between those pieces. On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your offspring I assign this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates: the Kenites, the [...]
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The good deeds of the ancestors contribute to the welfare of their descendants. The expression, "You remember the good deeds of the patriarchs," is repeated three times daily in the opening benediction of the Shemoneh Esrei prayer. The zechut avot concept, in Jewish theology, is expressive of the idea that individuals profit in the their ...
Weekly Sidra: Lech Lecha (Go for youself) Torah Portion: Bereshit / Genesis 12:1-17:27 Haftorah: Yeshayhu / Isaiah 40:27-41:16 Lech-Lecha, Lekh-Lekha, or Lech-L’cha (לֶךְ-לְךָ — Hebrew for "go!” or "leave!" or "go for you" — the fifth and sixth words in ...
Weekly Sidra: Lech-Lecha (Go for yourself) Torah Portion: Bereshit / Genesis 12:1-17:27 Haftorah: Yeshayahu / Isaiah 40:27-41:16 8 But you, Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, Seed of Abraham My friend — 9 You whom I drew from the ends of the earth And called from its far corners, To whom I said: You are My ser ...
Parashat HaShavua Lej Leja, también llamada “ve tu” es también llamada parashat Aliyá, que significa en términos propios, “la porción para emigrar a Israel.” Esta parasha nos habla de como nuestro padre Avraham emigra a la tierra prometida, inclusive, como Avraham descendiente de Eber, el e ...
Bereshit 12:1 HaShem said to Abram, Go forth from your native land and from your father’s house to the land that I will show you. In this week’s reading HaShem tells Avram to leave his homeland and to go to another place that HaShem will show him. This reminds me of the calling for all Jews to make Aliyah. Aliyah means " ...
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