Parshat Lech Lecha: Responding to Life’s Challenges | Into The Verse Podcast

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  • In this week’s Torah portion, Parshat Lech Lecha, Abraham and Sarah struggle with infertility. Abraham cries out to God, “I am childless!” What is the Torah’s message to Abraham on how to persevere through life’s trials and tribulations? When life throws us challenges and doesn’t go the way we hoped, how do we avoid falling into despair?
    Join Rabbi David Fohrman and Ari Levisohn as they explore Abraham and Sarah’s journey through difficult times and the Torah’s encouraging guidance.
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    Whether you’re looking for a dvar Torah on the weekly Torah portion or just something interesting to discuss around your Shabbat table, Into the Verse is your # 1 podcast for inspiring parsha content.
    0:00- Intro
    1:30- One of the Torah’s Most Perplexing Verses
    4:31- How This Connects to Parshat Lech Lecha
    12:15- Additional Illicit Relationships in the Abraham Story
    19:12- Abraham and Sarah’s Struggle with Infertility
    21:35- Feeling Guilty for Being Childless
    30:06- Allowing Guilt To Invade the Relationship

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  • @iam6053
    @iam6053 Місяць тому

    Request: Would you please consider analyzing the story of Sara and Hagar.

    • @AlephBeta
      @AlephBeta  Місяць тому

      Rabbi Fohrman has a beautiful analysis of that story in a video here: www.alephbeta.org/playlist/abraham-outcasts-hagar-story

    • @iam6053
      @iam6053 Місяць тому

      @@AlephBeta I have no money to sign up, I wont be able to hear that.

  • @cesarioserrato5306
    @cesarioserrato5306 8 місяців тому +6

    How do the laws of the Torah in vayikra apply to Avraham when the torah was not given yet?

    • @kellyrolfe43
      @kellyrolfe43 8 місяців тому

      Because they didn't apply to Abraham, he was saved by faith in God not the Law. 😊

    • @cesarioserrato5306
      @cesarioserrato5306 8 місяців тому +2

      @@kellyrolfe43 Gen. 26:5

    • @kellyrolfe43
      @kellyrolfe43 8 місяців тому

      When God first called Abraham there was no Law? Just obedience?

    • @cesarioserrato5306
      @cesarioserrato5306 8 місяців тому +1

      @@kellyrolfe43 Oh really? Obedience to what?

    • @JM.5387
      @JM.5387 3 місяці тому

      @@kellyrolfe43 the Noachide laws existed.

  • @anileetan7234
    @anileetan7234 4 місяці тому

    Yofi!

  • @avnerengel4141
    @avnerengel4141 8 місяців тому +2

    Incredible video, thanks for sharing.

  • @veronicao.7661
    @veronicao.7661 8 місяців тому

    🙏🙏🙏😔❤️🇮🇱
    2 Chronicles 7:14 - "And My people, upon whom My name is called, humble themselves and pray and seek My presence and repent of their evil ways, I shall hear from heaven and forgive their sin and heal their land."

  • @eloishashalom1458
    @eloishashalom1458 8 місяців тому

    THE SISTER (ACHOT) OF ABRAHAM FOCUS ON TH EMAIN IDEA ,DNA TOV. IT MEANS SOMETHING LIKE COME OUT OF THAT GOOD SEED, THAT "TREE OF LIFE", SO BEFORE IT WAS NOT FORBIDDEN TO MARRY A HALF SISTER, AFTER ALL THE SINS , THEN IN LEVITICUS ABBA QODESH FORBIDDEN THE INTIMACY RELATION BETWEEN BROTHER AND SISTER.

  • @SeanRhoadesChristopher
    @SeanRhoadesChristopher 8 місяців тому

    I wonder if Absalom married Tamar out of kindness?

    • @SeanRhoadesChristopher
      @SeanRhoadesChristopher 8 місяців тому

      @@-justnoah-5330 This is what Wikipedia has to say, The Bible mentions that Tamar was left "a desolate woman in her brother's house"; she was grieved and traumatized by her rape.

  • @AlwaysknowsMe
    @AlwaysknowsMe 8 місяців тому +3

    This parshah is very ?

  • @tsadiyahchokmah8976
    @tsadiyahchokmah8976 8 місяців тому

    The title was very deceiving. It should have been called incest. Abraham and Sarah.