Fwd: Hearing the Call of Lech Lecha

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Download the YUTorah in Print for Parshat Lech Lecha 5785 13 pages of insights and inspiration from the parsha for your Shabbat enjoyment! Download Now See all previous editions of YUTorah in Print for Parshat Lech Lecha See all articles on YUTorah for Parshat Lech Lecha See all shiurim on YUTorah for Parshat Lech Lecha TOPICS IN PARSHAT NOACH Avraham's Mysterious Beginnings What caused Avraham to find Hashem? Why was he chosen? Learn more The Call of Lech Lecha The innate connection of every Jew to the land of Israel. Learn more The War of the Kings How did Avraham find the courage to face such a strong enemy? Learn more Avram & Sarai's Name Change What's the significance of their new names and what was wrong with the old ones? Learn more Avraham's Emunah How did Avraham have such conviction in Hashem? How can we learn from that for ourselves? Learn more Yishmael What is the nature of Yishmael? What does he teach us about our times? Learn more Halacha from the Parsha Bris Milah, Laws of War, Moving to Israel, and more! Learn more More Topics in Parshat Lech Lecha The Tests of Avraham • Avraham and Chesed • Maaseh Avos Siman L'Banim • The Famine • Avram's Sister Sarah •  Pharoah and Avimelech •  Avraham and Lot •  The Personality of Lot •  Og • Eliezer • Avraham and Sedom • The Story of Malki Tzedek • Sarah's Infertifility • The Brit Bein Habitarim • Avraham's Milah • The Expulsion of Hagar • Yitzchak • The Haftorah of Lech Lecha QUICK INSPIRATION FROM THE PARSHA (10 MINUTES OR LESS) Rabbi Dr. Yaakov Abramovitz: What Made Avraham's Nisyonos So Challenging? Rabbi Tzvi Benoff: The Dirt of Magen Avraham Rabbi Joel Finkelstein: A Nation Apart or a Nation Connected Rabbi Yonatan Shai Freedman: Why Tell Hagar that Yishmael Will Be a Bandit? Rabbi Noach Goldstein: Lot's Misguided Compromise With Sodom Rabbi Jonathan Kaplan: Our Homeland and Our Reponse Rabbi Eliakim Koenigsberg:  The Mission of Avraham Avinu Rabbi Aaron Leibtag: Repaying His Debts: Avraham's Return Rabbi Yoni Levin: Lessons from the Meal of Avraham and Malki Tzedek Rabbi Yehuda Turetsky: Why Was Haran Killed in the Burning Furnace? Rabbi Jonathan Ziring: What Does Av HaMon Goyim Mean? QUICK READS FROM THE PARSHA Rabbi Immanuel Bernstein: To Be an Ivri Rabbi Dr. Kenneth Brander: Does God Care? Finding Purpose in Difficult Times Rabbi Ephraim Buchwald: Was Hagar Abused? Mrs. Michal Horowitz: Avraham Avinu & The Path of Shalom Rabbi Norman Lamm: Suffering By Comparison Rabbi Yehuda Mann: We Don't Curse - We Enlighten Rabbi Johnny Solomon: Serving God while Overcome with Emotion Rabbi Moshe Taragin: Avraham's Noble War, Our Noble War Rabbi Mordechai Torczyner: Father or Teacher? 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