Thursday, October 22, 2026

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Subject: Hearing the Call of Lech Lecha
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10 pages of insights and inspiration from the parsha for your Shabbat enjoyment!

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TOPICS IN PARSHAT LECH LECHA

Avraham's Mysterious Beginnings

What caused Avraham to find Hashem? Why was he chosen?

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The Call of Lech Lecha

The innate connection of every Jew to the land of Israel.

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The War of the Kings

How did Avraham find the courage to face such a strong enemy?

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Avram & Sarai's Name Change

What's the significance of their new names and what was wrong with the old ones?

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Avraham's Emunah

How did Avraham have such conviction in Hashem? How can we learn from that for ourselves?

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Yishmael

What is the nature of Yishmael? What does he teach us about our times?

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Halacha from the Parsha

Bris Milah, Laws of War, Moving to Israel, and more!

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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 Elchanan Adler: Connecting to הקב״ה Every Step of the Journey
Rabbi Assaf Bednarsh: Just Passing Through
Rabbi Yitzchak Berkovits: Your Comfort Zone Is Holding You Back
Rabbi Joel Finkelstein: That Big-Small Nation
Rabbi Yonatan Shai Freedman: Leaving Home is Difficult
Rabbi Noach Goldstein: From the Curses of Old to Avraham's Ultimate Beracha
Rabbi Jeremy Golker: Avraham HaIvri
Rabbi Daniel Grama: What's In It For Me?
Rabbi Yisroel Juskowitz: Be a Blessing
Rabbi Jonathan Kaplan: The Key to the Redemption
Ari Katz: Be the Blessing In Someone's Life
Rabbi Beni Krohn: The Greatness of your Name
Rabbi Aaron Leibtag: Avraham "Repaying" His Debts
Rabbi Yoni Levin: The Question Avraham Never Asked
Rabbi Yechiel Morris: Halloween is not the secular version of Purim
Rabbi Dani Schreiber: What's the big deal about Avraham and not Avram?
Rabbi Natan Siegel: Striving for Perfection
Rabbi Zvi Sobolofsky: Beyond a Lifetime: The Everlasting Bris and the Birth of Am Hashem
Rabbi Ike Sultan: Laughter around Yitzchak's Birth
Rabbi Yehuda Turetsky: Can Someone Be Both Jewish and Non-Jewish?
Rabbi Eli Wagner: Beyond Belief: The Greatness of Avraham Avinu
Rabbi Jonathan Ziring: Why Does the Torah Foreshadow Sedom's Destruction?

QUICK READS FROM THE PARSHA

Rabbi Eitan Bendavid: Avraham Avinu and the Upcoming Israeli Elections
Rabbi Immanuel Bernstein: Lot and the Gate of Sodom
Rabbi Dr. Kenneth Brander: The Challenge to Avraham’s Legacy
Rabbi Ephraim Z. Buchwald: The Souls That Were Made in Haran
Rabbi Beinish Ginsburg: Bless your Fellow Jew
Mrs. Michal Horowitz: Go Forth
Rabbi Elan Mazer: Hear the Call
Rabbi Ari Shvat: Updating Lech L’cha for Today
Rabbi Moshe Taragin: The Courage to Stand Alone

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From: Nachum Segal <nachum@nachumsegal.com>
Date: Thu, Oct 22, 2026, 9:29 AM
Subject: The Daily Thread: Aliyah & Hollywood discussed on JM in the AM
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NSN / JM in the AM Newsletter
October 21, 2026

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Today on JM in the AM:

Nachum was joined by Naftali Derovan, Head of the Aliyah Guidance Division at Nefesh B'Nefesh, to discuss "Shabbat of Aliyah" coming up this week, parshat Lech-Lecha: Click here
Nachum welcomed Allison Josephs to the studio to preview Jew in the City's 3rd Jewish Media Awards coming up at Lincoln Center on November 5th: Click here
Click here for the full show

Tomorrow on JM in the AM:

Harry Rothenberg's weekly parsha vlog: (7:20 a.m. ET)
Nachum conducts the Weekly Update with Malcolm Hoenlein of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations: (7:40 a.m. ET)
Rabbi Benjamin Yudin will discuss parshas Lech Lecha: (8:20 a.m. ET)

**For anyone having trouble listening to NSN on Alexa, a listener shared that spelling out Nachum's name in the request has brought her success. e.g. "Alexa please play N A C H U M Segal Network on tune in radio."