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G-d’s Covenant with Avram/Avraham G-d told Avram that He is G-d who rescued him from Ur Kasdim so that he could give him this land to inherit. Avram asked G-d how he will know that he will inherit the land? G-d tells Avram to sacrifice several animals, each symbolic of the future temple offerings: ItContinue reading “Lech Lecha, 6th Aliya”

Post Battle The king of Sodom approached Avram with a deal regarding Avram’s war captives – that Avram give the king back the people and Avram would keep the possessions. Avram swore in the name of G-d that he would not keep any of the captured possessions even if offered to him as a reward,Continue reading “Lech Lecha, 5th Aliya”

War of Kings Chumash now speaks of a time when four kings waged war against five kings. The four kings were: *Side note: Rashi points out that this is actually Nimord who name as it is written here “Amraphel” is a play on the words אָמַר (said) and פּוֹל (fall) since he told Avram toContinue reading “Lech Lecha, 4th Aliya”

Avram and Lot Part Ways Lot, due to his traveling with Avram had also accumulated wealth, so he too had flocks, cattle and tents. They had so much cattle that the land was unable to supply them sufficiently. Lot’s herdsmen were unethical and pastured their cattle in other people’s fields. Avram’s herdsmen rebuked them forContinue reading “Lech Lecha, 3rd Aliya”

Avram and Sarai Arrive in and Leave Egypt So it was that when they arrived in Egypt, the Egyptians did not see Sarai at first since Avram hid her in a trunk. Yet once they demanded him to pay for the tax for customs, they opened it and saw her and saw how pretty sheContinue reading “Lech Lecha, 2nd Aliya”

Avram’s Journeys G-d tells Avram to “go forth”* from his land**, from his birthplace and from his father’s house to the land that G-d will show him. In listing “the land” last, we learn that 1) G-d refrained from showing the Land to Avram right away so as to increase Avram’s feelings towards it asContinue reading “Lech Lecha, 1st Aliya”

The Tower of Bavel. Shem’s Geneology. Avram. The Tower of Bavel This section of Chumash begins in a time when everyone on earth spoke the same language, namely the Holy Tongue, i.e Biblical Hebrew. Everyone came together in uniformity against G-d for taking the upper regions for Himself. Their plan was to go up towardsContinue reading “Noach, 7th Aliya”

Noach’s Sons and Their Descendants The sons of Noach who emerged from the ark were Shem, Cham and Yafet. The nation of Can’aan came from Cham. This is an important fact to know at this point since Chumash is about to recount the incident where Noach got drunk in which Cham sinned, which caused Cana’anContinue reading “Noach, 6th Aliya”

Rainbow Covenant Noach was scared to procreate before G-d promised that He would never again destroy the world. So G-d tells Noach and his sons that He is setting up a covenant to confirm that He will never again destroy the world with a flood. G-d says that this covenant is with Noach and allContinue reading “Noach, 5th Aliya”

Blessings and Directives G-d tells Noach to leave the ark with his family and makes it clear that they are now allowed to be intimate. G-d tells Noach that all of the animals should also should come out of the ark, if not willingly, then he should take them out. They are all instructed toContinue reading “Noach, 4th Aliya”