{"id":2288,"date":"2016-02-16T01:38:21","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T01:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=2288"},"modified":"2016-02-16T01:38:21","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T01:38:21","slug":"lech-lecha-5762","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=2288","title":{"rendered":"Lech Lecha (5762)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Drash Cards for Lech Lecha (5762)<\/strong><\/p>\n

by Marc Mangel<\/p>\n

\u2022 This is the beginning of the Biblical narrative.<\/p>\n

\u2022 How old was Abraham when he got the word? \u00a0The Chazal place a minimum of 3 years and a maximum of 48 years, but he did not leave Haran until he was 75 years old.<\/p>\n

\u2022 In Chapter 14 we have a big battle of kinds. \u00a0In verse 12, Lot is captured and in v 13-15 there are night time raids in two parties.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Rashi comments on verse 14 that there were 318 men or Elizer alone (318 is the gematria of his name)<\/p>\n

\u2022 Why don’t we ever heard about Abraham as a great warrior?<\/p>\n

\u2022 A sociological reason (which could also be why the Book of Maccabees is not in the Jewish Bible) is that Jews were not militaristic\/mighty from 70AD until 1948 AD<\/p>\n

\u2022 A transformative reason: when he goes from Avram to Abraham, he loses\/gives up his military instincts.<\/p>\n

\u2022 And a spiritual reason: he was capable of militaristic action but now felt that he did not need to use those abilities.<\/p>\n

\u2022 We are children of Abraham — and following in his tradition we should be careful about when and if we use our physical abilities rather than our chesed when solving a problem<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Drash Cards for Lech Lecha (5762) by Marc Mangel \u2022 This is the beginning of the Biblical narrative. \u2022 How old was Abraham when he got the word? \u00a0The Chazal place a minimum of 3 years and a maximum of 48 years, but he did not leave Haran until he was 75 years old. \u2022 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":51,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2288","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2289,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2288\/revisions\/2289"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}