Parashat
Lech Lecha (Go for yourself)
The
Torah doesn’t like to “waste” words. Every single word has an important meaning
and we need to learn from each of them, especially when there is repetition
within the same verse or the same idea is being expressed.
Genesis
12:10 tells us: “And there was a
famine in the land. And Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the
famine was grievous in the land.” Why it is necessary to repeat that there was
a famine?
An interesting interpretation is that there were
two types of famine: one a physical famine and the other, a spiritual famine.
One of the most common mistakes we make in modern
times is to provide a material answer to a spiritual problem.
Let us think seriously about what type of famine
we are facing and how we are going to respond to it.
In
memory of my beloved mother and teacher Miriam Rachel bat Israel Itzchak
Z"L
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