\u2018Lekh Lekha\u2019 is literally THE Original \u201cCome out of her\u201d parsha in the Book (well, \u201cGet OUT of the Garden,\u201d was a different command for a different reason\u2026)<\/p>\n
The man who becomes the \u2018First Patriarch\u2019 and Father of Nations is told to \u201cGet OUT of your country, out of your father\u2019s house, away from kind,\u201d and basically everything you knew and grew up with (pagan as it was) \u2014 and GO to a place that I, YHVH, will show you.<\/p>\n
Talk about a walk of faith.<\/p>\n
Mark Call first takes a look at the \u201cwhole story\u201d in the Erev Shabbat Overview teaching, from the time the man then called \u201cAbram,\u201d first heard the command, and then the promise, and simply obeyed, to his sojourn and all-too-human mistakes in Egypt, to his multi-year challenges in realizing Yahuah had a plan for his heir all along, even if it might have even seemed funny on first hearing.<\/p>\n
The Sabbath Day \u2018deeper look\u2019 into the story, the lessons, the haftorah, the related teachings of the Torah-Made-Flesh, and our OWN walk via the lessons of Abraham, begins with that \u201cCome OUT\u201d admonition, and goes all the way to a whole LOT of \u2018politically incorrect\u2019 questions even \u2014 like why are prayers that we\u2019re at least TOLD \u2018in his name\u2019 not answered on our timetable?<\/p>\n
Abraham is a model of what it means to be a man who literally walks in faith. But other lessons in Scripture show us there\u2019s more to what is expected, even of us, than just meeting some minimum standard.<\/p>\n
\u201cLekh Lekha: Get up and go \u2014 a Necessary, but Not Sufficient, Condition\u201d<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n The combined podcast for both teachings is here<\/strong><\/a>, via the page on Hebrew Nation Radio.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa’s teaching for parsha “Lekh Lekha” (the first ‘COME OUT’, Genesis chapters 12 through 17) for the 2019-2020 Torah cycle. Continue reading