{"id":2899,"date":"2025-11-02T06:55:57","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T13:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2899"},"modified":"2025-11-02T06:55:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T13:55:57","slug":"torah-teaching-for-parsha-lech-lecha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2899","title":{"rendered":"Torah Teaching for Parsha \u201cLech Lecha\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Join Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship for a two-part look at parsha &#8220;Lech Lecha,&#8221; Genesis 12:1-`7:27) &#8212; which might be considered the original &#8220;come out&#8221; teaching in Scripture &#8212; where the first Patriarch, Abram (later Abraham) is told to &#8220;get thee OUT&#8221; of your country, leave what you have known, and &#8220;go to the land that I will show you.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a historic, literally &#8220;Biblical-level&#8221; Act of Faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But that is where the story of the life of one of the most important men in Scripture, and the &#8216;Father of our Faith,&#8221; only begins. Here&#8217;s the Erev Shabbat reading:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/SSM-10-31-25-Lech-Lecha-teaching-podcast-xxx.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This parsha lays out several truly &#8216;fundamental&#8217; elements. One, referenced often in the Apostolic Writings (aka &#8216;Old&#8217; Testament) is that the man re-named Abraham in this story &#8220;<em>believed YHVH,<\/em>&#8221; and his actions repeatedly made that clear, and He &#8220;<em>counted it to him for righteousness<\/em>.&#8221; (Genesis 15:6, referenced by Paul\/Shaul in Romans 4.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mark begins the Sabbath midrash with what some might consider a surprising understanding, given that is counter to what many may have heard, as he notes, &#8220;twisted,&#8221; and it lies at the heart of this story:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Galatians has been taught &#8220;backwards.&#8221; What does Hagar, &#8216;the Egyptian,&#8217; represent? And if Paul, as he said, wrote to the former pagans in Galatia that he was worried that they were already &#8220;<em>turning away<\/em>&#8221; from that faith demonstrated by Abraham to the &#8220;<em>weak and beggarly elements<\/em>&#8221; from which they had been delivered, what does that mean?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, ultimately, just who is the &#8216;son of the bondwoman&#8217;?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once you see through the lies we have been fed &#8211; &#8220;inherited from our fathers&#8221; (some more literally than others) &#8211; it will be unseen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please share this one if you find it valuable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;Lech Lecha: Twistings &#8211; from THAT &#8216;sign&#8217; to the Real &#8216;Son of the Bondwoman'&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/WT-CooH-11-1-25-Lech-Lecha-Who-is-the-real-son-of-the-Egyptian-Bondwoman-podcast-xxx.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The combined two-part reading and Sabbath <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/mark-call-torah-teaching-for-parsha-lech-lecha\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/mark-call-torah-teaching-for-parsha-lech-lecha\/\" target=\"_blank\">midrash<\/a><\/strong>, via Hebrew Nation Radio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa&#8217;s 2025-26 Torah cycle teachings for parsh &#8220;Lech Lecha&#8221; (Genesis 12:1-17:27) &#8211; and also Galatians 4, Romans 4, and related. <a href=\"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2899\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,5,1742,69,4,11,1865],"tags":[1322,88,1912,2203,63,2202,300,1321,104,208,218,198,1083,2201,212,122,318,101,2204],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2900,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899\/revisions\/2900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}