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Meshech Chochma — h-chochmah lechlecha 2023 — Lech-Lecha 5784

Выпуск: Meshech Chochma — h-chochmah lechlecha 2023 — Lech-Lecha 5784. Темы: parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: недельная глава, парша, parsha, פרשה, פרשת השבוע. Rabbi Immanuel Bernstein 2023 / 5784 MESHECH CHOCHMAH Parshas Lech Lecha Israel and Mazal ‫וַּיוֹצֵ א אֹ תוֹ הַ חּוצָ ה וַ יֹ ּאמֶ ר הַ בֶ ּט נָא הַ שָ ּׁמַ יְמָ ה ּוסְ פֹ ר הַ ּכוֹ כָבִ ים אִ ם ּתּוכַל לִ סְ פֹ ּר אֹ תָ ם‬ ‫וַ יֹ ּאמֶ ר לוֹ כֹ ּה יִהְ יֶה ז ְַרעֶ ָך‬ He [Hashem] took him [Avram] outside and said, “Look now toward the heavens and count the stars if you are able to count them.” And He said to him, “So shall your descendants be.” (15:5) Commenting on the opening words, “He took him outside,” the midrash1 explains that Hashem took Avram outside of his astrological boundaries and limitations, which had determined that Avram was incapable of fathering children. Hagar’s Vision ‫ עַ ל כֵ ּן קָ ָרא לַבְ ּאֵ ר בְ ּאֵ ר לַחַ י רֹאִ י הִ נֵּה בֵ ין קָ דֵ ׁש‬.‫כִ ּי ָאמְ ָרה הֲ גַם הֲֹלם ָראִ יתִ י ַאחֲרֵ י רֹאִ י‬ .‫ּובֵ ין בָ ֶּרד‬ For she said “Have I indeed seen even here after having seen?” Therefore the well was called “The Well of the Living One Appearing to Me,” behold it is between Kadesh and Bered. To this, Hashem said, “Avram cannot father children, but Avraham can!” In a parallel discussion of Hashem elevating Avraham above mazal, the Gemara references the famous principle that, “Ain mazal le’Yisrael – Mazal does not affect Israel.”2 The Meshech Chochmah explains that the notion that Israel are above mazal applies specifically to the Jewish people as a whole, for their national destiny is overseen directly by Hashem and is not subject to the forces of mazal. The answer, says the Meshech Chochmah, is that an individual upon whom the entire nation is dependent is himself judged as the nation would be.4 Here, too, as the progenitor of the Jewish people, Avraham’s ability to bring them into the world certainly entitled him to partake of the principle of “Ain mazal le’Yisrael” which pertains to them as a people. The Meshech Chochmah explains that the answer to these questions comes by taking note of the concluding words of pasuk 14, which identify the location the location of the well as “between Kadesh and Bered.” These places are known in the Mishnah as Rekem and Cheger,5 and it is apparent from Tosafos6 that they are both outside the land of Israel. Hence, the name which marked tha

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Meshech Chochma

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