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Video Study for Parasha Lech Lecha : Go out for yourself...

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muman613:
Shalom Ephraim,

Yes indeed Rabbi Shwab often has very interesting things to say. He wrote a book on the secrets of the Torah...

Here are a lot of his older lectures on TorahAnyTime...
http://legacy.torahanytime.com/Rabbi/Yosef_Chaim_Schwab/


Here is another Rabbi Shafier short talk on Lech Lecha:

muman613:
Here is the musical, animated, G-dcast presentation. It is about our Mother Sarah....  Sarah is the mother of all Jewish converts, so much so that a convert is often referred to as a Ben (Son) or Bat (Daughter) of Sarah.

muman613:
I remember that video from last year (when I posted it).

There were a couple of issues I had with some of the material though. Although in totality the video is quite authentic (to the Torah and kabbalah narrative).

My first question is who is the baby they are walking with down to Egypt? They had no child at that time. Yitzak was not born till the next portion. It cannot be Ishmael either because the child is holding hands with Abraham and Sarah with no Hagar (Ishmaels birth mother) in sight.

My second disagreement with the presentation is when they portray Sarah as looking old. I believe that the Midrashim and the sages have explained that Sarah did not age at all. Sarah was barren, but she had the looks of a young woman...

Rashis comment on the portion 'Life of Sarah' when she dies:

And the life of Sarah was one hundred years and twenty years and seven years: The reason that the word “years” was written after every digit is to tell you that every digit is to be expounded upon individually: when she was one hundred years old, she was like a twenty-year-old regarding sin. Just as a twenty-year-old has not sinned, because she is not liable to punishment, so too when she was one hundred years old, she was without sin. And when she was twenty, she was like a seven-year-old as regards to beauty. — from Gen. Rabbah 58:1]

Rav Soloveitchik said that Chazal are trying to tell us that regardless of how old Sarah was at any point in her life, Sarah had within her the attributes of a seven year old (purity and innocence), the attributes of a twenty year old (vitality and idealism) and the attributes of a 100 year old (wisdom and experience).
http://www.torah.org/learning/ravfrand/5771/chayeisarah.html

muman613:
Rabbi Ginsburg talks about the secrets of the portion of Lech Lecha...

muman613:
Rabbi Svirsky in Jerusalem compares the story of the Tower of Babel to the story of our father Abraham...

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