2. Lech Lecha 5780: "'Go To You!:' Traveling Life's Journey"

FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/avrohom.lipszyc/videos/10157469305768257/ SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/hachaim/2-lech-lecha-5780-go-to-you-traveling-lifes-journey Written Lecture: https://www.dropbox.com/s/yj3u3r3vbs1zcc5/2.%20Lech%20Lecha%205780%20--Go%20to%20You%20-Traveling%20Life%27s%20Journey.pdf?dl=0 YouTube: https://youtu.be/qP-r81TtYjc ------- The Alchemist, is a novel by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho that was first published in 1988. Originally written in Portuguese, it became a widely translated international bestseller. The overall theme is of a young shepherd that has a dream of a treasure hidden in the pyramids in Egypt. And he travels an entire journey, with many events, only to reach the pyramids, start digging, and find out that the treasure is exactly where he had the dream. The reason why this novel became such a classic, I would suggest, is precisely because of how pertinent the message is for each of us, as we consistently search for our ‘treasures’ outside of ourselves, and outside of where we are. While, in truth, G-d buried the treasure of each and every one of us, nowhere else but within us. Rabbi Mendel Futerfass, while in a labor camp in Siberia, bunked with political criminals, who would play cards. Having playing cards was forbidden in the labor camp, and Reb Mendel witnessed again and again, how search after search, the guards would never find it, while right after the search, the cards reappeared and the card game continued. Reb Mendel asked for their secret, and they told him that they were professional pick-pocketers, and when the guard came in, they would put the cards in the guard’s pocket, and before he left they would take it back out. The moral being that the one place people never search for what they are looking for, is within themselves. The message of this week’s Torah-portion, “Lech Lecha -Go to you,” is precisely to learn how to search within ourselves for everything in life. This lecture is based primarily on a maamor the Rebbe delivered on this Shabbat, in 1965, exploring G-d’s commandment to Abraham, Lech Lecha -Go to you, from your land, and from your birthplace, and from your father’s house to the land that I will show you.”