This Weeks Torah Portion Is the First Commandment To A Spiritual Seeker, Abraham!

The father of a nation of spiritual seekers and the father of all future spiritual seekers – as our sages teach us – the episodes of Abraham’s lives are teachings for ours – hence the message must be at the very core of what it means to seek a connection to the Divine!

Ironically it seems so counterintuitive – for when we seek to connect to what is beyond us, we will naturally seek to let go of our identity, subsume it, within the greater light.

But in point of fact the words from God to Abraham were exactly the opposite “Lech Lichah!” “go into yourself!” but with a caveat, for God was not telling him to become “all that you can be : )” rather, “the mechanism to reveal your true self, a part of your soul you are not aware of, your infinite potential, an unlimited ability to grow, is to first leave yourself: leave the identity of who you are based on your culture, your family and your intrinsic nature – be ready to follow me blindly”