Parshat Lech Lecha

Parshat Lech Lecha begins with a command,
"Go for yourself, from your land,"
For Avraham, why don't we find,
An introduction of any kind?

Why doesn't the Torah tell us Avraham's history?
His greatness was no mystery,
When Avraham was a young boy of three,
He discovered that only one G-d there could be.

Avraham smashed all the idols in his father's shop,
To spread his philosophy, he wouldn't stop,
He was thrown into a fiery furnace by the king,
But miraculously, it was as if in a garden he was strolling.

In the Midrash and Talmud, about Avraham we are told,
But why is scripture silent until Avraham was 75 years old?
There is a lesson here for me and you,
Since Avraham was the first Jew.

If the Torah would tell us that Avraham was so great,
We would think that to be a Jew, his actions we must first emulate,
In truth we are Jewish, not because of the great things we chose to do,
But because Hashem choose to invest himself into Avraham and every Jew.

Take a spiritual magnifying glass to explore,
The essence of a Jew is like nothing you've seen before,
A Jew has a Neshama, a G-dly Soul, which by definition,
Is an actual part of Hashem with a mission.

To be a Jew, is not something you can choose,
It is a membership card we are born with, that we can't lose,
The infinite Hashem is part of our spiritual DNA,
To have a relationship with the infinite there is only one way.

We need to listen to Hashem's command,
And follow His instructions even if we don't understand,
It is not about logic, spirituality or what makes me feel good,
It is about fulfilling every detail in the best way that I could.

Avraham's true greatness wasn't his philosophy,
It was listening to Hashem, when it didn't make sense logically,
To leave his land, birth place and father's house, was hard to do,
But Avraham taught us what it really means to be a Jew!

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