Hashem’s instruction to Avraham Avinu “Lech Lecho” is a leaving (from “your land, your birth place, your father’s house”) for the sake of arriving: arriving to “the land I will show you”, Eretz Yisroel. According to Chassidus, each of these expressions of leaving has a spiritual counterpart in the avodah of a Jew: Your land (artzecha) refers to one’s … Continue reading Lech Lecho 5752: Pick up and Leave