Enjoy this reflection by Rabbi Shawn Israel Zevit, published in the Jewish Exponent in October 2017/5778: From Your father’s House: Jewish Men Today
BY RABBI SHAWN ISRAEL ZEVIT
PARSHAT LECH LECHA
Dedicated to the life and memory of groundbreaking thinker and writer on Jewish men’s issues, Harry Brod, Feb. 1, 1951 – June 16, 2017
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“God said to Abram, lech lecha (get yourself up and go) from your native land and from your father’s house to the land that I will show you … and you will be a blessing” (Genesis 12:1-2).
The lech lecha of today requires a road map that is informed by the past, not limited by it.
To get up and go from the “house of our fathers” or as some interpretations suggest “lech lecha — go deeper into your own soul and awaken to the promise that you are,” can bring a sense of loss as well as possibility, a relinquishing and reassessment of privilege, power over others and examinations of the structures we as men have participated in and benefited from at the expense of others and our own well-being.
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