PROPHECY: Lech Lecha - France is Burning | Rabbi Shlomo Farhi

 [Not only France, but “Flames of Wrath: 8 Shocking Sights From France, Italy & Albania As Explosive Unrest Grips Europe". This is IRAN (using hamas and …….) burning the Earth with their evil. https://youtu.be/HKOfJANaVyk?si=BwrG03R_zZ5lULv1].

France is burning. And Rabbi Shlomo Farhi says he isn't surprised at all. Within hours of the looting, burning and mobs filling the streets of Paris, Rabbi Shlomo Farhi opens Parashat Lech Lecha with a question: when is it time to leave, and when is it time to fix the place you're standing in? Avraham is told "Lech Lecha" by Hashem. But in the very same parsha, "there was a famine in the land" and Avraham reads the writing on the wall and leaves on his own. A man in the shiur was born on October 15, 1942, the very day the Nazis wiped out his mother's city of Brisk. She had read the signs and escaped. The irony, Rabbi Farhi says, is that we read that same morning about a world destroyed over petty theft and looking the other way, and then watched exactly that play out in one of the most famous cities on earth. When governments reward criminal behavior and turn the victims into the criminals, you've told people it's okay. But his message is not "run." Only a prophet can say that. It's the hotel room with the toilet nobody flushed: you've asked for a new room, so why sit in the stench for the 20 minutes you're still there? Flush it. Vote. Demand the rule of law back. Be the school that said no to smartphones. Be the families who cap the simcha spending so everyone else can breathe. By the end, Rabbi Farhi hands the room a gift: "I gave you back your own No." Either we watch it burn like the generation of Noach, we build a teiva and set our own terms inside it, or, when nothing else is left, we go somewhere else and build. CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome and dedications 1:06 France is burning 2:25 Lech Lecha: forced out, or choosing to leave 3:47 Born the day his city died 4:47 From petty theft to anarchy 10:08 Would you flush the toilet? 14:29 Strategic capitulation 21:54 A challenge to our community 30:06 Burn, build a teiva, or leave 33:09 The gift: the word "No" What is one thing you've accepted as "just the way it is" that you could actually change? Tell us in the comments. Subscribe to CHAZAK for more Torah inspiration every week.