Rabbi Sacks is a phenomenal writer, especially in his explanation of the the Torah verse Lech Lecha. He gives us some heavy duty, critical thinking with his four interpretations of what Lech Lecha means. Rabbi Sachs’s four interpretations are: “journey for yourself,” “go with yourself,” “go to yourself,” and finally “go by yourself.” All four of his interpretations give us something to think about. His first interpretation, “journey for yourself,” at first from Rashi, or known as “going for yourself” explains Abraham going for his own benefit or good. Abraham is implied by G-d when they have their talk, that Abraham should leave because it would be better in the long run, so Abraham listens to G-d and packs up his things because it would …show more content…
According to Rabbi Ephraim Landschulz, a Jew can only find the source of his or her being in the holy land. Abraham has to discover who he is on his journey to the unknown land. G-d has Abraham go on this journey to see if Abraham was actually capable of leading a great nation, the Jews. This interpretation was similar to the idol smashing midrash because Abraham has to find himself. In the idol smashing midrash, Abraham smashed all the idols in his father’s idol shop because that is what he believes in. Abraham found what he really was when he was smashing the idols, and will find himself on his journey to the new place. The fourth and final interpretation by Rabbi Sacks is “go by yourself.” According to Sacks, “only a person willing to stand alone, singular, and unique can worship the G-d who is alone, singular and unique.” This interpretation does not take as much thought as the others, it is much more self explanatory. When Abraham is alone, he will be able to find what he is really and listening to. This interpretation is similar to the third one because they both have to do with finding