Rosner’s Torah Talk: Lech Lecha with Dvir Cahana

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Shmuel Rosner

October 29, 2020

Dvir Cahana is a rabbi in training at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah and began performing Jewish hip hop with his high school group, Les Miz-R-Achim, in 2009. In 2010, he began writing Jewish themed battle raps and in 2011 one of his Torahps was featured on Radio Shalom. He released his first album, @étude in 2012. Read more about him here and more from him here.

Our parsha is Lech Lecha in which God speaks to Abram, commanding him, “Go from your land, from your birthplace and from your father’s house, to the land which I will show you”. Our conversation is about the person Avraham, his wife, Sarah, and the land, Canaan.

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