Shnayim Yomi - Lech Lecha - R'vi'i - #4

[Music] in this section the torah tells us the very first historical account of kings their wars and world politics you see after the destruction of the tower of bavel nimrod proclaimed himself as a king and he strategically aligned himself with three other great kings one of them the strongest being omer which was the eldest son of shem benoach and they formed a very strong alliance between each other there were in the jordan valley five smaller kingdoms and they had a war and the four beat the five why is this important for us it's important for us because lot of ram's nephew settled in sedom which was in the jordan valley which was one of these five small cities when the big four come over and they see lot they take him as a captive they have the intention that they can ransom him off to his very rich uncle or alternatively they can finally get avram because abram was a target abram was weaning people away from idolatry after this happened the torah tells us and the fugitive comes and tells avraham exactly everything that happened and most importantly that his nephew lut is a captive who is this palitos this fugitive well the midrash tells us it's the famous giant og who survived the great flood of nach by holding on to the back of noah's ark do we think that he had good intentions not so rather og came and he told avraham this because he wanted to go to war to lose to the four big kings in order that he can have sarai as his queen nevertheless our sages say even though he had notorious intentions he was still blessed with an extremely long life for helping a tadiq after this avraham goes along with 318 of his men and attacks and wins the war for the five smaller kings completely receding those four big kings and sending them right back to where they came from at the end of this section malkit zedek along with the king of siddum thank avram for the amazing work that he's done and winning the war for them alternatively the 318 that went with avraham is only eliezer his faithful servant whose numerical value to his name was 318. [Music] you