Rabbi Minkowicz Weekly Torah Lesson Parsha Shemini 5781

welcome to this week's torah lesson this week's torah portion is pasha shmini the question of the week is what can we do to receive the greatest blessings so in this week's torah portion of torah tells us it was on the eighth day what happened on the eighth day there was the completion and dedication of the temple so robert asked a simple question what's special and unique about the eighth day if it happened on the eighty there was a reason why so robert explains like this we know that seven is nature and eight is above nature seven is the seven days of the week and eight is above nature what happened for seven days they dedicated the temple the completion was on the eighth day so they went through the process of nature and they went then they had the process of above nature so you had both so thereby explains when you have the fusion of nature the seven and above nature the eight that creates the greatest blessings so the question is that's wonderful so how do we create that fusion of nature and above nature so rabbit explains we learned that from moisture why because we know moisture bainu was connected to hashem through torah torah's balance moisture presented the balance in the jewish people but nevertheless even though moisture represented balance moisture bainer's name is made up of three letters [Music] so the first mem stands for moisture of anu the balance but the second letter is shin what does shin stand for sin stands for shammai in the town where there were two powerful leaders and they had two different approaches in life you had shamai which represented guru which which is discipline which represents finite on the other hand you have the last letter in moisture banana's name which is a hay which represents hillel hill represents what the idea of ghasset kindness which is represent which is kindness is all about infinite so within moisture obeying you had the men which represented balance you had on the other hand you had shamai which was guvura discipline which is finite and you also had the idea of hasset and you had the idea of infinite so basically moisture beno had it all so the question is how do you have it all where did moisture reno get it that he had it all that we can learn from australian to have the same thing whoever says we know it says and pick a vote that we're starting to learn this week moishe ki bel teremi sinai my surveyna received terror aware from sinai so the rubber asked the question it's almost like a funny question moisture received the toy from sinai he received it from hashem at mount sinai don't we see the terror from the mountain so what does that mean moisture being received the torah from sinai so the rubber explains very very simple when it when it's when the mishnah says moisture abandoned received it from sinai means he received it by the lesson he got from mount sinai there was moisture this is what he merited to receive the terry from hashem was the lesson that he took from sinai from the mountain of sinai why because what was unique about her sinai the mount sinai the moisture rain received the terry from hashem on one hand it was a mountain it wasn't it wasn't a flat but on the other hand it was a humble mountain it wasn't a huge mountain so hara cena represented a mountain but you bought humility and by moisture connecting to the idea of cni which means mountain seems to have a self-esteem but it's not an egotistical self-esteem you have a healthy self-esteem and because he had a healthy self-esteem meaning moisturizing was talk to god connect it to god learn torah he had all the qualities of moishabenu musha sharma and hillel but he wasn't arrogant about it he had the humility to receive from sinai and because he had the humility he received from sinai therefore he was able to receive the torah and do all the tremendous things that he did so he answered the question how can we receive the greatest blessings by being humble like maishrabenu and will will we humble like moisture avenue we'll be able to be connected to the finite and the infinite and when you connect to the finite and the infinite you'll be able to receive all the greatest blessings possible thanks so much for joining us for our weekly tour lesson this week's torah lesson is dedicated to the memory of baruch banarilab may their souls be elevated by the torah we're studying in their memory have a great and blessed week shavua tov