Rabbi Minkowicz Weekly Torah Lesson Parsha Tetzaveh 5778

[Applause] it's time for rabbi mankiewicz weakly to our lesson here with his spiritual perspective and insight rabbi mankiewicz welcome to this week's Torah lesson this week's Torah portion is pontius to Chava the question of the week is how can we create real relationships so in this week's Torah portion Kashtan Chava the Torah portion begins the attitudes have exponential and you and doesn't say who the new is will command the Jewish people now if you look in this week's Torah portion the whole Torah portion Moshe Raveena's not name is not mentioned now it's intriguing because from the beginning of Exodus and every single Torah portion ultra-beam his name is mentioned so why in this where is he not mentioned the commentaries tell us because when God wants and destroy the Jewish people motivate have stood up to God said God he wanted to store and drew people take my name out of the Torah now fortunately God didn't destroy the Jewish people but most Rubino even though his name shouldn't have been taken out of the Torah but since he's a Sadiq and he made a comment like that to God so his name had to be taken out and therefore was taken out from this week's Torah portion now even though was taken out of this week's Torah portion but nevertheless God's talking to him and he says viata you referring to Moshe random command to his people and the Rebbe explains that not only was his name not mentioned in the reveal but in the contrary his name is mentioned in a deeper way because a name is an external part of you the outer in you was God God's referring to God's essence if God was wanting to take the most romanians name out why is he even saying the anti-new referring to most remain as essence so here you see that what a true leader is Moshe Rabbeinu when he stood up for the Jewish people he was demonstrating that what's really important is the relationship that he had as a leader of the Jewish people as a human being and therefore if you want to destroy them as a human being destroy me too and God agree with him that what's really important is what the relationship is important so even though the external part of most revenues name is not mentioned this week's Torah portion but the since emotionally after the essence of most Rubino is mentioned so in other words when a person prays and studies Torah and does miss vote that's great that will give you an external relationship with God but when you actually praying to God and with God and you're developing that relationship with God that creates the real relations for God so there's two parts to every Mitzvah and every time you study Torah and every time you pray there is the functional part but then it's the relationship part and we have to focus as much as we focus on the external part which is the technical mitzvot on the prayer and the tourists that we have to focus on developing that deep relationship with God so the answer the question how do we develop real relationships by not necessarily focusing on the external acts but really focusing on developing the real relationship between person to person and us to God thanks so much for joining us for our weekly Torah lesson this week's Torah lesson is dedicated to the memory of bora pandari Labe and Schlomo Yosef may the souls be elevated by the Torah that was studying in their memory for more information about Chabad please see our website [Applause] [Music]