Rabbi Minkowicz Weekly Torah Lesson Parsha Bereisheet 5781

welcome to this week's torah lesson this week's torah portion is pasha's voracious the question of the week is how should we react to chaos and darkness so this week's torah portion partial sporacious the torah begins be racist in the beginning now the beginning is racist so why does it say be in and there be explains because b is the letter base the letter b is numerically two in other words there's two things that existed before racist before the beginning what are those two things the jewish people and the torah now why is the jewish people the torah created before the beginning and there be explains because hashem had a dream nisava he had a desire he wanted a dwelling place bitter in a place where hashem is going to be concealed so hashem created a world where hashem is concealed he placed the jewish people in there he gave us the torah and our job is to bring light into the world as we see clearly the torah says it was chaos full of chaos full of darkness and then all of a sudden hashem said ye are there should be light in other words the avoid is the work is that it starts off it's chaos and darkness hashem brought in light and that's our avoider are avoided as jews is when we see darkness when we see chaos to bring in the light of toronto and mitzvahs so to answer the question what should be our reaction when we see chaos and darkness time to bring in the light the light of torah and mitzvahs thanks so much for joining us for our weekly torah lesson this week's torah lesson is dedicated to the memory of barach bernardi leib schlong by yosef and rachel baslipa may the souls be elevated by a torah we're studying in their memory for more information please see our website swf.org have a great and blessed week and remember to fill the world with light because that's our mission and purpose in this world