Parsha Balak Chasidic Torah thought from Lubavitcher Rebbe by: Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz

Welcome to this week's Torah lesson. This week's Torah portion is parasok. The question of the week is will life change when Msiah arrives? So in this week's Torah portion par, we have the blessings where it says how great is the tense of Jacob, the dwelling place of Israel, which is the both the same names of. And then it says again it uses both names of Jacob, Jacob and Israel. So the question the Reb asked from the alterb asked the same question as well that how come by when his name was changed from a to a he's only called Ara we don't go back and call him Ara anymore. However over here when it comes to Yakov and is you see that both names are called. So the Reb explains to me something very powerful and he says like this what is Yakov? Yakov is Yudv when he struggled with Esau. Israel comes from Leroy. In other words, there two different ways of connecting to Hashem. One is which basically clarity just focused on learning Torah and doing mitzv. And the other one is which basically is dealing with the struggles of life. But the fact is they're both needed because one is focuses on the light and one focuses on the vessels. And our job is to what? to create the unity between the light and the vessels. And the reason why we're still called Yakov in Israel because ultimately we will always be busy with on one hand bringing in light on one hand dealing with the vessels and that creates the complete picture. So the answer to the question what will change when Msiah comes and the answer is the life of the light and the vessels is not going to change and we're going to change the same job to bring the light into the vessels which resembled by our names Yakov and Israel. Thanks so much for joining us for our weekly Torah lesson. This week's Torah lesson is dedicated to memory of Yose. May the souls be elevated by Torah we're studying in memory. For more information please see our website.org. Have a great and blessed week. Shabu to