Rabbi Minkowicz Weekly Torah Lesson Holiday of Rosh Hashana

it's time for Rabbi minkowitz weekly Torah lesson a place where life's most difficult questions are answered here with his spiritual perspective and insight Rabbi minkowitz welcome to this week's Torah lesson this week we are celebrating the holiday of Rashana so we're going to discuss about the major Mitzvah of rosashana which is blowing the chauffeur and the question of the week is what should one meditate when hearing the chauffeur so as you know the highlight of R is to come to synagogue and the Mitzvah is to hear the sound of the chauffeur and the question is out of all things in Judaism we take a Ram's Horn we blow it we make a sound and that's rashash hearing the chauffeur and that is the Mitzvah and the question is what is so significant about hearing the sound of the chauffeur so the balov who's the founder of mysticism explains it with an analogy and the Bento says there was once a king that had a son a prince and he wanted his son to learn the value of being a prince so that one day when he takes over he'll know what it means to be out there in the world and know the value of being a prince and he'll know how to be a real king so the king takes his son and sends him off to a far away land in hope that he will go out there keep and stay loyal to the values that he was brought up in the palace and he would come back an educated son this son travels out and as life has it instead of staying loyal to the values that he was brought up on he got a little distracted and he got distracted he forgot about the king he forgot about the palace he forgot about his values and he became a non-educated wild boy totally without any structure without any responsibility went from uh one level to the next down to a very low level one day as we all have one day in our life when we wake up and we say oh my gosh what am I doing I need to go back home so the prince travels back home to the Palace of the king he comes but when he left he left looking like a prince but when he came back his hair was unkempt tattered clothing looked like someone that was lost in the forest and he comes screaming he wants to go into the palace the guards look at him and think this guy is nuts and obviously doing their job chase him away and throw him away from the palace stay away you're not allowed here people can only come here if you're invited respectfully Etc the child the prince is confused it's his house it's his father he starts arguing with them he he starts negotiating with them he starts rationalizing with them he starts playing with them with his emotions please allow me to go in whatever tactic he used nothing happened they would not list pay attention to his smart arguments his emotional arguments all his pleas went nowhere as he saw he was helpless and sometimes when you're helpless you reach in English it's called you reach a bottom so he cries out from the depth of of his heart father father save me and his father the king heard that voice and recognized his son's voice came running out to the street and sure enough he sees his son and he Embraces his son and father and son are once United and the relationship starts to rebuild and the prince who was lost finds comes back to his roots and reunites with his father and eventually becomes uh the king so BTO says the same thing happens to each and every each and every one of us Jewish people God gave us a Godly Soul which The Godly soul is Godly it's a part of God and he housed it in a body a physical body we come down to this world so The Godly Soul wants to stay loyal to God by studying Torah doing mitzvot praying anything to keep that relationship alive the body has other needs and wants and initially they're neutral e eating sleeping going around touring whatever may be neutral stuff and there's a constant conflict do we Are we more Godly or do we have to take care of our physical self selfless or selfish what happens to each and every one of us as we go through life at different points different levels we get extremely immersed in this materialistic world and we forget about God and we don't look like when we originally left God as a pure Soul what happens in R we come to sh there's prayers there's Torah study there's charity but that's all great but will get us to rekindle our relationship with God is when we hear that chauffeur blowing and we call from the depths of our heart to god father father save us God will reach out and save you so to answer the question what should you meditate when you hear the sound in the chauffeur pure and simple father father save me I want to be reunited once with you and I want my Nish my Godly soul to rule my life this week's lesson is dedicated to the memory of and rash May their souls be elevated for the Torah that we're studying in their memory thank you so much for joining us for our weekly Torah lesson please join us this week for high holiday services and honor we have Services Wednesday night and Thursday night at 7 o'clock Thursday and Friday morning we have a cabala class at 9: followed by services at 10 and followed by beautiful KES and we have special programs for the children have a happy and healthy sweet New Year andaa TOA