Rabbi Minkowicz Weekly Torah Lesson Parsha Behaalotecha 5780

welcome to this week's her lesson this week's torah portion was Pontius Baja Louise close the question of the week is how can we stay focused on what's important so in this week's Torah portion right in the beginning of the sixth Aliyah which is the 35th and the 36th verse in chapter 10 the Torah says by even so you're already the famous two lines we say when we take out the Torah from the ark that when the ark traveled but if you give a look before verse 35 and after verse 36 which happens to be the first two verses in the sixth Aliyah there's an upside I upside down none the letter known is upside down the question is why is that many different commentaries give different answers why several commentaries say the reason is because these two verses is its own book of the Torah so based on that we have the book operationally strike Arab midburn which is four books you have by even salya which becomes the fifth act if I even say yeah you have the sixth and the Durrani becomes a seventh so because this week's Torah portion ye Basara has within it its own book we go from five books of Moses to actually seven books of Moses so to be more specific this week's Torah portion parts while Allah has a part of the fourth in the five books of Moses the fifth one and then the beginning of the six are the five books of Moses but there are we asked a very simple question we all know all the four the books of Moses the first one God created the world the second one when it counts names of the Jewish people do leviticus when they stop bringing the sacrifice by mid bar numbers counting the Jewish people by even sorrowing taking out the Ark is all talking that positive stuff what happens right after when you start technically the sixth book it says like he caught he I'm commissioning in the Jewish people of complainers this is the way you start a book about complainers and then if you give a look at this in the last book in the seventh Deuteronomy talks about moisture Boehner rebuking the Jewish people so why is it the last two books of these seven are so to speak really negative about the Jewish people them complaining and giving them rebuke so the Rebbe explains that we find idea of five books and we find seven books cabbalistic aliy everything is ruled back into the sphere old so in the spirit we know there's a total of ten but the emotional spirit because we're emotional human beings starts from Crescent now I said devotee Ferris nets are hide aside Malthus is actually seven she wrote this five hazard word ferrous metal halide and then is recited on Malthus now that's Edward II ferrous metal can hide resemble the spirit our emotional emotions of who we are we're kind or more disciplined or more compassionately more want to be succeed or more grateful that's really about us the last two the sixth and the seventh I wrote is you so lead in my office you said easily connect to other people and Malthus will be lead we relate to other people so you find unique the first five is our own spiritual emotions and the other two is asked but the way we relate to other people so there are beats has the same ideas with the five books of Moses and the last two the seven the first five bere she is small ye Carrabba mid bar and buy even Sonya refers to godly books to a whisper speaks to us on a spiritual a godly very high level the last tool which is basically starting from these active I even say which is in this book by Lewis Clark where it starts about the Jewish people complaining and then get the stay with Miriam and then get this through with the spies and then you have the last book where they're being reviewed deals the way the Jewish people are dealing with the world just like the Sphero with the first five as a matter own self and the last two that we relate to the world the same thing also the first five books is all more in a godly spiritual level who connect with God in an intimate way and the last two is that we go into with the physical world and that's why you see when we got to start going into the world we deal with the world stuff we deal with complainers we deal with the with the spies we deal with kuraki then we have tilt review and so on and so forth so based on this two Rebbe says how do we have the strength to go into the world and deal with all these challenges so here comes the answer this week's Torah portion is called biological what does it say in the beginning of the Torah portion of jalisco so Rashi says what's taking about how loose o'clock they would breathe they were brought to Aaron they brought they brought the neighbors the candles to light the menorah so we know spiritually what is a candle so we know it says the famous verse he near mid cerveteri oil a candle is a reference to mitts vote and Torre's resembles light our avoider is to fill our life with mitts vote and to learn Torah that's who we really are God gave us put us into this world and he gave us the opportunity to connect to him through doing Mitzvah and learning Torah so we can do it passively or just to check it off the list or the Torah says no no but how ladies saw what is Baha ladies coming in it and Rashi says Ancheta hey shall haveth al-mal aha the way you should learn Torah and the way you should do mitts vote is you have to be a fire you have to be excited passionate about you're doing by your mitzvahs you have to be excited about your learning Tyrone or ela you have to continually grow in it whatever you learnt yesterday that was good for yesterday today you have to learn more and tomorrow you have to learn more the midsole you did yesterday that was for yesterday you have to learn more do more mitzvahs you have to constantly grow and may Atlanta means it has to come from you it shouldn't be your doing someone else's midsole to log on terror but the Torah and amid so it has to become who you are and that's the three powerful insights with the Torah's teaching us for Jalisco we should be excited about Torah we should grow with Torah and it should be real to become our Torah like for example the the book of I even cellular is that God's giving us a Torah so we should be able to travel we should have to grow with it and when we travel when we grow then we will have the strength that we have to deal with the world with complainers with the clay rock with the spies with all the issues we'll have the strength to deal with it even with the rebuke so the answer the question how can we stay focused what's important mahalo to remember to learn Torah and to do the mitzvahs in a way that we're excited about it were growing with it and it becomes real and it becomes who we really are if we have that we'll be able to focus and do what's really important this week's Torah lesson is dedicated to the memory of Baro Benari liebe slow-moving Yosef and rock Alba sleepi may their souls be elevated by the Torah we're studying in their memory thanks so much for joining us for our weekly Torah lesson for more 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