Rabbi Minkowicz Weekly Torah Lesson Parsha Behar 5779

welcome to kebab please join us welcome to this week's Torah lesson this week's Torah portion is Pasha's behind the question of the week is how can we have a healthy self-esteem so this week's Torah portion Pasha's Behar begins where God speaks to most revenue by RC 9 and Mount Sinai and the question is why did God speak to motion of a new bahar sinaia Mount Sinai what significance about the name of the mountain being Behar c9 so the Rebbe explains because we know in the world what God created there's four different levels of energy don't mean inanimate so may have things I grow high things that are alive a macabre people that speak the lowest level is domain where was a Torah given in a desert in the place of domine but even the place of domain it could have been given a flat plane or it couldn't be given on a mountain the higher means it was given on a mountain what does that mean that wherever you're at even if you're on the lowest level of domain you should still try to elevate yourself behind like we know King David says the Psalms Yael for me higher higher pushes always grow you should always go higher and higher Sinai has the same numerical value as sulla a ladder sign ends numerical value sonica 60 Judas 10 known as 50 here's another 10 which is total of 113 and so long is also Samak of 16 Lahman is 30 mm is 40 which is 130 both equal the same what is Sinai which numerically we'll Seulong a ladder to go up so when we study Torah and whatever we do we should always think about where it all started Bihar Sina that is constantly elevated and constantly growing so the answer the question how can we have a health healthy self-esteem by always thinking about elevating ourselves and growing we will have a great healthy self-esteem this week's Torah lesson is dedicated to the memory of burro fan are you late slow-mo ben yosef and ruffle bus leepu may their souls be elevated by the torah was studying in their memory for more information please see our website Chabad SWS org thanks so much for joining us for our weekly tourism