Rabbi Minkowicz Weekly Torah Lesson Parsha Bereishit 5779

[Applause] it's time for rabbi mankiewicz weekly Torah lesson here with his spiritual perspective and insight rabbi Mingo it's this week's Torah lesson this week's Torah portion is Pontius Mauritius the question of the week is what is the best way to go to Israel so in this week's Torah portion right in the beginning the tour begins braces Baroque in the beginning God created the heaven and the earth so Rashi right away ask the question whoa you're talking about creation heaven on earth the tour was given for the Jewish people let's talk about the first Mitzvah which is setting up the calendar why start with creation of a physical materialistic world so Rashi says the reason is so that would God give us the Lion of Israel and people can say what do you mean why do you have the line of Israel and our response is well God created the whole world that he's a child to give anyone he wants a present so the trouble yes okay so for that reason you're not gonna start the Torah with the first Mitzvah that we're given to the Jewish people and grant if you want to address that issue you could address later on the toe doesn't mean the forgiving of the Torah so Robbie explains that actually the question is a deeper question the question is why stories start with the creation when seemingly to start with a mitzvah who knows we know there's the world the physical world and then this tour omits modes our relationship with God is Torah miss vote so to start with Torah meets vote not necessarily what with the physical creation of the world so there are B explains his pompous based on a story of the time of Tillich where someone's came to the summit telling they said he wanted to go to the Land of Israel and they were having a hard time going they couldn't go so every said Ruby said to them one second true you want to go to the Land of Israel and that's a nice thing to do but sometimes you can't go but what is really the Land of Israel Land of Israel he was called Eretz Israel Eretz constant would have ruts on the will of you throw of God so in other words what is air too strong spiritually doing the will of Hashem so wherever you are you can do the wilderness show you don't necessarily have to be geographically in Israel now obviously it's nice to me then we should try to be there but if you can't that shouldn't stop you from doing the will of Hashem so in other words what do you see from the story that the goal is every single part of the world should be filled with the Ruxin wash em true and when you start over and you pray and do mitts vote that you're doing God's will but the point of Boreas berola came to tell you that god created the heaven and the earth and anywhere in heaven and the earth you couldn't bring the will of a Shem anywhere and everywhere so the answer the question what's the quickest way to go to Israel start doing the will of Hashem and as long as you're doing the will of a sham you will be spiritually in the Land of Israel this week's Torah lesson is the memory of borrow when are you laid and Ben Joseph may their souls be elevated by the Torah was studying in their memory thank you so much for joining us for this week's Torah lesson for more information please see our website