Rabbi Minkowicz Weekly Torah Lesson Parsha Chayei Sara 5778

[Applause] it's time for rabbi mankiewicz weekly Torah lesson a place where life's most difficult questions are answered here with his spiritual perspective and insight rabbi megawatts welcome to this week's Torah lesson this week's Torah portion is practice hi Sarah the question of the week is what is a balanced life so in this week's Torah portion Pontius Kyocera we learn about after Kyocera passes away so the Torah describes Abraham and Taurus is like this but Abraham saw Cain Abraham was old but by yelling these coming in his days Hashem baracus aroma curl God blessed Abraham with everything and then it goes around to tell us that he was looking now for a stood up for his son it's hot but let's go back to this verse the verse says about rum sucking he was old now old means you're old your days have come dan says Bubba young his days came so if he's old it means what were young if it's Bubba young means being sucking why is it a double expression so the Rebbe explains what a sucky mean sucking is actually an abbreviation for zessica Nakashima referring to someone that has acquired wisdom how do you acquire real was that my studying Torah so Abraham was one that study Torah and he studied lots of Torah what is Torah do to a person Torah allows you to connect to God and it transforms you internally bought by young him what does that mean Baba young sir if spiritually that means that he was able to penetrate into the day's days we know it referring to to time and space time is a physical thing that means he went was full he was filling his life as days with doing mitts vote so the Torah tells us that Avram had both qualities because he studied Torah means he worked on himself spiritually he also did mitzvot with he perfected the world in other words you find many heaping they love studying Torah they'll study Torah from morning to the night mitzvah they do the basic metals they have to but they're not going to go ahead and do out we can help other people doing a mitzvah they'll do their there their fears very very clear requirement in essence their main thing is Torah study then you have certain people will study the basic amount the minimal amount but they'll be busy doing midsole helping other people do mid-south etc to extremes abraham was unique that he studied Torah and he studied lots of Torah but he in the admits vote and he and he helped a lot of people doing mitzvot so in others Abraham lived the perfect balance where he was not overly in either studying a Torah doing this work but he studied he admits vote he studied admits fault and he did them both in the evil way and that's what God says our Sun bear has another coat Abraham was a blessed man because he lived a balanced life so what saved up so he answered the question what is a balanced life a balanced life is when you study Torah ie that you work on yourself spiritually and you do MIT's vote and you do both in equal amounts that is a balanced life this week's Torah lesson is a memory of bora pandari liebe and Ben Joseph may their souls be elevated for the Torah that we're studying in their memory thanks so much for joining us for our weekly Torah lesson for more information on Habad please see our website [Music]