Rabbi Minkowicz Weekly Torah Lesson Parsha KEDOSHIM 5776

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 partial ocean the question is what is God's desire so in this week's Torah lesson Pontius could ocean we learn about an interesting law the Torah tells us that when you come into the land of israel and you plant a fruit tree so the Torah says for the first three years that the true tree is growing and it produces fruit in all I don't have any benefits from the fruit that belongs to God the fourth year you're allowed to take the fruit take up to Jerusalem and benefit from it in Jerusalem the fifth year that's when it's yours you can do whatever you wanted you can eat it you can sell it it's yours but what's interesting is there any points out that the Torah says that when it comes to the fifth year the year that's yours you can use it you can sell it for commerce whatever you want the Torah says that will add to you tremendous blessings sober be asked the first three years are you giving it totally to God doesn't say anything on a blessing the fourth year where your targets you're doing it for God but you're still a lot of eat it in Jerusalem no blessing where's the blessing in the fifth year and on when you're a lot of haven't for yourself so the Rebbe explains exactly because we know the author explains in Tanya that and I'll say it in Hebrew miss avocados borough who God had a desire and we know when there's a desire there's no question it's not a logical thing God had a desire for what Leo slowest bar at a dealer batak tonin God wanted to have a dwelling place in a place which translated as on the bottom bottom meaning spiritually in the bottom what God has not felt and God wanted to create a place where he will not be felt God will not be a reality but we will say true I don't see and God they may not be a reality I see physical things but I'm gonna say borrow hush and thank God because God you created this place you created everything in here and by me saying borrow hegemony making a blessing on physical things I mean doing things or by anybody doing things that makes God a reality and makes God revealed that is exactly what God has ordered so therefore the Rebbe explains in the first three years when you're not touching it hey why aren't you eating it oh because of the god in the world so that's not yet a sign that God is really here God told you not to eat it in the fourth year when you're eating it in Jerusalem so again you're it's if you're eating something in Jerusalem in the Holy Place comes the fifth year and on you're not not eating it you're not only eating a Jerusalem you're eating it wherever and you or maybe doing business with it but you're doing business on a kosher way and when you're eating it you're making a blessing before and afterwards that is creating the real desire of God to be actualized and in the 50 or non that's when you can create the biggest blessings because godliness is not apparent since you're a lot of user for yourself and you're making sure that God gets recognized that's why all the blessings will come there so the answer the question what is God's desire God's desire is in the most mundane and simple things where God is not necessarily revealed we should stop and say borrow Hashem and we should recognize God and his greatness this week's Torah lesson was dedicated to the memory a burro when are you leave and ben Yosef may their souls be elevated by the store was studying in their memory thanks so much for joining us for our weekly Torah left for more information about chabad please see our website you