Rabbi Minkowicz Weekly Torah Lesson Parsha Ki Teitzei 5779

chabad please join us welcome to this week's torah lesson this week's torah portion is prashas ki saysay the question of the week is why can't a jew disconnect from god so in this week's torah portion the torah begins when you go out to war on your enemy so the already asked a simple question why is that key satan when you go out just like you say look when you're going to go you're going to war what does it mean you're leaving so the rebbe explains that there's the physical war but there's a spiritual war referring to every single one of us that we originally were in heaven with god our godly soul and our godly soul left our original place where we were with god we came down to this physical world where god is concealed and kissed say we're leaving our oneness with god and we're coming out into this world and the reason is because god wanted to have a dwelling place down in this world and he gave us a mission to transform ourselves to work with the animal soul to practice his scaffold restraint his hapka transformation and when we succeed that causes tremendous pleasure in god now even though we left so to speak that oneness with god and we're in this world because god wants us to engage in the world but nevertheless we never disconnected from god and as we see later on in this week's torah portion where bilum which refers to when billam wanted a curse of jewish people and he had real reasons real complaints against jewish people we did sins and we're humans we do do sins so what does the torah say a very profound verse that god our god would not even listen to below he wouldn't even listen to him why wouldn't he listen to bilaam because our connection with god is not like two pieces to a puzzle or two parts of one complete thing but we are really one with god because we're one with god therefore even though we do sin we still remain connected to god on the deepest levels so it's the answer to the question why can't a jew ever just get disconnected from god because we are one with god it's not like we're two parts that are separated and therefore we can get disconnected we are one in our essence this week's torah lesson is dedicated to the memory of barachmen arya ben yosef and rahul baslipa may their souls be elevated by the torah with studying in their memory for more information please see our website swf.org thanks so much for joining us for our weekly tutorials