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it's time for rabbi Minko its weekly
Torah lesson a place where life's most
difficult questions are answered here
with his spiritual perspective and
insight rabbi Mingo 'it's welcome to
this week's Torah lesson this week's
Torah portion is Pontius me cates and
konica so the question of the week is
where do we find strength in challenging
times this week as we celebrate Hanukkah
and we read the Allen isn't prayer in
our prayer service and in the grace
after meals so it speaks about the
miracle of Hanukah when the Greeks
wanted to destroy us and destroy a
temple so it says there that we were in
an ace Sarah we were in a terrible
straight and the Torah tells tells us in
the on listen prayer rafter its rhythm
that God came and saved us and he fought
our battles so the Rebbe asks a question
of it's our battles wise God fighting
our battles so the Rebbe explains that
we each have a physical battle as the
Greeks at that time but also we each
have a spiritual battle what does that
mean every single day there's a battle
what's the battle the battle is our evil
inclination want us not to serve God and
not the study Torah and not to do mitts
vote but with our godly soul we overcome
and we try to overcome we overcome the
battle of the evil inclination now there
are days when we're successful but then
there are times when we aren't so what
happens the Rebbe says raft is freedom
God comes in steps in and fight our
battles for us and when God steps in
then even though we're in 8 Sarah when a
terrible place but with the power of God
we're able to overcome every challenge
that we have and the ER be says we find
something very interesting when it comes
to putting up a mezuzah we know Lee put
up mrs. on the right side of the
doorpost why because the right is power
and we obviously want to serve God from
a place of power where do we put up the
Hanukkah candles we put it up on the
left side of the doorpost the left side
is weakness so why do we put the
Hanukkah candles on the left side
services not because of a weak point but
I country because the power
konica hands because God came in and
stepped in and fought our battles for us
we're able to not only deal with right
side which is easy but we're even able
to deal with the left which is extremely
negative but we have one so you have the
power of God we're able to totally
overcome not only the right side which
we normally do with the mezuzah but even
the left side were able to overcome our
greatest challenges because we have God
with us to answer the question where do
we find strength overcoming challenges
strength we find this from the story of
konica to know that any situation win as
hard as it may be we're in that place of
Tara a place a tremendous pain Ralph
Terry from God will come and does come
to save us and God is ultimately the
source of our true comfort and knowing
that we're not alone this week's Torah
lesson is dedicated to the memory of
berwyn re liebe made the tour that was
studying in his memory close an
elevation for his soul thanks so much
for joining us for our weekly Torah
lesson please join us for live classes
here at chabad Wednesday we have the jli
course from 1230-2 to thursday morning
is a partial class Makana from eleven to
twelve and thursday evening we have the
jli from seven to eight-thirty and
shabbat morning we have kabbalah class
at nine o'clock followed by services and
if i bring in shavua tov have a great
week please join us for the grand
Hanukkah menorah lighting this year
tuesday december 16 five-thirty p.m. on
the cruise taking place from downtown
Fort Myers at five-thirty p.m. we will
have a beautiful exciting konica
celebration with lighting in the grandma
Nora great music great food and great at
the payment please join them
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