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it's time for rabbi minkowitz weekly
tour lesson a place where life's most
difficult questions are answered here
with his spiritual perspective and
insight rabbi minkowitz welcome to this
week's torah lesson this week's torah
portion is pasha piku day the question
of the week is how should you treat a
rebellious person
so in this week's torah portion pasha's
pakude the torah portion begins and
tells us
this is the accounting of the mishkan
mishkan
the mishkan of testimony so rashi right
away asks the question
why does it say mishkan twice we know
every single word in the torah specific
there's no extra letters no extra words
so here you have the word mishkan which
is referring to the tabernacle twice why
is it say it twice sriracha says you
know why it says twice it's to hint us
about the two destructions that each
temple was going to be destroyed
for the sins of the jewish people
that's why it says the mishkan twice the
rabbi asks a simple question we're
building the temple
we're building a tabernacle so it says
it twice great but why do you give an
example of the destruction you couldn't
have found something more
positive you know it's because of making
a better dwelling place to god and so on
and so forth why do you bring up the
destruction why do you bring up the
negativity
so the rebbe says hey if you give a look
at closely at rashi rash is giving us a
very very powerful lesson and that is as
follows
when he speaks about the destruction of
the temple so what does he say what does
rashi say this is the um
the reason why he says it twice for the
destruction of the temple for the sins
of the jewish people in other words what
rashi is pointing out the way ruby
explains it is that the temple itself is
not destroyed there was no destruction
in the temple itself the temple we still
have
what we have unfortunately is the sin of
jewish people that caused the temple to
be taken away from us
but the temple is still fully intact
both temples are full fully intact but
we have unfortunately because of the sin
of the jewish people therefore we don't
have the temple with us so in other
words robbie brings out that the torah
is trying to teach us is that even when
unfortunately we lost the temple because
of our sins but we did not really lose a
temple because we always have our
connection to the misgun and to the base
of mikdash because the fact is you see
till today we study about the mystical
we study about the mgdos god teaches us
about the mishkan and amigdas why
because even though we sinned but the
mishkan was really never taken away from
us today brings out here's a powerful
lesson that in other words let's learn
from god how does god treat us when we
sinned so even though we sinned then yes
we're not worthy to hamming the mishkan
but we still really have the ultimate
connection with the mushroom we never
lost and the god never basically walked
away from us and he kept the connection
alive
so to answer the question how should you
treat someone that's rebellious just
like god treats us
keep the connection alive
and keep the friendship a real
friendship even when the person rebels
this week's torah lesson is dedicated to
the memory of baruch ben arya leib and
ben yosef may their souls be
elevated for the torah we're studying in
their memory
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