Rabbi Minkowicz Weekly Torah Lesson Parsha Pinchas 5780

welcome to this week's Torah lesson this week's Torah portion is Pasha's PIMCO's the question of the week is how can we add in joy in celebration this Shabbos the beginning of the three weeks so in this week's Torah portion partial spin cause we have the haftorah now generally speaking all the haft are out of the Torah portion are connected to the theme of the Torah portion of that week besides holidays or in our case we begin the three weeks of mourning for the destruction of the temples which starts this week i'm tish on shavasana Tamas and goes till tomorrow so for the next three weeks an extra shopper tote we read about the prophecy of the destruction of temple or as it's called Shalu stupor Aneesa the three of retribution that's God going to take for the Jewish people for not listening to him after tisha buff we start reading Shiva than ahem tub but God comforts the Jewish people and that goes on for seven weeks so Robbie asks a question we know Shabbat God gave us as a gift Shabbos is a day of rest Shabbos never joy sharpest a day of celebration and as a consequence is called Magadan refuel Amaka before God brings any punishment the healing always exists we have to find it but the healing is there so before Hashem brought the destruction he gave us the gift of Shabbos why cause Shabbos we know that even though Scotford somebody's a morning Shabbos is no morning you have to be happy you have to be full of sim Club you have to have full of Tainan full of celebration but here the question is the three weeks of mourning what are they called after tours the cold shoulder stupor Nisa three weeks of retribution I thought Shabbos is supposed to be a day of joy and celebration so the Rebbe explains his followed he says a fascinating idea that pirani ice actually means yes God is coming to pay collect a debt for not listening but peroneus also has another interpretation like we found by pyro here so power a use who is the king of Egypt but Perry also sky ballistically stands for these for real we always totally open up is a huge revelation so on a certain high spiritual level Perry is where things are totally revealed so the same thing the Rebbe says of reference this college to Peroni saw that peroneus could beam retribution but peroneus could also mean tremendous huge revelations and the Rebbe says that in this case Charlie's pretty saw the three weeks you can look at it as a as retribution and that's a choice or you can look at it with this tremendous revelation that's taking place what is the tremendous revelation so first thing the RB starts and says that look at Srivastava Tamas what which is the beginning of the three weeks when does it start on the 17th of Tammuz we all know that the word good in Hebrew which is toys the numerical value is 17 so 17th of Tammuz in it is very ready a secret that it's good more importantly the army says if you give a look specifically into the Torah portion of pin costs motto is an Messiah and varam all the four Torah portions that we read in these three weeks and we have four because Marcos amok they are going to be together so all these four is speak about what the Jewish people the plan of going into and conquering the land not only conquering the land on the west side of the Jordan where the seven nations were but also on the east side of the Georgia Jordan where the three and three other nations that we had to conquer which is a reference to the full conquering of the whole land of Israel not only we have today on the west side of the Jordan but also in the east side which includes the seven nations and the three nations and we know spiritually what's the difference between the seven Asians and the three nations so the seven nations refer to the mido to the emotions and the reason why we're able to conquer up until now the seven nations because our emotions we can take control over even though intellectually for not holding there however in order to fully take control over intellect that we're gonna need from a she has to come to give us the power and the energy and the guidance and the inspiration to transform our intellect as well but nevertheless in these four Torah portions it speaks about the conquering of the other three nations as well that means we have the ability to transform our intellect as well so here you see that the Torah is teaching us that not only do we have the power to transform the emotions we also have the power to transform our intellect and we started the process as we learn the Torah portion about it and their army proves that this is correct because the fact is what happens after the three weeks of peroneus we have seven weeks of comfort how can you have seven weeks of comfort which is referring to the seven emotions being transformed if you weren't able to start the process of transforming your intellect obviously you're able to start the process and that's why you can have chef Athena come to it's impossible to go to chef than account of several weeks of comfort if we did not start the process of transforming our intellect so based on this Derby says which answers our question how can we have extra joy on this Shabbos because we know that we the process of the three weeks starts with your Zion Thomas Srivastava town which is good and we know the three weeks and especially Shabbos has given to us to be joyful and to celebrate and peroneus doesn't mean retribution and actually means tremendous revelations and their relations start as you learn the Torah portion the way we starting to conquer even the three nations on the east side of the Jordan so because we're able to conquer the three nations on each side were the first to our intellect therefore this Shabbos and the next to Sebastian which are the Shabbos of the three weeks even though it's in a period of mourning it's time to celebrate and have tremendous simcha and tremendous joy because we are connected to Hashem on a much higher level where everything is revealed teach and every one of us thanks so much for joining us for our weekly Torah lesson this week's Torah portion is dedicated to the memory of slow moving Yosef rouxelle bus sleeper and Barak when are you late may their souls be elevated by the Torah that were studying in their memory thanks again for joining us for more information please see our website Chabad swf org have a great joyous and happy week and happy three weeks