Rabbi Minkowicz Weekly Torah Lesson Parsha Shemini 5780

welcome to this week's Torah lesson this week's Torah portion is partially the question of the week is how can we merit the greatest blessings so in this week's Torah portion part Rashmi we finally come to the completion of the temple the seven days dedication of farming was the eighth day and they finally put together the whole temple but now the main thing is missing they need are some to reveal themselves and they're waiting and sure enough moisture in and prays to ram and the son reveals himself how some reveals himself the screener comes down to the into the basement gosh and everybody's extremely happy so a huge thing happened by a mush meanie besides the fact that part of the temple the most important thing that happened was there have some revealed himself and their ever asked what was it that caused our son to reveal himself and there be explains what causes him to reveal himself was by um hush meanie meanie means literally AIT's what does mean either explained as follows there's seven days of the week seven days a week resembles nature Shmi knee is above nature what does that mean practically shesh that means nature means you do things in your comfort zone this is what I'm comfortable doing this is who I am Shmi knees when you wanted to go out of your comfort zone when you willing to go out of your comfort zone then you get tremendous blessings out of a shuns comfort zone as well and your ever explains who was the one that was able to bring it down into a real a moisture Begnaud why because who was moisture obey know so we learning this week in perky about it says moisture key belt or mc9 moisture received the Torah from Sinai there are be asked moisture gonna receive the term from Sinai he received from a salmon what do we received from sign a wasn't sitting in Sinai but there are explains there were doesn't mean he received from Sinai Moishe kibo Torah he received at her from who from I sham the question is why was moisture being or Zota how did he marry to receive chatter from a sermon and the answer is many seen I because we know in the mountains seen I was a mountain but it was a low mountain it means moisture obey knew was humble and because he was humble that's what he merited received her from a Shem so moisture Keeble Torah from Hashem why why he married it because he was humbled and everything you see even deeper moisture of ADA's name is made up of three letters mem Shin a mem stands for moisture obey no Chien stands for Shama who's one of the leading teachers in the Mishnah who was very very strict and from so to speak from the left side and hey stands for Hillel who was very very kind full of cut said on the right side in moisture abhi knew he was able to be balanced he Ferris he was able to have within him some I know one to be strict and to be disciplined and one to draw things down into reality but he was also knew when to have the hey that have said of going above and beyond the going out of your comfort zone somebody Schrader was a perfect mix a balance right and left all together how do you have that by his humility and that's what caused the greatest blessings to come down by a much meaner year through much revenue as much sure and resemble someone that was living in reality but he was able to go out of his comfort zone when needed so to the answer the question how can we merit to receive the greatest blessings by doing what we're supposed to but everyone surround we need to go out of our comfort zone to be more kind and generous and gentle and loving and caring we will merit the greatest blessings of Hashem thanks so much for joining us for our weekly Torah lesson this week's Torah lesson is dedicated to the memory of Boroff Benari liebe slo-mo baño safe and Rahel busts liebe may their souls be elevated by the Torah we are studying in their memory thanks again for joining us Shavua Tov and have a great week