Rabbi Minkowicz Weekly Torah Lesson Parsha TETZAVEH

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 partial to tava the question of the week is who is the Messiah and how can you be connected to mushiya so in this week's Torah portion prostitute saga the tour begins with the commandment with God commands Moshe Rabbeinu to command the Jewish people to bring to him pure olive oil and the Torah uses an interesting word that the olive oil is cusses llamar which means it's crushed the olive is crushed la mower to give off this beautiful powerful light now this week's Torah portion and this verse happens to be very sentimental to myself and short o kabaka Sodom because this commentary we're going to share is based on a discourse at the Rebbe edited and it's the last edited this course of the Rebbe and this is the discourse that the Rebbe actually it's the last discourse the Rebbe handed out personally to all his custody so in this discourse the Rebbe explains why is it that the Torah tells us that the olive oil was crushed to give off the great light and there he explains obviously we know every word in the Torah is specific and the reason why the tour is telling us it had to be crushed to give off the light because the tour is teaching us if you want to have Lamar you want the great light unfortunately you have to be go through a crushing a cost this process just like in order to get the beautiful oil out of the hours that we're lit in the menorah the Gator gave off light to the whole world same thing also spiritually if you want to be a luminary to the world you have to go through a cautious process unfortunately a crushing process and the reverie explains it follows that there's two types of being crushed one is when a jew is really really crushed when he's oppressed by governments and external forces that don't allow him to practice and observe Judaism the way a Jew should observe Derby explains that is something which really is of the past today we're living in a kind government we thank God pressed we have not only are we not oppressed with many many Jews are living in a very very comfortable state in the affluent state and very successful stage so we do not experience that type of Casas so one might think life is great but the rebbe says the truth is for a Jew there's another type of cusses there's another part that's crushed what is that part that's crossed for the Jew what's crushed for the Jew is that even though maybe life is great for himself but what really bothers him is that the scheana God's presence is an exile because you walk out into the streets some streets more than others you'll necessarily see God it's a parent so cautious means when it bothers you and you're concerned that God is not a reality in the world then you can start lighting and becoming a luminary yourself but then the Rebbe says is that deeper love that even somebody where life is great and yes it bothers him that God is not revealed but the truth is he found a way to make himself comfortable like studying more Torah and doing more mitzvot than helping other juice he created like a mini God life around him so you think what life are we wonderful but something is still bothering it what's bothering him is what's what he is cost us about what he is crushed about is that another drew God is not revealed to God's revelation has not felt by other people and other people could be anywhere in the world and that is what we cusses llamara means that you're crushed and you're broken because somebody else God and godliness is not revealed to and when when a person effects on himself they should really be crushed that God is not revealed then he becomes a true Lamar and a true luminary for the world so the answer the question who is the Messiah and how can you be connected in the shock so what am I meant is told me that a drew and viju that is most and deeply concerned for other Jews that God has not felt and in their life and giving and he's giving his life over to make sure that every single drew anyway in the world should be connected to God that is the shia and if you want to be connected to the messiah try to work on yourself to be sensitive to the fact that there are many many jews that are lacking the awareness that god is felt in a real way in their lives this week's torah lesson is dedicated to the memory of baroque when are you laid and ben Yosef may their souls be elevated for the Torah that we're studying their member thanks so much for joining us for our weekly Torah lesson please join us for live classes here at chabad thursday from 1230-2 we have a partial class shabbat morning from nine to ten we have a kabbalah class based on the teachings of the Rebbe followed by services and a kiddush and if a bringing shall go at old and have a great week