Rabbi Minkowicz Weekly Torah Lesson Parsha Tetzaveh 5780

welcome to this week's Torah lesson this week's Torah portion is pastor stood Sava the question of the week is what is the Hasidic approach to darkness so in this week's Torah portion partial stirred Sava the Torah tells us the attitude service from Israel that you might sure be known and command the Jewish people the equal of had they're gonna bring to you Shemin oil which was needed in a temple to light the menorah and then the Torah specific and says Zaius obviously the oil is coming from way from an olive and the turret gives a few details oh it has to be pure Costas it has to be crushed Lemar to lighting the menorah so the question is when the Torah says zok pure what is it referring to it's referring to the alabaster pure that actually a pure olive and that's the Allan you're gonna use to get the oil from or is the pure referring to the Sherman itself has to be pure so it's actually a debate between two commentators one is the Evan Ezra and the other one is rushing the Evan Ezra says that since the word zOC pure comes right next to the olive Zayas so the pure is referring to olives that you need pure olives not beat up allah's' crush dollars spoil dollars nasty pure olives and from the hours have to be pure from there you get the chemin for the menorah the Rashi says no the chemin is what you're bringing so when it says off it's a reference to what the chemin that sermon has to be pure what is the basis of the argument between the Evan Ezra and Rashi whether lead pure is referring to the Aled like the Evan Ezra or the pure is referring to the oil like Rashi so the rubber explains as follows that our lives when you taste it they're bitter we all known kedusha it's all about sweet it's all about good so something's bitter it's a reference to clip out so the evidence says that guess what when you're dealing with CLE poet you gotta make sure they're pure we don't want to have any clip walk in the temple so therefore the tourists telling us you know those arms that are bitter you got to make sure they're pure you got to make sure there's no clip bolt in there there's no negative energy and you got to bring only good and positive energy Rashi on the other hand whoever says his llena shelter a previous attorney the Rashi explains as follows that the truth is weirdoes chemin come from it comes from what's its source it comes from the olive in spiritually Shemin is hokhmah intellect weirdest cosmic come from a comes from Kesser so the rebus says that the olive which might be bitter it's because why gets the source we could relate to things that are revealed the chemin up we see chemin but the source is hard for us to relate to but the truth is the reason why it's hard to us to relate to not because it's clipart on the country because the Zionist represents Kassar a very very high level and therefore there's culture coming from a high level it's 100% pure so therefore there's no reason to be concerned about the source it's Kesler itself chemin which is already Hoffman which represents bitl which comes from Kesser so the problem is that when the journey between Kessler and Kozma between cat between the Zionists which represents Kassar and the Shama which represents Kozma on the way there could be some impurity and the humility that was supposed to get from councilor could be tainted and therefore the Torah says according to Rashi to make sure that that beautiful source that came from the olive which was we know is from Kassar when it went down into Hoffman went down to chemin it's 100% pure and that's why the Torah tells specifically that what should be pure were concerned more about the chemin so you see Raj's opinion is that when you look at an olive you don't see a bitter olive you see Kesser and that's basically the answer the question that's the Kosilek approach the joy what's the Hasidic approach a joy that we look at life that when we see darkness we see that in the darkness is the greatest light thanks so much for joining us for our weekly Torah lesson this week's Torah lesson is dedicated to the memory of bora pandari liebe slow mover Yosef and Raquel ba sleep on may their souls be elevated by the Torah was studying in their memory thanks so much for joining us for our weekly Torah lesson for more information please see our website Chabad swf Natalie thank you so much and Shavua Tov you