Rabbi Minkowicz Weekly Torah Lesson Parsha Toldot 5781

welcome to this week's torah lesson this week's torah portion is parish told us the question of the week is how can we overcome any and all challenges so in this week's torah portion at the end of the torah portion powershell told us we learn about yaakov receiving the blessings from his father the most powerful blessings of ishmael asap hears that yaakov got these powerful blessings that should have been his but he sold his birthright to his brother he decides he was going to kill him rifka the mother of these two children hear that asa wants to kill yaakov she calls in yaakov says you got to run for your life because your brother wants to kill you but he doesn't go his father yitzhak calls him in and tells him go to the land of your mother's family find the siddha he doesn't go but then yitzchak says a magical word he says i am sending you as you'll be my emissary and sure if he runs and right away he goes so the rebbe asks a simple question why all of a sudden did he go and the answer is because yitzhak rifka how are you going to send our son away from the land of israel to the land of kharan a foreign land with all these swindlers out there and he was actually swindled yaakov why would he agree to go shadow bring me ashraf why was he agreed to go because the ultimate goal is not to stay in your parents home not to stay where it's comfortable to leave the comfort of life to go out in the real world but remain strong to hashem but how do you do it so yitzhak told him i am sending you as a sleek of mine you are an emissary that means i am with you you're not alone everything you do wherever you are are whenever you are i am always with you that's how he empowered him with the word vayishlach i am going with you you're going as an emissary of me i am going you're not alone and because i'm going with you you don't have to worry about anything and sure enough after he was at laven's house he was there for how many years he tells lavender i was there for 20 years so everybody asked why is it tell us he was there for 20 years because we know 20 in hebrew is esrin numerically esrim is 70 shin is 300 raises 200 yud is 10 mem is 40 which is a total of 620 in the sv road the highest sphere above all the syrup is kesser kessler is also 620. so the rebbe explains when yaakov left where did he leave he left beer shava spiritually shava is the seven emotions but shava is the source for the seven emotions intellect means he was in the highest level of intellect but when he went out to golis when he went out to laban and he did his spiritual work he was able to reach higher than marishava hired an intellect he was actually able to reach the level of kessler crown and that is really the lesson teaching every one of us we come down to this world and the summer comes down doesn't want to come down this challenge is out there but we have to remember we're here on a mission from hashem to make this world a great place once we know we're here on a mission to make the world a great place hashem is with us and we can reach the highest places so the answer the question how can we overcome any and all challenges we have to know and be conscious that hashem is with us and as long as we are we're that hashem is with us we will have the power to overcome any and all challenges thanks so much for joining us for our weekly torah lesson this week's torah lesson is dedicated to the memory of barach binary labe and yosef and rocco may their souls be elevated by the torah we're studying in their memory for more information please see our website swf.org have a great and blessed week and know that hashem is with you wherever you are and whenever you are