Rabbi Minkowicz Weekly Torah Lesson Parsha Va'etchanan 5780

welcome to this week's torah lesson this week's torah portion is pasha's verse the question of the week is what can we do to bring about the redemption so in this week's torah portion practices at the end of the torah portion we have to have torah and we know every single half torah is usually directly associated with the torah portion and there are times when it has a specific connection to the time that we're in so the last we have torahs because they were in the period of the three weeks of the morning so they were they were associated with the morning of the destruction shalom this week we're starting after tishrimov it's the first shabbos aftershock starts comforting the jewish people so it's called shiva dana hampton the seven have torahs of comfort and says that these these have seven of tourists of comfort is a conversation between hashem and the jewish people and the jewish people in hashem so the first half torah this week hashem tells the prophets go out and comfort the jewish people the jewish people tell back the prophets hashem is comforting us hashem forsook us he's left he let us go so the prophet goes back to hashem and says the jewish people are not allowing themselves to be comforted so hashem says in the fourth of torah to comfort the jewish people so let me ask a simple question for going from in progress where hashem is sending a little comfort through the prophets and then eventually hashem says i am comforting so it makes sense twice hashem is coming we're tremendous with all the troops that comfort us but if it's only the starting the process in this week's torah portion of nakamura why does it say twice nakamura so the ruby explains because you find an interesting in the uh in the jewish alphabets there are five letters that are double meaning says you have a letter letter a regular letter and then you have a letter the way to the end of the word so for example you have the huff which has a huff and a final half you have the mem which has a regular mem and the final and the one at the end of the word you have the same thing with the nun the same thing with the pay and the same thing with the tatik now all these because they're double so we know in the world of kabbalah there's something which is called the mali calamine there's there's there's regular light that fits the vessel but then this powerful light slave of kalaman once you're dealing with double you have not only double twice as much but you have infinitely greater power and infinitely greater blessings every one of these double letters is associated with redemption so the huff was the way abraham was redeemed from orgasm where it says you have the letterhuff the mem is the one that yitzchak was redeemed from the palestinian you have the men in the verse of his redemption the nun is the redemption of yahweh from asav the pay is the redemption the jewish people had when they left egypt and that sadiq is the redemption that we're going to have when we leave godless who comes so the rabbi says you see clearly when it comes to redemption it's all about double one is not going to do it it has to be exponential double has to be huge huge energies that take us out so therefore since hashem is coming to comfort the jewish people and even though yes he's sending the prophets it can't just be nakamu it has to be nakamu nakamu it has to be a double comfort because double is comfort so trevor asks okay if that's the case where where is the redemption but we're still in gullus so the rapper says yes maybe we're physically angulars but spiritually we've been taken out of gullus what's lacking is the physical going out of goddess now how do we physically go out of golister ever says if you want to go out of goddess you have to repair yourself in the same way you're going to be taking out just like you're going to be taking out by double so the same thing also the way to prepare yourself is also in a double way what is the double way so the rubber says what's the name of this week's torah abortion it's called the estranon now right away rashi asks why there's khan on moshe wayne is praying to hashem it should say this follow he he's praying why because khan on because again he wanted redemption so he couldn't have just asked for a simple prayer because prayer was then judgment either you deserve it he don't deserve it therefore he came along and he asked verstanon he pleaded with hashem hashem should take him out from gullah's which is basically a double expression that hashem shall allow him to leave and to go into the land of israel and based on this trevor says if we want to go out of gulas in a real way so what does it say in this week's torah portion hashem tells us we should do the mitzvah of hashem and the torah says you should do what's good and what's straight never ask if it's yahshua it's taiv if it's right then it's good and if it's good it's why the double expression so rashi says what is yahshua toiv rashi says it's reference to shara it's reference to a compromise where you do the mushrooms so in other words if you want to do what hashem wants and you want to have redemption you have to do the avoid of israel it should be a gift it should be you should do more than you want more than you would normally do you have to do sure you have to be willing to compromise this judgment you say listen i don't have to do it true that so you may be you would maybe you're correct but if you want to have redemption if you want to go out of the box and you want great gifts from a double expression that's when you do the finishers of them because when a person does compromise not only are doing judgment but you're actually actually doing compromise which is actually doubling up on your blessings and with this therapy connection we all know that right after tish above we have the holiday of two above and holiday of two above was a tremendous holiday many many things that happened one of the things that happened was that we found out then that the the people that were destined to die because of the sin of spying out into the land of israel and complaining and whining and crying and mourning they stopped dying we found that on to on to on two above what does it say in shock there's a specific law starting starting to above that from starting from tuba where person is moist if we have to start adding and learning torah why because since the night start getting longer so you would think okay the nights are longer and we know night is din night is judgment nice time to sleep so less learning less doing so on the contrary is moisif we have to add and the more we add that will reveal the redemption of tuba of in our lives so the answer to the question how can we bring about redemption in our lives by doing double not only doing what we're supposed to do but by adding and learning torah adding and doing mitzvos compromising doing the flemishes of them that will allow us to experience great and beautiful redemption for each and every one of us in our personal and our collective lives this week's torah lesson is dedicated to the memory of barak banari leib shlom ben yosef and rahul baslipa may their souls be elevated by the torah that we're studying in their memory thanks so much for joining us for our weekly torah lesson for more information please see our website chabadswf.org a great and blessed week