Rabbi Minkowicz Weekly Torah Lesson Parsha VAYAKHEL PEKUDEI 5778

[Applause] it's time for rabbi mankiewicz weekly to our lesson here with his spiritual perspective and insight rabbi mankiewicz welcome to this week's Torah lesson this week's Torah portion is practiced by Yael and pico de double Torah portion practice Kazak and the question of the week is how can we stay connected to God so in this week's Torah portion parts is very ocular the tour begins Moshe arena gathers all the Jewish people and tells him to lower the Shabbat and he says Allah had varam these are the words referring to all the 39 millivolt that we learn what's a malacca what's considered work a reference to Shabbat from the Mishkan so the question is how do you get 39 the verse says Ayla these are we're the 39 so there's different commentaries that tell us how you get a 39 one of the opinions is that Ayla isn't made up of three letters Aleph is one Lama does 30 now hey is five that only gives you 36 so you're missing three so some people say you add the three letters of the words some people say you add had varam which is two and the word ailich cetera but the long opinion says very interesting that the hay and the house are interchangeable so if the hay and Inter hats are interchangeable so instead of a la flama hey you have a la flama dress so Aleph is one llama does 30 cusses eight so you have 39 so Ayla when the hay is interchange with the house you have the 39 Mello hold but the question is if it's about the third number the Hutt's why to say a let's say at a la flama crafts so there are B there's a fascinating instances like this because what is it basic difference between the hay in the house you find where do we find another similar difference in hand caused by comets and matzo matzah is with a hay meant arctic is the same letters and hay and hummus is also meant sarthak whiticus so what's the Trentino yes and the hay though comets is forbidden on Passover Martha's permissible why because comets Rises and mark says humble in other words where do you see that little the letter Castle hey cuz has basically aligned on each side and a line on top but that's closed there's no opening to go out and that when it's all about yourself and all you think about self then that's arrogance versus the hate is a little opening for it to go out which is referring to God you always remember God and that creates humility and that is matzah and that are cause of humility and connecting to God so you see clearly that class resembles arrogance and self and hay resembles humility and God so here the Torah tells us a fascinating insight Allah when you want to have the physical structure of all the thirty-nine Mallicoat yes yeah I'm fast and that gives you all 39 that's how you get to it but the Torah tells you even though you have all 39 always remember God and that's why the hey it's written with a hate for us to remind us we should always remember God so the answer the question how can we stay connected to God to remember that even though it's 39 which is a la flama class but the Torah writes a layer which is the hay and as long as you remember the a-level we'll remember that we need a little opening for God and then we will stay connected to God thanks so much for joining us for our weekly Torah lesson this week's Torah lesson is dedicated to the memory of bora pandari late and and Yosef may the souls be elevated by the Torah that was studying in their memory for more information about Chabad please see our website [Applause] [Music]