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it's time for rabbi mankiewicz weekly
Torah lesson a place where life's most
difficult questions are answered here
with his spiritual perspective and
insight
rabbi megaliths welcome to this week's
Torah lesson this week's Torah portion
is processed by you feed the question of
the week is how can you live a great
life despite all obstacles so in this
week's Torah portion practice I you see
the Torah portion begins and the name of
the tongue questions about euphy Yaakov
lived and when we say someone live you
mean that he lived not only physically
spiritually the person was alive what
where was Yaakov alive
so it says Yaakov lived in Egypt for 17
years that's when he was alive it
doesn't say about that but about Israel
so that son said that which is the third
combatant Rebbe asked the author ever
the first come on Robbie how is it
Yaakov one of the patriarchs the Torah
should say guess once he lived he was
alive where was he alive in the land of
Egypt what does that mean and the author
explained him as follows
because before Yaakov went to Egypt what
did he do he send you who de Judah and
he sent them to Egypt before he got this
he can establish your Shiva here's a
place to go ahead and study Torah and
connect to God through studying Torah
that means even though Yaakov had to go
to Egypt cuz the fact was Joseph was
there there was a famine and there was
no other way to sustain themselves in
the land of Israel but he knew that he
was going there and he knew he wanted to
live and he knew he wanted to be alive
and a Jew can only be alive when and how
if you're connected to God through what
through studying Torah that means that
even though he was in Egypt because he
study Torah he was able to stay alive up
to the point that we knew he was in
Egypt he was able to call these
literally alive and he wasn't affected
by Egypt so the answer the question how
can you live a great life
despite in the obstacles learn from
Jacob study Torah and if you study Torah
or if you help other study Torah
whatever you going through you will be
truly alive and not as to deal with any
obstacles because you'll be living the
true life the life that's connected to
God through studying Torah this week's
Torah lesson is a memory of Baraka and I
relayed and Ben Yosef may their
souls be elevated for the Torah
we're studying in their memory thanks so
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