Rabbi Minkowicz Weekly Torah Lesson Parsha Yisro 5781

welcome to this week's torah lesson this week's torah portion is parshas israeli the question of the week is will be observing the 365 negative precepts when meshiach is revealed so in this week's torah portion process israeli the torah portion of the ten commandments the torah says barely kim is called variable lamer god said all these words lamer saying so all the commentaries ask what does lamer mean so the rebbe explains what does lamer mean that when hashem said all the ten commandments when he said lamer all ten commandments were said in that one word now for humans it's hard to hear and comprehend what do you mean in one word ten commandments so therefore hashem went ahead and repeated each commandment again so we can we can hear it shrub as a simple question if we cannot hear ten commandments in one word and hashem had to repeat it for us so what was the point of hashem saying all the ten commandments in a word lamer and the rabbit explains as follows hashem was teaching us a very very powerful lesson and that is like that is as follows generally speaking we know that the 248 positive commandments each one draws in a positive light the three hundred and sixty-five commandments so the altered teaches us in tanya that by refraining from transgressing one of the 365 commandments every time we refrain we stay away from connecting to the chalice clippers to the three impure unholy forces that's generally but there ever explains the truth is on a deeper level the positive commandments and the negative commandments are both called mitt's voice what does mitzvah mean a connection so if mitsum means a connection so just like the 248 positive commandments creates a connection to hashem the 365 commandments you cannot say it just helps us not to get connected to the three imports impure clipote obviously the 365 commandments creates a connection to hashem it's called a mitzvah but so what kind of connection is it so the rabbi explains that the truth is this when we connect hashem you can connect hashem by doing a mitzvah and that's a connection but then you connect hashem so much deeper that you can't even do a mitzvah to connect the way you're connecting is by not transgressing and the reason why you don't do anything is because it's much deeper than touching on to doing a mitzvah so when you when you do a mitzvah you're connecting to hashem by doing a physical act but when you avoid transgressing you're actually connecting even deeper to hashem so based on this the positive commandments and the negative commandments are all the same mitzvah it's all about connecting darshan in one way you're connecting to hashem by doing something and in one way you're connecting to hashem by not necessarily doing something so therefore hashem is teaching us that really there really is no difference in the positive and the connect and commandments and the negative commandments it's all an opportunity to connect hashem and since it's all an opportunity to connect hashem therefore hashem said lamer to teach us guess what this commandment that commandments they're all part of the commandments from hashem so the answer the question when mashiach comes will be doing the 365 negative commandments what's the question hashem is going to take away the spirit spirit of impurity so you're not going to have to stay not not do the 365 negative comments there's not going to be any impurity there so from that perspective that would be a reason maybe not to observe the 365 commandments but we know that the terror is not going to change so we are going to have the opportunity to do the 365 negative commandments not to stay away from impurity but more importantly to connect hashem to connect hashem by not doing which is creating a deep and powerful connection this week's torah lesson is dedicated to the memory of barak minari labe yosef and raquel baslipa may their souls be elevated by the torah 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 have a great and blessed week