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with his spiritual perspective and
insight rabbi minkowitz
welcome to this week's torah lesson this
week's torah portion is pasha cisro the
question of the week is how can one
overcome the feelings of being in exile
and preparing for god to take us out of
this exile
in this week's torah portion parties
history we are studying
the famous profound story
where god comes down and mount sinai and
gives the jewish people the ten
commandments
the famous of all is the first one
hashem
i am god your god
and the pastor continues and says
mitzrayim that i have taken you out of
the land of egypt
and the question that's asked is
god took us out of the land of egypt
that is great beautiful miracle that
saved us but god could have said
something better and bigger and more
profound why am i god your god because i
created the whole world you wouldn't be
here if not me
so the rebbe explains and he says
the reason why
god says
i am god your god i took you out of the
land of egypt
is because god wanted to teach us a very
important and profound lesson and that
is as follows
as we know it says in the talmud
tractate
every single generation behold the
overdoor
high of adam
in every generation one has to envision
himself and as the author be explained
because
every single day as if today he is going
out of egypt
the question is going out of egypt going
out of exile i'm in exile i don't see
the messiah
but the rebbe explains and he says that
is why it says
i am god your god that took you out of
the land of egypt who took us out of the
land of egypt who was able to take us
out of the land the land of egypt the
only one is god
i am the god that took you out of the
land of egypt not only i take you out of
the land of egypt when you are in egypt
past tense but in every generation every
single day god
has the power to take us out of the land
of egypt and if we think and meditate on
the fact that god has the power to take
us out of the land of egypt we have the
power to overcome
the challenges of exile and to look
forward to the redemption
so to respond to the question what can
one do to overcome the feelings of being
in exile and where is the way out when
is the messiah coming just think about
the commandment that i am god your god
god is the one that took us out of egypt
god not only took us out in the past but
in the present god constantly takes us
out of egypt if we only turn to god god
will be there for us and take us out of
our exile and bring us to the ultimate
redemption with the coming of messiah
speedily in our days
this week's torah portion is dedicated
to the memory of the liahu ephraim ben
yosef may is nishamah have an aliyah for
the torah that we're studying in his
memory thanks for joining us for our
weekly torah lesson please join us for
our live classes at khabad thursday
morning nakami gives a posture class at
11 o'clock thursday evening we have
teachings in the kabbalah at seven
o'clock shabbos morning we have kabbalah
class at nine o'clock followed by
davening and for bringing shavua tov and
have a great week
it's steinomite
