Holiday of Shemini Atzeret & Simchat Torah Chasidic Torah Lubavitcher Rebbe by: Rabbi Y. Minkowicz

Welcome to this week's Torah lesson. This week we're celebrating the holiday of Torah and the question of the week is why do we dance with a closed Torah? So this week as we're getting ready to celebrate the holiday and the whole world's excited to come to synagogue and we're going to celebrate the completion of that we finished studying the whole Torah for the whole year. How do we celebrate? We don't sit down and study. The rabbi doesn't give a great speech. We take the Torah. It's closed. We don't even open it and we dance around the beimma. Why? So the Reb explains something very powerful and he says as follows. We know that we are coming now from the month of Elana 10 days of chuva yum kipper sukkot which is all connected to the idea of chuva. Chuva means that we were far from hem and we return to Hashem. Someone that returns jumps from one level to the next level. Now in the 10 it's concealed in sukus it gets revealed but then what happens in we internalize it and we internalize the most power that we have we're able to go from the furthest places and come so close to Hashem and that's why it says the place where a baluva is even a righteous person can get there because a balchuva is with great energy great passion great excitement because we went from the furthest places and we're able to come to the highest these places. That's the answer to the question. Why do we close dance with a closed Torah? Because the closed Torah represents the basic part of the Torah, which is the letters of the Torah. The letters of the Torah is the lowest part of the spiritual level of the Torah because you have the notes, the the vowels, the crowns, etc. The and and the the letters represent just like someone that comes from far away. You're taking the lowest levels, elevating it. So, we celebrate the letters of the Torah with our feet. And by celebrating the holiday of with pure joy because we want to be with Hashem, we don't want to be disconnected. We reach the greatest places and that will give us the greatest not only for but for the whole year. So I want to wish you all happy to happy celebrate the fact that we're close to Hashem and we'll have the greatest blessings for the whole year. Thanks so much for joining us for our weekly Torah lesson. This week's Torah lessons dedicated to memory of Barakar Schlomma Yakip Sasar, my father blame Bender of Tali Herds. May their souls be elevated by studying the memory. For more information, please see our website.org. Have a great and blessed week and we look forward to the great of the coming of Msiah. We'll all meet in your ear.