Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz Parsha Ki Tavo How can you be Happy in the face of Criticism & Challenges.

welcome to this week's Torah lesson this week's Torah portion is parishes key Subway the question of the week is how can you remain happy in the face of criticism and challenges so in this week's toe portion passion to celebrate it speaks about the beautiful Mitzvah of bringing the first fruits to the temple and when you bring the first fruits you're supposed to make a disclaimer and say this that you have simply have Jewel you have happiness and all the good there are some of those for you so the question is asked this week's Torah portion what God is telling us to be happy with everything you have the criticism and the curses and you expect to be happy amongst the criticism around the curse how does that work this is a powerful story that's told with the midterm the second that he would pray in the synagogue where his Grand with his father the altar would read the Torah and one year the altar wasn't there for this week's Torah portion and someone else read the Torah and he fainted and they asked them why your face oh my gosh the curses but you're praying every year it's not the first time you're hearing the curses and he said as follows when my father reads this Torah portion you don't hear any curses you only hear blessings powerful line when my father reads these verses that normally sounds like criticism and curses he only heard blessings in other words Robert says that when we realize that every part of the term is coming from our father Our Father in heaven and we know that everything that comes from Hashem like it says all the Commandments from Hashem should make us happy so when you realize it's coming from Hashem that's the cause for being happy and take it a step further and deeper the river says the truth is the inner depth of these criticisms and these curses are actually a great source for very very deep and Powerful blessings so the answer the question how can you remain happy in the spine and the face of criticism and curses to realize that it's all coming from Hashem and as long as you know it's coming from our father in Heaven you can be happy with anything and everything that's going on in your life thanks so much for joining us for our weekly Torah lesson this week's Torah lessons dedicate the memory of bar finale Save Rock about sleep by Tina Rosario May the souls be elevated by the terror was studying in their memory have a great and blessed week for more information please see our website Chabad swf.org