Parsha Ki Teitzei Chasidic Torah thought from Lubavitcher Rebbe by: Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz

Welcome to this week's Torah lesson. This week's Torah portion is Paris. The question of the week is why can't you plow with an axe and a donkey together? So in this week Torah portion it tells us you can't plow together with an axe and a donkey. So the Reb brings a powerful teaching from the Reb Marash the fourth Kabad Rebba and he brings what a powerful medish. The major says as follows that when wanted Dino from Yakov so he tells him your grandfather Abraham he was a ni he was a president I'm also a president therefore let's make the so so Yak tells him no no no my grandfather Abra he wasn't he wasn't a president he was actually a sure he was an ax why because it says well Abra ran to the to the cattle and And like it says, there's a lot of lot of energy in the in the in the power of the axe. But you're a donkey and an axe and a donkey don't come together. Why not? And he explains like this cuz an axe is holiness. In the cabalistic terminology, it's called it's in the field of guru, but it's still it's kindness. On the other hand, the donkey is the kipa the shell that opposes the the right side of which is actually the waste of and that's why the son of wanted to come to however what is the negative prohibition? No, you cannot keep the two together because you can't you have to keep away the kipah the negative energy of the which should not receive from the from the idea of of holiness. What does that mean practically? Serb brings a powerful teaching where it says in the Talmud that the it says that I never called my axe my axe. I called it my field. What does that mean? Why is he called it his field? Because that's the main stay of the field because the pl the axe plows the field. What does that mean practically? So the Reb explains you have the axe that represents so to speak the animal soul and which actually the source is on the left side and the go our job is to plow the the animal soul and um the same thing also apply another opinion is that what the actually referring to the godly soul and the goal is for the godly soul to be more refined and to have the idea of ble however when it all with the axe the axe could be could be transformed and and it could transform however when it comes to the donkey the donkeyy's is a non-cooser animal and that cannot be elevated. So that's why the negative precept of you can't have an accident and a dunkey is to keep away the negative energy of the dunkey that should not receive from the holiness because the fact is the axe is connected to holiness and it actually transforms the dunkey. So the answer to the question why can't you plow an axe and a donkey together because an axe is spiritually is a holy animal and the dunkey unfortunately is from the world of kipot. Thanks so much for joining us for our weekly Torah lesson. This week's Torah lesson is dedicated to memory of may their souls be elevated by Torah was studying in the memory. For more information, please see our website kabadsw.org. Have a great and blessed week. Shabua to.