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

Welcome to this week's Torah lesson. This week's Torah portion is paras. The question of the week is what was so noble about Pinas. So in this week's Torah portion, the Torah begins and it tells us benz was a son of the son of Aaron the high priest. So the question is asked what was her noble pin? There were many people all throughout Jewish history that went on soul sacrifice. And the Reb explains and he says, "We know the ultimate purpose that we're here is to serve God by learning Tory and doing mitzvot and to do it in our physical body, not to escape our body to live in this world. However, to do mitzvah, it means learn to do mitzvah in the highest level is when you learn it from a place of and you do the mitzvah from a place of serious not for self-sacrifice. In other words, all throughout history, Jewish people, yeah, went on self-sacrifice, but their souls left the body. That's not the ultimate purpose. The ultimate purpose is learn to do mitzvah and stay in this world. And to the answer to the question, what was so noble about pinhas? Pinas self-sacrifice was in his physical body. He stayed alive in this world and that's the ultimate. The ultimate is to serve Hashem, learn to do mitzvah but with the upgrade of self-sacrifice and remaining in this world. Thanks so much for joining us for our weekly Torah lesson. This week's Torah lesson dedicated to memory of may our souls be elevated by Torah we're studying in the memory. For more information, please see our website kabadsw.org. Have a great and blessed week.