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

welcome to this week's Torah lesson this week's Torah portion is para by the question of the week is how do you revive a withering Soul so this week's Torah portion we have the Torah with the famous story about the woman her husband passed away and all the creditors came to collect money and she had no money she came to the prophet and the prophet says what do you have in the house and he told her to bring empty vessels and he says bring as many empty vessels as possible and he came with the jug oil and he filled up the oil and he told her now you're about to lift from the prophet that's the technical story we know there's always a deeper insight to every story so it's brought down explain as follows when he told to bring empty vessels what were the empty vessels he referring to on a spiritual level so there's two insights one Insight is he told to bring empty vessels which means sometimes you're not on fire you don't have the love for hem you don't have the offer hasem you're not inspired to learn T and do mitv so he told her bring empty vessels learn T do mitv even though you're lacking the love and the offer AEM the second thing is empty vessels realize yes that your life is empty and you're far from Hashem you're disconnected from Hashem and have remor for being so far away those are the two insights of the empty vessels either without inspiration or really being empty realizing how disconnected you are what's the reward you and your children will live from the prophet what's the idea of the Prophet so we know that there's light everyone loves the light but when you have light that comes from the darkness that light is even much greater so in other words when you go ahead and you learn toyra and you do MIT to mitz is powerful light and it could brighten up a dark situation how ever in cab it's called when when you learn you do mitah it's called it's a powerful light which is connected to lower level of because it allows the world to exist and brings light into the world the second level by being remorseful and bringing light into the darkness that's a very very high cabalistic level called with the darkness itself you see the light in the darkness in other words you're bringing a a much more powerful light which are connected to the Pia which is optic in other words you're going to say how do I have the power to do so I'm not inspired tell me to learn tired mitz be remorseful bringing these powerful energies re says because we all know that by we every one of us were by Mountain toy we were all by Mount Si and over there Hashem gave us the power that an the essence of hem should be our God and because the essence of hem is our God whatever we're going through we can still learn T do mitv and be remorseful the situation we're in and that's what it means that you and your children will live by the benefit what is you and your children referring to it's referring to our intellect our emotions will be filled with this powerful energy now which part that's going to go into our soul but it says when Messiah Comes This powerful mock will not only go into our soul but even a lighten up our body so in other words to answer the question how do you revive a soul that's withering away learn to even though it's hard and you're lacking the inspiration do the mitzvos even though you're lacking the inspiration and meditate on the distance that we are disconnected from hasem be remorseful from it and that will revive the soul that's withering away thanks so much for joining us for our weekly Torah lesson this week's Torah lesson is dedicated to memory of and C basara May the souls be elevated by the Torah we're studying in a memory for more information please see our website kabad sf.org have a great and blessed week shabua to