Rabbi Minkowicz Torah Lesson Parsha Ki Teitzei. How can we overcome our spiritual enemies?

welcome to our weekly torah lesson this week's torah portrait is pashlos ki seise the question of the week is how can we overcome our spiritual enemies so this week's torah portion begins and it says when you go out to war on your enemies so the question is who's our enemy and b the torah says ali back on top of your enemy you're going out with your enemy against your enemy what does it mean on top of your enemy and the verse continues on to save us avisha shibuya you're going to take captive how do we know we're going to take captive so the rubber explains this week's the torah portion based on a spiritual level and he says this follows who is our enemy our enemy is our yate sahara he's stopping us he's trying to stop us from having a relationship with hashem or on a global level anyone that stopping us from having a relationship with hashem and a godly relationship and allowing us to live a godly life is considered an enemy of hashem so what happens is when you have an enemy that's trying to stop you from having a great relationship with hashem comes the turn the torah says when you go out to war against the enemy they're trying to pull you away from hashem you should know allah you have the upper hand you're stronger than your enemy you can overcome your enemy and if the torah says you're going to take captive what does that mean the enemy has really no power the only thing that he has he took from someone else but the enemy is not real hashem is real the enemy is not real and by knowing that hashem is real and the enemy is not real that gives us the power to overcome the enemy so the answer to the question where do we have the power to overcome our spiritual enemies by knowing that we have the power to overcome it because the torah tells us and to know what's real is hashem and anything opposite hashem anything fighting hashem is not real and that will give us the power to overcome any struggle we have in our life thanks so much for joining us for our weekly torah lesson this week's torah lesson is dedicated to memory of barack obama and joseph and rachel baslepa may their souls be elevated torah were studying in their memory for more information please see our website swf.org thanks so much for joining us and again it's a real treat and pleasure and skills to be able to record our recordings right here from jewish language across the harebias where the two temples stood and we're god willing the third temple is going to be there very very soon have a great and blessed week