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it's time for rabbi Minko it's weekly
Torah lesson a place where life's most
difficult questions are answered here
with his spiritual perspective and
insight
rabbi Mingo it welcome to this week's
Torah lesson this week we are
celebrating Rosh Hashanah so the
question of the week is what is the most
powerful way to connect to God on Rosh
Hashanah so as we celebrate Rosh
Hashanah one of the myths laws in Russia
shauna is to blow the shofar and the
question is why do we blow us over so
the baal shem tov gives an analogy of a
prince that was sent away from his
father's palace and he goes on a journey
and he's off on his journey of life and
then one day he decides he wants to come
back home but in his journey he forgot
about the way of life that he lived in
his father's palace and he comes back he
wasn't recognized and he comes to the
garden says let me in he's my dad and
they said we don't recognize you and
they wouldn't let him in so he gives out
a cry from his heart dad and his father
hears this voice of a son and he comes
and he lets him into the palace so the
boss counsel says that's the same thing
what happens in Rosh Hashanah we come to
God by blowing the sulfur in other words
we're calling to God not with speeches
met with the sails talks and not with
emotional pitches just with blowing the
shofar we want to connect the God so the
Rebbe asked a simple question why is it
that when the constructs are shown on
today do we want to come close to God
and bring a story of a prince that went
off the way and didn't recognize the his
father his father recognized him only
from the from the sound of his voice
while we bring something more in a
positive note but let me explain because
the message of the story is not so much
the fact that he went away that the
Prince left and didn't connect with his
father the lessons of stories that
ultimately are deepest and purest
connection with God is just like the
connection of the child with his father
that when the child called out dad
daddy there was nothing in between it
was an essential connection that was the
deepest and was the and that created the
real connection so the answer the
question how can we connect with God
normal Shana the answer is by creating
and recreating our pure and essential
connection that God is our Father and we
are as children and then we will be
connected to God on horses honor this
week's Torah lesson is a memory of
Barack and I relayed and Ben
Joseph may their souls the elevator to
the Torah that we're studying in their
memory thanks so much for joining us for
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