Rabbi Minkowicz Weekly Torah Lesson Parsha Acharei - Kedoshim 5780

welcome to this week's Torah lesson this week's Torah portion is parsis after a addition the question of the week is how do we find comfort in these trying times so in this week's Torah portion purchase a quarry condition 29 years ago the last seeker of the rebel on these two Torah portions there ever spoken if I bring in and he asked a simple question the tour begins and says besides your voice Ariella coitus this is how Aaron would enter to the Holy of Holies and the tour is very specific he had to enter impure he had to intern with all these appropriate garments and there are asked a simple question the main avoid o is to do the service to bring the sacrifices the prayers why is it so important to garments up to the point if he did the service without the proper garments the whole service would be disqualified we also know an aside note which is important that the high priest had to be very wealthy and if he wasn't people had to make him wealthy and herb asked why is that so important so robbery explains based on the Mishnah which were actually learning this week Pirkei avos chapter 3 so the mistress says he stock killed Ashley shut Warren look into three things the ayna tabali their vera and you're not gonna come to do a sin so the rubber asks a question we know how to count it lists afterwards three things so why is the Mishnah say he stock up ashley environment so they're ever there for says when the Mishna says he stock commercialize varam it's not necessarily talking about the three things that it lists later but the mission is telling us that if you want to avoid god a bit sinning there has to be his stock illustrations lauren you have to always look at three things what about three things and there ever explains very simple we love our relationship with god us and god life is good we're taking care of god is great and life is wonderful dealing with the world who wants to deal with the world the challenges the struggles the arguments the issues life is good you and God but nevertheless the mission No Hashem put you in the world why because he wants you to make ad River tottenham Hashem wants us to make a dwelling place down here in order to make a dwelling place in the physical world you need you you need God but then you need a world you have to deal with for the world and when a person is this tackle the schleicher's VAR when a person works with himself Hashem and the world then you'll never come to sin and based on that that explains that's why the Torah portion tells us bizarrely the whole idea of the priest wasn't that he should have a spiritual experience but the idea was that he he has to have yes he goes to the Holy in the Holy of Holies but even there how does he go in it's a physical space he has to elevate the physical space he goes in a soul within a body he has to elevate the body he actually wearing the appropriate proper garments and as we know the garments have to be two important ingredients like avoid all this if Aris do you have to be honourable they have to be beautiful why because the goal is to elevate the materialistic world he ought to be wealthy because you have to elevate the materialistic world and whoever says that specifically about the claim and about the stock robust relations boring but now there ever takes the same idea and he looks at it at the world in general and he says in the general the world were living in it's a dark world we're in gullies we're in exile what do we want we want gula we want redemption or you want to be free but the Herbet takes let's take a let's look at the whole idea of exile redemption services like this exile hebrew is going long guy look is godless exile goolies redemption so the robber says woman it you have the same word going law which is exile which when you think of exile and you think of challenges who wants it then when you say gula redemption it's the same words as go along the only differences between gory Langua you adding an Aleph so the rebus says why isn't that a whole new world word for redemption why are you taking the same word of go law adding in this one letter and making it cool making it redemption and the rubber explains because redemption is not about forgetting about the past not about running away from challenges not about running away from the world real gula means being free meaning to say yes you're in the same situation the same people the same issues however you have a gula approach meaning to say is you're dealing with the same life and if there ever brings in the Romany Romany says the first phase of mushiya coming the first phase in your moisture mushiya the roblem says clearly are you l'm coming hungry no egg it's gonna be the same world no major miracles resurrection are then that's the second phase the first phase of mushiya coming is all Elan can mean hugging like the world is gonna be regular it's gonna operate just the way its operating now the difference is that before you might say Messiah we don't see a sham we only see darkness we only see challenges but when Messiah comes in the first phase we're going to see how shaman everything and that's why specifically gula is the same words as golem as exile just with an Aleph because of difference between exile and redemption is only one difference the difference is Hashem is going to be revealed that everything that exists in this world and the rubber finishes off with a very very powerful and moving story there are breaks in the prophets kings and also it's also brought down in the book chronicles Librium him there's a famous tragic story where the Italia who was the mother of cos Yahoo who is put to death he was killed so she decided she was gonna wipe out the whole royal family and she was on a girl she started to wipe out the whole royal family there was a woman you're a sever that realized oh my gosh was the whole world families get wiped out how's it gonna be a king from the royal family cuz she went ahead and she hid Italia's grandson his name was yo-yo and she hid him in the temple not only she hired him in the temple she went into the Holy of Holies she had access curse her husband was the high priest so she was able to hide this baby in the temple for six years think about that quarantine six year quarantine she hid Yaya's together with the someone to take care of him for six years in the holy of Holy's and whoever says obviously they fed him they make sure he had what to eat they made sure he was able to sleep he had everything he needed he was totally taken care of but for six years he was in quarantine in the temple not only in a temple of the Holy of Holies so that he would survive and show enough afterwards in the seventh year when the high priest saw was the right time they took him out and he actually became the king over the Jewish people and that's the famous longing the prophets where they scream out yet he amela live the king who was this Yahya who became the king over the Jewish people but their ever says even though it's a very very bitter story because here she's wiping out the royal family but what you see is that in the darkest times when the royal family is being wiped out the one that's being saved where is he being saved in the Holy of Holies and their ever says what do you learn from here that the Jews place is weird where's a Jewish person's place and the Holy of Holies now when Messiah comes is going to be revealed in Gullah s-- the only way we know that our places in the Holy of Holies is unfortunately through a tragedy when they want to wipe out the royal family then we see where our real places just like good law is gonna bring about tabouleh without gulel you can't have gulag and our job is to put the aleph into the gold law that will give us the real gulag so the answer the question where do we find comfort in these trying times as tough as it is their ever says clearly yes it's gorillas but from the gorillas from these challenges we're gonna have the greatest gula by bringing Alif hashem into our lives amongst the challenges will merit to the greatest possible redemption that we're all looking forward to may happen speedily in our days thanks so much for joining us for our weekly Torah lesson this week's Torah lesson is dedicated to the memory of Baro Benari labor slo-mo ben Yosef and Rosco Bosley boss may their souls be elevated by the Torah was studying in their memory thanks again for joining us for our weekly Torah lesson for more information please see our say Chabad SWS org and may all the people that need healing in honor of us learning Torah should be healed we should all merit to the greatest healing of all of us will merit to see mushiya speedily in our days our main