Rabbi Minkowicz Weekly Torah Lesson Parsha Acharei - Kedoshim 5781

welcome to this week's torah lesson this week's torah portion is practice encoding and the question of the week is what can we learn from the death of the two sons of arrain not of and of you so the torah portion begins and it says [Music] aaron after the death of the two sons of iran the torah continues to say because on the funeral shem by yamusu when they became close to gasham and they died so the rabbi asked a simple question in the verse it says after they died so why is the turtle repeat itself yamusa when they died we already know that they died the next question rabbi asks is it says the carver son of a hashem why does the torah have to tell us that the way they died because they came close to hashem now what's interesting is um not even a video they passed away so moisture available tells arrowing that not even a view are greater than myself and yourself now we know moisture banana is not a politician so muy tremendo says that not even a view aaron's two sons died they were greater obviously they were greater and what does that mean they were greater so the rabbi explains based on a fascinating commentary on the torah called the uracha makadesh and the iraq according says that the reason why nadev and avihu died as a taurus has clearly be carved some of nayashem that they became close to hashem what does that mean they were yearning to connect and to develop a deep relationship with hashem up to the point where yamusu they felt they were dying since they should have stopped they should have gotten back to reality but they so loved hashem in hebrew i think we called today mysterious nephesh they're willing to go on self-sacrifice just to create that deep yearning and bond with hashem up to the point that they died now obviously hashem told aaron there was a mistake here even though it was a noble idea idea they wanted to come close to hashem the problem is in kabbalah it's called it was a ratsu they had a yearning to come close to hashem but it's important that with every single yearning you need to have a shoe you need to come back to reality so based on this driver says that's why the torah says ahri what means ah after because up until this point since the torah was given and the building of the mishkan this is the first time somebody went and self-sacrificed to cleave with the to hashem akhrey means to new avoider to new level of a relationship with hashem but again obviously the mistake was that they didn't do the shoot they didn't come back into reality and rebecca says we find this same idea in the month of year that we're in right now we know the month of year stands for avrom yitzhak yak even rocco the three patriarchs and rachel and we know that the three patriarchs and rachel and all the matriarchs they were the they were connected and cleaving to hashem so you find the same idea in the in the patriarchs in the matriarch which is the numer the the abbreviation of this month also the there's another abbreviation for this month alice stands for our knee referring to hashem the youtube stands for hashem's name where hashem is the healer that we realize that ultimately even though we we go to a doctor because hashem told us to go to a doctor about our ultimate healer is hashem is our healer and we want hashem to heal us which is also cleaving to hashem we want hashem hashem should be our old our ultimate healer physically spiritually mentally emotionally on all levels so to answer the question what positive lesson can we learn out from the death of another one of you the lesson we can learn is the importance to cleave to hashem but always remember that we have to return not god forbid to make the mistake we totally cleave and you don't come back to reality this week's torah lesson is dedicated to the memory of baruch benariya labe shlomov and yosef and rachel baslipa may their souls be elevated by the torah we're studying in their memory thanks so much for joining us for our weekly torah lesson for more information please see our website swf.org have a great and blessed week