Rabbi Minkowicz Weekly Torah Lesson Parsha Bechukotai

welcome to this week's torah lesson this week's torah portion is pashas the question of the week is what drives us to succeed so in this week's torah portion the torah begins and it says if in my statutes you will go there you and you're going to keep my commandments but i'll see some or something going to do them so all the commentaries ask a simple question when it says mitzvot ishmael you're going to do you're going to keep my commandments and you're going to do them you're referring to all the commandments so what does it mean you're going to what christ are we talking about it's already included in all the mitzvots and also what doesn't mean you're going to walk in them you don't walk in the mitzvahs you do mitzvos it's a unique expression of teleco to go in them and you ever explain something beautifully it says like this we know when in psalms king david chapter 84 says what does that mean that you go from one level to the next level you finish something there's no vacation now you go to the next level you finish the next level you go even higher what hashem is telling us trevor says in this week's torah portion that if you want to go in my statutes you want to do the mitzvos you want to grow in life tell leihu you have to constantly grow then you can say what do you mean i did everything i already prayed today and i studied today i'm doing this today that's possibly correct you finished your quota but here the torah is telling something unique te you finished you did great amazing now take it to the next level so to answer the question what drives us to go this week's torah portion telehu we should continue growing and growing and we feel like we got there guess what we can go even more and that will continue to drive us to grow spiritually and get closer to god thanks so much for joining us for this week's torah lesson this week's torah lesson is dedicated to memory of barack and yosef and may their souls be elevated by the story of studying in their memory have a great and blessed week shavuot for more information please see our website swf.org