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it's time for Rabbi minkowitz weekly
Torah lesson a place where life's most
difficult questions are answered here
with his spiritual perspective and
insight Rabbi minkowitz Welcome to our
weekly Torah lesson this week's Torah
portion
isal the question of the week is what is
the benefit of helping another person so
in this week's Torah portion B the Torah
tells us of the Mitzvah that Aon hohen
had of lighting the
in the temple so the Torah Begins by
telling
us when you Kindle the flame so all the
commentaries ask and
say the Torah could have used the word
when you Kindle why the word bahal when
literally translated means bahal when
you go up so Rashi offers several
commentaries one of the commentaries
Rashi says is that Bal means that when
you elevate to light the manur
namely there was a stool that Aaron had
to get upon to light the
manora and that's why it specifically
says Bala because he had to step on this
stool so the rebi says what is the
message that we can learn from the fact
that when Aaron went to light the manora
he got up on a stool on a step ladder
and the rebbi explains and he says as
follows what was the purpose of lighting
the manura the temple didn't need a
light the purpose of lighting the manure
was to bring light into the world and
into people's lives and as we know Aaron
aohan the high priest through the fact
that he brought peace into people's
homes he gave them light and hope so the
rebi says here you see something
profound that even before Aaron lit the
monora he went on the step ladder in
other words Aaron himself got elevated
his head his heart his whole body that
means even before he already helped
somebody else Aaron already was elevated
by the mere fact that he was going to
help and bring light into other people's
lives so to answer the question what is
the benefit of helping other people when
you're going to help another
person just the mere fact that you
started to go help the person even
before you help them you will be
elevated as Aaron aoin was in the temple
when he went to light the monora to
lighten up other people's lives this
week's Torah lesson is dedicated to the
memory of aah fry Y and
Rashi thank you for joining us for our
weekly Torah lesson please join us for
live class at kabad Thursday morning at
11: for a par class by MTZ Thursday
evening at 7 a par class by the rabbi
shabas morning cabala class at 9:00
followed by daving and foring in Shu and
have a great week it's site
