Rabbi Minkowicz Weekly Torah Lesson Parsha Behaalotecha 5781

welcome to this week's torah lesson this week's torah portion is partial bahala the question of the week is which part of the torah is the most important so in this week's torah portion pasha's mahalayska chapter 10 verse 35 and 36 you look before verse 35 there's an upside down nun and after verse 36 there's an upside down as well why is that so the talmud in tractate shabbos tells us because these two verses are its own book of torah so based on this in this week's torah portion you have these two verses which is its own book of torah before these two verses you have the first another book of the torah and after the two verses you have another book of the torah so in this week's torah portion you have three books of the torah not only that this week's torah portion is the third in the book of ahmed bar so it's the third torah portion again you have the idea of three but we see from this week's torah portion that if you count these two verses in its own torah portion and the book and the verses before a begin from the beginning of mid verse its own torah portion the verse is after its own so in the book of my mid bar it's not one book it's actually three books so if you have four other books and the book are made verse three so you have a total of seven seven books so it's not the five books of moses it's the seven books of moses so which is interesting is because in the beginning of this week's torah portion it says baja luis clash on a race when you light the candles so how many candles are there there's seven candles so in the book in the torah portion which creates the three the three books of bhamirbar which makes total seven there's a mention right in the beginning of the torah portion about lighting the seven candles and we know it's brought down into zora and kabbalah that the candles resemble the jewish people are example toro so you see a direct connection with the seven candles and the different types of jewish people and the seven books of the torah so the rubbish says we find something very interesting when it comes to lighting the seven candles what does it say in this week's torah portion that should be hammered out when they made the maneuver to be hammered out of one piece every different part of the menorah the branches the design was all emer hammered out of one piece why is that because when it comes to the monorail even though the seven different branches it's all out of one piece so based on this ruby explains this is why when it comes to the jewish people even though there's different types of people everyone has their area they excel in we're all really coming from the same place we're all part of one one people we're all part of hashem the same thing also when it comes to the torah even though there's different verses and one of the ten commandments and the shema and the unity of hashem and then tells us simple stories it's all part of the same torah so to answer the question which part of the torah is more important they're all equal they all are from hashem and any verse notorious you read you are learning and connecting to hashem thanks so much for joining us for our weekly torah lesson this week's torah portion is dedicated to the memory of barak banari laib shlom banyose from may their souls be elevated by toro was studying in their memory for more information please see our website chabadswf.org have a great and blessed week shavuot