Rabbi Minkowicz Weekly Torah Lesson Parsha Behar

welcome to our weekly torah lesson this week's torah portion is pasha's bahar the question of the week is how can we create calm and peace in our life so this week's torah portion pasha's bahar speaks about the mitzvah of shemitah the seventh year which is supposed to be a sabbatical year so the torah says as follows the earth should be shabbos and the verse continues on to saying so there will be shabbos the shabbos to the land will be to you the akhla to eat unto your animals obviously you have the literal translation of the verse but the rebel says you see something very interesting over here the torah says the earth shall follow the earth should rest but then it says is the earth supposed to rest is supposed to be ashamed and what does it mean to you to eat and for your animals says we're going to look at this kabbalistic perspective what the torah is teaching us is as follows if you want to lot that to cr to experience a shabbos in your life you want to be calm you want to be peaceful you want to be relaxed you have to remember that when you relax shabbos hashem you can't just do nothing you have to dedicate your life to do what hashem wants which means to learn torah and do mitzvos but while you're doing that shabbos laurets you have to disconnect from arceus you have to disconnect from materialism so you're sitting down to learn learn we're sitting to pray pray and forget about the world forget about your phone and your text and your voicemails and all the responsibilities you have and then when a person does that not only when you pray and study territory tells us even when you're sitting down to have dinner or lunch or breakfast yourself with your family also disconnect focus on what you're doing taco which means anything that you're doing that's in common with animals do anything you're doing to survive when you're doing what you're doing create a shabbos experience so in other words you should create a selfish experience in every part of your life torah mitzvos eating drinking sleeping whatever you're doing do it with hashem so the answer to the question how can we create a peaceful and relaxing and calm experience in our life the torah lays it out very clearly do whatever you're doing it first we'll do it hashem don't do it for selfish interest whether it's learning torah or doing mitzvot so praying do it for hashem and also whatever you're doing for hashem even if it's materialistic things like eating or anything that we do that's natural to us we should do it for hashem we do it for hashem we will merit like the torah says shabbas will have the ultimate relaxation in our lives we'll have a life full of peace a life full of calm and a life full of happiness thanks so much for joining us for our weekly tour lesson this week's torah lesson is dedicated to memory of barack menaria may your souls be elevated by torah we're studying in the memory have a great and blessed week shavuah tov