Rabbi Minkowicz Weekly Torah Lesson Parsha Bereishit 5777

it's time for rabbi mankiewicz weekly Torah lesson a place where life's most difficult questions are answered here with his spiritual perspective and insight rabbi megawatts welcome to this week's Torah lesson this week's Torah portion is Pontius voracious the question of the week is why you hush em create this materialistic world so in this week's Torah portion process / Asia switch is actually the beginning of the five books of Moses the first Torah portion which is the beginning of the Torah the beginning is important we know the opening line in any statement the production is the important line and the tour begins in the beginning God created the heaven and the earth now obviously without God creating the heaven and the earth we can go forward so it's logical why God would start the Torah that in beginning God created heaven in the earth but why she asked a simple question in the classic commentary in the Commerce true God created the heaven new earth but the Torah is given to us as a way of life so in reality really since it starts with us as a Jewish people it should start years down the road when we became people and God gave us an Egypt the first Mitzvah the Torah what's the first midst of the Torah to establish a calendar how cold is results Alejandro's production which is the Mitzvah first in middle of Exodus so why does the torah start with the beginning of creation and God created heaven the earth simple question about rashi asks Rashi answer is very simple because God obviously is infinite he sees the past the present the future it's all one and he sees going forward that when the Jewish people when God's going to give the Jewish people the Land of Israel they're going to come along and say hey it's ours so God establishes right in the beginning first verse in the Torah I created heaven and the earth therefore it's mine and because it's mine I can give it I can take it I can do what I want with it because it's mine since I created it in the true sense of the word mine so the Rebbe explains we know that we receive the tour from God that's the physical act and everything we read that we have in the turret is the physical component and this is a spiritual component why did you receive the phys Land of Israel as a gift from God so that we could go ahead on a spiritual level and transform it into a holy place and we know that era Terrell is called Eretz Israel the Land of Israel era turns in the word land but era toes calls from the from ruts on the will that means we can make we should make the place a place that we're doing the will of RM where do we make the place a will of a sham obviously in Israel but anywhere in the world that you do rats on a shame you're making so to speak the spiritual Israel or as another verse or every quote says behold rock haha the a you in everything that you do you should know God what does that mean in any part of the physical world wherever you are and whatever you're doing make sure God is revealed there so in other words you have a chair try to elevate it sit on their study Torah from there do a mitzvah with it pray from there in other words our purpose is that wherever we are in this physical materialistic world just like Erika stroll was given to us to transform it to make a spiritual place same thing also anywhere we are in the world at any time our spiritual mission is to behold Rock of the a you in every physical place infuse it with God and godliness so in other words the Rebbe explains why did God give us the material materialistic world so that we as Jews wherever we are to make the materialistic world a godly experience for God and therefore fulfilling the original mission from the beginning of the Torah but God says I created the world I gave it to you so that you could elevate it and make it a spiritual abode for gaunt this week's Torah lesson is a memory of bora pandari leave and ben Yosef may their souls be elevated to the Torah that we're studying in their memory thanks so much for joining us for our weekly Torah lesson for more information on Habad please see our website you