Rabbi Minkowicz Weekly Torah Lesson Parsha Bo 5778

[Applause] it's time for rabbi mankiewicz weekly Torah lesson here with his spiritual perspective and insight rabbi mink awaits welcome to this week's Torah lesson this week's Torah portion is Pasha's bow the question of the week is what drives a Jew to success so in this week's Torah portion Pasha's bow the Jewish people receive the first commandment from God and the first commandment is to establish a calendar how cold dishes a la creme royce production first mitzvah not only that but when the Torah starts with paresis in Genesis right away the question in Rashi asked is how come the Torah didn't start with the first minute we received as a Jewish people so you see that it's not just the first we were getting in this week's Torah portion but in also in prayer already to have been first and there's a separate reason why the torrid roses to go into starting with voracious God creating the world but that's we can leave only to discuss gracious but let's back to the point so God's first commandment to the Jewish people is to establish a calendar now the calendar we that we have is based on the moon not the Sun not only that the first month in the Jewish calendar God says is the month of Nisan what is the calendar the moon have to do with the month of Nisan so we find interesting is the moon every single month starts out with a little dot when the moon is born and it gets bigger and then it gets smaller in other words the Jewish people's calendars based on the moon where there's always in the beginning a month there's nothing and it's also something new and it's exciting when you have something new same thing also what's nice on Neeson comes in the rid of an S a miracle what's the definition of a miracle something new so as God gave us as the first Mitzvah is to always look for something new whether it's in a month whether it's in the in the the month in general every month through the moon or starting at the cow in the month of Nisan looking for the miracle and this way we are programmed in our DNA our first connection to God is we're looking for something new and that's almost in our DNA we want something new just like the month is something new with the new month so the answer the question what drives a Jew to success because God gave us is the first Mitzvah to always look for something new and when you're looking for something new you will always succeed in finding great things thanks so much for joining us for our weekly Torah lessons this week's Torah lesson is dedicated to the memory of bora pandari lave and schlomo no6 may the souls be elevated by the Torah that was studying in their memory for more information about Chabad please see our website [Applause] [Music]