Rabbi Minkowicz Weekly Torah Lesson Parsha Chayei Sara 5780

Bob please join us welcome to this week's Torah lesson this week's Torah portion is Pontius Pilate cetera the question of the week is what is our mission in this world and how do we go about accomplishing our mission so in this week's Torah portion para sky solo we learn about the first flee hood the first messenger that was sent in the Torah recorded in Itoro as actually on and that is after Sarah passes away so Abraham wants to find a bride for his son Yitzhak so he sends his servant Eliezer on Ashley hooked on a mission to find the bride so he instructs him where to go where not to go and then the Torah tells us that the servant Eliezer takes some of the camels of ten camels of his master but then the Torah says he takes the whole - I'm doing a be on the edge of everything from his master and Rashi tells us that he had actually a document and everything that belonged to his master was going to be given over for this marriage to take place so Rebbe asked the question why is it that he gave everything we know that even when someone's through charity give 10% 20% we had to give everything away and why would Abraham give everything away he has to live also and derbe explained as follows we see something unique usually when you want to make a sugar for your child you get a chakra a matchmaker how much makers job is to make a match here Abraham didn't use a matchmaker he used his servant specifically as Ashley why specifically as Ashley and there be explained as follows because here the marriage that was going to take place with his son Hitchcock with the eventual bride was the first Jewish ranch in the Torah which means that's the process of the first Union of in Kabbalistic terms ma and bon male and female soul embodied where the two are going to unite and create a fusion of spirituality into the physical world this was a process that started then and this is a process that continues on throughout the ages it intensified the process of the union between the spiritual and physical at Mount Sinai and the ultimate culmination of the union of MA and bond the spiritual and physical the soul in the body will take place ultimately women share cars now in order for that to take place so Abraham wanted to demonstrate how it's supposed to happen and therefore he specifically used a slayer a messenger versus a shotgun a matchmaker why what's unique about us Leah what's unique about Ashley appears there's two components to Ashley on Ashley R from one hand we know is an independent person an independent thinker totally independent but nevertheless of Ashley ups independent he's not going to do his job so this independent person has to humble themselves and dedicate himself to do whatever the master asked them to do so it's two opposite qualities on one hand he's his independent person but on the other hand he's totally dedicated and he's giving himself over to listen to his master so the Rebbe explains this idea of something Ashley uh was to to create the ingredients what it's going to take to create the unification between the spiritual on the physical between this all about in other words when you want to create a unification between two opposites the soul in the body the spiritual the physical you need to follow the guide of Ashley up where I'm one hand you have to respect the physical it's stolen identity but the goal is to inspire the physical that it should want to be inspired by the spiritual we know the neshamah the spirit is the most important thing but you can totally force the physical and to follow the physical is physical the realities reality but we have to inspire the reality in the physical to be transformed into the spirituality and that's why Alireza took everything and Abraham gave them everything because when it comes to the ultimate mission of fusing the two of the spiritual in the physical we have to be willing and ready to do everything it takes and that's where he gave them everything since the answer the question what's our mission in this world and how do we accomplish it our mission of this world is to fuse this soul with the body the physical with the spiritual or in the words of Kabbalah the my environment the way we do that is by respecting the physical but inspiring it to be dedicated to the mission of the soul and that creates a healthy relationship but we have to do it and we have to be willing to do whatever it takes to make it happen this week's Torah lesson is dedicated to the memory of borrow and are you late slow mo ben Yosef and Rock Hall bus sleep on may their souls be elevated by the Torah was stunning in their memory for more information please see our website Chabad swf org thanks so much for joining us for our weekly tourism