Rabbi Minkowicz Weekly Torah Lesson Parsha Chukas 5781

welcome to our weekly torah lesson this week's torah portion is parashat the question of the week is how can we merit to live an everlasting life so in this week's torah portion pasha's kukas it's named hookahs for the for the statutes in the torah which are above logic and above intellect and it connects us to god in a very very powerful deep way the word for that is a statue so the question is why is a torah add the word the letter suff to it and the rebel explains that the letter soft represents the last letter in the alphabet in other words when you're serving hashem you have to serve him from ali from the beginning until tough until the end a step further if you look at a soft a soft is built with a with a line on the right a line on top and then a line left which represents the three garments of thought speech and action that when you're learning torah doing mitzvos in prayer you should do it in thought in speech and action and there shouldn't be a gap between speech and action like you normally have in the hay because since you're connecting on a deeper level and a level of you go straight from thought to speech to action also the three line resemble torah learning torah prayer and good deeds you shouldn't be just extreme as just learning and not praying and praying and not learning and not studying not doing mitzvot to be balanced address all three answers in your life make sure you learn entire every day make sure to pray every day and make sure to do make sure do do do it's vote but then when you look at the self so the right line and the top one then when you come down the end of the bottom one there's actually like a foot on bottom and the last leg what does that foot resemble that foot resembles bittle humility in other words once a person learns and a person prays and a person studies and doesn't it's vote you can get a little arrogant so tough reminds your way to stay humble and just and to recognize that all the tremendous gifts that we have we have from hashem and when a person does all these components where meaning says you learn and you pray and you study and you do mitzvot and you do it with tremendous humility and you do it with thought speech and action so then you can have the real hakiko what does totally connected to you in an everlasting way and we know the soft the talmud tells us that tough resembles um tikka to live because we'll be able to live an everlasting life so the answer the question how can we merit to live an everlasting life by learning torah by praying by doing mitzvoth with our thoughts speech and action and with bitter with humility we'll all merit to live a long and everlasting beautiful life this week's torah lesson is dedicated to the memory of baruch ben arya yosef and may their souls be elevated by a torah with studying in their memory for more information please see our website swf.org have a great and a blessed week full of learning praying doing mitzvos with humility