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it's time for Rabbi minkowitz weekly
Torah lesson a place where life's most
difficult questions are answered here
with his spiritual perspective and
insight Rabbi
minkowitz welcome to this week's Torah
lesson this week's Torah portion is
posim the question of the week is how
can we be the greatest optimists so in
this week's Torah portion par which is
always read before Tish it's one the
three weeks um of the destruction
between the seventh thas and the ninth
of of so this is the last week so we
read from the half Torah it's called K
which is the vision the vision of um the
prophet Isaiah where he prophesizes the
destruction of the temple and matter of
fact one of the names of this week's
Torah portion is shabas shabas of the
vision the vision of what referring to
the half Torah of the destruction of the
temple but we also know that this
Shabbat has another Vision what's the
other vision we know that in this
Shabbat we all receive a beautiful uh
vision of what of the Third Temple so
here it's it's interesting on one hand
you're saying we have the vision of the
destruction of the temple and the other
hand you say you have the vision of the
Third Temple which one is it is it
destruction or is it the rebuilding or
we supposed to be confused and both so
it's interesting the rebi brings out a
very very powerful answer to this
question and he says based on the medish
the med says as follows
that the referring to the power the
strength got up the ma in the the month
that has the uh spiritual power ofel and
and destroyed arel referring to the
temple so and then the med says in order
that the AR should get up again in the
month of AR and rebuild the Temple so
the Reb says first of all why the
destruction why would God want to
destroy the temple he tells us not to
destroy things why is he destroying it
so says if you give a look in that that
medas what does it say the same energy
that got up to destroy the temple that
is the same energy that's there to to
rebuild a temple now why is that if it's
destruction and rebuilding why is it
coming from the same place so the re
based on that Med says that here you see
that ultimately the purpose of the
destruction is not to destroy but the
purpose of the destruction is for the
rebuilding and rebuilding greater than
before as you see that the actual same
energy that destroyed rebuilds because
the purpose is to rebuild the even
greater and based on that thereby says
exactly from the vision of the
destruction you have the vision of the
actual rebuilding of the Third Temple so
to answer the question how can we be the
greatest Optimist to realize that in
every destruction and every challenge
that we have the seed for that
destruction and that challenge is the
seed for the rebirth and for the
blessings that will come after
that this week's Torah lesson is in
memory of B B and schlomo B yose may
their souls be elevated for the Torah
that we're studying in their memory
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