Rabbi Minkowicz Weekly Torah Lesson Parsha Devarim 5780

welcome to this week's torah lesson this week's torah portion is pasha's dvoriam the question of the week is what does a spiritual free life look like so in this week's torah portion practice devouring the torah begins and tells us that these are the words that moisture of anus spoke to the jewish people and it says where were they behaving on the other side of the jordan but if you look in last week's torah portion at the end of partial the torah tells us these are the commandments that god commanded moshe rabeno to tell the jewish people and it says where were they but our voicemail on the plains of may of al-yarden so the rebbe asks a very simple question we just learned they were arbes moyev which is on the other side of the jordan here what does the torah tell us where were they on the other side of the jordan it's missing out the key place where they were which is by arves mayor why does the torah take out the arab smith and thus tell us the yarding which is a very big span without focusing in where they were so the rebbe explains that there's a major difference between the first four of the five books of moses and the book of the deuteronomy we're starting to learn this week what is the difference the first four of the five books of moses was commandments from from god where we were at that time parshas devarim khumas divarim begins a new era where muy trabano is saying goodbye to the jewish people as we know he's not going to go into the land of israel and he's preparing them how to behave in the land of israel so in other words based on the story says as follows at the end of it we know the jewish people they left egypt and they traveled 42 places every one of these travels wasn't just a physical journey but it was a spiritual journey to transform themselves and to transform their place and to deal with challenges of exile because if we would not deal with those challenges they would creep up into us into our lives when we are trying to experience great and new life in the land of israel so therefore we had to go through every one of those journeys what was the last journey the 42nd the members the 42nd one so it says ba arbas moyuev what does that mean spiritually the rabbi explains our voice comes in the word of erev in the evening it's very very dark we don't see clarity what hashem wants from us comes from the word of aav the father we know in kabbalah what does the father mean in the sri wrote it's the sphere of khachma so it's called clipper which is a very very high level of klippa worse than the other nations they have to deal with on a spiritual level so they finally finished their process of our voice the darkness of maya the klippa they finished that avodah and now they are ready to go into the land of israel so moisrabenu is now shifting them from where they finished their intense avoido literally the last test the one of arvis moyov and now he's showing them the new light and he's saying now you don't have to worry about the 42 journeys now you don't have to worry about arvas moyov the darkness the all the negative and strange thoughts that end into your mind to try to corrupt you and distract you from serving hashem now where are you you are behaving what does that mean the goal is heiress it's earl the goal is you're going into the land of israel you're going into the angel of israel to do what to serve hashem through prayer torah study and doing mitzvot the only thing you need to know is that you are right now on the other side of the jordan and we have to cross over but the goal is that you should experience a beautiful life life of just focusing on the connection with hashem and based on this rebbe connects this to the after of this week because even though the october is officially part of the three-week period where it speaks about the destruction of the jewish people and the temples but there has to be a connection to the torah portion and rebbe says that the first verse which speaks about them focusing on land of israel and as moisture is showing them it's about cleaving to god what is the last verse in the af torah it says [Applause] it speaks about two ways of serving hashem learning torah and giving stakka so to answer the question what is life going to be like in a free spiritual world a we're not going to have to worry about any struggles and distractions and a darkness and any clip out but more importantly you'll be able to focus on serving hashem connecting to hashem and having a relationship with hashem a clear beautiful relationship based on positivity of learning torah doing mitzvot and living a great and happy beautiful life this week's torah lesson is dedicated to the memory of baruch bernary and rocco may their souls be elevated by this torah we're studying in their memory thanks again for joining us for our weekly torah lesson have a great and blessed week