Rabbi Minkowicz Weekly Torah Lesson Parsha Emor 5780

welcome to this week's Torah lesson this week's Torah portion is Pontius Emer the question of the week is why do we need unity to make us feel complete so in this week's Torah portion Pasha's Emer the Torah portion begins and says Hashem speaks to moistur meaning he tells him my li Cohanim to speak to the Kohanim the priests the songs of irene via marital am and again another expression of Emmer and tell them about the laws of purity and impurity Rashi says ever very Martha why does the Torah tell us twice the same word em were in the Satan in the first verse of the Torah portion this week taraji says the reason why it says twice my to tell is because we're dealing with the laws of purity and impurity so la Hazzard o ulama locked on him it says twice that the adult should instruct the younger children basically education you ever asked a simple question if it's about the idea to educate our children we need to be instructed by God to educate our children all the way way back in Exodus right after giving the Torah we finished the whole books of our Exodus we're already in middle of the Book of Leviticus now you're telling us about education why now and if it's about education why is it specifically only to the sons of Aaron why isn't not to all the Jewish people so therefore the rember says it's obvious then when it comes to education that's basics and we even know before the Torah was given the Torah tells us that Abraham God said the reason why he likes him because he's gonna educate his children education that's something which is standard by the Jewish people over here the rebus says it's something totally different over here we're dealing with the hazard what means the house here the hazard means that to be radiant you should be giving off light when is a person giving off light and radiance when you're inspired not just an education in text base but you're inspired to live what you're studying you're glowing you're on fire you're excited you're passionate so we hear the tour is instructing the Jewish people Aaron that lajas a we should be inspired to do that and that's why it says specifically in this week's torah portion after already went through the book of Exodus and Leviticus were holding in a very very high level now we're ready to receive the inspiration that whatever we should do we should be inspired to do so alien we ourselves should be inspired we should be glowing and B we should be inspiring our children now why specifically is this instruction to their called I'm the priest and herb explains very simple because we know when you came to the temple you were to sacrifice and the Torah tells us Adam became key active carbon lush em the job of the priest was to inspire so on bringing a sacrifice not just with doing an act we have to bring a sacrifice a functional activity but you should we know that you should be bringing yourself as a sacrifice to God you have to be excited and motivating connected to the sacrifice and that is the job of the priest to inspire us that we should live in a very very very passionate way a for ourselves and B for our children and our students and the rubber goes in a step further he says if you look into this week's Torah portion M we're so M where is all of my memories a martha's Aleph mem rage the same we're gonna add in a self why the two why did it change from Emory to Martin and lube explains as follows M R stands for H maíam Rua which are the three elements the three elements that the world was created on fire water and ear spiritually that resembles debate in Kabbalah either hast mabini and the me dote which is wisdom intellect and the emotions or it's referring to customer to Ferris the basket of the me--don't in other words emma is referring to us as a human being that we should be inspired to connect to God with our intellect our emotions or with a full set of emotions that's Emma reference to our spiritual three elements but then there's a martyr what's the Amaro to added that's the stuff at the end the suffers the last letter of the Alpha that and that's referring to mouth would mount hood is when you're a leader and you're aspiring other people so the first Emmer is to instruct us we should live passionately the emeritus is to instruct us the passion that we have we should share with other people and the rebbe connects this also with the peer clear vote that we're learning this Shabbat so to begin with the fourth chapter potentially it's for and there's a three elements which is for us and the fourth that we teach others so how does the fourth chapter procurement begin it speaks about four different people that we have to learn from a zoca calm it speaks about a house I'm a wise person and then it speaks that a strong person and then it speaks about a rich person and then it speaks about someone that's honored the Rebbe says if you look it's brilliant a hakama wise person is referring to your own attribute of understanding wisdom intellect it give us your strength or sure is your wealth all things we're describing the person himself miss Luba being honored your honored by creating honor and other people people respect you which is basically the same idea of M R which is referring to your powers and a monitor to referring to the way you affect relationship with other people and Derby also brings another Mishnah in in this week's perkier boat we're assuming says and he says there are three crowns and then he goes to list what are the three crowns Casa toda the crown of Torah crown of priesthood and the crown of Mount Hood so seemingly to stop there but then it says the Casa shemtob am the crown of a good name goes above it all sir be asked is it three years it's four if it's four wives say only three and the answer is that's also again there are three crowns that's our personal crowns when we study Torah and we or if somebody has there is a priest and they have the crown of priesthood or if someone is a leader of mouth loose those are personal achievements Kesar something does that's when you affect change in somebody else when you inspire somebody else then you receive that so in others you see from all these three cases of Emma here Martha where you have three of your own qualities where Martha is when you inspire other people or in the two examples in perky about that there's our own growth and then there's the transformation of other people and that's when when you become a complete human being when you become a clip you mean not only when you're inspired and you're connected to God and also we lovers of yourself but more importantly that completes the picture is when you're able to and you inspire your other people so the answer the question why is unity needed to make us a complete human being because if we just work on ourselves and we become great people we study and we connect to God but we don't connect with other people we don't share the inspiration where other people we're missing a full component of mouth closed which is needed to make us a complete human being thanks so much for joining us for our weekly Torah lesson this weeks her lesson is dedicated to the memory of borrow Benari liebe slo-mo ben Yosef and Rahul bust liebe may their souls be elevated by the Torah we are studying in their memory thanks again for joining us for our weekly Torah lesson for more information please see our website Chabad swf org and let's hope and pray that the whole world is unified because we know the greatest blessings come to the Jewish people when there's true accurate and true unity