Rabbi Minkowicz Weekly Torah Lesson Parsha Ha’azinu - Yom Kippur 5781

welcome to this week's torah lesson this week's torah portion is pasha's azinu the question of the week is what is yum kippur so in this week's torah portion pasha zazinu the torah says cannes share your ear kino like an eagle that protects its nest and nash is referring to hashem god now there's a powerful verse in proverbs from king solomon and king solomon says there are three things that fathom him the first thing is how an eagle flies in the sky the arizal the kabbalist explains what's what is the spiritual significance when king solomon's saying is how an eagle flies in the sky so high so the arrhel explains the question king solomon's ha asking on the kabbalistic level is how is it that the nature which is so high spiritually which is connected to kesser on the other hand we know that the nasher is an impure animal so how could it be connected and be part of the merkava hashem the charity of hashem and the rebel explains exactly because the nasher is spiritually so high in kessa part of the macabre hashem unfortunately when it falls it falls so low and that's why it could be impure and as he gives another example from the from this neck the part that the verse right next to it where it says that he watches it like the pupil of his eye and we know the metro says that when a person sees you don't see from the white the clear part of your eye you see from the black from the dark part of your eye the darker color the darker shade now why do you see from the darker shade because dark represents darkness darkness of exile and where do we have the power to see not when it's bright specifically from the darkness that's what we have the power to see in other words when a person goes ahead and repents and does truva you're able to reach the highest places because the reason why someone sinned is because they had a very high level and that's unfortunately why they felt they fell to the level they had so the answer to the question what is yom kippur yum kippur is a day for us to do truva to us to return us to hashem and we actually can surprise hashem why is that because the talmud says everything is from hashem everything is from god besides yerushalayim how much all we're going to have for hashem that's up to us so when we do true volume kipper we have the power to surprise hashem and that's really what yom kippur is jim kippur is a day for us to do tuba today for us to surprise hashem to show him that as dark as the exile may be we still know who hashem is and we're returning to hashem on yom kippur this week's class is dedicated to the memory of barak minari labe and yosef and may their souls be elevated by the torah we're studying in their memory for more information please see our website swf.org have a great and blessed week and again maybe you'll be signed and sealed in the book of life and we will be connected to god in the deepest levels on yom kippur have a great and blessed week and a great year