Rabbi Minkowicz Weekly Torah Lesson Parsha Ki Tavo 5779

welcome to kebab please join us welcome to this week's Torah lesson this week's Torah portion is pastor Cecily the question of the week is what is our mission in this world so in this week's Torah portion pastor ski summary the Torah portion begins the hi yukky subway el ha Orbitz when you come to the land now land is called eros but when the Torah is first to Eretz it says Haaretz the land so why didn't save the land with the extra hay so the Rebbe explains because hey the land is referring to materialistic land what does that mean we're coming into the materialistic land however our goal is to turn and transform the Haaretz the materialistic land in two areas what is Eretz so Eretz we know said it's brought down it says that era tis shall rot I saw last night's restraint we know it comes from the expression shut events of rocks of rock Serena that it wants to do the will of a shell our goal is our mission in life is to transform the materialistic world that should be wanting to do the will of a shell how do we create the world that you want to do the will of a Shem so the Torah continues and says you should take the first fruit what does that mean any farmer that group that grows fruits vegetables and the first one comes out you're excited the first one came out you want it but nevertheless you take the first and you give it as a gift option and you say special blessings of gratitude are you grateful for our show for all the wonderful things he does to us so when you bring the backroom it's a demonstration that you're respecting God in two ways one is the verbal recognition of being grateful and be the physical activity of bringing what's yours and what's yours first you're giving it away Townshend so the answer the question what's our mission in this world our mission in this world is to transform the world into a world that recognizes God we do that by being grateful both in verbal speech and in action this week's Torah lesson is dedicated to the memory of borrow and are you late slow mo ben Yosef and ruffle bus sleeper may their souls be elevated by the Torah was stunning in their memory for more information please see our website Chabad SWS org thanks so much for joining us for our weekly tourism