Rabbi Minkowicz Weekly Torah Lesson Parsha Ki Teitzei 5780

welcome to this week's torah lesson this week's torah portion is pasha's ki say say the question of the week is why is it important to go out of your comfort zone so in this week's torah portion process kise the torah begins and it says when you go out to wage war against your enemy so the rubber asks a simple question what does it mean ki say say you're going to go out you're going to have war alive what does it mean on your enemy against your enemy and there be explains there's two types of wars there's mohammed mitzvah what's mitzvah a war that we're obligated to for example to conquer the land of israel god instructed us to conquer the land of israel to expand the borders of israel that's on a physical level but we also know that every single one of us fight a spiritual war every single day what is the spiritual war between the godly soul that wants us to serve god and the animal soul that thus wants to do animalistic things be selfish self-centered so we have a muhammad what's the mitzvah to go to war to make sure that our godly soul and our animal soul observe every one of the 613 commandments the 248 positive commandments the 365 negative commandments we study torah we pray we love hashem we're living a happy and peaceful and great wonderful life for hashem that is a mohammed smith so robbie explains it's based on a verse of malachi malachi says the prophet shaft and verism you should sit and you should look being sadly russia between a righteous person and a wicked person being evident someone that serves hashem and someone that does not serve hashem so talmud asks what does that mean it's a double expression if you're outside you serve hashem and if you're a russian you don't serve hashem what's what's the prophet giving us two descriptions so the talmud says that it's you can't compare someone that studies something a hundred times versus someone that studies something 101 times what does that mean the october explains in tanya that any time we do anything that's within in our nature and it could be tremendous things you can learn you can pray you can do all the mitzvoth which is great however since it's in your nature you're not serving hashem you're doing your neck were you doing what's natural to you when you go out of your nature like for example in the example someone that's used to studying something a hundred times and he studies 101 that 101 is very hard for him with that 101 he gets to say the extra one he gets the same reward for the whole hundred the first hundred why is that because you're going out of your nature so mohammed sir ever says someone that goes out of their nature what does that mean practically that means that as long as you're serving god you're praying you're studying you're doing mitzvoth anything you're comfortable doing it's great it's wonderful you can become a sadiq but if you want to be an evil hashem someone that serves hashem you have to go out of your nature out of your comfort zone now obviously it's not a mitzvah to do this but here the torah tells us please this is speaking about yes the torah song you have to go out of your comfort zone that's what he says it's not you you're right your comfort zone is this i'm doing great i'm doing wonderful i'm doing all the right things and that's what taurus says he said say go out of your comfort zone so you're going to say one second but why should i go out of my comfort zone it's a risk maybe the animal soul will totally fight me at this point and the river says don't worry aloha you have to always remember that your godly soul has an edge over your animal soul and as long as you go out he said even to fight a war which is a rashus which you don't necessarily have to but you're doing it because you want to create some tremendous beautiful satisfaction for hashem showing hashem that you're actually even willing to do things which is out of your comfort zone alavecca you'll be successful in whatever that whatever you do and once a person does that the rubber says the war of arashus when a person does more than a comfort zone that gives god tremendous satisfaction so the answer to the question why is it important to go out of your comfort zone because as long as you're in your comfort zone you can be at sadiq it's great it's wonderful but to also have the second title like malachi says in the prophet of even hashem that you only get once you're out of your comfort zone you're working to go out of your comfort zone so if you want to get the extra title to be an oi you have to go out of your comfort zone since we're now actually in the month of ello we'll do an extra mitzvah that will help us and inspire us to get out of the comfort zone so we'll blow the chauffeur beep we all know the month of hello the sofa is here to wake us up and to remind us to accept god as our king and there's accepting god in a comfortable way but we're willing to accept god even means going out of our comfort zone this week's torah lesson is dedicated to memory of barak banari labe shlom vanyosef and rakhal baslipa may their souls be elevated by the torah that we're studying in their memory thanks so much for joining us for our weekly torah lesson for more information please see our website chabadswf.org have a great blessed week a week that we all have the power and the energy to go out of our comfort zone and to make god really really happy and that will give us tremendous strength and joy to forge forward and make the world a greater and better blessed place thank you for joining us