Rabbi Minkowicz Weekly Torah Lesson Parsha Ki Tisa

welcome to this week's torah lesson this week's torah portion is practice que sisa the question of the week is what is our ultimate purpose so in this week's torah portion partial square so the torah begins and it says ki rois when you elevate the head so the rebel asks a simple question what do you mean elevate the head the head is elevated you want to elevate the body the heart the emotions what does it mean elevate the head suddenly explains based on a teaching from the rev that he says the ultimate purpose of everything that god created is to elevate itself to the next level so in other words we know there's four levels in creation domain inanimate things that grow high things that are alive and madaba are human beings so the goal of doing them is to be elevated into tsai maya things that grow say may have things that grow it to be elevated to high things that are alive and the goal of is to be elevating to the level of madaba the goal of madaba human beings and our highest part of us is our intellect so our goal our intellectual goal is to be elevated into above intellect which is to connect to something which is above logic faith and oh and love for hashem so the answer the question what's our ultimate goal to be elevated into something above our intellect faith or and love for hashem thanks so much for joining us for our weekly torah lesson this week's torah thought is dedicated to memory of barack bernardi yosef and rocco baslipo may the souls be elevated by the torah we're studying in their memory have a great and blessed week for more information please see our website chabadswf.org