Rabbi Minkowicz Weekly Torah Lesson Parsha Lech Lecha 5779

welcome to this week's Torah lesson this week's Torah portion is pontius luckily ha the question of the week is hacker would be happy even in setbacks so in this week's Torah portion pontius luckily ha we learn about luck'll aha God comes to Abraham and he tells him left go go means move forward grow in life not only grow in life but look how to you which is what's the essence of Abraham is neshama his soul in other words Hashem was taking him on a journey for growth which the ultimate growth is to go to you shall i am to the bed to make - and to have only successful things but nevertheless you read in parsley coca you read about the famine and Land of Israel Abel are having to go down to Egypt Sarah being taken over their peril and where's that luckily huh if it's about growth and going and succeeding look at all these terrible things seemingly going down to Egypt the famine and sobbing take away - pyro so the Rebbe explains that there's a concept called you read of sorrow Kalia which means you go down in order to go up that's one concept here where we said it's even deeper the essence of every part of the journey is to take you to that place what does that mean so I'll give you an example there was one someone and you do it which is a private audience of the remedy and the remedy was sitting on one solid table and the student was sitting on the other side of the table so when he was complaining about all those challenges and his struggles and his tribulations all difficulties in life the Rebbe says to him stand up and jump over the table so the person says okay who you know Haase said what everybody tells you to do you do so he moves back to be able to jump over the reason why you moving back I instructed you to jump over the table why are you moving because I'm sick I'm moving back in order to jump over the table you can't just jump over the table if you standing up and tell you have to move back give yourself some space and then you can run up and jump over and Rebbie says exactly you're complaining about challenges struggles all your troubles God wants you to go to great places but sometimes in order to go to great places part of the ingredients of going to great places is going to challenged in troubles and difficulties so the way to look at a challenger because I'm in a trouble and a difficulty is that that's part of the process to get you to the next level so in other words the process of Abraham going down to Egypt the famine his wife being taken by pyro that's all part of the ingredients to take him to the ultimate Lakota where Shem has in mind we should have the rich lion and the betterment gosh so the answer the question how can be happy even we have difficult times in our lives is to realize it's all part of the ingredients of the great growth that we're all going to experience and have thanks for joining us this week's Torah lesson is dedicated in the memory of Barack Benari Lee and Ben Joseph may their souls be elevated by the Torah was studying in their memory for more information please see our website