Rabbi Minkowicz Weekly Torah Lesson Parsha Lech lecha 5781

welcome to this week's torah lesson this week's torah portion is pashas the question of the week is what is our mission and how do we have the strength to accomplish our goal so in this week's torah portion the torah begins with the first command to abraham by god hashem says to abraham but yo abraham you to leave your land the place you're born your parents home and you should go with allah to the land that i will show you so the rebel asks a simple question we know that hashem gave abraham a mission to leave his parents home and to go to the land of israel that's a story of the past how does that apply to us in our lives today and derby explains what is the whole idea of spiritually going into the land of israel so we know when the jewish people went into the land of israel there were ten nations that occupied the land seven we were able to eradicate and we took over that part of the land and there are three keaney knees ver catmuni we're not going to be able to accomplish until mashiach comes so the rubber says what does that mean seven will be able to accomplish and three not and what does that mean to us practically the rubber explains as follows we know there's the physical land of israel but then again each and every one of us spiritually of the land of israel we have within us ten nations seven emotions and three intellect now seven emotions as we see just like the jewish people were able to eradicate the seven nations that were there three not so the rubber explained spiritually also our avoida in this world is to try to conquer our seven emotions their emotions should be filled with compassion and excitement for god our intellect we can't totally transform however we can use our intellect to guide us that our emotions should be healthy and directed to god when mashiach comes we'll have the power to totally transform them and rubber gives an example we say every single day in the shema at least three times a day what does it say you should love god your what does it mean with your whole heart and with your soul and with your whole might so the rabbi explains kabbalistically lave is your heart your emotions it means we have to serve hashem with our emotions because with our whole soul which refers to all our mediate the emotions and the intellect overcall me to go above and beyond and break anything that's holding us back to live in a certain finite and limited way we should go beyond anything we ever dreamed of accomplishing and that's our spiritual goal our goal is to transform our emotions to transform our intellect but even go beyond anything that we think we could and could not do so based on the strawberry explains what's our vote in this world what's our mission our mission in this world is to transform each and every one of us our emotions that be dedicated to god we should elevate our intellect it should be connected and dedicated only to god but also we should be able to break any limits that we have that's not allowing us to live in an infinite state of being how do we have this strength to do that and rubber explains because the torah says to avraham el ariza i'm going to show you hashem is going with you and when hashem is going with you and showing you the path you have the strength to do it so the answer the question what's our mission in this world and how do we accomplish it our mission is to transform ourselves each and every one of us our emotions our intellect to go beyond anything that's holding us back to live an infinite life and to know that hashem is with us and the fact that hashem is with us will have the strength to be able to overcome any obstacle and really live the hallow with our whole heart all our emotions with all our our sphero even our intellect and infinitely with hashem thanks so much for joining us for our weekly torah lesson this week's torah lesson is dedicated to the memory of barak banari leib shalom yosef and may the souls be elevated by the torah we're studying in their memory thanks again for joining us for more information please see our website swf.org have a great and blessed week