Rabbi Minkowicz Weekly Torah Lesson Parsha Lech Lecha 5782

welcome to this week's torah lesson this week's torah portion is pasha's the question of the week is what is the jews mission in this world so the beginning of this torah portion begins and it says the same letters twice so the question is what's the double expression so the rabbit brings from the outer river that explains that the double expression is referring to two different types of journeys what are the two types of journeys one is a journey from below on high and the other one is a journey from high below like for example we see that of brahmavinu this week in the beginning of the torah portion he went from the land of israel down to egypt that's going from a high down below and then he returned from below and high when he left from egypt going back to the land of israel what does that mean practically on a spiritual level be low and high refers to elevating the physical world and high on below we brings refers to bringing enlightened to the world like we see for example when it comes to the commandments there's two types of commandments there's the negative commandments and there's the positive commandments the purpose of the negative commandments is to elevate the world and the purpose of the positive commandments is to bring light into this world now even though it's two different journeys one is to elevate the world and one is to bring light into the world but the truth is it's really one one ultimate goal and the goal is to bring the unity of god into this materialistic physical world so to answer the question what is the jews mission in this world the jews mission in this world is to reveal the unity and the oneness of god in this physical materialistic world thanks so much for joining us for our weekly torah lesson this week's torah lesson is dedicated to the memory of baruch ben arya may their souls be elevated by the torah was studying in their memory thanks again for joining us for our weekly tour lesson for more information please see our website chabadswf.org have a great and blessed week shabua tov