Rabbi Minkowicz Weekly Torah Lesson Parsha Matos - Massei 5781

welcome to this week's torah lesson this week's torah portion is pasha's mattois and the question of the week is why are we still so obsessed about going out of egypt so in this week's torah portion the second torah portion a where it speaks out the travelings of the jewish people that left the land of egypt so the rep asked a simple question why are we still talking about going out of egypt we left a long time ago and if you go specifically the torah says these are the plural journeys of leaving egypt we left egypt once we don't leave egypt twice not only that every single day in our prayers in the morning we talk about going out of egypt at night we go we talk about going out of egypt why do we talk about it so much and the rebbe explains and he says as follows what is egypt so it's a country but spiritually the word egypt is mitzrayim mitzrayim comes from maitsarin constraints a limited and a confined way of thinking in other words egypt represents the physical world where hashem is concealed hashem is concealed that's egypt and therefore since hashem has concealed that's egypt we want revelation we don't want to be in a world where hashem is concealed we want to break out of the concealment we want to cr break out of what's limiting us to live a infinite life for hashem and because the avoid the work of going out of egypt which means not being limited not being constrained and not dealing with the god's concealment is a constant avoider until mashiach comes because as much as we we we gain traction and we break away the concealment and we have more revelation but now we have more bigger concealment and different type of concealment so it's a constant avoidance constant work of going out of egypt so the answer the question why are we so still so obsessed about going out of egypt we are obsessed about going out of egypt because egypt unfortunately on a spiritual level is still alive and strong the constraints and the limitations in our life are strong and as long as it's near we're obsessed because we want to get out of it we want to be free we want to be happy we want hashem to be in our lives in a revealed way every single moment of our lives thanks so much for joining us for our weekly tour lesson this week's torah lesson is dedicated to the memory of bharara khanariyale manyose where the souls be elevated by torah was studying in their memory for more information please see our website chabadswf.org have a great and blessed week shavuot