Rabbi Minkowicz Weekly Torah Lesson Parsha Mikeitz / Chanukah 5782

welcome to this week's torah lesson this week's torah portion is partials me cates the question of the week is how can we free ourselves from the exile mentality so in this week's torah portion possess me cates the torah portion begins and it says it was after a period of two years and yum is referring to the days that are included in those years and paris had a dream that's the literal insight desire says it's referring to me kate yaman referring to the end of times where mashiach is going to come so there's how can you have two opposite insights in the same verse what it's referring to at that time when paris is dreaming or it's referring to a mashiach comes so the rebel explains that when you say went down to exile the reason why he went down to exile wasn't god forbid to go into exile but the main reason why joseph went into exile was was to prepare the redemption the focus was on the redemption versus on the exile and based on this serb explains that's why joseph gathered all the silver why did he gather all the silver because silver in hebrew is kasith it comes from niksaith niksafti the tremendous love that we have for the jewish people and the jews for hashem so yosef was gathering all that love all that powerful love so that the jewish people will have the love for hashem that will be the power for them to get through exile that they're going through so in other words mkhitaryan is is referring to the end of the era yum is referring to two days two we knows which which two spheros consider the two what happens when you serve god from intellect so then when there's things that you struggle with you do it because with scaffolding you force yourself to do it however if you reach a higher level me tell you you don't necessarily serve god on the lower level of justice you reached a level you were serving on a higher level from casa from tainog so it ended the era of doing things just because and yet the struggle to be a jew but you had tremendous time again pleasant and river connects this same idea in reference to chanukah that was celebrating this week we know hanukkah candles you light them until the expression of entanglement is and the kalyan wriggle of the termidori until the people on on foot would be out of the market and in other words with rubber explain spiritually refers to we light the chronic candles until we get rid of the left foot the negativity and the only thing we have left is the right foot which is represented by tightening and pleasure and as we know the zarya says that in the level of arctic there's no left side there's only right so the goal is to reach the infinite pleasure which is only on the right side which is the level of tynug in other words when a person experiences real pleasure which is sourced in arctic then that's ultimately that will bring the ultimate redemption so the sh so the rabbit connects the two ideas it was the end of the which means it ended the period of where you were just doing things from the level of escapia you were just going to go ahead and practice restrained but you reached the level of arctic which is also connected with shia comes we're going to reach a level of have true pleasure for hashem so the answer the question how can we free ourselves from egg from the exile mentality by living like yo we connect to optic we connect to the real pleasure and having the awareness that the ultimate redemption comes by connecting to optic by having real pleasure that's how we bring redemption in our lives even today this week's class is dedicated to the memory of baruch ben arya yosef and rocco baslipa may the souls be elevated by the torah was starting in their memory for more information please see our website swf.org have a great blessed week and happy hanukkah tov