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it's time for rabbi mankiewicz weekly
Torah lesson a place where life's most
difficult questions are answered here
with his spiritual perspective and
insight
rabbi Mingo it welcome to this week's
Torah lesson this week's Torah portion
sponsors not so the question of the week
is how can you come face-to-face with
God so in this week's Torah portion
process no soul
we learn about the gift that the priest
Ana sium gave to the temple they each
gave every two priests from each tribe
gave a half a wagon so in total if
there's 12 tribes you have six wagons
and each one gave an ox so you had
twelve oxen six wagons most Rubino gave
out the accent and the wagons to the
Levites and the Torah tells us that two
wagons and four oxen were given to the
tribe of Gershon and for four wagons and
a dachshund were given to the tribe of
Merari and that makes it six wagons and
twelve oxen
however the Torah tells us for the tribe
of Cohoes they didn't get any wagons and
the reason is since they were to carry
the Torah the Torah cannot be carried on
a wagon and it actually had to be
carried on their shoulders and when they
carried it they actually stood face to
face and it's interesting story is told
that when King David ran away and he was
wandering so he was looking for joy and
happiness so he says you know what gave
him joy mirror eyes honey little caca
blase Magoo right when I was so dirty
when I was the stranger the Torah was a
source of joy for me and actually it's
the mattress tells us that King David
was punished the questions why he
cherished at all and he actually called
it a song and the answer the
commentaries give it because even though
yes Torah is great and it's a nice song
it's nice a source of joy and happiness
but that is not the ultimate of Torah
the Torah is not limited to us to the
fact that makes you happy but the
ultimate point of Torah is that it
allows you to come face to face with God
just like the blade costs when they
carried it it came face to face with God
so the answer the question how can we
become face to face with God by studying
Torah
well we study Torah we become face to
face with God
this week's Torah lesson is a memory of
Barack and I really and Ben Yosef
may their souls the elevator to the
Torah that we're studying in their
memories thanks so much for joining us
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