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it's time for Rabbi minkowitz weekly
Torah lesson a place where life's most
difficult questions are answered here
with his spiritual perspective and
insight Rabbi minkowitz welcome to this
week's Torah lesson this week's Torah
portion is the question is how do we
know that we will repent and be blessed
so in this week's Tor
portion which we read before the Torah
talks about the idea of the Jewish
people repenting doing chuva now the
Torah says as follows when all these
things will come upon you the
blessing and the curse that I have given
you and then you're going to stray and
you're going to realize oh my gosh I
strayed so you're going to heart is
going to open up to God and you're going
to return back to God and you're going
to fulfill all the mitzvot etc etc
sobody ask a very simple
question when a person is blessed you
don't repent
when a person gets cursed so then you
get cursed so so you go ahead and you
you Veer off the right path and then you
go and repent but here the Torah tells
us you're going to have the blessing and
the curse and then you then you're going
to Veer off and then you're going to
repent so the explains a phenominal
Insight that's as follows ultimately God
wants us to do the greatest level of tra
the highest level of repentance in order
to have the highest level of repentance
we unfortunately have to sin in a very
very grave way how does one sin in a
grave was gives an example let's say
somebody was poor they never tasted the
the uh Taste of wealth so they're not
really missing wealth because they never
really had it okay they'd like to have a
little money but somebody was extremely
wealthy knows what it means to be
wealthy and then loses his money he's
really missing the wealth because he
knows what it is and there said that's
what God that's the setup that God did
here he gave each and every one of us a
blessing he also then cursed us so we
know that Taste of a blessing therefore
our heart is not going to sleep at night
until we return back to
God so it's the blessing that God gives
us in the beginning that allow that
allows us that when we lose the blessing
we'll miss the blessing and we'll really
want to do chuva now what's the
guarantee we're going to do chuva and
there be explains because God blessed us
so we have the taste of blessing and
when you have the taste of a blessing
you always want to go back to the
blessing so they answer the question how
do we know we're going to repent and how
do we know we're going to be blessed
because the Torah tells us God blesses
us and if God blesses us blessings
within us and even if we Veer off we'll
always miss that relationship we'll
repent and we receive the blessing
because the blessing came first before
the curse and that's really who we are a
blessed
people this week's Torah lesson is in
memory of B and schomo ysf may their
souls be elevated for the Torah that
we're studying in their memory thanks so
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