Rabbi Minkowicz Weekly Torah Lesson Parsha Noach 5782

welcome to our weekly torah lesson this week's torah portion is pashas the question is how can we bring light into our lives so in this week's torah portion where hashem tells new york to make the ark so one of the things he tells him is you are a tesla table what is sayar so there's two opinions one is he should make out or he should take a rock and from there he should take out light and the other opinion is you should make a window so the question is asked by making a window you're not making the light the light's coming by itself so there ever brings from safety etc the book on the zoe that says as follows two bricks make two houses three bricks make six houses what does that mean practically that you have a word with three letters you can get six permutations from it so we're going to talk about two in this word this three-letter word of sahar sawyer means light but sayer also means sorrow sorrow means when you're going through a challenge a difficult situation a painful situation so our job is to take the sorrow take the challenge we're going through and turning it into terror turning into light how do we do that there's one way is by taking up uh taking a rock what does that represent doing hard work the other way is just by bringing light in how do you bring light in by taking away the obstacle it's represented if it's all about taking away the obstacles sir it says taser you introduce what are you doing and rubber explains that hashem even though everything comes from hashem for example torah is a gift from hashem prayer is a gift from hashem but we want prayer to be effective we usually give charity beforehand because that's our part that's the part that we're putting in the effort that's what we do to take away the obstacle or for example you want your territorial study to be really connected to give you the greatest opportunity for the greatest blessings so you make a blessing before you learn torah so in other words even though the gift comes from hashem allows us to do our part so the answer to the question how can we bring light into our lives we bring light into our lives by moving away the obstacle so for example before learning turkey to make the blessing recognizing that it's coming from hashem or before prayer to giving a little charity and that will be our part that will allow hashem's blessing to happen through the idea of prayer and that will give us tremendous light in our lives thanks so much for joining us for our weekly torah lesson this week's torah lesson is dedicated to the memory of barack when are you laid shlom and yosef and raquel baslipa may their souls be elevated by the torah we're studying in their memory have a great and blessed week for more information please see our website chabadswf.org thanks for joining us for our weekly torah lesson