Rabbi Minkowicz Weekly Torah Lesson Parsha Pinchas 5779

welcome to kebab please join us welcome to this week's Torah lesson this week's Torah portion is priceless pin Haas the question of the week is is the journey the destination so in this week's Torah portion we learn about the Jewish people dividing up the Land of Israel and the Torah instructs the Jewish people how they should divide up the land of Israel amongst the tribes and the Torah says Alpi Hagaru which literally means by the mouth of the lottery now a lottery was done when they would take pieces of paper write down the pieces of land the pieces of land description of the land and the name of the tribe and they would pull out one from the place of the the one piece that said the name of the party land and the other one naming the tribe and then they would match it to up so since there's a pea hug going roll and we're dealing with a piece of paper so Rashi says that the piece of paper actually spoke and said I belong to this tribe and the Rebbe asks a question why do we need such a huge miracle when it comes to a lottery and Rebbe explains because in life you have to do things complete now what who are we thought speech and action when they did the lottery they had thought of doing the lottery action is actually writing and picking it up but you needed speech so you need the complete Mitzvah so therefore the lottery itself spoke for every asks a question when it comes to a mitzvah get it you need thought speech and action this is not even a Mitzvah it's a preparation for the ultimate store dividing up the Land of Israel why do you need every single component in the preparation and derbe says here you see that it's important not only when you're doing them it's wrong but even when it comes to preparation for a mitzvah that should be done completely with thought speech in action if God has to make a miracle that the lottery we should speak God will do so to teach us and inspire us that we should not look at equation as oh we got to do this in order for something else but the preparation is actually just as important as the Mitzvah itself so the answer the question is the journey the destination absolutely the destination is this destination but the journey is just as important as as the destination and we have to enjoy any journey we're taking for the ultimate destination this week's Torah lesson is dedicated to the memory of borrow and are you lame slow-mo ben Yosef and ruffle bus leepu may their souls be elevated by the Torah was stunning in their memory for more information please see our website Chabad SWS org thanks so much for joining us for our weekly Torah