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insight Rabbi minkowitz welcome to this
week's Torah lesson this week's Torah
portion is partial schlach the question
of the week is are we supposed to rely
totally 100 on God
so in this week's Torah portion we learn
about after God promised the Jewish
people that he was going to give them
the land of Israel and he promised them
they'll be successful in conquering it
with the permission of God sends spies
to the land of Israel to scout out the
land
and the question is asked if God
promised that the Jewish people are
going to receive the land of Israel and
they'll be successful in conquering it
why does moshabbin have to send spies to
figure out how to conquer the land
so from here we see the Ruby explains
that even though God yes gives us
blessings and he told moshebenu that he
was going to be successful in conquering
the land and how and he should not worry
but nevertheless when it comes to
conquering you can't just walk in
without being prepared you have to do
strategic planning figuring out how to
go in where to be more successful and so
on and so forth so in other words
true God gives us the blessing and the
only reason why we're successful because
God gives us the blessing but God wants
us to use our talent and ability which
reminds reminds me of a famous story
with the altar Rabbi the first Chabad
Ravi when he was in Russia and he was in
prison for teaching Torah and mysticism
so he was once traveling from prison to
a office to a meeting and he was taken
on a boat in Saint Petersburg from the
prison to the office there is water and
he was taken on a boat when he was taken
on the boat it happened to me that night
was an opportunity to do Kiddush levana
to sanctify the moon so he asked the
driver please stop the vote I want to
make the blessing and he wants to have
to concentrate the driver refused sure
enough right after that the boat stopped
it stopped I couldn't figure what was
wrong with it and then a couple of
minutes late it started to go again
then the author who went over to the
captain again said please can you stop
the boat so I can do the blessing he
realized that altar is the one that
stopped him before us he decided rather
than to him to stop it against his will
so he stopped the boat and the altar
rabbee went ahead and did the prayers so
they'll be answered the question if the
altar he stopped the boat the first time
he could have stopped it and done the
prayers why did he do it let the boat go
again and then ask the captain to stop
it the Ruby explains here you see again
the most powerful Insight that even
though yes holy people have holy powers
and they can do things without the help
of human beings but God really wants us
to work with people and to work within
nature so the answer the question are we
supposed to rely totally 100 on God and
the answer is true God runs the world
and everything we have is from God but
God wants us to do our part as well this
week's Torah lesson is dedicated to the
memory of Baruch minority lib and
Ben Yosef May their souls be elevated by
the Torah we're studying in their memory
I'd like to wish a special model to our
door to zeldy on her engagement to nahmi
Rosenberg
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