Rabbi Minkowicz Weekly Torah Lesson Parsha Shelach 5779

welcome to kebab please join us welcome to this week's Torah lesson this week's Torah portion is Pacha schlock the question the week is how can we make sure our prayers are answered so in this week's Torah portion conscious law we learn about the Jewish people sending the 12 spies to scout out the land of Israel now why did they send to all spies because there were 12 tribes and every tribe sent their representative we also know that the Land of Israel is divided up per tribe that means each tribe got a section so seemingly each tribe was going to scout out its portion of real estate they were going to get as a gift from God nevertheless even though each tribe had its section so it should spend time checking out its own section but we find that every single one of the tribes checked out the whole line of Israel and the question is why do they have to check out the whole Land of Israel they should have just checked out their own area the answer is because even though they had their section but since we are part of a mural we're one nation so therefore even though it's not mine but it's yours we're all one and therefore we care and we're concerned one for another as we find every single morning in the beginning of the prayer service right in the beginning right after the morning blessings what do we say hi rainy macabre Lala you accept the point yourself a mitzvah to love someone else like yourself so the question is okay it's great to love other people why isn't that put at the end of the prayer service why in the beginning now we started to pray for other people let's first pray for our own needs and then the end we'll pray for other people's needs and there are B explains because the fact is that the we are really all one we're one nation so if somebody else has a concern it's really our concern and when we pray for another human being we join in with claudius role and our prayers have the power to go even higher and cause that to bring down tremendous blessing so the answer the question how can we make sure our prayers are answered pray for other people this way you'll be united with a nice well and now your soare prayers will soar high and that will bring down tremendous blessings that your prayers will be answered this week's Torah lesson is dedicated to the memory of burro and are you lame slow-mo ben Yosef and ruffled the sleeper may their souls be elevated by the Torah was stunning in their memory for more information please see our website Chabad swf org thanks so much for joining us for our weekly Torah