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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 our
weekly Torah lesson this week's Torah
portion is parl the question of the week
is what is a quick and easy way to
transform yourself so in this week's
Torah portion par schl we learn about
the spies that Moses sent to scout out
the land of Israel in the prophets they
have Torah of this week's Torah portion
we learn about the spies that Joshua
sent to
Jericho the rebi asked a simple question
why is it that
Moses spies scattered out the whole land
of Israel and God actually did not
instruct Moses to send them he told them
if you want you can send them where is
the spies that Joshua sent were sent
with the instru of God and only to
Jericho so the Reb explains a
fascinating cabalistic concept and he
explains as follows the land of Israel
was occupied by Seven
Nations namely on a spiritual level
refers to our seven
emotions Jericho comes from the word of
uro which is scent which refers to our
external part our garments our thought
speech and action so the rebi explains
that when it comes to transforming ing
your thought speech and action God does
command you to do that cuz that is
something which is extremely easy
attainable by just thinking the right
things saying the right things and doing
the right things so God could and does
command us to take control of our
thought speech and action however when
it comes to our emotions God knows it's
a hard task the only way we can do that
is if Moses is holding our hand and with
Moses's blessing so God cannot and will
not command us to do something which is
difficult for us to do therefore when it
came to the spies to scatter at the land
of Israel to transform all our emotions
that is not a commandment it's up to
Moses if he feels it's right and ready
for that person so in other words to
transform our emotions is not easy it's
a hard task and it's something we have
to work on but we cannot be commanded to
because it's not something which is so
easy attainable however to control and
direct our thought that they should be
positive and holy and our speech that
they should be nice and kind and
pleasant and our actions that we have
100% control of at any moment we can
think positive things we can say nice
things and we can do nice
acts so in other words to answer the
question how can you transform yourself
in a quick and easy way just think
positive things say nice things and do
positive acts this week's Torah lesson
is dedicated to the memory
of and
rash thank you for joining us for our
weekly Torah lesson please join us for
live classes at kabad Thursday morning
at 11: for a par class by MTZ Thursday
evening at 7 a par class by the rabbi
shabas morning cabala class at 9:00
followed by daving and for bring in sh
and have a great week it's Ste oh m
