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It's time for Rabbi Minkowit's weekly
Torah lesson. A place where life's most
difficult questions are answered. Here
with his spiritual perspective and
insight. Rabbi Minkowitz. Welcome to
this week's Torah lesson. This week's
Torah portion is
Parasmini. And the question of the week
is how can we be inspired to go out of
our comfort zone? So in this week's
Torah portion which is
called based on the verse in the
beginning of the Torah portion where it
says it was the eighth day and the
reason why it was the eighth way is
because 10 powerful things happened that
day. And the asks a question why did it
happen by yashmmini? In other words, if
something happened on the eighth day,
there's a reason why it happened on the
eighth day. And the rebi explains a
powerful insight. And that is if you
remember, you go back to the beginning
of the book of Genesis when God created
the world. He created the world for six
days. And on the seventh day, he rested.
And Shabbat was the day of rest. And
that was the completion of creation. And
ever since then, what do we know? What
is the holiest day of the week? Shabbat.
What is the most powerful day? The
seventh day of the week. And that's
where everything gets maxed out and
everything is
over. Here the Torah comes along and
says, guess what? Even though normally
the seven days of the week and the
holiest day is on the seventh day, but
there is something which is called which
means you break through the seventh and
you go into a place above nature. you go
out of your comfort zone and then you
can experience all the tremendous
miracles that took place on the eighth
day and all the 10 different miracles
that took place on that most powerful
day. So to answer the question, how can
you be inspired to go out of your
comfort zone is to remember anytime you
do something you feel like you did the
max and you did the most. That is our
limited view based on the way God
created the world of seven being maxed
out. But there's still after every seven
there's an opportunity to go
into hashmi above and beyond whatever we
think we're maxed out of. This week's
Torah lesson is dedicated to the memory
of Borak bin Ary and Schlomma Ben
Yoseph. May their souls be elevated by
the Torah we are studying in their
memory. Thanks so much for joining us
for our weekly Torah lesson. For more
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