Rabbi Minkowicz Weekly Torah Lesson Parsha Shemini 5778

[Applause] it's time for rabbi mankiewicz weekly Torah lesson here with his spiritual perspective and insight rabbi Minka wits welcome to this week's Torah lesson this week's Torah portion is partially knee the question of the week is how can we elevate even the lowest of the lowest so in this week's Torah portion Spanish Meany we have where the Torah is marked as where it's literally split right in the middle I mean you counted all the words in the Torah and whatever the total words are so in this week's Torah portion it says mercy ricotta's Doris Doris twice the same word we're motion we had an inquiry two inquiries so Doris is the last word of the first half and the second Doris is the first word of the second half of the Torah so the Torah split based on words there's also a word in this week's Torah portion Gawain holy huncke akka referring to the snake so this the word snake is spelled gimel halves love none the letter vulva it's little if you count letters above is the middle letter and it's actually interesting the Talmud says that we're not sure where the vulva is part of the first half it's part of the second half or it's actually the middle and the reason is because the Torah is written with a lot of words that you pronounce wrong way and but it's written differently there's words vowels that aren't written vows which aren't written so in so it's not exactly sure which shot it's from but it's irrelevant whether it's in the right or the left or to the middle but definitely evolve is considered the middle letter of the Torah now interestingly this vulva that's in middle so which word is it in it's going referring to what the snake that crawls on the floor so with the one of the commentators Marshall explains that the reason why the split is in a word and the word snake because by putting the word volve in the word that's the split word that breaks the power of the snake because we know the snake on a spiritual level is a very very bad energy am I putting devolve in the middle that breaks it so the question is what what what ideas why specifically is the verb break it why isn't a word break it so nobody explains like this that when it comes to a word so a word is put together of letters and words have a meaning how to make sense it's a message and so on and so forth so it's limited because it's limited to the message versus the letters of the Torah all the 22 letters from olive tell Tov are actually every single one of them are called shameless from lekars roeckl the names of God in other words because a letter is a letter if I ask you what does this letter mean it doesn't mean anything it's just a letter but because it's a letter and it's the 22 letters of God they are so powerful now since they're so powerful so the valve has the power to split the split the snake and actually destroy its virtual energy what does that mean practically because we know that a snake basically goes on the floor and as rocks as it looks down so anytime you're looking down you're anchored in materialism versus when you have the valve which you know it's name because it's wrong but it means you're looking up on high when you're looking up on high when you look into God you can break any negative force so therefore the Torah uses the letter verb which is a letter to split it because when you look up to God and you use the letter love which is one of God's name use therefore you able to destroy and split any negativity so to answer the question how can we elevate even the lowest of lowest is to learn from that Valve which is the name of God and looking up on high that anytime we look up on high and remember God we have the power to elevate the lowest of the lowest thanks so much for joining us for our weekly Torah lesson this week's Torah lesson is dedicated to the memory of bora pandari lave and and yosik's may the souls be elevated by the Torah that was studying in their memory for more information about Chabad please see our website [Applause] [Music]