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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 this
week's Torah lesson this week's Torah
portion is Pasha CH them the question of
the week is why is it important to have
a mentor so in this week's Torah portion
Pasa sh him we learn about a very very
special Mitzvah and that is the Mitzvah
of appointing a king where God command
of the Jewish people when they come to
the land of Israel they want to appoint
a king upon themselves with all the laws
and specifications how they should go
about appointing a king So You See
Clearly from the Torah there is a
Mitzvah to appoint a king so the
question is asked if you give a look in
the prophets when the Jewish people came
to King to prophet Samuel to appoint a
king he was very upset at them why can't
you just listen to God why didn't you
get a king for so the question is asked
the Torah does make room to have a king
and it's a commandment so why was the
prophet prophet Samuel upset at them so
it's brought down in mysticism an
interesting idea and that is as follows
there's two reasons why W want a king
one reason is because we know that if
there's no King and there's no Law and
Order people would hurt each other and
people would take advantage of each
other so you need a king to put in Law
and Order that's one reason why you want
a king then there's a second reason why
you want a king everyone behaves
everyone's getting along but a king has
the ability to take you to a higher
spirit level he can lead you on a higher
spiritual place so what happened when
the Jewish people came to the prophet s
for King why they come for a king
because they wanted a king to to lead
them to rule over them to put in Law and
Order and the prophet Samu was saying to
them you want a king that's great but
not for Such trivial ideas you should
want a king to take you to a higher
level to serve God but God said to Samu
no give him the king and give him show
why because a person needs a mentor pi
person needs a king even if it's for
trivial matters if that's what the
person needs and the person needs help
living a better uh functional life with
more discipline he should have what he
needs for that based on this the rebbi
instituted an idea which is called a
that a person should make himself a
mentor and a teacher that the idea of a
teacher is true you can have a teacher
and a mentor to take you to high
spiritual levels but sometimes you need
a teacher and a mentor just to teach you
basic skills in life and how to behave
and how to uh Act in a simple proper way
and to allow you to live more of a
functioning life so the answer to the
question why does one need a mentor the
person can need a mentor either for
spiritual growth great spiritual growth
or sometimes just for basic uh
disciplines had to leave a very basic
simple and good
life this week's Torah lesson is in
memory of B and schomo yose may their
souls be elevated for the Torah that
we're studying in their memory thanks so
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