Rabbi Minkowicz Weekly Torah Lesson Parsha SHOFTIM 5778

[Applause] it's time for rabbi mankiewicz weekly Torah lesson here with his spiritual perspective and insight rabbi Mingo it's welcome to this week's Torah lesson this week's Torah portion sponsor shows them the question of the week is what is the torah's magical therapy so in this week's torah portion pasha show him we were we read an interesting verse for the torah says kena Adama eight Sahaba that the man the human being is like a tree in the field now what does that mean well on one hand we know what is the quality of the own being we are human being we have intellect we have emotions but the power that we have is that our intellect guides our emotions yes we are emotionally strong people we have emotions but the power that we have is we're able to direct and focus our emotions in a healthy way so the beauty of the human being is that he has the intellect that guides him on the other hand what is it ates S&L what does a tree resemble there's no intellect in a tree it just grows it's basically it resembles the full emotions are constantly growing so the question is what does that mean kiha a dumb eight souther that a man which resembles intellect or human which resembles intellect is like the field of the tree which is basically just emotions that are growing so the Rebbe explains as follows that there's two different levels well there's many this conversation there's two different levels of intellect there's one level of intellect where the intellect is engaging so to speak man-to-man combat between the intellect and the emotions like a lot of times and most times when we have and struggle we're not sure what to do should we do this or that if you get to the heart of it you'll see that it's the intellect pulling you one way and the emotions pulling you one way that's the root of most struggles and what happens is the intellect is struggling with the emotions the emotions are struggling with the intellect and somehow you come to hopefully a peaceful resolution however there's a different level of intellect we're so far superior and in fact when you totally see you have a vision of what you were supposed to do that the emotions automatically follow so the Torah is telling us kiya automates asada that ultimately the person has to be a real Dom that you have to elevate yourself to the higher level of the intellect where the eights have sudden the tree our emotions follow automatically so the answer the question what is the magical therapy of the Torah elevate yourself to a higher level of intellect and you'll see the truth what God really wants from you and then you'll be able to have your emotions follow automatically without any struggle for battle this week's Torah lesson is the memory of burro when are you laid and Ben Joseph may their souls be elevated by the Torah was studying in their memory thank you so much for joining us for this week's Torah lesson for more information please see our website