Rabbi Minkowicz Weekly Torah Lesson Parsha Shoftim 5779

come on please join us this week's Torah portion specialist show thin the question of the week is how can we live a life of Torah and mitzvot out of love for us so in this week's Torah portion kasha soaked in the Torah portion is called Schulten but if you read right in the beginning in a Torah portion it says shaved him which means judges restrain trim and officers you should put in all your cities there are be asked a simple question the verse begins shaved him vishay trim the judges and officers and then means and so it's like together so the question is why doesn't the Torah portion called shaved in pesantren why is it only called shaved him so the Rebbe explains what's the job of a show fate the job for show fate is to give out rulings to teach to guide the way of a Shem what's the job of a straighter the job of a straighter an officer is that just in case you're not following but the chauffeur has to tell you so he has to come in and enforce it so a show faint a teacher a judge we need that we always need that to guide us a straighter an officer someone to make sure we're doing the right thing we don't always need that if we're not paying attention if we're not doing it we're supposed to so then we have to bring in a stranger so a schreiter is sometimes needed sometimes not a chauffeur is always needed and therefore the Torah says schriften as the name of the Torah portion so the question is that's great but how do we make sure in our lives that we only need the chafing that we don't have to come on to the straighter so the Torah continues and says where should you put the show faith we should you put the the judge a teacher the ruler the whole Shar effin or your cities and we know there's the physical cities and is a spiritual cities what is the city of a human being who we are now in who we are we have gates Charaka means gay we have gates one of the gates that we have so we know we have seven gates we have two eyes two ears two nostrils and the mouth that's what allows us access to and from the outside world so the Rebbe explains what is a safe it means someone that teaches someone that brings in the intellect of the godly soul and make sure that is felt in a real way in all your access points that are open to the world that means the light of the godly soul should be felt in your eyes in your ears in your nostrils in your mouth and therefore every engagement in the world will only be based on the life of the straighter the Seifert has in mind for you to live a godly life then you won't have to come on to our stranger so the answer the question how can we live a life of torah mitzvahs out of love for Hashem is we place the godly souls mission and vision that's connected to our eyes to our ears to our nostrils to our mouth then we'll learn to do the Torah mitosis out of love for Russia this week's Torah lesson is dedicated to the memory of borrow and Arya Lane slo-mo ben Yosef and ruffle bustling ball may their souls be elevated by the Torah was stunning in their memory for more information please see our website Chabad swf org thanks so much for joining us for our weekly tourism