Rabbi Minkowicz Weekly Torah Lesson Parsha Tetzaveh 5779

[Applause] it's time for rabbi Minko it's 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 is pastor Salva the question of the week is how do we stay focused on a relationship with Hashem so in this week's Torah portion partial salva we find something very interesting that the majority of the portion speaks about the priests and the garments of the priests getting ready for the priests to serve in the temple however the first few verses speaks about lighting of the menorah and at the end of the poor apportion four passionate table that speaks about the incense holder and in the incest altar also talks about the lighting and the menorah during the process of bringing incense in the temple so the question is asked the menorah which speaks about the candles the beginning and the insult and the menorah the candle and speaker at the end belong in the previous proportion of poshest rumor why is it here pastor Chava when the whole theme is about the priest and all his garments so the rugby explains as follows what is the Torah what is the name of the Torah portion tips Alva Chava means connection meaning to say is the whole purpose of the temple was about the connection of God even though yes you have to please send the garments and all the bells and all the whistles and all the great stuff but you have to remember and stay focused that the purpose of the temple the purpose of the mission was to focus on the Ted Sava on that south and the connection of relationship with Hashem how do you do that because we know that even after they put together the whole temple the screen our God's presence has not come down until they brought the to--let's why because the total resembles the idea of the connection and the oneness with God and the same thing also by lighting the menorah we focus on the lighting and becoming one with the light of a Shem and that's why the lighting a menorah and the Taurus is mentioned in this week's Torah portion and we know it says that there are seven ish Mossad them every single one of us is the candle of God and we also brought down a cause I'll tell us Narim it's a return what is a candle what is our neshama when we whether when when is our neshama on fire when we study Torah and do mitzvahs so in other words how do we maintain our relationship with God when we don't get distracted with the bells and whistles of life and we focus on studying Torah and doing mitts vote to create our unique and special relationship with Hashem this week's Torah lesson is dedicated to the memory of bora pandari liebe slow-moving Yosef and Rocco but Letha may the souls be elevated by the Torah we're studying in their memory thanks so much for joining us for our weekly Torah lesson for more information on Chabad please see our website [Applause] [Music]