Rabbi Minkowicz Weekly Torah Lesson Parsha Toldot 5778

[Applause] it's time for rabbi mankiewicz weekly Torah lesson a place where life's most difficult questions are answered here with his spiritual perspective and insight rabbi megawatts welcome to this week's Torah lesson this week's Torah portion as parents just told us the question of the week is how far do you have to go to help somebody so in this week's torah portion parcel told us the opening verse in the torah portion says the a litter boys get stuck whenever um this is the offspring of Yitzhak the son of Abraham so we already know the instruction son Abrams the father but the turn repeat ourselves and tell us either on how you do this you talk Avraham gave birth to it so the question is asked the Torah just told us that it was a son of Ephraim it's a V so Abram was the father of you talk so Rashi explains one of the reasons is because Avram lived with many for many years with Sarah I couldn't have any children so everyone was saying I guess what you know where Sarah became pregnant from not from of wrong she became pregnant from a vanilla so therefore what a God knew he made that it should that get stuck should have the same image as Avraham so the question is doesn't a child look like their parents what does God do make something special the Rebbe explains a fascinating insight he says like this we know that a from Avenue was the cow was the attribute that's very strongly of cussin of kindness Yitzchak had a strong attribute of guevara severity and kindness and severity is two different worlds the third is about giving is about love you turks about discipline about all two different worlds opposite worlds and they don't look alike and normally if you would look at someone like Avram you would see a personality of cussin you look at something like it's you would see personality Laura why because that's the nature of glory huh said they don't blend but here because people were saying that Sarah became pregnant god forbid from a vanilla sauce Shem went ahead and he made that Yitzhak even though he's gruel and goober is not like her so that Girish should look like cousin i shouldn't change the laws of nature just to cover up the shame god forbid that people were saying that possibly Sarah became pregnant from a vanilla so was so the answer the question how far do you have to go to help someone look with God that he changed in nature that girl should look like I said how much more so we need to do whatever we can to help other people even if it means sometimes going against our nature this week's Torah lesson is a memory of bora pandari lab and Ben Yosef may their souls be elevated for the Torah that we're studying in their memory thanks so much for joining us for our weekly Torah lesson for more information on Habad please see our website [Music]