Rabbi Minkowicz Weekly Torah Lesson Parsha Vaetchanan 5778

[Applause] it's time for rabbi mankiewicz weekly Torah lesson here with his spiritual perspective and insight rabbi mankiewicz welcome to this week's Torah lesson this week's Torah portion is partial first hang on and the question of the week is how can we connect to the essence of God so in this week's Torah portion partial scannin we have the Ten Commandments now it's interesting is that all the Torah we were taught by ben moshe rabbeinu besides the first two Commandments and that is why it has Tourette's evil oh no Moshe that motivated Torah Torah and the numerical value for Torah is toughest four hundred Vova six raises two hundred and he is five which equals six hundred and eleven so emotionally in a tortoise 611 the commandments the first two were taught to us by God and after his Moshe Rabbeinu taught us the rest now interestingly in the first two that God taught us so the first one is the positive commandment I am God your God which resembles all the positive Commandments the 248 were somehow encapsulated in there and the second commandment which is the negative command not to have any other gods encapsulated in there all the 365 negative precepts now in the actual first three words of the first commandment of the ten commandments as a new fee Hashem Aloka referring to three names of God oh no he I am the essence of God Hashem the it came of K&O kapha the more finite name of God and the question is asked of all the three names we know Alok akka is the one of judgment you came up case the most powerful name of God that's the high priest would say in the temple and everyone would be in tremendous or interpretation when you say god's name but an IV which is like the essence of god which is interesting is that oakley's actually an Egyptian in Egyptian language and the question is why would the first verse the first word of the Ten Commandments be in Egyptian language so it's interesting it's brought down and says that God wants behold Rock akanda a you in everything that we do behold raqqa and everything that we do those spiritual to shore praying studying tournaments won't show me no God but even the hard rock on our simple mundane acts we should know God and everything that we do so since God wants us to know him and everything that we do so when we study Torah when we pray when we do mitzvahs we're connecting to what to the reveal part of God but when you're going in the street and just doing some indane activity what do you see gone there and the answer is you write in the revealed way we don't see but God is hidden there and we find God behold rococo we look for God that every single single simple activity then we get to know a who we get to know the essence of God we get to we have to know the an idea so the answer the question how can we connect to the essence of God in the simple materialistic world when we look for God we will find the essence of God this week's Torah lesson is the memory of baroque Benari laid and Ben Yossef may their souls be elevated by the Torah study in their memory thank you so much for joining us for this week's Torah lesson for more information please see our website