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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
is postures about yah kale and Picou day
the question of the week is what is a
Jewish vacation so in this week's Torah
portion possible yakin right in the
beginning the torah begins that motion
of a nag and the Jewish people and he
told them Allah had varam these are the
words that God commanded and he tells
them about the commandment that we
should work for six days and on the
seventh day we should rest and we and
and right after that after these three
verses it goes back to talking about the
molecular Muskaan about the Muskaan and
the last two torsion was about on
Wisconsin the question is why right here
do we stick in a few verses about the
Michigan so one answer is given is
because since it says it says Allah had
varam these are the things what's the
connection because Eila numerically
Aleph is one Lyman is 30
hey is five which is 36 Devoran plural
is two sets 38 and had varam the extra
hey is 39 in other words the tour is
teaching us that the laws of Shabbat we
learn out what's considered Malacca we
learned it from the front of Michigan
and that's why the pieces here there be
asked
okay but why is it to be here we can
learn two things out from the Michigan
why do you have specifically the idea of
Shabbat eeeh and the Army explains
because the Torah is trying to teach us
the connection between Shabbos in the
Michigan in terms of our service of God
what does that mean the term was telling
us as follows ultimately what at what we
are we building the Mishkan
so gods have a place as well and we
should be able to connect to God in
other words and there he explains that
the tourist teaching us is three
different levels of connecting to God
the first level is the way a person
behaves during the week what is the
what's our behavior during the week for
six days we work and we work hard but we
have to remember even when working hard
we have to keep our mind on a purest
part of mine focus that ultimately God
runs the world and all our successes
comes from God and
even after all work we have to remember
all our blessings come from God's so we
do work but we keep our mind focused and
remembering that everything else Marcos
local from God what happens in Chaves
Chaves sorry we don't work so Shabbos
already it's more of a spiritual day but
even though it's a spiritual day but
we're still involved in materialistic
world but what happens when a person
goes to Michigan what I was gonna say
forgotten one goes to the temple then
you really won't with God on a whole
different level so in other words what
is a Jewish vacation a Jewish vacation
is first of all during the week we treat
our vacations that we our mind and our
finest talents we give over to God so
ready we're relaxing spiritually Shabbat
does the next level vocation we have no
physical concerns but ultimately our
greatest Jewish vacation is when we
connect to God like as if we were going
to Michigan that will allow us to have
the greatest vacation possible this
week's Torah lesson is a memory of bora
pandari liebe and slow mo ben Yosef may
their souls be elevated for the Torah
that we're studying in their memory
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