Rabbi Minkowicz Weekly Torah Lesson Parsha Vayeishev 5782

welcome to this week's torah lesson this week's torah portion is pastas by yeshua the question of the week is how can we be calm and relaxed so in this week's torah portion of torah begins and it says means also he's relaxed and he was calm in the land of his parents in the land of canaan the rabbi asked a simple question if it says that he was in the land of maguri over with his parents well we know it's the land of kanan why does the turret tell us again barrett's known so the rebbe explains because eric's kanan represents as follows eretz means earth earth means represents the lowest spiritual level the level of domin this world the lowest world and konan represents the idea of a sacred someone that's in business in business what happens in business you spend money not to get back the same money you spend money to earn a profit in other words eric's canaan represents the idea that you're in we're down in this lowest world in the world where god is so concealed but we're here you read though we come down to this world that's that by being down here and even when god is concealed we put the effort in to make sure god is revealed then we have the canal we have the prophet that comes out of it so in other words a terrorist telling us yaakov was able to be relaxed why the eretz quran because even though he was in the lowest places where god is concealed but he was a businessman a spiritual businessman and as he brought light into the darkest places to the answer the question how can we be calm and relaxed by doing our spiritual work by taking places of darkness and challenges and bringing light into there we will create your reader khalil we'll go through it down go through a struggle go through a challenge deal with a place where god's not revealed and revealed god we will experience true calm and relaxation and it's interesting is this is also the theme of hanukkah by the struggles that we had in the times of hanukkah and we fought and we were dedicated to bring back the light into the basement that's why we have la hoya de salahal the tremendous celebration of chanukah this week's class is dedicated to the memory of barack menaria and yosef and may the souls be elevated by the torah we're studying in their memory have a great and blessed week shavu tov for more information please see our website chabadswf.org and happy hanukkah as well