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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 partially Yates a the
question of the week is to what extent
do you have to go to keep your word so
in this week's Torah portion is
processed by 18 we learn about Yaakov
meeting rock hall for the first time and
we know it was love at first sight he
wanted to marry her she wanted to marry
him and he goes to speak to his future
father-in-law laven he says hey I want
to marry your daughter Raquel he's a
short with pleasure and they set the
wedding date and well he makes work for
it they said wedding date and lovin as a
good father in law goes ahead and
changes exchanges Rocco that was
supposed to marry him and he ends up
marrying Leia sure if he wakes up the
next morning oh my gosh scarlatina he
comes back says hey why'd you cheat me
as well lay is the oldest you can't go
and marry the youngest first so if you
want with pleasure you work for another
seven years and you'll have Rachel and
sure enough chakra was a gentleman he
agreed to work for the seven years and
he goes ahead and marries Rachel so the
Rebbe asked a simple question whoa we
know that the patriarchs kept the whole
Torah even before was given they hadn't
have an obligation but they voluntarily
kept the whole talk and if they kept the
whole tour voluntarily one of the
Commandments in the Torah is not to
marry two sisters so how did Yaakov go
ahead married two sisters and I was he
find he married Leia so either we have
to get divorced layer and marry Rachel
or not marry Rachel but how's he going
to marry two sisters Kirby says very
simple Yaakov took upon himself upon her
soul voluntarily to keep the whole tour
he didn't have to keep the toilet that
was a beautiful thing he took upon
himself not an obligation but that was a
voluntarily thing he did he took on
however when it comes to keeping your
word keeping your word you have to keep
you words because when even when to
Laban he said Laban how you not keep
your word you saw him to marry Rachel so
he have to respond and say a loophole
that hey how can you marry the oldest
one but you can't say I don't keep my
word keeping you in its very important
so when it comes to keeping your word
the only way um
Yaakov could have been obligated not to
keep his word if we'd go against a tour
but the Torah then he was taking on as a
voluntarily thing too since the only
reason why he's keeping tourists
voluntarily use a nice gift he couldn't
go ahead and override not keeping his
work so the answer the question how far
do you have to go to keep you words you
see clearly to the story jackals a
person has to keep his word whatever it
takes providing it's going against the
Torah but if it's something that you
took upon yourself or you're not
comfortable with it or you're not happy
about something there's no excuse a
person must keep his word to any extent
besides obviously if it's not moral
ethical or going against the Torah
this week's Torah lesson is a memory of
Barack and I relayed and ben
Yosef may their souls be elevated to the
Torah that we're studying in their
memory thanks so much for joining us for
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