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it's time for Rabbi minkowitz weekly
Torah lesson a place where life's most
difficult questions are answered here
with his spiritual perspective and
insight Rabbi minkowitz welcome to this
week's Torah lesson this week's Torah
portion is parash so the question of the
week is what is the definition of life
so in this week's Torah portion parash
we learn about ysep aad revealing
himself to his brothers and then
immediately instructs them to go up to
this his father their father Yakov and
instruct him that he's alive and here's
something fasing takes place the
brothers come to yob the father and they
tell him guess what yosef's alive now
one would think yakob would be jumping
from Joy his son who he missed who he
cried for is alive but the Torah tells
us his heart didn't believe
it then the Torah goes on to tell us
they start to tell him more things about
ysep he still didn't believe it then all
of a sudden they tell him look ysep sent
for you a
wagons and all of a sudden yov said ah
now I know he's
alive so the question is what happened
they told him he was alive didn't
believe him they were telling him things
about ysf wasn't comforted when he saw
wagons so now he knew that he's alive so
the commentary is explain because the
wagons weren't just wagons they were a
code what was the code because when
yoseph before he was taken away from his
family he used to study with his father
and he studied the laws of
UA which egla is the same word as aala
as a
wagon so when yakob saw the egla the
wagons he knew that was a hint ah
remember when I left you that's we were
studying and that's the code
word so the question is Yakov didn't
trust his sons and why they lie to him
it's something he would find out why
would they go tease their father like
that so the Reby explains here you see a
powerful
Insight
yoseph was successful in Egypt he saved
Egypt the brothers come back give this
report yosef's
alive Jakob doesn't buy it he's
successful and and even though it's true
he was successful yob was not
impressed why because they kept on
saying he's alive yakob had a different
definition of what does it mean to be
alive what jakob's definition as being
alive is you can be physically alive and
you can be successful on business but if
you're not connected to God through
Torah and mitv in yakov's eyes you're
physically alive but you're spiritually
dead and yakob was only comforted when
he heard that ysf was spiritually alive
that he was still studying Torah and he
was still doing mitv and then he knew ah
ysep is
alive so to answer the question what is
the definition of being alive the
definition of being alive is when you're
connected to God via Torah study and
doing mitv that is the true definition
of being completely alive this week's
Torah lesson is dedicated to the memory
of bar May the Torah that we're studying
in his memory caus elevation for his
soul thanks so much for joining us for
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