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it's time for rabbi Minko its weekly
Torah lesson a place where life's most
difficult questions are answered here
with his spiritual perspective and
insight rabbi Mingo 'it's welcome to
this week's Torah lesson this week's
Torah portion is partially gosh the
question of the week is what is the
purpose of life so in this week's Torah
portion partials why you gosh we're
finally yosef at sonic reveals himself
to his brothers and the emotional
dramatic scene takes place and he's
reunited again with his brothers and
specifically his real brother from his
mother and his father namely binyomin so
the Torah describes to us most powerful
scene that takes place where you're safe
cries and Benjamin's neck and been
yelling cries ano saves neck and the
commentaries ask why specifically they
cry on each other's neck so the
commentaries tell us that yo safe was
crying a binyomin Benjamin's neck why
because in Benjamin's territory it was
going to be built a better mikdash and
two temples will be destroyed in
Benjamin's territory so Joseph was
crying over the destruction of both
temples that were going to take place in
the future in Benjamin's territory
Benjamin was looked and saw that in
Joseph's territory is going to be the
mishkan the tabernacle of Shiloh that's
going to be destroyed so he was crying
for the tabernacle destruction that was
going to be in Joseph's territory so the
question is asked ok that's great but we
know that the better mikdash is the head
of the Jewish people from near all the
light comes out of the world so why did
he cry in his neck why didn't he why
don't they cry in each other's for it on
their head because the head God should
resemble more the temple so the Rebbe
explains a phenomenal insight knows its
fellows true yes the temple is the head
of the Jewish people but the purpose of
the temple is not that we should have
light in their head but that the light
should penetrate from our head
throughout every single aspect of our
body i want you actually now
live Judaism not just in our head we
know Judy's and we understand Judaism
but we have to become a living Judaism
and the way we become a living Jew is
when the information from our head goes
from our head throughout our whole body
just like the idea of the temple was
that the light shouldn't stay remain in
the temple whether it's in Jerusalem or
in Shiloh but the light should go out
through all over the world and and the
energy from the temple should penetrate
all over so therefore they cried on the
neck that there should never be a
blockage between the head to the neck so
the answer the question what is the
purpose of life the purpose of life is
not only to know what to do and to know
what God wants from us but the purpose
is to live in every single fiber of our
being what God wants from each and every
one of us this week's Torah lesson is
dedicated to the memory of baroque
Benari a lab and ben Yosef may
their souls be elevated for the Torah
we're studying in their memory thanks so
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