Rabbi Minkowicz Weekly Torah Lesson Parsha Vayigash 5781

welcome to this week's torah lesson this week's torah portion is parshas vayigash the question of the week is where do we have the strength to overcome the challenges of exile so in this week's torah portion pasha's the torah begins by yigash a love yehudah that yehudah is confronting a love whoever that a love is in disguise and in joseph's mind he's confronting someone that's in charge of the land of egypt someone that he has to intercede to bail out his family now the reality is we know once joseph reveals himself who was the a lover was the oyster sadiq so the rabbi asks the question if ayigas a love we know it to be yay sadiq and when yehuda confronted it was some other person in his head someone in charge why is it torah telling us a story about an illusion that was created and the rebbe explains because the torah is trying to teach us a very very powerful lesson and that is exactly this is the lesson when we are about yiga love when we're this when we confront certain things and we think it's this challenge it's some other challenge just know just like in the case of joseph sadiq who is the one behind a love sadiq the same thing also behind every one of our challenges what's behind it hashem is behind it now how do we have the strength and the vision to see that hashem is behind everything so the rabbit says a love that's why torah says a love a love to him who is the ultimate to him who is the only one that really exists hashem the essence of hashem not even to the skrina because we know the shrine of this always says shrimp referring to hashem the part that resides in this world the screen isn't gullus but the essence of hashem is not angelus so if we're able to always focus a love on hashem we will be able to overcome any and all challenge of exile so the answer to the question how are we able to overcome any and all challenge of exile by a love to realize that anything that we're going through don't look at the dressed up challenge look at the essence who's behind everything behind everything as a hashem and when you realize that everything is from hashem you will not be afraid of any challenges because you're going to realize you're always dealing with hashem and hashem loves us thanks so much for joining us for our weekly torah lesson this week's torah lesson is dedicated to the memory of barak banari laib shlom ban yosef and may their souls be elevated by the torah was that in their memory have a great and blessed week shavua tov