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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 about you grow the question
of the week is how can we have face time
with God so in this week's Torah portion
passions for you Cara
the tour begins speak to the Jewish
people Adam kkeok grieve me Kim Karbala
Hashem a man that will bring clothes
from amongst you a sacrifice to God
so the commentaries rightly ask it
should say a man amongst you the
overcome that will bring something close
to God but we see from here that Adam
kkeok rythmic am that the idea is that
every single person could bring
themselves closer to God and it was that
purpose of the sacrifice it wasn't just
to bring an animal for atonement but
more importantly was to bring us close
to God and so to speak and have face
time with God how does one go about
doing this
so the Torah gives us some instructions
what has happened to the animal and
obviously we're referring to the
physical animal but we take that and
apply to our lives then we can become
closer to God so what happened when you
brought an animal animal there was three
requirements required number one is you
have to make sure there's no blemishes
it means you have to make sure you are
complete but now there's what does that
mean spiritually that when you're doing
a Nevada when you're serving God whether
it's through prayer through Torah study
through a mitts vote we have to do it
complete not we're doing it but we're
thinking about something else we don't
want to do it we're doing something we
have to be totally engaged
intellectually emotionally physically we
have to be with Allen a blemish we're
100 percent president that's first of
all second requirement once you bring
the animal you have to slaughter it what
is idea of slaughtering an animal when
one of those when you slaughter the
animal the blood the excitement and the
passion for life comes going to gushing
out in other words we have to take our
passion or excitement that we have
materialism and physicality and selfish
things and totally get rid of that and
what's remained is basically our passion
for
godliness after that what's the third
thing after they take the blood out of
the animal they would take it and put it
on the altar animal could be consumed in
the fire of God in other words after we
understand complete we're totally
dedicated and we're not distracted and
putting excitement into materialism and
physical things then we totally get
consumed in the fire of God so in other
words if we want to have face time with
God we have to do our service tour of
its fold prayer one arms I'm fully
without a blemish take out our
excitement from for materialism and
selfish and physical things and totally
be consumed with the fire of God
this week's Torah lesson is a memory of
bora pandari liebe and Ben Yosef
may their souls be elevated for the
Torah that we're studying in their
memory thanks so much for joining us for
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