Rabbi Minkowicz Weekly Torah Lesson Parsha VAYISHLACH

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 portion this week's Torah portion is parti the question of the week is how can you Merit to have the blessings of a good family great health and financial success in abundance so in this week's Torah portion par Vish we learn about Yakov leaving his father-in-law's house L together with his four wives and the children and heading back home to his parents yak and Rebecca now he does know that he has an issue with his brother because when he left his brother wanted to kill him and that issue was never settled so yako sends Messengers to scout out to see what is happening with his brother is he still angry does he still want to kill or the time heal the wounds as Yakov sends the messengers with a gift to appease him by giving him a gift he also stops for a moment and he prays to God and he says to God famous prayer and he says I have been diminished with all the kindness that you have given to me because when I left home I left myself with a staff and now I'm coming back with this huge camp for wives children livestock wealth and perhaps maybe all the blessings that I've earned over the years I have nothing left and therefore I might be in trouble if ASA is coming to kill me fast forward Yakov does meet up with asov and guess what happens first he gives him all the gifts and after the gifts he gives a look ASA is coming against him with 400 people y divides the camp confronts Esau and Miracle of all miracles Esau hugs him kisses him as if wow there was never any issues between them so the question is what happened here what was the cause and the change of effect that all of a sudden Esau opens up to him hugs him and kisses him as two good brothers so the rbbi explains and he says that if you look what jakov did was true he sent in presents but Esau had plenty of presence and he wanted something more than that he wanted his birth right back but what was it that melted his heart so the rebi says if you give a look in the prayer that yakob prayed to God what did he say in other words what was he telling God what he was telling God was not that I become diminished at the simple translation is but he was telling God was he here is something different and unique about the Jewish people in that in the world when a person amasses more wives financial success as he becomes successful what automatically happens is the person becomes arrogant for the Jew yako says to God with all the blessings that you've given me wives children financial success I Have Become pointy I become smaller and humbler so in other words even though I have all these blessings but guess what I am as humble as when I left my father's house with the staff so therefore since I'm humble I'm turning to you God and God please help me and save me and sure enough when one turns to God with humility and despite all your success and all the affluence you're still able to have the humility to turn to God with humility God in turn blesses you with all the blessings and sure enough when he fin finally confronted Esau who was going to kill him he came ready with a whole Army he saw him he hugged him and he kissed him which logically does not make sense but when a person walks humbly in front of God God responds with tremendous blessings and everything is possible so to answer the question how can we Merit to have all the beautiful blessings in our lives it's by walking humbly with God and with all the blessings that we have still remaining humble and will all Merit to all the wonderful blessings of life this week's Torah lesson is dedicated to the memory of bar made the Torah that we're studying in his memory cause an elevation for his soul please join us for the grand kanuka manora lighting this year Tuesday December 16th 5:30 p.m. on the cruise taking place in downtown Fort Meyers at 5:30 p.m. we will have a beautiful exciting Kaneka celebration with Lighting in the gram minora great music great food food and great entertainment please join us thanks so much for joining us for our weekly Torah lesson please join us for live classes here at kabad Wednesday we have the jli course from 12:30 to 2 Thursday morning there's a paraa class by KH from 11: to 1200 and Thursday evening we have the jli from 7 to 8:30 and Shabbat morning we have cabala class at 9 o'cl followed by services and if for bring in Shu have a great week