Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz Torah Lesson Parsha Chukas - Balak What is the Power of One Hebrew Letter?

welcome to this week's Torah lesson this week's Torah lessons partials hookahs and bollock the question of the week is what is the power of one letter so this week's Torah portion parishes the first Tower portion parishes is made up of three letters and soft last week's Torah portion pastures had the same has the same cuff and the difference is there was a race in there that's the only different letter so on one hand if it's the same letters pretty close Corino is a sinner and who cuts the statutes the highest Commandments in the Torah literally by off by one letter and the Ruby explains yes because race has two lines a vertical and horizontal line um which is the different letters the soft has a one line going up a line across and going down then it has a small a flat part on the bottom so there's two additional components and this these two additional components in the letter over the letter rage makes a world of a difference so it's not only the letter that makes the difference literally a line and an adopt that makes the difference what's the difference and Europe explains as follows a complete spiritual experiences made up of three parts what are the three parts thought deeper speech and action you need to think you need to talk and then you got to produce kohira has the race he only has two he only had thought and speech he didn't have action versus the SOB has thought speech and action he has all three components also we know Torah is made up of three legs Torah you have to learn Torah you have to pray and you have to do miss vote so koiraj only had the race she only had two components versus the soft has all three components toy Raw prayer and Good Deeds misfold charity and there's one more addition that the self has what is that the line in the bottom what is that small little line in the bottom represent it represents Bittle acceptance humility in other words not only does it have all three components but it has the addition of acceptance and humility that flows through all three levels of thought speech and action all three levels of learning Torah and praying and doing Mitzvahs and that's the real power of the self so the answer the question what is the power of one letter so you see not only is the letter powerful but even a part of the letter so powerful it can make the world of a difference from being a koirak to being a kukas one the statues of the Torah and it creates The Full Experience of thought speech and action Torah prayer and Good Deeds with the infusion of acceptance and humility and just to finish off the Earth brings a powerful teaching in a talmud that says that the is representation of what of Trio to be alive which which is it's it's a statue it's him it's everlasting life and it's real life by doing all these three components thanks so much for listening listening to our weekly Taurus thought this week's Torah lessons dedicates a memory of Baruch minari label sleep on Cinema May their souls be elevated by Tory was studying in their memory for more information please see our website swf.org have a great and blessed week