Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz Weekly Torah Lesson Parsha Re’eh How can we chose a life of Blessings?

welcome to this week's Torah lesson this week's Torah portion is Passion through eight the question of the week is how can we naturally choose a life of blessing so in this week's Torah portion of postures for a the Torah portion begins when it says Hey give a look is giving us he's giving us a blessing and a curse and how do we choose the blessing so if you look at the end of the Torah portion where he speaks about the festivals so it says that we should celebrate all the festivals referring to pesach Schwartz and the nanatory ah a very powerful word samayak happy so what does that mean you should be ashamed so Rashi gives several commentaries and one commentary he says coming to include also the last days of the Antonov Sukkot which is basically you have to be extra happy so if I ask a question one second we know that ah is an exclusion it's coming to exclude something Hakim Rashi says it's coming to add something and whoever explains as follows when it comes to the three festivals we have to be happy with as a cesma Torah so basically these three levels of being happy on pesos correspond to our spiritual service today of connecting to Hashem through learning Torah praying and doing misfold that every one of these prayer and Torah and doing that's all we have to do with someone like it says in the Torah and it says in the prophets you have to serve god with joy and happiness however we know when it comes to the happiness of the festivals we'll send around messages to make sure that when people are happy they don't go overboard because there's a limit to happiness because if you go too far you can uh you could go too far however when it comes to the holidays we all know it's all about an extra joy and there's no limit to the happiness so in other words to answer the question how can we ex how can we create the greatest blessings so the river explains very powerful and he sounds like this when the Torah says and we said what do you mean it's coming to add but seeming is coming to exclude yes right exactly is coming to exclude the limited happiness of all three festivals that we normally do when we pray and we study we do miss vote what is it referring to to be happy it's coming to refer to a whole different level of Happiness a happiness like when we're happy every single day of our lives like the joy of infinite happiness unconditional happiness that will give us all the greatest blessings in our lives thanks so much for joining us for our weekly thorough lesson this week's Torah lessons dedicated to memory of Baruch May the souls be elevated by Torah was studying in the memory for more information please see our website chabadswf.org have a great and blessed week with a lot of joy and happiness