Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz Weekly Torah Lesson Parsha Shemot What is the purpose of Torah?

welcome to this week's Torah lesson this week's Torah portion is Pasha schmoise the question of the week is what is the purpose of Torah so in this week's Torah portion parisha schmoise which is the beginning of the first toro portion of the second book or the five books of Moses the Torah begins talking about the Jewish people in golus in eggs are on the land of Egypt so the question you ever asked is one second we know the book of boratius The Book of Genesis speaks about the Patriarchs Abraham Isaac Jacob the tribes of the Jewish people the book of schmultz The Book of Exodus talks about the Highlight is the Jewish people leaving Egypt going to Mount Sinai and receiving the Torah so why is it again about the Exile and the rabba explains and he says that you see from here that even though yes the Highlight is receiving the Torah going out of Egypt becoming free becoming a nation under God but in order to become free and to receive the Torah we have to first as a prerequisite go into gullusk go into Exile why is that because the whole purpose of receiving the Torah and being free is to transforming the world so to answer the question what is the purpose of the terror the purpose of the term is to give us strength guidance how to transform and Elevate the world thanks so much for joining us for our weekly Torah lesson this week's Torah lessons dedicated to memory of Baruch may your souls be elevated with Torah was studying in the memory for more information please see our website Chabad swf.org have a great and blessed week shavua tov