Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz Weekly Torah Lesson Parsha Va’etchanan, Nachamu. What brings real Comfort?

welcome to this week's tour lesson this week's total portion is parishes and the question of the week is what brings real comfort so this week's Torah portion of passions first kind and we have the special of tomorrow which starts the seven Shiva de nacho seven of tarot of comfort after the destruction of the temple so what's interesting is the Torah the October begins and it says [Music] Hashem is comforting the Jewish people one of the Jewish people tell back the prophets and that's the beginning of the next week's of Torah about Tony Mercia you know Hashem the Jewish people say God has forsaken me and then the week after the prophet goes back to Hashem of the Jewish people they're not being comforted so then Hashem comes along and he says I myself I'm going to comfort the Jewish people it's your best simple question we're starting off the first week we just had destruction Temple there were three weeks of perennials of calamities so why don't we begin right away with a double Comfort it should have started off slowly and especially we're coming after the three weeks of God of calamities and the destruction Temple start off slowly and especially as we see it's a process we have some Comforts them and then we the prophet goes back and we tell the prophet we're not comforted and then the prophets so why does it started so the rubber explains a powerful idea and he says as follows the three weeks of calamities is connected to what we know in the world of Kabbalah three is intellect seven weeks of comfort is connected to the emotions now generally speaking kabala they explained that inflect is for yourself you comprehend you think you meditate you don't really need anyone else to exercise your intellect however when it comes to emotions emotions is all about sharing your feelings your warmth your love your excitement your passion Etc so in other words explains everything from Hashem is really good God is good and everything he does is good but what happens is in the first week how many Saw it's referring to on the spiritual the intellect so because hinted by default it's concealed we don't see the goodness what happens this week when we go into the seven we're going into the emotions that's where everything gets revealed and that's what we can feel and experience the Comfort which you find the same idea in this week's Torah portion this week's tarp portion is called the and we know one of the reasons why it's called because moistura prayed to Hashem to be able to go into the land of Israel and there's numerically is 515. in other words 515 prayers allow him to go into the land of Israel now 500 in Kabbalah is referring to the five emotions the five emotions where each one of those are connected with ten and those interconnected with another tendency you have total of 500 strong emotions and the 15 is represented what the idea of intellect the youth is bino so derivative you see the same idea in this week's terrible portion of this kind of I mean moisturizing Hashem so it doesn't say 15 500 it was 515 which means the emotions comes first in other words when you want to have a strong revealed connection when our College World it comes specifically from the emotion so the answer the question how do we create Comfort we create Comfort by going out of our head and going into our emotions feeling light having love for God being an awe of God that will give us the greatest comfort thanks so much for joining us for our weekly Tower lesson this week's Torah lessons dedicates to memory of Baruch May the souls be elevated right Torah was studying in the memory have a great and blessed week A Week full of comfort and joy and happiness for more information please see our website khabad swf.org