Zohar Parsha Metzora. Lubavitcher Rebbe & Rebbe’s Father Kabbalist. By Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz

welcome to this week's Torah lesson this week's Torah portion is par the question of the week is how should one look at themselves or someone else when you see Darkness so in this week's Torah portion pass from the Torah we're continuing to learn about the laws of Tas so the Z brings actually there's no Z in this week's power portion so the same from last from last week's T portion so he brings the verse if somebody has in the skin of his flesh a different types of Legions say zud opens up and says and he brings a verse from song of songs that says don't look at me because I'm dark that the sun shine upon me so the Reb's father says what are we talking about here we're talking about obviously heavy heavy negative energy so the Reb explains what do you do when you have this negative negative energy when you have the negative energy you have to realize what does it what does it say Al don't look at me that I'm black that means look deeper look at two points Point number one is look at the fact there's an issue and try to fix it but more importantly look at the Blackness the darkness is only the external me the internal self the real me is beautiful and when you look at yourself that the real you is beautiful so you realize yes there's things you have to fix EX externally that's not who I am and the same thing also when someone else you see something negative it's only the external part there's a CER from the outside but the internal part is beautiful so the answer the question how should you look at yourself or someone else when there's black when there's dark when there's negativity look at the real person behind the dark behind the black behind the struggle you'll see a beautiful great human being thanks so much for joining us for our weekly Torah lesson this week's Torah lesson is dedicated to memory of may your souls be elevated by to we're studying in the memory for more information please see our website kabat sf.org have a great and blessed week Sha