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

welcome to this week's Torah lesson this week's Torah portion is the question of the week is what is the meditation of the letter yud so in this week's Torah portion we're going to take a piece from the Z that's we've been talking about the last couple of weeks and he speaks about the idea of yud yud is the first letter of hashem's name that's where it all starts and the zor says that yud besides it being a letter if you spell it out in order to say the word yud the letter yud you have to say y That's the makeup of the letter yud what is the idea of a yud the idea of a yud is basically a DOT V is a line and do already has an expansion what do that mean practically and how does it help us in serving hem explains as follows theud is referring to before you approach anything think think first then once you think it through then you have the V you're drawing it down through deeper through speech you talk about it and then comes M action what does that mean practically says so you're is connected to the idea of learning Torah CU When you learn Torah you have these ideas you use your thought you think and your mind Etc then you have the V which is all about speech like we just said what is speech that's when you pray you pray with your mouth you're praying to Hashem and then you have the last doll is referring to action so in other words what's the meditation of the yud to make sure that we not only you we learn toy but we also pray and we also do mitv and we do all three together we have a basket every part of the Y and it was the Y of of learning T and thinking and praying using our speech and and and doing the mito's action that will give us the real power of the yud and that will give us the greatest connection with the yud in hashem's name with Hashem himself thanks so much for joining us for our weekly Torah lesson this week's Torah lesson is dedicated to memory of May their souls be elevated by studying in the memory for more information please see our website kabad sf.org have a great and best week sha to