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

Welcome to our weekly Torah lesson this week's Torah portion is the question of the week is how do we sweeten judgments so this week's Torah portion we're going to learn from the Z the Z says it was on the eth day and The Zo says opened up and he brings a verse that says so the re's father asks what's the connection and and with this verse of's father explains and he says as follows was the eth day what happened on the eth day a fire came down from heaven and was in the image of an a lion and the name is urel now uel is the same numerical value as Abraham which is the fire came down which is what happened afterwards the people trembled which is G and then know passed away numerically the same value as so you have it was the eth day which was again which is connected to love of hem and the numeric which and on the other hand you had and then unfortunately they passed away so what's the idea of so we know that on one hand is is connected to the attribute of severity as you know his numerical value of his name is four time four times the the name b and on the other hand is connected to eight times his eight times is also so has both components there but we know what does he bring the verse is referring to got up in the morning what does mean why did he get up in the morning to bring know why did he bring him to the AA he went to the aada to go ahead and sweeten the judgment of so that wouldn't be so strong it would be sweetened so theab explained something very very powerful and he says like this what do we see from here that when you have G you can look at it oh it's terrible no we have the power to sweeten the judgments we have the power anytime and anything we're going through obviously if it's good it's good it's but when it's G when it's negative and you're going through challenges you have to always say it's all good and by saying it's good you actually sweeten the judgments how does one go about sweetening the judgments what was how did do it by the what is the mean spiritually that is binding what does that mean you bind you accept and you accept on all levels starting from T which is pleasure R which is Will intellect emotions and and and and your thought speech and action most importantly the AR was the action binding our action just to doing what the is and we commit just to realizing from a perspective of of the of the ARA that we're going to go on my neish self-sacrifice to accept that everything is good we will have the power to sweeten the judgments the answer to the question how do we sweeten judgments to learn from from Thea to realize that everything is good accept it as good whether you understand it it's amazing if you don't just accept it as good and that's the way you'll sweeten all the judgments thanks so much for joining us for our weekly Torah less this week's Torah lesson is dedicated to memory of May the souls be elevated by the Torah with studying in the memory for more information please see our website kabat sf.org have a great and blessed week shab to