Zohar Parsha Vayechi. 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 are real blessings so in this week's Torah portion Yak blesses all his children so the Z as we're learning says as follows that all the children were blessed and he gives an example yud where he says after your brothers acknowledge you in reference to and then he says may user the tribe his bread is going to be fat and luxurious Etc and he so in other words even though the zoer says that he blessed them all he lists only three Yehuda Don and aser why is that the re's father explains he says like this because when they traveled Yehuda was the first of the gum he was the first one now since up until udah technically he criticized them so he mentions the first one that traveled first once he mentions the first one that travels so he mentions the one that traveled the last one done and then he mentions Usher in the middle what's the connection says like this yehud and the first and the last represent the right and the left aser on the other hand he's connected to which sphere Which is higher than that's why he mentions that one a step deeper theb father explains that it says he doesn't say bread use the word what's the idea of cuz he draws in from the highest level and that's how he's able to unite you a step deeper the the's father explains thater was blessed at his bread was F so the re says if you take the word L fat so lamid is 30 which is the same numerical value as Yuda CU Yehuda is spelled with a yud a he a V and a do than he which is 30 that's the letter L and then you have left over which is which is 54 and you take um D is doll is four and N is 50 so it's 54 so L has the same numerical value as Y and again the L represents yud and the represents the idea of so you see that basically there's a there's a there's there's a there's a real connection between all the three says one second let's look and all the tribes Ru um shim Ley they all have beautiful qualities and he and in reality is that they he all praise their qualities but nevertheless even though he praised their qualities but it was done in a critical way and because it was done in a critical way that's why the zya doesn't list that because why because what is the zya list only things that's in a revealed wave of blessing so the answer the question what is a real blessing a real blessing is a blessing with no criticism and no negativity just a pure blessing like Yehuda received like d received and like Usha received let's hope and pray we learn what a revealed blessing is and only sheer revealed and beautiful blessings thanks so much for joining us for our weekly Torah lesson this week's Torah lesson is dedicated to memory of May the souls be elevated by Torah we studying in their memory for more information please see our website kabad sf.org have a great and blessed week shabua to