The Torah is Yours Believe it or Not - Rabbi Yisrael Feld

we have the privilege of starting the Torah Anu now and imagine for a second you were sitting in a big room and you asked the following question to 100 people 200 people what is the Torah all about I believe you'll get probably 200 different answers and they all might be true but a common denominator amongst all their answers would be that it's the book of mitzvos and this is exactly how Rashi starts the Torah Rashi says why isn't it the first Mitzvah in the Torah why does it start with all of creation and it actually gives a beautiful answer he explains that Hashem is the creator of the world and we're going to tell you that and therefore the world is his and he has the ability to give whoever he wants the portions of the world and he gives the Jewish people Eric Israel and therefore if later in time there's someone who comes and says listen my Tim your rappers your Steelers this is not your land we can point back to borisius and say this is where I shouldn't created the world he's chosen to give it to us and that's an amazing answer but I have a question on it that's only the first Aliyah in all of safe vibrations deals with the creation the rest of gracious to deal with stories moving on to the brothers and you'll see from its rhyme why does it start with that if it was all about midst just jump right to the story of right after the story of creation I think there's a beautiful lesson the first the least Rashi pointed out is our response to those who think we are not but we are not the rightful owners of ever to Saul and it's Torah but the response of all the other partials of safer breaches and almost half-ish most is a response to ourselves when we doubt that we have a relationship with the Torah that we are shyth that we have the ability to be great and learn hashim's Torah the answer is look at your parents that's who you come from we're referred to as Benadryl the word you saw was spelled sin race the youth stands for Yitzhak and yaakov the shin for Sarah the race for Rahul and Rifka the alif is for Abram and the lamid is for Laya within the word you struggle we're called Bene Israel as all the obviously most because that's where we're their children and we need to believe through all these partials that we have the ability after we understand that now we can jump into and that's what the Torah is teaching us this is a beautiful lesson as we start say vibrations and even into safer Samos that we are looking out for the idea that this is ours and now it's our job to take all those lessons and climb on the shoulders of those who came before us who made us connected to the Torah and jump on it and grow ourselves everyone have a fantastic day [Music]