Rabbi Minkowicz Weekly Torah Lesson Parsha SHEMOT

it's time for Rabbi minkowitz weekly Torah lesson a place where life's most difficult questions are answered here with his spiritual perspective and insight Rabbi minkowitz welcome to this week's Torah lesson this week's Torah portion is poso and the question of the week is what keeps us in Balance so in this week's Torah portion paraos we read about the famous story where mosh Renu Moses was out shepher the Sheep and he's out and he gives a look and he sees the scene he sees the famous burning bush that's burning and as the Torah tells us he sees it burning and burning but the strangest things was happening was the Bush was not being consumed so mosha says hey let me step aside from here and let me give a look and see why is it that this bush is not being consumed so the commentar say what was MOS so intrigued I mean he was doing a job he left the job to watch a bush that's being burnt burnt and it's not being consumed so the commentary explained according to mysticism what mosu actually saw was something deeper than a physical Bush that's not being concerned what mosu saw was the snare and mosh's vision as a natural leader of the Jewish people sees the Jewish people in the snare when he views the snare he sees the jewi Jewish people and he sees a fire what kind of fire does he see so in cabala explains he saw two fires one he saw the fire of the righteous people what is the fire of the righteous people they have this tremendous compassion and passion for God and they're serving God and they're yearning to be with God so mosh raain is saying hey why isn't it being consumed if they have this yearning to be with God why doesn't their soul leave the body and be United with God then he sees another fire a fire of somebody that indulges in this physical world in the materialistic world is consumed in the materialistic world and forgets about God but nevertheless the fire brings him back to God and Mos is saying hey if you're so consumed in the physical world and the materialistic World why do you even bother praying at times why do you study why do you do mitv just be consumed let the physical world be your world in other words on one hand he sees the righteous people still sticking on to this world even though they would looks like they want to leave and he sees the people consumed with the physical world not totally being immersed but always coming back for a drink of Torah or maybe doing a Mitzvah or some prayer so M says what's the secret that people are not expiring in either way so MOS says I'm going to leave and I want to see this great image what's this great image so cabala says MOS said the great image is the power of Torah because Torah is called the Great image and Mos says wow what is this power that Torah has that takes the righteous man that wants to be cleaved with God but knows that God wants him to make this world a better place and looks at the person that's consumed with the materialistic world but nevertheless always comes back to study some Torah and doing mitv saw the power of the jewi people to always come back and be centered is the power of Torah because when a person studies Torah there's something magical in there that won't allow you to escape the world both on a spiritual high and won't allow you to escape the spiritual World in a materialistic Pursuit with no return so in other words to answer the question what is the power that keeps us in balance is our connection to God through Torah and as long as we study Torah we'll never have an ecstasy we'll always come back and be centered in this world and we'll also never have an experience we totally want to leave the fold will always come back to be connected to God through Torah and mitv this week's Torah lesson is dedicated to the memory of bar May the Torah that we're studying in his memory cause an elevation for his soul thanks so much for joining us for our weekly Torah lesson please join us for live classes here at kabad Wednesday we have the jli course from 12:30 to 2 Thursday morning there's a paraa class by KH from 11: to 12 and Thursday evening we have the jli from 7 to 8:30 and Shabbat morning we have cabala class at 9:00 followed by services and if for bring in shab have a great week