Rabbi Minkowicz' Weekly Torah Lesson: Parshat Lech Lecha, Can you be totally transformed?

welcome today we are going to discuss an important question and that is is it possible to live a life where your animal soul is totally transformed and not have any challenges we're going to look in this week's torah portion parshas leflaja to see if we can glean an answer to that very important question in this week's torah portion partial takes place a historic and important piece of history for the jewish people and for the world at large to see the way god promises abraham to him and his descendants the land of israel and god is very specific where he points out the exact boundaries of the land of israel which takes place from the egyptian river until the euphrates and then god specifically says that it's the land that's occupied by ten nations namely kenya knees these 10 nations that occupy the land at that time we were going to conquer the land drive out the 10 nations then we will have the land that god gave us as a gift from god to the jewish people now we find something very interesting these ten nations only seven did we conquer take out of the land occupy the part of the land that these seven nations lived in the other three nations namely where amon is moab and edom which is on the other side of the jordan we did not conquer so the rebbe asked the question if god promised us the land of israel we're all these ten nations occupied why is it that we only conquered part where seven were versus where the other three were we never conquered and the rebbe says we will conquer it when the messiah comes so the question is why didn't we conquer it all at once so the rebbe explains a fascinating idea and he says that these ten nations correspond to the ten she wrote namely the three intellectuals we wrote known as khabad and the other seven khasid gebura tifares netsaf hodusod and malford the seven emotional sea road which go under the basket of the practical level of your love and your all of god so the rebbe explains his fault the godly soul has all tents we wrote the animal soul has tense field our gift from god was the ability that we will be able to conquer our animal soul and that our animal soul will be able to transform itself and also worship god but the rebbe says as much as we try to transform animal soul we will have the power until the messiah comes to transform the emotional part the love and the fear of the animal soul that it should have a love and fear for god however the intellect that it should have full comprehension the animal soul should appreciate god that will not happen until the messiah comes so hence that is the reason why reality practically we were never able to conquer the other three nations among more than a dome because that full transformation of the intellect which represents the intellect of the animal soul will not happen until the messiah comes thank you so much for joining us for our weekly uh torah lesson if you would like to continue pursuing your torah studies we have live classes here at khabad laboratory of southeast florida 5620 winkler road in fort myers there's a great partial class given by the wife nakami thursday at 11 o'clock there's also a in-depth kabbalistic class based on the teachings of the arizona thursday evening at 7 30 for one hour we also have a very very in-depth class saturday morning in kabbalah at nine o'clock followed by services and the kiddush and you can get to meet the whole community looking forward to seeing you shabbat shalom and have a great week it's steinomite