Parsha Shoftim Chasidic Torah thought from Lubavitcher Rebbe by: Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz

Welcome to this week's Torah lesson. This week's Torah portion is Parshas Shoftim. The question of the week is, what is the most important part of our life that we have to protect? So, in this week's Torah portion we have where it says, "Shoftim v'shotrim titen l'cha b'chol sh'arecha." Judges and officers you should put by all your gates. So, the question is what gates we're referring to? So, the Rebbe explains and he brings from Sefer Yetzirah that every single person's body has seven gates. Two ears, two eyes, two nostrils, and a mouth. Through that, that's where we connect to the world, which is connected to powerful letters that the Sefer Yetzirah says, "Beged Kafaros." Beis, Gimmel, Daled, Chaf, Pei, Reish, Tav. These are double letters, and that's the part that connects us to the world. We We bring from ourselves out to the world and we bring into us a world into ourselves. And that's the part that we have to go ahead and establish protection to make sure that only good is going out and only good is going in. So, the answer to the question, what is the most important part of our life that we have to protect? Our ears, our eyes, our nose, our mouth. To make sure we bring in only blessings, we share blessings, and then we will have the greatest blessings of connecting to the the blessings of Hashem and only have powerful positive things in our life. Thanks so much for joining us for our weekly Torah lesson. This week's Torah lesson is dedicated to the memory of Baruch ben Aryeh Leib, Yosef ben Rachel bas Leah bas Tziporah bas Sarah, my father of blessed memory, ben Menachem Mendel Hertz, may their souls be elevated by the Torah we're studying in their memory. For more information, please visit our website at chabadsw.org. Have a great and blessed week. Shabbat tov.