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Rabbi Minkowicz Weekly Torah Lesson Parsha YITRO 5776

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it's time for rabbi Minko its weekly Torah lesson a place where life's most difficult questions are answered here with his spiritual perspective and insight rabbi Mingo 'it's welcome to this week's Torah lesson this week's Torah portion is partially story the question of the week is what is true unity so in this week's Torah portion we learn about the Jewish people coming to Mount Sinai to receive the Torah and the Torah tells us that the when they came to hire see night says by ye kon chong miss world- her that the whole jewish people rested there by econ in a singular form so rashly iris is wearing a single phone there were so many people surah she says yes even with so many people but nevertheless they were Keisha HUD they were look as if they were one person but lay their hunt with one heart what does that mean as one person one heart that they were totally unified and Rashi goes on to say however all the other times when they can they were not getting along in other words what was accomplished over here when they came to Mount Sinai was that yes they were different and they're different ideas and difference of opinions and the proof is that in most places they argued they quarreled but here they were able to take all this unity all the disunity and come in a unifying way so the rate brings out a phenomenal idea that we find that when was a Torah given the term was given we know in the third month because the first month is nice on when they left Egypt second month is ER and the third won't receiver why wasn't given this in the third month and there be explains the same idea because when a person is alone so you think are the person's unified but that's not unity because when you're alone what's the what's unit you're alone when you have two people so then you have two difference of opinion but whereas we have three full three people that means every single person is different idea but when you able to many people get together and create a by a hunch on you sir all you have different ideas and everyone is able to unify that is the idea of true unity so unity is not when you're there's one opinion the unity is when there's many opinions and many ideas everyone's able to somehow come to a peaceful beautiful resolution so the answer the question what is real unity unity is yes when everyone has different ideas different thoughts when everyone's able to put all their externalities aside and come to one beautiful opinion one beautiful idea and one beautiful way to do things that is true atlas this week's Torah lesson is dedicated to the memory of borough Benari a lab and ben Yosef may their souls be elevated for the Torah we're studying in their memory thanks so much for joining us for our weekly Torah lesson for more information about chabad and a regular schedule of classes please see our website