Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz Weekly Torah Lesson Parsha Eikev What creates great Simcha - Happiness?

welcome to this week's Torah lesson this week's Torah portion is pasius akov the question of the week is what creates great simha happiness so this week's Torah portion of pastures a gift the first word in the Torah portion is actually is spelled with a verb hey youth hey which is the same letters as God's powerful name God's powerful name is the only difference is here you have the Bob hey the second two letters come before the first two letters so what does that mean with obviously dealing with the letters of God's name and the Ruby explains as follows we know God's name is for the six emotions and Hayes from alcohol is the intellectual components and Bob hey is the emotional components here you have Bob hey which means the emotions come before intellect now one second we know that influx supposed to come before emotions so very brings a powerful teaching what the measure says that any time you see the word it's a representation of something Joy something happy and and the question is why what's the connection with the unhappiness and Derby explains something very powerful and he shows like this that in golus in Exile when it comes to our intellectual comprehension of things unfortunately we don't have the power to fully comprehend things and we don't have the power to understand things and a lot of things actually don't make sense to us now what happens is when things don't make sense you get stuck but on the other hand in golus we do have the power to connect emotionally to anything and everything which means even though we don't understand and sometimes specifically we don't understand because we don't understand nevertheless we're willing to be excited about God and godliness and life and life's challenges that is why the the comes first to show us that if you want to be Akin referring to the last days before mashiachems if you want to have simha in your life you need to be able to put the love hey before the year day you need to forget about the fact that you don't understand and comprehend everything and just go for Lord pray study do mitzvot live your life with somehow that will give you the greatest happiness the answer the question what gives us the greatest happiness let go of trying to understand everything command everything and just enjoy life a life of Torah mitzvot prayer and just life in general if you put the love hey first then you will have a full full happiness all throughout your life thanks so much for joining us for our weekly tutorial lesson this week's tour lesson is dedicated to memory of bark when are you late sorry May the souls be elevated by Torah was studying in the memory for more information please see our website khabarastudiappe.org have a great and blessed week A Week full of joy and happiness