Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz Weekly Torah Lesson Parsha Pinchas How can we see positivity in everything?

welcome to this week's tour lesson this week's Torah portion is the question of the week is how can we see positivity in everything so this week parshus Pentecost is the first Torah portion that we're reading in the beginning of the three weeks another three weeks start on the 17th day of the month of Thomas and it goes until Tish above and for those three weeks every Shabbat after we read a Torah we don't read the regular half Torah but we read a unique kaftura which is connected to the three weeks the destruction of the two two temples so what happens in this week's of Torah so we have from the Prophet Jeremiah where God says the Prophet Jeremiah he says to him what do you see and the Prophet Jeremiah says I see a branch from an elementary so God says yes you see correctly because the destruction I'm going to bring is going to be shocking I'm going to bring it very very quickly so the Almond which is called skadim comes from the same word as quickly and Rashi actually says that what's unique about skating about almonds is that it's the fastest fruit to grow it grows in 21 days so just like the skate and the almonds grow in 21 days so that's why it's a message for for from when the breach in the wall of Jerusalem took place in the 17th of tamas until the destruction of the temple on the 9th of of took 21 days and that is the message of this week's of Jeremiah Trevor asks a simple question one second why it would read this total portion this October connect to the Torah abortion is because the prophet talks about the destruction is going to come very quickly namely from the from the 17th of Thomas till the 9th of all which was 21 days so if that's the case why don't we call this period of time 21 days it's all about 21 days why is it called the three weeks and Robert says here you see something beautiful we all know that God is good and God does only good things so therefore what we see as a destruction breaching the wall the temp the temple being destroyed Etc that's what we see but everything from God is good sometimes we see it revealed good and sometimes conceal good but nothing from God is not good everything is good and everything is great sometimes we get to see it with our physical eyes and sometimes we have to imagine the goodness and someday we get to see it so in other words forever says since everything from God is good but now we're dealing with the three weeks of Destruction so we don't want to lose focus we don't want to fall into the Trap of negativity that we're in we're in 21 days from the reaching the wall to the destruction Etc and that's why the Jewish people don't call it 21 days we call it three weeks why what is three three reminds us of the ultimate building of the Third Temple the third base of three reminds us of our connection the Jewish people and God and the Torah so we focus on one thing one thing only the positivity the Third Temple our connection to God through Torah so the answer the question how can we remain positive even for the most challenging times to remember the Jewish people focus on the positivity like in this case we focus on three which is the future the building of the temple and in our relationship with God through Torah thanks on much for joining us for our weekly Torah lesson this week's Torah lesson dedicated to memory of boracanari labe shoman yell safe at cinemasara may your souls be elevated by your Torah were studying in their memory have a great and blessed week shavua tov