All Beginnings are Difficult - Parshat Teruma - Rabbi Avi Wiesenfeld

this week's paraa begins many of the details of the building of the mishon and the utensils inside it and in fact not just this week but the weeks to follow paria after parure all the details of how to build the utensils and the mishan itself and the question begs to be asked the mishan after all was a temporary dwelling it wasn't permanent it wasn't meant to to be permanent we wait every day for what for the B mikdash so why do we need par after par in so much detail to tell us how to make something which is temporary says the because the mishon represents ourselves it represents us how to make ourselves into the utensil that can accept the sh I'll give you an example the Mana the Mana was a very very detailed vessel that M was stuck he didn't know how to do it he wasn't sure how to construct the manua Hashem tells him don't worry you do your part stick it into the fire it will come out as a manura very puzzling because in Novi SCH made 10 Manas for the B so why was it so difficult for mhu to make the very first Mana if managed to make 10 and the answer is that it's always the beginning that's hard in a hasem in our own lives there's so much that we want to do there's so much we want to accomplish in in in in so many areas we just want to become better we just want to become closer to Hashem but it's hard it's difficult it's challenging you know what this week's par is teaching us this week's parish is teaching us that it's only the beginning that's hard that first step in the right direction can be difficult can be challenging but after you get there and after you overcome that challenge and you try then everything is taken over and becomes much easier mosu found the very first manura to be hard but once it was already constructed once the first manure was in existence SCH managed to replicate it 10 times over because once you take the first step once you go through that first challenge everything becomes easier there's only one place that success comes before work and that is in the dictionary everywhere else it takes work and then we get success have a wonderful shabas to Listen to More by Rabbi AI weisenfeld visit [Music]