Veyakel Pekudei

With paras we are finishing not only safmos but we're finishing these five parasitakis that deal with the mishkun the building of the mishkun the accounting of the mishkun the caim of the mishkun and one can wonder this is awfully repetitious over and over and over again what they did and what they bought and what they make etc etc. And the truth of the matter is there seems to be there's no take-home lesson from this um because the next pdash is going to come down and I assume the kum also will come down. So there is really no point in knowing us how the manora is supposed to look for those of you who are learning the dafi. So today's daf when I gave the sh was on dess in which the the gumar describes the different the manora how intricate it was and where the proim were etc etc. It's all very nice but uh we're probably not going to need that knowledge. So then why does the have to go over and over and over again? So the Ramban comments on this Ramban says that is trying to express to Claw Israel how much he appreciates their efforts and that's like when someone goes ahead and gives you a very precious gift. So you you'll go back to it and you'll repeat it and you'll tell people you know they gave me this gift. It's a beautiful gift. So this is showing the rebon's appreciation as a toil for making the mishkin. But there is I think a a um a lesson that there is a take-home lesson there has to be. So what is the take-home lesson? Perhaps one of the take-home lessons are it's a very strange thing. You know they built the Mishkan the Kaumin with Zah of Kes and Kishas etc etc. It was a beautiful, beautiful building, beautiful caim spiring the manra schol etc etc to cru. But what did they cover the Michigan with? They covered them with hides of animals. Now, one could think, you know, they should cover it with something else. I mean, hides. I mean, even if they colored the hides, but still. Oh, shouldn't shouldn't a better exterior, you know, you look today, Rabbi said sholes and, you know, they're beautiful on the outsides and the insides, you know, marble or or whatever it may be and the expensive material on the outside as well. So why did they go ahead and res resort to hides to cover the Mishkan? The answer is that the terror is telling us a lesson. It tells actually Arashian Pares Truma and the lesson is something that's so anti America, anti-western civilization and that is if you have it, flaunt it. Yiddish guide is of the opinion if you have it do not flaunt it. Yes, the Mishkin inside is beautiful as gold and silver and copper etc. But that's on the inside. On the outside, cover it. Don't go ahead and show it off. don't show it off and keep it hidden. Um, and that Rabbi say is a very important concept in Yiddish and unfortunately it flies today in the face of the current uh current uh motif, the current uh current way people live. if they have it, they do flaunt it. Um, you know, I mean, the extravagance that people go to, I mean, it's an old story. We've been talking about this for years, the weddings and the simas. You know, I just was reading about um what people do for is the night before their brisma where I'll be at least the father supposed to stay up and learn the whole night. That's difficult under those circumstances. But the mic is that the you come you say by the baby's crib and you say I mean I didn't have a vaknak I don't think and I don't think I even made a vakn for my sons but when my son had a son they made a vaknik. So what was the vaknak? They got the kids from the neighborhoods and they went in and sang Israel. They sang and then they gave out the kids uh little packages, you know, treats this and that noar. So recently I read I read that there people that go ahead and have a catered affair in ao in a hall like a like like a or like a vort. Don't do that. It's not necessary. It's a waste of money. You want to sew your appreciation to the banish. So give it but don't have cater to fear it for a vaknak. That's crazy. Why do people do it? I think the people that make it is they're showing off. It'll be mi and I think the people that come sometimes they have to come social graces etc etc but it's a good feel it's a good meal. So two of the this is two of the three. It's cover for the person that's making it and it's ta for the people that having the meat boards. Well, that's not the way we're supposed to act. Let me share with you finally a medisham says I went down to the egg the field of the garden of the of the nuts egg says you're looking a nut, a walnut, an almond, a peanut. You look at it, it looks like it's wood, especially an almond, like especially a walnut. Look like a a little ball of of wood. And you open it up and there's delicious nuts inside, whatever it may be. You open up the nut, you crack the nut, and you find delicious food. They don't show off. They're modest. Particularly careful not to show off in public who they are. is they don't go ahead and brag who they are. So therefore is nimo is nimsh to an egg. If you got it, do not flaunt it. Cover it. Keep it bad like the mishkin. Goat hairs to cover the mishkin. I'm reminded of a story I once heard. that when he was in Europe, he went to speak, I forgot who it was, a sh one of the gym, the piskim, and he was waiting to get in. And in the anti room, the waiting room, whatever, there was a yid. And um so the uh Rahen asked the you know he says uh what do you do? He says I have a I have a little store and uh he asked him do you learn? He says, "When I have time, fine." When Rahen saw how the this pisic that they were going to was treating this person, who is this fellow? It turned out he was the kazan before he came to Israel. Do you learn? Yeah. when I have time. I do call. You have on every every but asked, "Do you learn?" Yeah. when I have time, which is true because he always had time to learn. That's how he has to act. You look at it, you think, what is it? A ball of wood. But you open it up and you see it's delicious.