Terumah - Building With What I've Got

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with Ari goldwag recorded with Ham's never ending assistance in Israel 20125 this week's Paras Paras truma and we have the beginning of the command and the opportunity of the Jewish people to build a mishkon to build a tabernacle and in so doing bringing about the divine presence a place for the divine presence to dwell not just in the structure but also with themselves and I'd like to share with you a piece in the M perhaps the second piece as well and the says tells us you are to take for me a truma you're supposed to bring a donation to The mishan and the Jews indeed did this and the question is where did they get it from where did they have this wealth from but before that this is in gim Sim when hasem said to Moshe he spoke to him about the being involved in creating building the Mishu was faced with an important question can do do this is it is it possible for us to create an abode for the divine presence is that something that's possible says to you know what you think it's impossible for the entire nation to do it but I want you to know every individual can do it one person alone could do it we brought a donation from each individual whose heart propelled him to do so anybody any individual can serve as a vehicle for a as a vehicle for hashem's presence in the world if he has an if he somebody who wants to give isn't just focused on themselves focused on on what I can give to CLA to the Jewish people as a whole it's the first point in the medish anybody can do it anyone can build a mish on anyone can be involved in it all you need to to do is turn my heart away from my selfish thoughts give my heart over to thoughts of giving to others that's the first point in the Mages but now comes this point which has to do with where did this stuff come from did it come from from the money they borrowed from the Egyptians from the the wealth of the money at the sea was it where was this money from the tells us an amazing and interesting thing and we need to understand the depth of it what it's coming to teach me because every Mish when it says a concept it's telling us not just a cute story on the surface is telling us a depth that we can learn from but it's says something which you may have heard I believe Rashi said brings it down that whenever the M would fall each morning the the miraculous bread would fall from Heaven the Mana and the Jews would collect the Mana and as they would do so they would notice that amongst or next to maybe inside of the bread there were precious stones and the great individuals the sikim the righteous individuals would come and they would get those stones it seems to me that uh those stones here the says it that it could be that only the sikim were the ones the individuals who the stones appeared for but we can we can imagine to understand what these stones are with the ideas the concept is but we can imagine that if the bread can miraculously come so then PR gem can come miraculously as well why not but then they would store them away the righteous I'm going to prove to you that this is so says they brought another donation every morning every morning why does it say they brought it in the morning they didn't bring it in the afternoon that was the only time of day that people brought donations in the morning we find that in regards to the m it's some that fell in the morning the PK says so when it says they brought n they brought their donations in the morning it means they brought donations that came from the morning they came from their morning bread so this indicates that there were precious stones that came along with the m view B says that the Nim which means the princes of each tribe each one of them brought the 12 Stones one from each tribe that would make up the the stones that were placed into the into the breastplate of the co of the high priest so we see that the sadikin were the ones who received these precious stones and where did they get them from interestingly they got them from the man could think of a lot of depth in that idea we could think of a lot of depth in that idea but let's read a little bit further in the meas I want to share with you just something awesome moving put them in the PK says this is the truma right the next PK in the T it says that this was the offering the donation that people brought says there was another place where they got they got the money from or they got the the supplies from that they brought as donations the M says an amazing thing and there's so much depth in this in this in this medish let's go back in time a bit we're going to see that we got to go back in time and I to understand what's happening right now when it came y's time Jacob's time to die he called his sons together you should know that God is going to say to your kids who we know he wanted to reveal the Kates he wanted to reveal when the Final Redemption was going to happen he understood he had insight into what happens in the moment when there's a Redemption and he knew that when am Israel would come out of Egypt God would want to place his presence amongst the Jewish people and God would therefore command them to build a mish a tabernacle he had the Insight the foresight thees the divine inspiration to know that and perhaps he understood as well that they would be in the wilderness and they wouldn't have the wherewithal to to be able to actually build this amazing structure so he said I want you to prepare now I want you to prepare now for this future event it's going to happen another 210 years maybe more approximately 2 years maybe less actually a little less Shen as a says God should be with you says God is going to be with you this is implying that he understood that there's going to be a mishon which will be able to bring about God's presence dwelling amongst the people of Israel am Israel so but it's in the P shot of it it sounds like like God will be with you what is God not with us now what do you mean God is going to be with you in the future go God is going to say to you in the future God is going to want to be with you he's gonna want to rest his divine presence amongst you and he's going to command you to build a mish is's gonna allow his divine presence to come down and to dwell within you so what happened so what happened here so there's another Mish which actually gives a little bit more detail before we get back to our medish this is a really interesting medish but it's it's uh it's in the first chapter of shim on says even as the King was in the middle of of his party so the P says there was an amazing smell a good smell that was emanating and the magish understands it to be saying that even before the fact even before Hashem there's a few explanations in the M but even before Hashem was commanding Israel to build a mish he already prepared for it he gave them he inspired yobu long beforehand means before God was ready to be at the party and the party is when Hashem comes down and reveals himself to am Israel and places his presence amongst us and we know what's going on we know what's going on in this world we know what the world is about what life is about before that God had already commanded us brings our our [Music] thing same same idea but there's a little bit more detail here that's why I want to read this mob was on his deathbed the word which means a party it can also mean a party is a place where in those times they used to recline they used to have the couches that they would rest on they would recline on them that's why it's called a MBA it's a place where you relax chill out enjoy your friends have a few drinks for we're going to do this soon soob is lying on his death bed he's reclining on his bed God inspired him says and yov repeats to his kids God is going to place his divine presence amongst you now here's something amazing because where so yakob is instructing them get ready now excuse me make sure you have the beans the crusham that you're going to use in the future the aosm the Cedarwood that in 200 years now you're going to use to build a mish make sure you have it now where did he get it from they came to Bea why did he stop in on the way down to to Egypt we find that it wasn't even yov yov he said get ready but AB had already been inspired to build to to plant trees in beeva yov stops in be shab and chops down those trees in preparation in preparation for this future building of the Mish it's incredible how do they have these huge beams where do they get the wood from they had it put aside from the times of yob Jacob put it aside he put it aside it had been planted by Abraham and he gave it over to his kids now how did it last all through that 200 years where was it sitting in aan in a storage container storage facility somewhere right the PK says all that was found with him doesn't say whoever found attim whoever found Cedarwood it says whoever hadim had Cedarwood with him what why do they have this wood with them because it means that they had it from before because yakob ainu had already seen in his amazing foresight that this is going to be a future command and he said I want you guys to make sure you have it listen to the L of AR back inum there were some individuals who who prepared themselves for this moment they were waiting 200 years Yakov knew to to cut down those trees that were planted by abam so many years before that so this Wood's been growing and waiting for for good 250 maybe 300 years some people had listened to their father and the grandfather and the great-grandfather and the great great-grandfather who said hey hold on to this wood you're going to need this when you get when you get out of here when you get out of Egypt and some people had not prepared themselves they didn't retain hold on to that wood some people had to find something now some people have to find something new right like the interestingly it the Nim who they got it now they got it alongside the man they didn't have it from before it wasn't sitting there so M prings it finishes off here in our there were people who had with them already from before that they had kept for Generations this wood and there are some people who didn't and they had to use whatever they found now maybe it was from the money they borrowed from the Egyptians maybe it was from the money that they received when the Egyptian soldiers were killed at the yamu or maybe it was from the money that they found alongside the M there's one more point in the other medish which I'd like to share with you and then come back to our medish the medish says something which I think is very powerful and and important instructive I'm not going to I don't know if I'll read it inside let's see but basically the concept is you know one of the Mysteries of the Paras that we have this the next five weeks truma so we talk two weeks it's classic we know about this we talk two weeks about the mishon then we talk about Kisa is the speaks of the Mish but then we we hear about theel the sin of the golden calf then we have another two weeks another two par she is talking about the mishon why is the Mel sandwiched in between what's the chronological order there are opinions that say the mishan was commanded first and then it it got messed up because we sinned and then it was resumed their opinions to say no it's actually these two sections really belong after it wasn't until after the sin and after we repented and after moshu beseeched God on our behalf and we were forgiven only then did we receive the Commandment because we didn't have the different opinions different concepts but the Mish in Shir makes a point which I think is very much connected to the idea of yak aino and the and the wood that he set aside that stayed and waited for so long the Mish makes a point and says that we could understand that when I'm Isel sinned when Israel sinned with a golden calf Israel was lost we did this terrible a and then hasem commands us to to build a mishon or M the same way that we were so anxious to bring gold to the golden calf we turned that around we redirected that negative behavior and we directed it into something positive we brought gold to the mishkon we were forgiven but what the says we said means that the the king is still before before even the king is is ready to party with am Israel right Hashem wants to come down in the mishun but there's something that prevents it first and that is the and that is the Mel but when this is this hear this part well this is really amazing when we build the Mish when we reverse the a when we undo the mistake we made incredible thing it comes out that retroactively even before we sinned AES who doesn't even look at the sin it's almost like we take the way that the par is set up is we have the Mish we have the a in the middle we have the Mish after it's like really it happened after but considers it that we had before once we've repented once we've redirected once we've brought ourselves into relationship with hasem says look I don't I don't care about the sin I consider it that we've had this relationship all along the sin is erased the mishkan is before the sin conceptually understand amazing idea but it connects in so beautifully with what happened with Yakov and the wood because this this idea that it's saying is the idea that it's saying is am Israel is going through wow an intense an intense gulus an intense disconnect we cannot serve God when we're serving Egyptians and serving their idols and and how can we be the people we're meant to be in our service of has how can we be led to the Nations when we're subjugated to the Nations but who plants an directs to plant these trees and Yu cuts down the trees and brings them with him to Egypt and Isel has in their storehouses these trees the trees which are all about the future of Amis the plant that's been planted the building that's going to be built the sanctuary that's going to bring God's presence into our lives the sanctuary which houses the Aris the Ark of the Covenant the relationship between us and God which is expressed in the Tyra his guide for us to have a relationship with him and all this is embedded from before before all the problems it's coming into my head I I have to say it as I'm speaking I'm thinking about the terrible the terrible effects of gullas that we experienced in World War II but already before that Amel was returning to erel for the first time in years am Isel had decided already in the early 1800s the grust sent his students and slowly it trickled in AM Isel was returning more and more and the seeds were planted and we could argue and discuss whatever we don't have to go there talking about you know exactly what it looks like and exactly how mhia comes but we can look at the fact that right now there are 7.7 million Jews here in Earth Israel and 100 years ago there was 30,000 Jews and we can recognize that it had already started before the the the cedar wood was already planted from before and we had to go through this terrible time when we don't understand it we can't we can't relate to it and Amel went through that terrible time in in Egypt as well their babies were being butchered but the seeds are planted I I also can't help but think about I just saw an item that there's a school in Tel Aviv where the kids want to wear filling these are secular kids and they want to put on fill and kids getting thrown out his school for putting on Fillin but this was going on already before October 7th it was just awakened more by amel's difficulty and challenge am Isel goes through this challenge but underneath it in their MIM in their storehouses is sitting the wood the wood that they're going to use and it was planted 300 years ago why don't we ever going to use this wood some people held on to it and some people forgot about it the ones who held on to it were able to bring it out but don't worry even the ones who didn't hold on to it there are some people who haven't held on to to our traditions and they've been lost but you know they can also become sikim they can also be right rightous and they can also get gems even now with their Mana even with the m even with that whatever it is that they're doing in the world that produces their bread so to speak there are gems there when we direct ourselves to a whether we've been holding on through it all or whether not whether we're coming in now the gems are there for us either we've got it in our Storehouse or is going to help us to have what it takes to be part of the mishkon the Tabernacle the building which serves as a conduit to bring the into our lives into our world I want to bless you and I ask you to bless me hasem should help us that we should be able to look hey maybe I've got the storehouse I didn't even know about Hashem should help us to find our storehouses filled with cedar wood sh should help us to recognize what's going on right now it's not an old story The Tor is not an old story it's a current story should help us to recognize that it's going on right now and help us to find those gems the gems that come along with trying to be people of Hashem trying to be manifestations of hm in the world hashm should help us to find those gems so that we can help build final BD and experien an incredible Revelation for KES in the entire world thank you so much for listening have a wonderful shamas this podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of listeners like you for more podcasts like this please visit www.wag.com or search on iTunes Ari goldwag [Music]