Terumah - Light of the Torah

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with arie goldberg recorded with hashem's never-ending assistance in ramachamish israeli 782 2022. this week's parachute is partials truma and our parsha begins you shall bring for me a truma truma that we speak about is the donations of the jewish people would bring to the mishkan to the tabernacle and in so doing as we'll see in the madrid you will take me literally it means you will take for me a truma a donation but in the process of bringing a donation to the bay samek dash to the temple there's a taking of hashem as it were to ourselves we enter into a relationship with hashem let's see a beautiful madrish share a deep idea hopefully walk away inspired and uplifted says the madrish the passage says you shall bring for me a truman so we find a similar concept of a mecca the gekko here is the lesson of so the verse tells us that god has given us an amazing purchase an amazing deal don't leave the torah don't leave don't forsake this amazing purchase that you have received [Music] what is special about this amazing purchase that we have received from god in the guise of the torah so if we look at things ordinarily when a person person purchases something so if you buy something which is gold doesn't happen it's silver yes but you buy a silver item doesn't usually have gold in it is different there's something unique and special about the torah and that is that torah has within it both silver and gold of course we need to understand what is the concept of silver and gold in relationship to tara tara torah is the teachings of god the teachings the spiritual teachings that we are to follow in order to have a good life to have a spiritual life to have a god-centered life but what is the concept of silver and gold in this regard we'll soon understand however what we do see is that there is silver and there is gold in the tire itself right like it says in pasuk and tehillim in psalms the words of hashem are pure words purified gold i'm sorry purified silver first we have silver yes in the in the torah itself we have a comparison to gold as well is even more precious than gold and from pure purified gold so what is the concept of silver and gold in regards to the torah and it's also important to notice that this is a departure it's partially chuma and various is the mishkan it's the tabernacle and yet here we are the first majesh whenever we have a the beginning as i've said so many times whenever we have the first concept that we speak about an idea the the foundation is found in the beginning so if we're talking about torah if we're talking about the concept of the teachings of hashem that clearly has to do with the mishkan directly or i would say even better it's the foundational concept of what the mishkan the tabernacle is as we'll see as we get to the end of this piece of the mantras important to keep that in mind as we read this because we've gone it seems on a tangent but it's not a tangent what is the concept of silver and gold in regards to the torah so one explanation that says says is that there is the simple understanding of the verses there's the simple explanation of the verses there's the superficial perhaps we could say understanding that which no the push-up shot the simple the simple meaning and the simple act you do you give to dhaka some obligation to give to give charity we put on art's villain we shake the lulav these are all surface level there's the action but then there's the gold and the gold is the deeper level it's the deeper understanding it's the side it's when you bring these parts together it represents the spheres and it's bringing the male and female aspects together when you bring the lulav and the ester you bring them together when you give sadaka there's there's the concept of there's the yud and there's the k at the hay the hay of the of hashem's name is the hand five the hay is a five then there's the above the arm is stretched out and they had the hey which is the poor person receiving that money there's all the depths and the silver and gold coming together says that's jesus is the fact that the sight and the shot the the it's a depth it's not a contradiction you have silver which is the shot and you have the the the gold which is the the deeper understanding of it and they come together the outer aspect the inner aspect that come together in the torah that's the beauty of tara that you have the depth and you have that the superficiality they come together and it's not superficial of course silver is something that a person uses and buys things with right it's it's more uh you know obviously it's the kind of money that you use zahav gold is something that you keep in your storehouse it's not money that you take out you can take it out maybe to change it into silver it's like the the thousand dollar bills versus the ten dollar bills right and in the torah as well there are certain things that are you know things that are everyday concepts that we learn in the torah applicable concepts in the torah and then then that's the silver and then there's the deeper concepts or there's the concepts that are not as applicable you learn about carbonus unfortunately not yet we we don't yet have a base amino it's hashem we will but we can't keep these we can't bring the core bonus the sacrifices but nevertheless we learn the laws and so that's the gold so there's different levels within the torah there's gold in this silver so there's something we see that there's an amazing gift amazing purchase an amazing opportunity as a torah affords us whether it's in its depth and it's in its service level whether it's in the different types of learning that we do of the torah yes when it comes to a purchase a person can buy a field and doesn't usually buy along with that of a uh an orchard crumb in the last you'll buy an orchard and ordinarily you won't buy a field alongside it when it comes to the torah so you have an aspect of fields and you have an aspect of orchards the tire is all-inclusive as a possible in reference to the taurus there's a concept of the of the subdivision it's a certain type of field and there's a paradise an orchard so you see that the torah in a certain sense includes all aspects and in discussing this magistrate with my son moshodov so one of the ideas that came out of the discussion the idea that i thought of is that there's a certain hana there's a certain enjoyment that a person has when you have a when you have gold when you have silver there's a certain sense of satisfaction when you have a field when you have a piece of property it brings a certain satisfaction you can walk into your orchard and pick an apple or you can walk into your orchard and watch the workers who are taking the apples off and and they're going to suddenly there's a certain feeling of satisfaction and the torah includes all these types of satisfactions when a person strives for spiritual greatness when a person studies the torah strives for a relationship with lakota so included in that relationship are all types of satisfactions even greater of course than having silver and gold because that's something that could be passing person can be wealthy a person can lose their wealth a person can have a field or an orchard and lose the field or the orchard but when it comes to that hashem it comes to a person's service of god so it's something that's deep it's something that's eternal it's something that a person takes with him to the grave [Music] you got dressed come say hello to everybody say hello this is my daughter hadassah and she and i are going to go where are we going afterwards we're going to go to the we're going to go shopping for shabbos get stuff for shabbos what else are we getting from my seam i'm making a seal i spent many many months working on massachusetts you heard me quote from it this past year over the last few weeks specifically and this monster chavez i can see him right okay run along thank you so much bye okay let us continue people don't know the value of the thing that was bought people don't realize what an expensive item it was people are not aware but from the payment of the agent if the agent makes a few thousand dollars on the sale of a particular property you can figure out how much uh okay you can figure out the value of the thing that was purchased obviously if you made a few thousand dollars on it the value of the property must have been very great so too when it comes to the torah of the torah what is the inaudible what is the light contained within the torah but from the payment so to speak that moshe albanu received did not realize that his face was exuding light his face was shining literally shining with light when he came down from the mountain after speaking to hashem so you can recognize with that the incredible light that's contained within the torah if moshe came down and he is the sarsa he's the agent to bring the torah down to the jewish people and he shines with incredible light could imagine the light that comes down upon the jewish people as a result of their receiving the torah and this life by the way it's not going to be in the madrish but important to point out that the light is contained what is the center of the mishkan what is the center of the base baby it's the habris it's the ark of the covenant which has upon it the crew of him the cherubs inside of the ark what was placed there the torah the torah the mushroom wrote the original torah the lucha is broken the broken luca is the the new the second lucha is the the ten commandments that were written by the hand of god so the mishkan contains within it at its center the torah which is all about god's requests of us what our relationship with him looks like so the torah is incredibly powerful it's greater than silver and gold it's greater than having properties it's a greater investment and the light that it contains we can figure out we can see from moshe rabbenu from the light that's shown from his face we can see the incredible light that is in the torah as well and here we come to the last section of the madrush which is just incredibly powerful because if you want to know what this light is if you want to understand the character of what happens when a person learns torah what happens when a person makes the torah to be part of his life to be part of his commitment that spiritual part of himself the message tells us an incredible thing i'm sorry one line before that have you ever found we're talking about this is an amazing purchase an amazing purchase the torah is an incredible deal that the jewish people get have you ever seen a deal where you buy something and the person who is selling that item comes along with the item meaning you now get the thing that you bought and you get the original owner of the thing oh my god i am giving you this amazing i'm selling you that's the lesson of the major i am selling you the torah buy this amazing amazing purchase and you should know i come along with it i come along with the third channel it says the verse says you take me when you give to the truth when you give a truma when you give a donation to the mishkan what does it mean to give a donation to the mishkan it means that you now have show your cashiers you have purchased you're giving something to the michigan what do you get back what do you get back from your donation to the tabernacle you get something back incredible it's called a relationship with god it's called the torah and when you get this torah when you receive the torah what do you get along with it you get god himself as it were you take me says hashem and now the major says an incredible muscle incredible analogy this is analogous to a king who had an only daughter amazing beautiful princess so dear to the king of course an only child is so dear to the parents another king came and married this uh princess only his only daughter the king's only daughter another king came and married her because so now this king who had arrived and married her said look i want to go back to my country i want to take my wife um so the king the father of this beautiful princess says this daughter of mine is my only child liberation men in the aqua i can't i can't separate myself from her tell i can't tell you not to take her she's your wife says the king do me a favor do me a favor wherever you go make me a small room so that i can stay with you i can't leave my daughter i can't let my daughter go i have to come with you i called israel this is what god says to the jewish people i have given you so to speak my daughter an extension of myself an expression of my will i couldn't say it if the ghazal didn't say but the the deeper sources say israel the people of israel the torah and god are all one they are unified the torah is somehow a manifestation of god in this world separate myself from the torah says hashem i can't just give it to you and and you walk out of here with it the definition of what the mishkan is it's the place that god says i want you since you are taking the torah i want you to make me a place so that i can come along with you and follow after my precious daughter which is the torah and i can be with you so i could live there as a boss it says later on a few verses later you shall make me make this shall make for me a sanctuary and i will dwell in your midst so it's an incredible thing this message tells us such an awesome idea and that is the torah when we learn the torah are not just learning taiwan when we learn this we're not just learning majors when we finish them we didn't just finish them along with that we have made a place for hashem it's very interesting because it seems like it has to be an active thing as well we can't just take the torah it's not just an intellectual pursuit it's not just a nice personal growth lesson that's not what it is this is where we bring hashem into our lives as we learn the torah we need to make a space within our homes within our lives which is represented by which is represented by the mishkan itself we have to create that space and when we do we draw into our lives the torah we dedicate ourselves to the torah the light of hashem which is contained within the torah brings along with it hashem himself as it were hashem himself comes into our lives because hashem can't separate himself as it were from the torah it's an incredible idea and such a beautiful idea wherever we go when we learn the torah when we keep the torah we are bringing hashem along with us and that's the foundational idea of what the mishkan is the mishkan is that place where we recognize at its center is the torah at its center is the aran inside of it is the the terror itself the ten commandments the torah of maisha there we create in our connection to torah and when we give to the mishkan we are receiving back as we said we receive back an incredible gift an incredible purchase and that is the tyre itself which comes along with hashem himself as it were and the light of hashem and the light of the torah i want to bless you and ask you to bless me hashem shall help us that we should be able to recognize the incredible power contained within the torah we should be able to draw that into our lives to dedicate ourselves to it and to create the space within our lives within our homes for hashem himself to enter and inspire us and fill up our lives with light thank you so much for listening have a wonderful shamus this podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of listeners like you for more podcasts like this please visit www.ariegoldwag.com or search on itunes ahri goldwag [Music]