Terumah - Tabernacle of Torah

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with ari goldwag recorded with hashem's networking assistants in roma bishop israel 57 81 2021. this week's practice part of shruma the beginning of our parish the torah instructs us to bring a truma to bring a donation for the mishkan for the tabernacle which will be the place that the jewish people create their relationship with god so to speak the place where we interact with god where we bring corbonas the sacrifices are brought on our behalf by the kayanin by the priests and there are many different components of the mishkan we have the aron the menorah the shoghan the ark which has the lucha isabris has the ten commandments on them the torah the menorah the table etcetera each of these things have a different representation of course the mizbayaf altar they represent different aspects of our avoidance hashem and this mishkan we have two parties here we have two parties after ki sisa as well let's speak about the mishkan and as i always mention we need to understand it's important to understand the mishkan is something which was at that time we look forward to obey samikdash which is similar but we don't have it today and yet we have so much space devoted to speaking about the mishkan so we need to understand how it relates to us of course and we need to understand what the message is for us i'd like to share with you a madrish it speaks about the truman you shall take for me a truma a donation now the metris makes a connection at the end of last week's parsha the torah told us that moshe albania went up on tahar sina he went up on mount sinai for 40 days 49th he would come down the jewish people will be doing the eggel they'll be serving the idol however in the meantime the torah places doesn't want to place this concept next to the other the fact that moshe albino goes up to receive the torah next to the sin of the jewish people so the torah interrupts with the obligation of the mishkan and it places these two concepts next to each other the mishkan and moshe going up into our cni now whenever we have two concepts placed next to each other in the torah the torah doesn't just haphazardly place ideas next to each other every single thing that's written in the torah every single item that's placed that juxtaposed so there's a reason for it the message tells us that the reason why the torah places the concept of the mishkan right next to the concept of moshe rabbenu going up to receive the torah is because the two concepts are very much related there's a concept of taking taking bringing something something special a mecca something which one takes which is the thing which is the the donation to the to the mishkan we also find a mecca we also find something that's taken so to speak something that's purchased in regards to the torah in regards to the teachings of asham this is what it means in the past when it says that i have given you a great mecca great purchase the terry is considered a purchase it's something which the jewish people receive we get just like we we take money and we give it to the mishkan we give it to the as a donation to the temple so too there's something else we get most rabino went up on harsinai to get and it's called the lekka it's called a very good purchase and that's the torah and i'd like to point out as we listen to the major as we try to understand what it means it's important to understand that whenever the medrush someone i know we've said this many many times but whenever the measure places two concepts next to each other or connects two concepts it means that there's some parallel some deeper connection so on on a very deep level the torah represents our void our service of hashem represents all the instructions on what our relationship with god looks like the mishkan also represents the place of our void of our service of god so there's a very strong parallel between the torah and the mishkan so let's see that there's a concept of there's a taking we get something when we give to the mishkan and we get something when we're involved in the torah when we're involved in keeping the commandments learning the torah the way of the world is when you sell something you have something that you like but for whatever reason you have to sell it let's say you need the money person pawns an item so he said about that but we find that even though the torah is referred to as something which is a mecca something that god is killed giving giving away it's a purchase that we receive nevertheless hashem is the seller so to speak but he's happy that he gave it to us usually when a person purchases an item so he has to go to great lengths to protect it to take care of it well the tournament shamers but we find the opposite to be true with regards to the torah that of course we keep the torah but the torah protects us more than we protect it usually goes into a market and he buys something do you get along with it the owner of the object of course not questions hashem says like this we get this amazing purchase we purchase this amazing thing we we receive this amazing object it's called the torah and along with the object comes the owner of the tower so to speak which is hashem hashem says you will take me when you're involved in the torah and i must mention that one before says the word truma can also be read if we switch around the letters as tara mem which means the torah which was given to moshe albano in 40 days so there's a concept of truma the concept of torah is connected to the concept of truma hashem is saying when you receive the torah which was given to moshe albino in 40 days you also get me yes we have three things very interesting and beautiful things so powerful about the torah number one it's something that hashem is happy that he's giving us number two the torah is something which protects us which helps us to be better people it's not that the torah has all these obligations and now we miss out on all the fun in life the tire is something which hashem offers us as a magnificent gift so many opportunities and when we keep the torah when we keep the torah so we get hashem hashem is inside of us shema is with us hashem is lighting up our lives hashem is guiding us hashem says you are taking me truma when you in this context when you take the torah when you receive the torah and i'd like to point out something that i noticed i don't i've never seen it brought down anyway anywhere but the word vish anti deposit says hashem promises you make for me a mikdash and here in this context i'd like to say that we're talking about the torah you shall make for me a a tabernacle you shall make for me a place where i can dwell this i shall dwell in you when a person creates a life of torah so then god comes into his life and hashem is there inside of his life he becomes a spiritual person he becomes god guided he's guided by hashem the word of ishanti interestingly as a gematria of 786. check it out the torah in our practice says over and over again in regards to the building of the mishkan and i will say that it applies as well according to this madrish in the creating of our entire life via sisa you shall make you shall make the word means you shall make or say matria of 786. go together hashem wants us to build to our life hashem wants us to be torah people hashem wants us to have a real relationship with him and let him into our lives when we receive the torah we receive godliness we receive the instructions for life that's the first idea that we see on the majority now i'd like to share with you the second idea sorry one second i just want to make sure my phone doesn't ring in the middle of our discussion very coolly truman says the madrish okay this is what we find that the terror was commanded to us listen to this because it's also very very beautiful it's beautiful ideas about torah as it relates to us which says that god commanded the torah to us through moshe so the word torah is 211. i'm sorry 611 tyra is six hundred and eleven in the matria so there are six hundred and thirteen commandments as we know the end time are in uh tough racial aleph so if you'll say there's only six hundred and eleven maybe because where there is only six hundred and eleven there are two other mitsubish there's 611 which we got from moshe ramen and there are two more that we heard directly from hashem that god said and what is it saying that my shouldn't have entered my my russia the torah which moshe rabbenu gave us and indeed hashem spoke parts of it to us directly so it's a russia what is it my russia russia means it's an inheritance what is the ideatique russia my russia is something that's given over yerusha is something which i receive yerusha heal israel islam says the manchester beautiful thing the torah is something which is a yerusha for me forever the jewish people we have a right to the torah forever what does it mean listen to this beautiful beautiful matrix it's it's an analogous to the uh a prince who when he was young so he was captured he was captured by kidnappers and he was brought to a far away land a fellow in the bush an important thing a powerful thing we need to understand this what it means that we have a torah what does it mean that the torah is ours it belongs to us to yerusha it's our inheritance it has a mattress it's like a prince who he went far far away from his parents house he can always come back and he can always return to being the prince he doesn't lose it he is genetically his dna is princely a very encouraging thing it's a person in his youth spend much of his time learning torah he spent a lot of his heart he invested so much into the torah and then he spent some time involved in business he moved away from the torah for a bit of time you might think that uh now he wants to come back maybe he can't come back maybe he lost his opportunity he already went into worldly manners he can't come back in a bush not true he doesn't have to be embarrassed he's a prince his dna is tyra his dna is tyro so it says the an awesome thing the torah is ours it belongs to us no one can ever take it away from us and by extension let's think about what we spoke about before the torah is the vehicle through which hashem dwells within us to the degree that we have created a palace through the torah where hashem can dwell in our lives to that degree hashem is in our lives we become godly people now i might think okay i spent some time away from the torah i spent some time away from my focus on what's really important in spirituality maybe i lost it maybe that house is destroyed that i build that i built as a magician no such thing there's no such thing you never lose what you built you can always come back into that house into that palace because you are a prince it belongs to you the terror belongs to you incredible thing it says the magician another idea don't read it as my rasha ella but rather read it which means betrothed. there's another idea and that is that as long as the torah as long as i'm sorry as long as a guy gets married he's about to get married so as long as he's just engaged so he he has to visit his wife at her at his father-in-law's house but once he brings her into his house the father knows got to visit him if he wants to see his daughter actually entirely israel so too before the tire was actually given to the to the jewish people they were before ash masha abano came down the second time on yom kippur with the lucas nice with the second tablet so the jewish people were considered like murasim they were engaged but they hadn't consummated the marriage they hadn't completed it so there was a go-between there was a motion and he was the one that was involved says the madrid an awesome awesome thing and this is so important for us to understand it's fundamental something my rash yeshiva repair talks about all the time once a tire is given so then we don't need intermediaries we don't need moshe rabbenu we are the ones who build our torah house of course has to be it's my russia has to be an inheritance that's to be a continuation of previous generations we can't do it without that guidance and without that foundation but once the terror is given to klaus vasuly make the first this mikdash this tabernacle the tabernacle of the torah this place where we serve god this life that we build a life of true service of hashem every time we learn another masecto we understand more what does god want from me every time i learn more torah i understand more what does hashem expect from me every time i learn what does hashem expect from me we're building that house it's mine to build yes i need rabbi yes i need teachers yes i need those people to guide me but ultimately it's my building a suli mikdash hashem says they will build me this tabernacle they will build me this spiritual home and i will dwell amongst them that means that we as individuals each have the ability the power to create our own world to create our own spiritual world to see the terror as we understand it again of course it's not permission to do it has to be based on what the player actually says we can't make up new things in the torah we can't change what the terror says we can't pick and choose what we like but we have our own understanding our own helicon torah we have our own portion we have our own our own approach to the torah we have our own individual way of seeing the term and understanding what it means to us hashem says that's amazing and to the extent that you do that i shall dwell amongst you you create your world and i will come and inhabit it says hashem so we have these amazing ideas about the torah and about the mishkan and we see that the jewish people have an awesome opportunity when it comes to the torah to bring hashem into their lives to bring hashem into our lives to become true people real people with god and the torah as our guidance i want to bless you i ask you to bless me hashem should help us that we should be zecha we should merit to be able to see the amazing opportunity that the torah offers us the mishkan the tabernacle that we can build for ourselves the life that we can build through the torah through learning the torah through imbibing retire into ourselves through trying our best to fulfill the torah through being dedicated committed to the torah hashem should help us to understand that opportunity and to grab it grab this amazing mecca this amazing opportunity it's a business deal hashem is giving us grab it it has so much value has eternal value for ourselves for our children for all of our generations hashem should help us to understand this opportunity and to be able to recognize that we can build this amazing mishkan through the torah and hashem will be in our lives thank you so much for thank you so much for listening have a wonderful show miss this podcast was made possible through the gracious 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