Building the Impossible - Rabbi Mordechai Burg

claudius earl has built all of the pieces of the mishkan and they now want to put the mishkan together but the problem is that the crush him are too heavy no mortal man could lift the krushem and so they had a problem we have all the pieces in front of us but we have no capacity to put the mishkan together rashi quotes the majestan huma that they came to moshe benu they laid out all the pieces before him they said what do we do act as if you're putting the pieces together do the motions with your hands and i'll make it all come together there's a tremendous muscle here we are obligated to build the deer beta tonum for hashem we are obligated to turn this world into a dwelling place for god that's our life's mission we look at the task and it is so exceptionally heavy perhaps impossible how can we change the world how can we make this world into a more godly place on a cosmic level it's just so far beyond what a human being is capable of doing even in our own personal lives there are so many things that when we look at the task we say to ourselves how are we going to do this how can i go through the process of dating and marriage and raising a family and providing for my family and going through shidduchim and all of the challenges that we have in life they seem to be well beyond what a normal mortal man is capable of doing who says to us your job is to act as if you are doing it your job is to go through the motions of course at the end of the day it's not us ultimately it will be that makes our actions into something meaningful but our responsibility is to act our responsibility is to do what to do to fulfill his mission it seems impossible and yet it's not our job to consider how it will be done our job is to participate in the doing itself in today's day and age when so many of us struggle with anxiety and so many of us are overwhelmed by the feeling that i can't perhaps it's valuable for us to consider that we're not meant to do this on our own where in that help none of us would be capable our job as they say in alcoholics anonymous is to let go and let god to handle what we can handle to do what's within our sphere of influence what's within our circle of concern but after that our responsibility is only to act and in these final moments before mashiach comes we know that i'll say how incredibly hard it's going to be how difficult it's going to be to really do those final tikunem to bring the world to its ultimate fruition but we should not get overwhelmed we should allow ourselves to remember that our responsibility is to do what wants and leave the rest up to him the beautiful shabbos [Music] you