A Vort From the Rebbe Parshas Schapiro Nasso, Rabbi Leibel Schapiro - 5786

from the Reb and this week's paras there's a paras that says etc that you shall that you will bring close to the it should be his what does this mean so first of all says when it says here the word it means and what the is trying to tell us that we We already learned about the mitzvahim earlier in but there it says that what should you do with you should bring it to the house of hem which is the but says but I still don't know what to do with it there didn't say what you should do with it that's why this comes to tell us the comes to teach you that that you have to bring to The bismikdash has to be given to the kayan. So it comes out from here that in burim we have two stages. We have one stage the first thing is that you have to bring it to the b mikdash and it has not that's not connected to whom you're going to give it that's as rash says bring it to the b that's we still don't know what to do with it. Then there's another stage that you have to give it to the kayan. So explains it in a hashem. How we translate this in our service of Hashem represents in the broader sense the mitzvah of because just like what is mikurim you worked hard you've plowed you plant you worked hard till you got the fruit of the field. So then the mitzvah is that you have to take the first and the best and give it asurim. And that's exactly what is person worked hard till finally made some money. So then you have to take the first and the best and give it away to but the could come here and make a problem. The tell you like this mainly if you giving to a to etc to adush to a holy thing it makes sense that the best and the first has to be given to the holy things come first but what about that you give to a poor man the poor man the other person is a regular ordinary person like I am so why is it that I have to give the best and the first to him why is he better to me? Why is his greater than my I should have to give away my best? The gives the answer to that question by telling you that the first thing is you have to give away theim to the B mikdash. There's a first stage without looking who to who you're giving it to. You have to give it to B mikdash. What does that mean? It means like this. The reason why a person might feel that there's no reason for him to give away the to that person the best and the first to that person is because the money is mine. If the money is mine, why should I give away my money to that person when he's not better than me? That's why we're saying here which represents the first thing is you have to know it's not yours. It belongs to the md. It belongs to the moment you come to realize that belongs to not yours. Now you have no more problem. The only problem we had why it's hard to give it to the other person especially the best and the first is because it's mine. But the moment you realize that it's not yours, it's the it's the bikdashes. That's the first stage. Now whatever the den is you have to do now. It makes no difference whether it's giving it to a shul or giving it to a per per person. if that's the mitzvah of but as long as you know first that it's not yours that belongs to the and that's why we divided the mitzvah into two parts first to recognize that it belongs to the bikd and you will be able to give the whoever the wants you to give it even if it means giving it to another person who seems to be not better than you nevertheless you're not giving your money you're giving disha's Safe.