Do You Believe In HaShem? Parashat Terumah

uh as paratum is uh famous for uh teaching us about how to manage money because if you look at the Torah uh you see some unusual things that uh perhaps can confuse you and then you go to the sages and they confuse you even more. So of course we need the help of Schlommo and the and the Ibanzra and some of the other great sages in the G to give us a hand to help us understand how to manage money. Where in the beginning of the par we see that says which literally means take for me a portion like take for me a donation. Now if you are speaking properly then you would say give me a donation not take from me a donation. Now, of course, the sages teach that when you give for the sake of Torah, you're really taking because Hashem rewards you. But what can we do that most people, even some that actually give don't really believe that? How do we know? Well, the sages pick it up a notch. In the holy Jewish sages teach us one of the most profound ideas that testifies of whether a person truly believes in a bu or not. Which is the says if you see your financials dwindling your bank account goes lower. You had a savings account. You had a stock portfolio, Bitcoin, whatever you had. You invested in some stock that went up 50% and then it went down 50%. Your financials have gone down. You see your financials go down. Give more donations. Wait, hold on a second. logically, mathematically, scientifically, and any otherly this doesn't make any sense. On one hand, a kadu says, "Take for me a donation, not give me a donation." Then the sages confuse us even more and take tell us, "You're losing money. You're having some troubles with your finances where your bank account is starting to make you worried. give some more donations. Wait, don't you mean maybe collect donations? Perhaps you didn't get to that bad situation, but uh you don't need to collect donations, but certainly giving donations. Wouldn't that make the bank account go even lower? I was just complaining that the bank account was struggling. The bank account is almost on life support. You're telling me to give more? Isn't that the opposite? Ah here the holy Torah is here to teach us. It's here to teach us. It's here to teach us. Now of course the holy Torah teaches other things in this par teaches other things. We have the min that we're introduced to the holy the beautiful where the and how it looked whether it was based on rashi or the raam whether it was standing on three legs or it had a box-like bottom which is what said it had a box-like bottom. Now don't worry yourself too much. Many say it was both. How could it be both? Because anyone that followed the extraordinary series of uh or the book or follow read the book by Rao about the clay mikdash the uh the different tools of the beta mikdash and the uh the historical and archaeological findings and discoveries and a lot of uh different uh conspiracies involved in all of it. uh would have learned that many of the actually say that there were multiple minor meaning that there wasn't just one manora there were multiple replicas made at the time of the bet mikdash and therefore it could have very well been both cases in fact one of the things that shows that there is a uh uh one opinion is an archaeological proof that you can see in uh in Italy over there. They still have it on the wall when after they destroyed the beta mikdashi they uh they actually uh they celebrated by making monuments and on the monument they have a in essence uh sculptures types of uh um art showing the Jewish people carrying the manora and the manora is in essence agreeing with the shape of uh the box-like shape. But in other places we see that it's the other. So not to worry both could be right. Both m most likely are right. Meaning that since there were multiple minot uh then uh you could have actually seen uh it both of them in the beta mikdash. But we learn about this manora. We learn about all of the different tools of the Mishkan, which was the beta mikdash of the desert. Really, it's the holiest of all three. It's the only one that did not get destroyed as the teaches us that after they stopped using it, it was uh uh buried and hidden. Uh and when Msiah comes, it'll be uh uh unveiled. Whether it'll be used again or not, I don't think so because we'll have the third beta mikdash. But certainly some of the things that uh we will see at that time will be extraordinary. And uh we learn all of these wonderful things. But in between in between the lines and especially if we start reviewing some of the details of the previous weeks, we discover perhaps an unknown god. Why do I say unknown god? because it's the god of money that many people don't believe in. Now, you would say in today's world when every second YouTuber tells you that he has become a millionaire by making some type of application or some type of self-help uh uh uh program or or or whatever they're doing in investments in real estate. Everyone's a millionaire. Everyone is just literally so focused on chasing money that they've turned the saying on the dollar bill and God we trust into pretty much thinking that the dollar is God. But that's not the God of money that I'm talking about. Amen.