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showed it to him even this particular of
building in the manual that was really
only relevant for them
is supposed to look like and he told
them this is supposed to be one piece of
gold just you have to take a huge amount
of gold we're talking about a few tons
of gold and make it into a single
Menorah and uh
despite his elevated status was not able
to do it and who himself just told
Michelle bennu after he cried them that
he can't do it just throw the gold Into
the Fire and I'll do it and what happens
after that
who brings the gold throws it into the
fire Hashem uh makes turns it into a
menorah that several tons of gold and
then what does he say he says that Moshe
made it he showed much so he may uh so
he made them meaning that in the Torah
itself it's written that mosheim the
menorah even though we know that Moshe
did not make the manual why because this
is one of the places one of the Endless
places that we see that Hashem is a uh
is humble and in essence expects us to
be humble and one of the ways that the
mishnan perkot says that a righteous
person expresses their humility is they
say little and do much meaning that a
lot of people would like like to promise
things I'm gonna do this I'm gonna buy
this I'm gonna donate this did you see
what I did or did you know what I'm
gonna do and people talk a lot and as my
very dear father always says uh that uh
you know money doesn't uh words don't
cost anything and that's the reason why
a lot of people talk too much a
righteous person unless they're saying
words of Torah they say very little and
especially when it comes to plans and
thing things that they're going to do
very very little the less they say the
better what's the but it's important to
do a lot do a lot you want to do has it
go ahead and do it you want to give taka
go ahead and do it and this is one of
the things that I repeatedly tried to
teach people that asked me to call them
or ask me to discuss with them their uh
their donations you know I listen I'm
thinking about donating to the
organization it's a lot of money for me
it's a lot of money in general but I
want to talk to you and I always tell
them the same exact answer no matter
what the amount is I'm sorry I don't
talk to people about donations if you
want to donate we have a website we have
multiple websites we have an address you
could send a check donate the money if
there's an emergency issue pertaining to
something you could send me messages if
there's something that sometimes wants
to know a blue moon it requires me to
have a phone call about it no problem
we'll do that too but about money we're
simply not gonna do it not at this stage
never why because I don't ever want you
to think that I convinced you to donate
I never wanted to even be a a a a a uh a
thought in your mind because the key is
is that it needs to be your Mitzvah not
my sale and it's more important for me
for you to not donate and yet listen to
my shuim rather than donate and think
that this has turned into some type of
business and that's in essence one of
the reasons why I generally don't do it
because I know that as soon as I start
talking to people about donations surely
it could yield theoretically speaking
more money as far as donations but
unfortunately the uh the commitment to
the holy Torah will lessen and that's
why it's simply one of the policies that
I have for myself after many discussions
with my rub and then this is one of the
things that we always try to make sure
to implement into our uh into our
organization into our Avatar Hashem
which is obviously contrary to the way
it's done generally speaking around the
world where people send different people
or the roshishiva goes and collects
money and many times that's one of the
uh top jobs of roshishiva is to go
collect money and a praiseworthy are
they for doing it the ramipanovich did
it Wasserman did it all the great City
King did it there's no issue of doing it
for me personally without Hashem were
trying not to do it just simply because
it's one of my own uh ways of serving
akadas with more confidence but the key
is for a person to know that when it
comes to you when it comes to your
donations when it comes to your Abu data
Hashem don't ask anybody to convince you
to do it you have to do it for your sake
to save your nashama to save your uh uh
opportunities that are in Chiang because
when uh
came to rabi Akiva and asked them if God
loves the Jewish people so much how can
we make some of them very poor and rabi
Akiba says to save the rest of us that
are not poor to save the rest of us that
are not poor that are able to give this
Dhaka to save us from genome why because
even if you study Torah who says you
studied enough
even if you've done chuva who says
you've done enough chuva even if you've
done enough who says you did enough
when he sees that you're trying your
best
you're trying your best who's going to
give you more opportunities to do even
more and this is one of the reasons why
the Michigan vote says
the reward for one Mitzvah is another
Mitzvah meaning that since there is
nothing in this material world that
could ever pay a real reward that who
wants to give a Jew or or Gentile that
does what he says there's something
there's not enough in this world to
reward somebody that actually does what
who says the way and is committed to
Hashem simply rewards that person with
another opportunity to do it so if a
person
likes to give taka is committed to
giving stuck into the right places
simply gives that person a measure for
measure Judgment of giving him more
money you like to give money I'll give
you more money but of course this
requires an elevated uh status elevated
uh level of betahon
so of course the academy who doesn't
only tell us to do these things he
himself does it he says little and does
much he built the menorah and put it on
moshebenu's name in essence teaching us
that not only should we not ask anybody
to convince us to do the good things
that we want to do don't ask anybody to
wake you up in the morning to go to
school don't ask anybody to uh to remind
you when the sure is you'll be the one
that reminds everybody you be the one
that wakes up everybody you'll be the
one that collects money from the
community
you'll be the hero you be the Sadiq
don't tell everybody that you're doing
it even meaning don't say all this sin
uh remember that we did this and we did
that no only if you're trying to
encourage people to do a Mitzvah it's is
it ever a reason for you to tell people
what you're doing but generally speaking
it's very important for a person to know
that doing little and uh the saying
little and doing much is the way to go
just like uh we try to end himself
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