Eternal Resting Place For the Divine Presence: Parshat Terumah - Rabbi Daniel Glatstein

okay good morning good afternoon everyone to the Monday afternoon National Shear we have an amazing topic today connecting par chuma I'm not sure if I even ever gave this she as a Shear by itself so here we go uh we have very exciting news if anybody wants to join us on our upcoming Journey which is going to take place during theas right before lag for the very first time we're going to Eastern Europe and we're going to go to bellarus which has not been available for Americans for a number of years going to go to raden to the K to for chabas in VNA to theer the arame the rug okay okay here we go we all know the para begins says it's not enough it's not enough to give it it's not enough to take it it has to be with the right intentions so here you have a Jew he was opening up his checkbook he was going to write out a million doll check and he told MOA I'm going to write a million dollar check make sure you give me a big plug make sure you make me a nice Mish make sure you give me the right recognition said save your ink we're not taking your check the guy says what you're not taking my check what's wrong with my money nothing's wrong with we don't like your intentions you're not giving it LMA can you imagine such a thing imagine a was having a dinner and a guy gets up at the dinner he says I want everyone to know I'm the most generous guy in the sh I'm pledging $2 million to the sh and he writes out a check on the spot and he says everybody I want you to honor me give me recognition what do we do with this man's check we cash it immediately that's what we do with it yeah but he's not giving it LMA he's giving it for coved okay that's his issue but in terms of the B they'll take the money you know what it says you take it that's the rule all of a sudden when it comes to the mishan we become so we have such high standards that if the guy does not give it LMA then we're not going to accept the the money why would that be why would we only accept the money if this gentleman gives the money all of a sudden has to why would it not be enough that he's giving the money and as we're about to learn that this that the Trum be given was not a it's and we're going to learned something very amazing that it says in the message was sent to the king of and it said as follows you know my father says to he was not able to build a because of the war that surrounded him tast was not able to build the B because of the wars and okay so is saying my father DAV was not able to build theik but I am and I'm going to do it now what's the reason why DAV cannot build a b mikdash because of Wars simply what's wrong with Wars like we're accustomed to learning that David's hands were so to speak stained with blood says as reported in David said to SCH my son I wanted to build a bikash but said to me you spilled so much blood you wag so many wars you cannot build a you spilled a lad of blood before me you're going to have a son Hashem tells DAV he's going to be a man of Tranquility I will give him respit from his enemies around him his name will be and he will have Tranquility he will build the B mikdash for my sake okay so simply the reason David couldnot build the B mikdash is so to speak his hands were stained with blood we know there's an idea that the B mikdash prolongs the life of a person and took the lives of people and therefore it was not appropriate for him to build the by the way there's a sh if killed the enemy and he's a is he allowed we once spoke about that let's say you have a guy he's fighting in the Israeli Army he kills the enemy is he usually we say someone who murders he cannot raise his hands his hands are stained in blood reported in the say he paskin that if a soldier kills the enemy he's not a like the PK says by only if he killed is but not if he killed an and he explains you'll ask that told so that seems to indicate that David who killed the enemy was not allowed to build the B mikdash says look in the rad the rad says is going on innocent blood he caused the demise of which was the for killing theim like it says in any event we know there's such a value that someone who takes a life is not allowed to someone who takes a life is not allowed toen so simply doid could not build a b mikdash because he he is responsible for Bloodshed however the malum has a wondrous understanding of this the malum understands that the reason why David was not allowed to mikash he has a novel interpretation you know so many times inim it says thato said you know my father or I am going to build the also also it emphasizes the building of the mdash has to be and the malum says something uh incredible the Mal malum says that the reason why David was not able to be involved in the building of the mikdash it's not because of laziness and it's not that he was busy in war and it means as follows and he quotes what he says in the that the Mitzvah of the building is not the edifice itself the Mitzvah was building itma was building it with any ulterior motives any personal benefit like it says three times hasem the problem was it would not have been humanly possible for to build the B of mikdash without ulterior motives why because DAV was promised that through the building of the bikash there would be respit from the enemy and since David was constantly fighting Wars he stood to personally gain by the building of the B mikdash namely that if he would build the B mikdash he would have Tranquility from all of his enemies so therefore David was not able to muster up the perfect kav to build a because since he always had to face enemies that caused him hardship by building mikdash he could not help but have personal think a personal benefit by Building B mikdash but scho who was promised irrespective of the B mikdash to always be at peace so he had nothing to gain he didn't gain anything by Building B mikdash the reason why David couldn't build B mikdash because of the wars it's not that his hands were stained in blood it's that because of the wars he was always involved in if he would build a b mikdash he couldn't help but to think oh this would really be uh give me a break from the enemies that surround me but schom who promised to have peace and Tranquility so he stood nothing to gain by building the B mikdash he was able to build the B mikdash that's how the malum understands why D couldn't build mikdash because of the wars not that his hands were stained in blood but rather because he couldn't muster up perfect kavana soem wanted the bdash to be without any alterior motive and therefore since David was promised that there would be sh from building the base without could build totally but who the says would have been an the reason is because of all the wars that surrounded him however SCH who is promised to have peace irrespective of mdash only he was able to build the mikdash so what do we see from here we see that the ior of the mikdash is not the edifice it's not the bricks it's not the mortar it's not the cement the is the so just like in and we see the emphasis on the word so to in the Mish it was critical so the was a critical aspect of the building of the B mdash however there was another very important aspect of the building of the B of the mishan and that is aside from the fact that it had to have been with aav the level of the mishan was also in accordance with the level of the people who were involved in building it you know the sperno in the beginning of Paras PUD who Theo writes that the reason why the Mishka was never destroyed you know why the mishan was never destroyed because those who were involved with it were the writes the reason why the Mish was never is because the Mish was it was and it never fell into the hands of the enemies as opposed to the mikdash of SCH and the Cale of schi that we know that when the first base of English was destroyed it fell into the hands ofin not so the Mish and the reason for that is there are four ingredients in the mishan of SCH that contributed to why the the there four reasons about the Mish ofu why this mishan was never destroyed number one it was mishos what is that mean that the L were there and because it had the L which which were through this special ingredient ensured The Eternity of the Mish number two it was it was under the of the is number three it was through is the eminent son of AR and number four it was constructed by B so therefore because it had these four ingredients therefore it never fell into the hands of the enemy but the mikdash of SCH who the do you know who built the first Bas mikdash all the workers of the first Bas mikdash were from TY so even though the dwelt there but nevertheless many of the components went lost they needed to uh fix it sustain it and it fell in the hands of the enemy but the bayen that did not have any good attributes the did not dwell and it fell in the hands of the enemy cuz in Bay there was no and it was not it was under the opes of of K not SCH there were no leim involved like we know that Ezra tried to find Nim and levim came so the the Bas although you didn't have mha and you didn't have you didn't have uh people of the stature of Bal but at least it was under the opes of SCH and at least you had Le in the bay sheni you didn't have any leim so these are also very important ingredients of the building of the mishan so aside from the fact that the mishon had to be built LMA so it comes out like this not only did the kavano that were had when building the mishan have an effect on the eternity of the mishan but also the ingredients and the elements that were used to build the mishkan also contributed to its eternity from that we once spoke out that there are many items that the mishan were built of that came from the the was from the tree that planted in B the crush came from the that planted there were many things like the and that came from ganen but now we're going to come to a very interesting ingredient aside from the fact that the mishan had to be built lishma aside from the fact that there were in the Mish and it was under thees of M and is and the Sal and you had aside from the that was from the of and the crush that were from the of and all the various items that came from ganen there's another very interesting ingredient and that is when a guy came to the mishan to ride out a check if we would look into his heart and we saw the guy was being stingy let's say the guy was a billionaire and he was giving us $100,000 we wouldn't take it we wouldn't take it why because it's only May it's only someone who his heart compelled him with generosity which is a pum what if a guy a billionaire calls up a and he says I would like to give you $10,000 and you know the guy is being a cheap skate what do you do with his check you bring it to the nearest bank and you cash it immediately what do you mean but the guy's being stingy say we don't that's his problem we'll deal with the fact that we need to cash the check we do not um we're not going to return this guy's donation because of a lack of generosity why is it that this was an integral ingredient in the donation of the Mish that has to be why was it so important that the donations to the mishan had to have been given with generosity the tells us that why was the first B destroyed because of the three cardinal sins they were why was it destroyed because of question who cares what is so terrible about is no is it even a no it's there's nothing could do to administer any kind of punishment for so why was this such a sin that just like the first bdash was destroyed because of the second Bas ofus was destroyed because of sin how could sin be such a acute sin such a terrible sin that it's responsible for the destruction of the B mdash and in order to answer this question we have to introduce a very important idea and that is why does God need a mishan God needs to to reside on gold on silver on copper isn't doesn't thei say what you think the rests on physicality doesn't the say you think God rests on Stone and wood even if it's a beautiful building God doesn't rest on a building God rests on the Jewish people comes the gr sh and the gr says something fantastic the says that when the says God rests on the Jewish people the dwelling of the was on the heart of B is so this is another thing God doesn't rest on buildings he doesn't rest in shs he doesn't rest on things God rests on am Isel but what does that mean he rests on am Israel he rests on the hearts of however there's no individual heart which is a worthy resting place for the God only rests on the collective heart of CLA Israel the collective heart of the Jewish people is the resting place for the but houon we got a problem how do we create something called the collected Collective heart of the Jewish people the answer is if we can all contribute our hearts to one thing then that thing represents and reflects the collective heart of the Jewish people so if we all contribute with with generosity of heart to the mishan the mishan is then reflects the collective heart of the Jewish people that's why it's so integral that if you donate to the mishan we won't accept it you have to donate your heart to the mishan and the way you donate your heart is by giving people have to contribute with generosity of heart the is teaching us that the is the heart of not the heart of any individual but the collective heart of the people and the way to connect the heart of the people is that everyone has to give benas by the way this gives us a tremendous insight into why destroys the bikash because it's not a punishment that if we hate each other Hashem will punish us and destroy the B mikdash it's a natural consequence you see what is the mishan the mishan and the mikdash is the collected Collective heart of the Jewish people but if there is sin and there is P that means our hearts are disconnected then we no longer have the that is necessary to be a resting place for the you see the rests on our Collective Hearts when we all come together with generosity of spirit and we donate to the mishan but if we can't stand each other then we cannot reckon that this edifice reflects the collective hearts of the Jewish people there is no Collective heart of the Jewish people we can get along with each other there's P once there's P it's not that it's a punishment bdash needs to be destroyed it's that there is no M mishan there is no mikdash there the the essence of the mikdash the reality of the mikdash has been disintegrated the mikdash is the collective hearts of the Jewish people but if we have pure there is no Collective hearts of the Jewish people now we understand why it was so necessary that the donations of the Mish have to be by the way you know there were certain set things that everyone had that you could contribute to meaning like this even though B is needed to give according to their Nas and there was no specific that somebody had to give in other words nobody had to give gold nobody had to give copper everyone could give but there was one thing that was legislated that everyone had to contribute to equally and that is everyone had to equally contribute to the Adon and how did everyone contribute to the Adon everyone contributed to the Adon by giving the Trum each Jew gave and from the they created the we read about it in that the everyone gave a and from that they made they made Theon so the Adon came from the of each individual Jew why was it that of all the things everyone needed to contribute equally for the ad the idea of the explains is why did every Jew give a and not a the brings from that the symbolism of the was to show every Jew that the importance of the Unity let no Jew think that they are an island unto themsel but rather everyone gives the to indicate that each person is only a half an entity without joining up with the rest of the nation the message of the was that no individual stands by themsel everyone is a small part of the sum total the message of the was to show the unity of the Jewish people that nobody is sh by themsel by the way the also says the gatria of sheel is nees sheel is 430 nees is 430 that's why we give why to show that we're a half a with we're we're a half AES without our friend without the rest of so by giving the CL came to the appropriate we once explained in the past that's why we the says this week is that we preempted we read about BRS that was destined to meet out to destroy therefore we pre and we give them how does this preempt ham wanted to demonstrate that we're lacking in h pointed out that we are a nation that is scattered and disparate and by us preempting ham and giving them we demonstrate our Unity because again is we give a half to indicate that we're so to speak a half a soul without the rest of the Jewish people writes that's why they made the structure of the Mish from the because the Mish stood on this idea that the dwells on a place that signifies the unity of the Jewish people so since through AK clo becomes a mish for the as we pointed out God doesn't dwell on sticks and stones he dwells on the collective heart of the Jewish people therefore the main structure of the mishan the structure that everything rests on the sockets came from the which indicated the unity of so we're learning about many of the very vital ingredients that were necessary to ensure that the mishun would be an eternal structure number one it had to be lishma just like David couldn't build the M the mikdash because he stood to gain personally to rest from his enemies the mishun had to be LMA secondly the mishan was made by great people who had great intentions it had the in it it was constructed under the opes of M under thees of is under the o of it had in it special ingredients the of it had the it had ingredients from ganen and then it reflected the collective heart of the Jewish people because everyone had to make sure to give each person gave and finally theim were made out of the which reflected the unity of the Jewish people so these were some of the ingredients and this week we read and the theum were used also as the very foundation of the Adon which held up the entire mishan okay I wish you a wonderful day and everyone have a great day