Everyone is a Beis Hamikdash ועשו לי מקדש ושכנתי בתוכם by Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, 5781

welcome to this week's classics to this we're going to be learning a beautiful civic discourse in the rebbe the rebels said the specific discourse in shabbos parish is truma it was the sixth day of the month of other in the year tough shin memzayin 34 years ago the acidic discourse is based on a verse in this week's torah porsche when the torah says hashem commands and may sorrow and he says we also you should make to me a holy place a sanctuary the and i will dwell amongst them so there are brings from the previous rubber when he has acidic discourse in the same verse but also mcdosh in the year tough tough shin dalit which is approximately 77 years ago and he asked a very simple question it says the asuli migdash you should make to me a mikdash a holy place it doesn't say mr shot one holy place singular but then the verse continues and it says i will dwell in plural if hashem is saying to make once one holy place so it should save us i'll dwell in it in that one holy place on the other hand if it says basically plural so why did you say make this one that's the question the previous server asks then he asks another question it says the asuli mignos you should make leave for referring to the hashem hashem is commanding us to make a holy place for hashem so he brings down from the famous mahmud hazal that says as follows any time it says li referring to hashem and we know hashem is infinite so the expression is it doesn't get moved because for hashem it's everlasting and and and it continues to say not but not in the world to come and and at least for example one of the examples is where it says a base of mikdash why can it says the asteroid magnus you should make a base of mikdash and therefore the base of mikdash always existed and always will exist so the previous rapper asked a simple question the fact is today we're in dallas and the the temple is destroyed so what does it mean when we say doesn't get moved forever the fact is unfortunate we don't have a basement today so the previous rebel explains and he says as follows this that the verse says the assuli migdash so there's two types of base amigdas there's the physical base amigdas the mishka and the base of mikdash et cetera but then there's the commandment that every single jew has to make a mikdash what is a migdash mean practically a place of holiness which means you have to make a place where hashem is dwelling in it so therefore the previous server explains what is the mig does mean practically the base amigos is a holy place in the heart of every single human being but there's also a spiritual component that every one of us in our hearts our hearts should be on fire with the place where hashem dwells within it based on this so we also make this what does that mean what is the commandment to each and every one of us we should make in our heart hashem shri dwelling there so since it's singular to every single individual everyone makes their own mikdash in their in their in their heart so based on this he explains why it says plural because it's not just on one person but it's real every single person that makes a mishkan where hashem dwells within them hashem dwells and this one and that one the album is why it says plural so he explains like this the main purpose of the of the of a human being to make a mishkan a dwelling place for hashem which means it should be a dwelling place that godliness should dwell in your godly soul in your heart and your whole being now if hashem is dwelling within you hashem is part of your life not dwelling as a guest but hashem is in your heart every breath you take is infused with the feeling that hashem is part of your life so based on this he explains why it means never gets never never leaves it's there forever now but what happens a pile in the mig dust that's originally built that unfortunately is not here today so the questions like this when we originally built a mishkan was it a temporary abode or we built a migdash we're building it because we're planning on destroying it someone's going to destroy it no when you're originally building the mishkan and you're building we were building the mikdash our plan was it to last forever so our our initial building of the mishkan and the mikdash our plan and our vision is it should last forever which means we're not planning on making any changes the plan is hashem is going to do all the mishkan forever hashem is going to dwell in the base and make this forever the poyo unfortunately there was a destruction but we originally built it it was built and shall last forever so the same thing also that's the physical mishkan in the physical mikdos so the same thing the rabbit says applies to our spiritual amygdalas that when we want hashem to be part of our lives hashem should be in our heart hashem should be in our soul we're not just doing it okay for right now no we're doing it now and we want it to last forever we're doing it in a way with tremendous strength that the inviting and take making hashem part of our life is in a way that ain't as does it's never going to stop it's always going to be there it's going to be consistent it's going to have stability so based on this the the the repre answers both questions question number one is why say say initially singular and then plural because singular is because referring to each and every one of us and plurals yes hashem will dwell in every one and the fact that ayna's the fact it's not there he says no because initially when we're doing it we're doing in a way it shall last forever and the spiritual level are avoiding it is it shall last forever so then now the previous rubber uh continues in that catholic discourse and he explains that since we are commanded to build the originally the the physical base of mikdash we're doing it on a spiritual level so therefore whatever avoid though whatever spiritual work was needed to build the original mishkan and base that's the same spiritual work we need to do that hashem should be in our hearts and our lives so for example we know in the mgdosh the rebel explains you had caleb you had vessels you had urease you had the curtains what does that mean spiritually so vessels are premius they're internal powers for example a candelabra was a place that you use to light the menorah the mizbayach with sacrifices those were internal type of services then there's the marquis and the things that were around the the walls the curtains and so on and so forth so the same thing also that applies to us spiritually as well in our spiritual work we have avoider of market and we have avoided the preemie and we do the avoiding the market when we do the avoidance that causes hashem to dwell within us what does that mean practically so the rabbit brings from the tsam sedek we know that samaksanik has a book safer in its voice where he explains all the mitzvahs according to kabbalah and according to this and so also the uh the middle rubber has many many insights and he explains all the mitzvos according to this and according to kabbalah so he says as follows the main purpose of making the mig dash on a spiritual level is so that hashem should be revealed for the jewish people again the main reason why we built the mikdash and the mishkan on the spiritual levels essentially revealed since the purpose of hashem should be revealed so therefore the building of the mishkan and the building of the mikdash was done the same way when hashem was got revealed into the world after he created the world and it was done through which we call say the historical the way things went down in in an order of creation through the 10th street et cetera which comes down from the infinite light of hashem so the same thing also in the mixed garden amygdalas are spiritual mcdosh it works the same way as say the histories and what does that mean practically so you said it's very simple this is quoting from the psalmist and the middle area that there's two ways the way things come down one is where you draw down or erase machine and i'll translate and the second way is you draw down or erase premium very very powerful lights they're so powerful that we cannot internalize it but we want the power on the other hand you have iris premium which are lights that we can benefit we can internalize but it's not so strong and you need both you need the irish monkey theme so there's always a source a greater source of light that we can go ahead and reach out to but then you need iris premium the ones that you can actually internalize and benefit from and since ha shem wanted there should be a deer a dwelling place for hashem in the low physical world so there had to be not only urus mckefin because irishman kevin cannot go down the tactonium in the low world so there had to be iris premium and just like when hashem originally created the world there was iris so the same thing also when it came to the mishkan hashem created the same blueprint iris marquis iris premium external powerful lights internal lights it should be lights that come down into the physical world and that's exactly the way the michigan was built spiritually what does that mean practically again it means it's referring to the curtains which is irish marquis him the planks which again are our key from that was external energies that came into the temple and then you have the vessels the the uh the um the candelabra the showbread the the um the the altar all these ideas were called iris premium now that's when we had the temple so we accomplished it through the physical temple but what happens today the temple's destroyed and we do not have to be some industrial physical level but nevertheless every one of us can accomplish anything and everything that took place in the temple through our spiritual avoidance so we can accomplish everything that was accomplished in the temple through our spiritual work in other words practically we're able to draw down through our spiritual work the light the same powerful light that there was in the basement and in the vessels of the basement because the fact is in our soul we also have urease we also have crush him what does that mean practically andrew explains the urease the curtains the crushin that were in the temple the soul has it as well what is the curtains and what is the planks of our soul so the rabbit says very simple i'll say it in hebrew i'll translate it it's doing work above intellect and i'll come back and explain explain it in one second i just want to explain first a second we'll come back and explain both and the second thing is the vessels that were in the mishkan is just like the vessels in our soul what's the vessels in our soul that's the avoid the premise the internal work of tam vadas things that are reason and logic okay so what's the rebel saying sayings like this when hashem created the world he used something which is called cedar establish say the islamist the way hashem took from the infinite light to the finite light into this world where you have external light powerful light internal light which is a little more toned down and the way we can relate to it the same thing was in the base of mcdosh through the curtains and the planks and the different vessels in the temple today we don't have the temple we can accomplish it all through our spiritual work of macheth and panimi and the arabic explains what's market markets when we do our work above nature above intellect what is preemie when we use our our intellect to understand and comprehend things so in other words the drug is saying is like this there's two ways we can connect to god one way we connect to god is we accept we do understand we don't understand but understand and we accept now when you accept i say you explain it to me you can't explain it but you're ready to do anything what does that mean you're connecting to god above nature that's called a mock if relationship mark if means are ready to accept it's a very high level of relationship but is it meaningful not necessarily is it enjoyable not necessarily it's it's it's it's easy it's simple there's no headaches there's no there's no challenges there's no drama there's no trauma life is simple hashem you want me to do this i'm ready to do it it's called above intellect this pros and cons the pros are life is great the cons are you can't really meditate on it understand it comprehend it explain it it's not bad and good it's just the dynamics of it on the other hand when you connect through intellect i understand it i comprehend comprehended i meditated on it and that's amazing it's beautiful on the other hand you could understand other things as well also so where's the edge in godliness there so obviously you're understanding godliness which is great but again it's limited to what you understand on the other hand when you understand something it's limited to what you understand you're not going to do it if you don't understand it on the other hand it's going to be more enjoyable more appreciative so therefore you really need both so when you serve god you want to have both you want to be able to accept and you want to be able to understand that's the two avoid us that we can accomplish say just like it was accomplished in the temple but we're now going to go a step further and he continues on to explain that someone said they can say for our mittens and he says like this based on this that we have two different spiritual works what is it what's it to recap one is just accepting above intellect and one is understanding he says based on this we'll understand a famous uh argument that took place between moisture abner and matsala in the torah what happened in the torah in uh in the term process truman this week so what happened was moisture bainu commanded to uh with salah who was the chief architect of the temple and he tells him like this you to make the temple first make the vessels and then make the planks and the ureas the curtains so but salah what did he do if he's a student he should have made what the vessels and then the planks and then the ureas he didn't do that first he went ahead and he made the urease he made the walls he made the curtains and then he made the vessels of the temple and we all know what it says in the talmud and um talmud says like this when moishrabenu to make first the vessels and then go ahead and make the the the the curtains so bitsala said to moisture they know this is not the way the of the world and he gave him an example he says in the world when someone's building a house so first you build a house after you build a house then you bring the investors inside is it possible maybe that's how some told you to do it just the way people do things in the world so uh moisture banana tells but his name was bitsal but it comes actually from two words but sale kale in the shadow of god because with sale kale you're in the shadow of god the and you're right you're right you're right you're supposed to make the the uh the house first the walls first and then you make the vessels inside now obviously we know that it's an argument team with salamusha it's not just a technical argument you make the vessels first do you make the wolves first merchandise says make the make the vessels first and then the walls but south side you have to make the walls first the the house first then the vessels there's a deeper argument so the re that's itself said that someone said it explains as follows what was the argument the argument is very very simple but sallow tells moisrabenu don't you know insane in the order of the way things flow from on high down to this world knows from the original infinite light from iran's life from the infinite life what kind what came down first to this world first comes iris machifim the external lights and afterwards you have the internal lights so therefore but sal was telling moisture let's go back to the original drawing board when hashem created the world from the infinite light he first created iris makifum and then here is premium so therefore you should have the external lights first and then the internal lights and different ureas have to come first the curtains have to come first which is markiv and then has to come to vessels which is creamy and greba says and you can possibly add as well it also works on our spiritual service why what did we say before what what do derby explain what is the urease the curtains in our soul that's the avoider above nature above intellect above intellect what is the vessels of our soul that's the of internal avoiding the avoider which is according to intellect now what is the normal way that we connect to god what's our spiritual way of connecting to god so you start off first you're gonna comprehend and then you accept you need both obviously the way you start off is you first you start off above intellect and then you go to intellect a relationship with hashem doesn't start with intellect then it goes above intellect it starts off with above intellect you're accepting and then it goes into like intellect and nervousness for example we see every single day what happens every single day the first thing you do you get up in the morning you don't say well let me think whether i agree with god or if i understand god it's not what you do the first thing you do you get up in the morning before you even watch nagobasa the first thing you say is moida ani what does maidani mean i'm accepting what is accepting mean above intellect above logic and above reason that's how we start our relationship with hashem every single day and because it's above intellect the maidani from the smartest person to the most simplest person the oldest the youngest any age any gender is all the same we all accept the same way there's no difference in one acceptance over the other after you start off your day on the right foot as we say and you accept it now your day starts then you will you yeah you meditate on god you learn some siddhas you meditate on this you will study some mishna some talmud which is the avoid the spiritual work of intellect comprehending god connecting to god from an intellectual perspective which is important and matter of fact then we do the we we do the prayers we do the the pre-release preliminary blessings we do with the sacrifices we praise god we do schmad then we have the 18 blessings of estrella we also do the blessings on the torah we learn torah and then we um then we learn in order to do and so on and so forth which means what there's an order there's an order of a flow now so based on this trevor explains this is the argument to team but salah moisture that what that the avoider has to be you need both you need above intellect and you need intellect but what comes first obviously that what comes first is that moisture being agreed with salah first you start off with above intellect and as the rebels says the practical reality of our life is that we start from warning accepting and then we go on to understanding so based on this rabbi explains very very simple this is why it says the asuli migdash every one of us should make amigdas in our personal life will dwell with each and every one of us which means that this avoider this spiritual avoid of making amid this applies to every one of us and it supplies every single day of our life and therefore a nice dozen it's not never stopped and like the rabbit quotes from the uh from the discourse of the previous german tough that according to russia the us the most powerful name hashem and that's was referring to utk which is the shamer at sam the essence of hashem shame on the first the explicit name of hashem yucca the unique name of hashem and because it's referring to me the most powerful name of hashem therefore it's consistent and it's kind of it's it's it's it has full stability it's not never going to change and therefore aina is it's referring to the yud kevke hashem which has no change now based on this trevor says now he can understand something else very very profound and very deep and he says like this what does it say now what is what does this mean it means that it's hashem dwells within every single every single person so trevor says he wants to make it clear when we say every single person referring to every single person whether the person is male or female man or woman adult or child hashem dwells within every single human being and he quotes from the from the previous struggle that says when it's referring to all all the jewish peoples against referring to men it's referring to women why because everybody is obligated to build a base of mgdosh a physically and b everyone's obligated to build a base of ignorance within their heart and within their soul and everyone says that we see clearly when it came to donate to the base of mikdash and the mishkan so it says clearly everyone participated the men participated the woman participated and matter of fact there's a certain opinions that actually that the woman gave more than the men some say that their gifts were different but the point is a certain opinion actually they gave more so you see that it applies to men and women equal and not only when it comes to when the itself but but even when it comes to when hashem gave the torah parasite so rashford says the term says que soni malabas yakov so you should tell the daughters of yaakov which is referring to rashi says referring to the woman and after the woman says she told the banana straw referring to the men so you see again clearly that the that learning torah and making a mikdash making a mishkan applies to every single person doesn't make a difference if you're a man or woman a woman everywhere it applies to everybody and not only that but this idea that we said to make the mig dosh to make the mishkan we're talking a spiritual mix gun within our heart and within our soul it's it applies to both and never says what's the what's what's the reason why it applies to everybody because the fact is like this because building the mishkan within our heart it's one of the mitzvahs which are to mediocre it's a mix which not just by day or by night it has a certain time it's 24 7. hashem should be felt within our heart and soul 24 7. like for example there's other six minutes voice which are which are consistent for example in the midst of faith in hashem loving hashem or hashem and any mitzvah which is always applies to everybody men and women because even though women are exempt let's say for example for certain mittens that are time-bound but if it's admits that it's always it applies to everybody and there it brings actually with a random right to the end of laws of truth and he says like this that when you uh when you teach and when you educate and for example you educate the woman so initially where you educate you educate as follows you start off slowly you serve god you should be in or of god you should have respect for god maybe for you'll get a reward for for for for learning terror and doing mitch voice but what happens as people advance and they're not you don't have to intimidate them with all or you don't have to give them prizes they should they should connect to god so then you start revealing to them the secrets of the torah and then you educate them the beauty of the torah and ultimately the goal is not to serve god from or or fear the goal is to to have a relationship with hashem you want to serve god with with with love and that's the ultimate goal should ever say you see from this rambam two important points that number one is that the avoider of serving god not only functionally doing the mitzvots but to be in awe of hashem to be in love with hashem the emotional mixed race applies to everybody men and women not not only that ultimately by learning and developing your relationship with hashem you you climb the ladder that you owe you you you serve god out of love just like we know there are from what was abraham known for avraham oyavi loved hashem the goal is that every one of us should be on the level of avron that we love hashem she never asked the question if that's the case that applies to everybody so hakam it says why isn't it why is it use a masculine term a term say one one term of male 1 or female why does it say surfaces what do you mean we'll find in the territory what does it say in the torah look at the ten commandments you shouldn't have any other gods so the fact is over there with the ten commandments the first two it says it says in a singular form and it also says a male a male male form obviously it's self-understood that those two commandments apply to everybody men and women and not only that the anointing i am god your god which says in singular and male 1 says singular and female we know that in the anointing the one commandment includes all the 248 password commandments clues all 365 commandments and we know it applies to everybody male and female so therefore they ever says therefore since that's the same implies when it says even though it uses the term echoed and it uses a singular term it's obvious it applies to everybody so whatever says if it's so simple so why all of a sudden this journey making like a a point to point it out if it's obvious that it belongs it points everyone points to men why is he pointing it out because the reason why he's and even though i wasn't pointed out until now it's very simple because someone made a statement god forbid to say that it does not apply to to to a woman and unfortunately someone makes a statement like that um i have to underscore no that's not true and it applies to men and women equally i'm not there i'm not coming to revolutionize new ideas but we should just continue doing what we're doing and can you to what it says and just to there i'm not saying this just to like to clear up the ear to make it to make a disclaimer that when it refers to the first commandment the second commandments all the commandments and making a dwelling place within our hearts it's referring to men and women equally um equally the same now back to the original point so what's our avoider our void is to make a migdash within our hearts and our souls for hashem and we should do it 24 7 and we should do it out of love so it's a total order it's whatever says how do we have the strength to do it and rebecca says we have the strength of moisture like it says in next week's torah portion which we read we always read on shabbat monkey reiterate next week's torah portion what does it say there it says role hashem commands moisture avenue to set this beneath now we know salva means command but also means to connect that moisture of anger was commanded by hashem to connect beneath israel he was connected moisturizing his command to connect to bane stroll and to connect beneath through all to hashem and which part of moisture bainu as the terrorist says the atta you moisture beneath yourself the essence of my sharpening connects with every single yid every single jew and gives them the power to do his avoider do his work of the usually mikdash to make a migdash for hashem within our heart and whoever says obviously most important we know even though you make it in your heart but the most important is our minds are weaker we should really build a third base of magnus and by doing our spiritual avoidables within our heart a lie for hashem we are we merit to draw down the third base amygdalas which is already built and it's ready and high in heaven and we're able to draw it down down into this physical world the mathematics and we all go together to eretza kriedesh yerushalayimira koidesh to the holy city of israel and to jerusalem in bahara court edition the holy mountain where the basement is going to be built and with ultimately the base of make this a slishi with the third base of mikdash from heyra the ameno mamas so it's a short civic discourse but it's a very very important discourse because it teaches us and inspires us that we have a mitzvah and we're empowered by hashem to make the mignes within our lives and it's not something of the past or the future it's the present every single moment we can bring the amigdal hashem within our lives and we have the bigness within us then we have obviously the greatest blessings and the service is about mind so weak and the most most important thing is the action that will all merit to have the third base of magnesium god willing the next class will have in your shalom have a great and blessed week