Parshat Pekudei: A World of Blessing - Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair

[Music] there's an elderly lady who sits in a nursing home in New York City and every day she says to herself yesterday is history tomorrow is a mystery today is a gift of God that's why we call it the present how does a person sensitize himself to the present it is the here and now our sages told us to make at least 100 blessings every day making blessings helps to remind us constantly of all the blessings that surround us the ability to see to think to enjoy the smell of fruit and the flowers the sight of children the see great mountains the sight of royalty eating a new season fruit or seeing an old friend for the first time in years we have blessings when a baby is born when a child becomes by Mitzvah and when a loved one dies when we surround ourselves with blessings we surround ourselves with blessing the Hebrew word Baraka blessing is from the same root as Baraka which means a pool of water God is like an infinite pool of blessing flowing goodness and enrichment into our lives a Baraka must include a shames name which we pronounce our dough and then Noi which means Lord this name has the same root as the word Adan which means a socket in the construction of the Mishkan the tabernacle there were exactly 100 adenine 100 sockets into which the upright columns were mounted what is the connection between the 100 adenine and the 100 blessings 100 times a day that we call God by his name Adam just as the other name those sockets were the foundation of the Mishkan through which God bestowed his holy presence on the Jewish people so too are our daily blessings the foundation through which Hashem flows blessing into our lives [Music] you [Applause]