Appreciate Your Shul - Rabbi Ephy Greene

I'd like to take a few minutes to think about a place in our lives that we may Overlook or maybe not necessarily appreciate as much as we should and that place is shul the shoals that we Daven in are special places and these are places that have a unique and inherent condition to them um and gazal tell us that going to show is very important now we might think to ourselves well yeah because that's where we dive in but plenty of people have manyana in their homes plenty of people might make a minion ad hoc in the office what is so special about having a show a base hacknesses Villa what is so special about that well I think America's tells us that anybody who has a show in their uh community and does not go is called a Shakin ra it's called a bad neighbor now that sounds pretty intense um what is so bad about their neighborliness uh and they're not going to show I think part of the idea is the fact that it's called a base hop knesses a place of a gathering the fact is that we know the more Jews who come together the greater glory there is to the king so it's true a person could gather meaning together in their house they are in their office and they could be yotebor but to come together as part of Cloudy Israel in a basic knesses in a manner of gathering together with one united front this is not only uh each other's Fila but we are forming at seabor in a way which is so much more profound in terms of the way the very way that we are praising even if we have a minute even if there's 10 12 15 people in the minion at the office but if there are 50 people in the minion at the show a hundred people 150 people in the mini initial that's more hydros Miller that's more hidor more honor to the King which is ultimately our goal as a people so that is a unique and uh special property that exists in going to show the shows Magilla are called a miktasma at they are indeed a tiny reflection of the base of mikdash they are an opportunity for us to designate a place in this world in our communities which is for a person to take advantage of the opportunity to come to that place a force in the opportunity to truly focus and truly connect to that kadusha indeed the ramam tells us ashrae yoshwave that luckier those who sit in your house yes sitting in the batam even if you're not happening but just to be in that special place so let us remind ourselves let's use this opportunity to remind ourselves we are so lucky to have a world of societies and communities where we have bate knesses where we have Shoals that are filled with kadusha filled with Torah filled with rabbanim who are sharing Torah and inspiration with us filled with neighbors and friends who are there to focus on our lives and with that the more that we can take advantage then in our various communities wishing everyone a wonderful day