One Step Closer- Rabbi Yehuda Turetsky

thank you very much for the opportunity to share words of torah uh nishmas avi mori arun shah alvin chama um i'll try to share a tour relevant to the time of year in which we're in as well as one that at least reminds me in many ways of my of my father pesach is about during pesach we celebrate what is undoubtedly a foundational event uh for our people and hopefully for us as individuals the fact that we were able to be zoha to be taken out of mitzrayim yet we know when severus omer comes to remind us that special as it was to leave mizrahim the ultimate goal was not just to not be in egypt anymore that was not our ultimate destination and we were building and trying to move in a particular direction we were trying to inspire so omer we're reminded of the fact that we're trying to learn and to get to the point where we're ready to be macabre torah on shivuas we leave mitzrayim to be makable torah we also leave mitzrayim to make it to everest israel to have a mishkan and then to have a mikdash there in yerushalayim but what exactly are we striving for what kind of torah and what kind of mikdash are we hoping to get now that we've finally left mitsurayam the gemara ambassador tells us that in the oron in the center of the mikdash the arun was that part of the mikdash which the salvatrix explained gave the mikdash in many ways it's kedusha it's real holiness so kimaramba bastro tells it in the mikdash there were luchos inside the aron that most important and holy clay in the aron that inside that our own were luchos and were chivalry luchos and on top of the aron on top of those luchos those chivalry luchos which give the mikdash its kadusha were the kruven on top was a capores a cover with kruven which raj explains were images of children on top of the arun what is the significance of that imagery of children on top of the arom what does it tell us about torah or tell us about mikdash what does it tell us about where we're trying to go following following the tia's mitzrayim the world of the aron is the world of syria's talmud torah it's a world in which we embrace the fact that we got a torah at har sinai it's one which focuses on the and the nitty-gr of a torah in which we strive to do our best and sometimes chivalry luchos we aren't always successful and there are people it can highlight a certain kind of very serious and intense focus when it comes to tomotora but on top of the arunar kruven and on top of the our own are images of children to remind us that the ultimate goal of torah isn't to always just be so serious and so intense that wasn't why we left mitzrayim just for that torah it was a kind of torah which was which was supposed to infuse us with a childlike sense of excitement a childlike sense of curiosity a sweetness and a thirst for learning and a thirst for torah which children have in the most beautiful way possible it's one thing to be makable torah when we leave mitzrayim it's another thing to be makable torah and to allow that to infuse us with an excitement with a focus with a simplicity with a certain kind of vibrancy which children really remind us of i think about that a lot in spheres of omer being able to focus really intensely in learning but not to be so serious that i burn other people to have that luchos and chevrolet there but to have a certain passion and excitement for torah which is so beautiful and so great i feel blessed i've had that in my life as a role model with my father who was so serious about learning but always with a smile and always with curiosity and always with excitement i hope for all of us as we leave mitsuram we can internalize certain lessons but the seriousness of torah and to be able to focus on a torah which reminds us of how beautiful it is to have children on top to be able to be excited to be able to be happy to be able to smile with a childlike simplicity and excitement and a beauty which can be there have a wonderful day