Machatzit HaShekel -- The Battle Against Cheap Stingy and Evil Eye

[Music] this week we're in paratum so the begins with something very interesting where tells mosenu speak to the children of Israel and let them take for me a portion from every man whose heart motivates him you shall take my portion what does it mean for every man whose heart motivates him in essence what he's asking is tell all of to give some half but he says make sure that their heart motivates them the next verse says this is the portion that you shall take take from them Gold Silver and copper and turquoise and purple and Scarlet wool and a few other different things but interestingly enough he starts off with gold silver and copper Z is gold aside from meaning money it also means silver andet means copper so has a very nice p on what really hasem is saying here are saying that hasm is actually telling us make sure that each person gives but only if his heart motivates him meaning I don't need your money everything is mine anyway but if you want to give Sak Now's the Time if you want to be the CLE you want to be the tool that I use to build the Tabernacle you want to be a partner in chuva you want to be a partner in Kusa you want to be a partner in things that are meaningful and not just stot not just by uh Bitcoins and cars and watches and houses and other extension to your house and all the other things that we do with our life you want to be a partner in something meaningful something that actually last beyond this world Now's the Time but only if your heart motivates you meaning don't think you're doing me any favors you don't do me any favors and now he gives details take from them gold silver copper meaning there's different levels of giving because each person has a motivation to give but each person has a different uh you know they may all have motivation to give but one guy has motivation to give 50 cents another guy $150 another guy $3.50 another guy a whole $10 another guy maybe 25 bucks the other guy a 100 and the $300 the you made a million dollars this year but you give 300 bucks but he want you to make sure that you use at least $150 and advertising to tell people he gave you $300 it's like the people that give a lot of money they usually want you to advertise they give a lot of money they give you a million they want you to spend a half a million on Advertising that they gave half the million dollars so he says there's three types of givers says the following gold is each one of the letters of the word zahav stands for a word Z means this and this Giver is healthy what does it mean this Giver is healthy he says this guy that's giving that's he's a gold level Giver not necessarily that he gave a lot he may have a lot and he gave a lot he may not have a lot but he still gave what does it mean he gave before problem started he's not giving because somebody's sick he's not giving because listen do it for make sure to save my uncle what what happened oh the doctor said he has 3 hours to live can you can you save him now okay you should have gave it to me before those 3 hours he's saying before anything bad nothing bad's happened everything is good good marriage the kids are good everything is good but I'm giving because I want to be a partner with hm he's a healthy minded healthy spiritually healthy physically everything is good but I still want to give this is a healthy Giver stands for means when he sees danger he opens what opens opens his pockets opens his hand starts to give what does it mean a guy starts seeing Oh Market's starting to drop maybe this is a correction oh it's only 10% if it's 10% if I give extra now I'm G to give the that I already owe for three years I'm gonna give them now so maybe hasm is going to stop the whole market for me and the market supposed to correct it already doubled in the last couple of years but no it dropped 10% but I still didn't make my million yet I only made one million I didn't make two so maybe if I give 10,000 now then hasem is going to change all of nature for me he sees danger he sees all of a sudden he's coughing a little bit he's coughing a little bit doctor says listen it's not a normal cough it's not a normal cough you know why it's a little blood coming out it's not normal gol is a little blood coming out you got to take get some checks he doesn't know what it is yet he doesn't know what it is but he knows something's wrong he sees danger danger is on the horizon there a market correction the wife doesn't uh pay attention to him anymore the husband doesn't pay attention to her anymore he forgot the anniversary the kids don't want to go to school anymore the kid came she caught the kid with no keep on For the First Time The Boss didn't answer your m messages you didn't get a raise this year he sees Sak he sees danger not verify he doesn't know he's not fired yet he's not sick B nothing but he sees there something going on okay okay before it's too late hey how much how much 100 100 is enough 200 how much how much solve this danger what do you mean what are you protecting I got a million dollar portfolio you want to protect the million dollar portfolio with $100 do me a favor put the100 million $100 in the Koopa box old box what are you going do with $100 you're trying to protect the million dollar house with $100 people spend people spend Millions on you tell them to doah like oh why so expensive shom his son he's a big comes to America often speaks English perfect big he has what's called what's we hear a lot about somebody looks if he looks at your car just expect you to get a flat tire at the best case scenario worst case the car is going to blow up in a week that's people look at your car they look at your house they look at your wife they look at your husband what's going to happen in the week you it's already a clock a clock taking it's you're finished he tells you wow you had a good job expect to be just expect to fill out the paperwork for unemployment wow you guys look like a nice couple you happily married expect your wife to give you a divorce in a week what happened no I've always didn't like it what do you always all of a sudden always guy has there people jealous they look at you and they give you a compliment but not because it's a compliment it's they're reminding you that you really shouldn't have it it's belongs to them they want it they don't want you they're not happy you have it they act like they're happy sometimes with a smile but what's he is happy from people that know him personally he's M happy to see other people succeed so much so that he's one of the only people that I know of at least that's willing to share his people that donate to him to his to his to his to different things that he does he knows there different rich people he tells other people listen you know you need money for your col sure call my guy you need money for youra sure call my guy I have a guy he has a lot of money but he gave you money that has nothing to do with you call him maybe he's going to give you money too this is completely unheard of why because most people are scared most people they're scared to show you know tell other people about their donors because they wait if he gives him maybe he's not going to give me people have a limited World mentality it's the same thing in business by the way people always scared that the competition open up shop next door to them they don't have any inem and they think that just because this guy opened up shop next door that means they're going to get less money they're going to make less money or they think just because somebody came up with a different product that maybe is better that means that they're going to go broke and they all start getting stressed out start taking pills to calm down people will know Hima so someone likes to help other people succeed he says a story he goes to come to America one time and he comes he says the story himself and he came to a rich guy's house and uh as soon as he come to the house big house big house more rooms than there's people he says everything's good how you do oh yeah listen what do you think of my M I just got new ones oh goodto he goes yeah the guy's a thief who who's a thief the rabbi sold me the M can you believe it $150 a mza can you believe this thief $150 mza I have 10 rooms in the house I have to spend $1,500 M what a thief this guy isav said I didn't say anything I didn't say anything I waited and now he wanted to show me the 10 rooms want to show him the house someone has 10 rooms it's not because you have 10 people because you want to show the 10 10 rooms that are empty in case people come so he shows them the rooms and he starts showing the closet because you see these closet what kind of wood this is this wood comes from Italy the best wood maker in the world made these Woods special order $150,000 I spent on these closets $150,000 what can you can you smell what kind of wood this is it's beautiful right says what a thief who the guy that made the closets no he's my friend I know him don't say don't say he can't say he's my friend I know him he's not Thief he goes a $150,000 for closets he goes you don't understand the wood industry that's why you're saying it's a and he says your ears should listen to your foolish mouth you you don't understand the the holy world you don't understand what a valuable mza is you're thinking that $150 is expensive a real mza should cost you $500 $1,000 if you really want a mza for a house like this one mza but you're thinking $150 is expensive why you don't know anything they call Easy we're we're in a hurry to call the rabbi Thief we're in a hurry to call the rabbi Thief so says if you giving me with a full heart if you already seen Danger on the horizon but you don't know what it happened see danger but then there's then there's copper what's this is the giving of someone that's already sick that just says just give it to him give it to him why he's in his deathbed he says I'm five hours to live just give him whatever he wants maybe he'll save me it's too late he's under five minutes to live sometimes people ask me listen why don't you do a for are different people said no problem I never say no even though technically people you know donate to do such a thing I don't ask people you want to donate donate you don't want to donate don't donate what can I tell you I'm not going to not pray for somebody because you're cheap but the problem is the problem is is when they tell you when the guy's already on his death bed so whatever so we do whatever we can we pray we learn we mention them in the I say to the people listen my prayer alone who am I we try we this with that it's not enough though not enough other people doing cha it's good it's not enough you give some donation good it's not enough the sick person the sick person they are they planning on doing chuva and keep Shabbat or if they're a woman they going to be modest are they're going to keep and once in a while you hear a fool says no you know they don't want to commit I'm not sure I'm not sure if they're ready to commit oh should rather be dead but IM modest instead of alive but modest you rather be a dead rather than a living but that's what it says in the even in the gate of not GNA do what does it mean gate of yavid the yav says the they're so wicked some people are so used to their sins so used to taking things that don't belong to them so used to going against theem in different ways so used to their behavior that they're going to continue with their behavior even after you prove them listen you have to change you have to change I had a woman one time tell me listen my husband beats me my kids are drug addicts uh this all what kind of problem this woman has I told listen I can't your text you have to change your profile picture why every time you say a profile picture I see your text you don't have clothes on so either send it to me to some other way or change your picture or something and I could tell you first Mitzvah I don't need to know your problems first Mitzvah take on modesty take on modesty keep Shabbat she goes listen I I know you're right I know I have to do chuv and I have to be modest but I'm not ready for that what do you mean you're not ready you're kids are drug addicts your husband beats you the the neighbors hate you what else do you want what do you want what do you want but call to come from sh they tell you please do CH like what do you want what else do you want even they're not gonna do but says worth a million dollars he says until the of until the Gate of Gom they don't do Chu in G everybody does Chua until the gate no one does cha but they go inside everybody does cha everybody does cha so is telling us give before you have to give be give before you get sick give before there's problems because that shows me that you know where it's coming from and you don't think that you're the one that made it but even someone that gives on their deathbed it's still better than not giving many times it's happened withut actually went into full effect and saved somebody's life now there are many times during the year that a person's obligated to give obviously but the right now we have is on Thursday couple of days and they all the way fromes until there's a mitvah obligation it's not a nice thing to do you're obligated uh to give something called which is what this is half a shek means 9.4 grams of pure silver obviously people don't walk around with silver like they used to so we replace it with actual money so I did myself the favor and you can benefit out of it of actually calculating how much this is 9.4 gr of silver is approximately a third of 1 ooun a third of 1 ounce of silver silver currently being at $16.60 an ounce that means approximately $550 cents per person per household so if you have if it's just you you're single get $5.50 or more if you want uh but this for this specific thing this Mitzvah is 550 anything more is a different Mitzvah but this one you have to give 550 everybody gives 550 no anything you give more is a different Mitzvah be but this specific mitvah has to be precisely $5.50 per person if you have let's say 10 people in your house then you get $55 but you should give it to different things that are relevant to T and things of that nature uh this is one me you have to do now until Pim [Music]