Parshat Terumah 5784 (2024) By Rabbi Baruch Taub

okay good evening everybody we're going to do tonight I have three pieces I don't know if we'll get to all three of them but I have a a again from rutner but I I want to start with something new and end with something new this is a safer that we've never used before a a a rabbi we've never used before and it is just wonderful I I I find his Torah is absolutely word there's a safer called iasha now anyone who was familiar with the politics in the Israeli world in the kic world uh there was a split in the in G some time ago a few years ago and the rashash Shiva of G began his own he he was became separate and he is really for lack of a better term he's a rockar uh I've seen him in action uh he's gone down south to uh Comfort people uh he's been traveling All Over America all over the world England and every time he speaks it's just I just find everything he says to be very special so uh I have a grandson who when he goes into his Forum store he can come out he knows where every safer is so I asked him he's learning in benra when he was in yush I said can you pick up the safe for iasha he said to me zi it's in it's in this forum store and K Sons so I went into this secur this forum store on Friday and the fellow running this forum store says he doesn't have it looked on the table he looked here he says I said you have to have it my grandson said it's here it's here so he calls up the owner of the store and he goes on the other side of the store he was at the wrong shelf and he goes to another series of shelves and he's looking up there but I found it it was right there was right there called iasha and um let's let's start with I have the first piece on truma of course um the opening para the opening Pim of the para truma commands Trum take for me a gift right Russ take it for my name it has to be I want you to you have to give these gifts of course the real question is why does it say every W the discuss it take a gift you're really giving a gift right take a gift for the giving of the bik it should be it should be for no ulterior motives so he quotes here from a very famous sa called the sh in his introduction he she asked a question that we have to understand what what's going on here how come the only mitah in the Torah where it says do this LMA Torah says it do it sh do it for the sake of Heaven why only this m every mitvah has to be done right everything we do has to be for the sake of Heaven mitzah requires that Our intention should be for the right for pristine pure further the truth is a person should engage himself in the performance of Torah and mitz even not for the sake of Heaven shal we're doing it not sincerely you will come to do it sincerely I want to suggest in the second paragraph one question will answer the other question right the reason why a person should engage in Torah even if he doesn't mean it right the the Holiness of the Mitzvah will bring him to do it eventually he'll do it for the right reason he'll even do it more for the sake of Heaven you keep shabas if you do shabas you don't really you're not into it right you're just doing it by road but if you do it the next shabas will be will be on a higher level because the spiritual energy of chabas itself will move you in the direction of pristine Purity all Mitzvah we do the goal that a person should reach that level of for the sake of Heaven not to remain in the level of of insincerity I'm doing it for insincere reason for personal reasons okay that's all mitzah right but remember our original question why does the Torah say only by giving the gifts to build the mishan it should be lishma why only here so he says like this that's by all the other Mitzvah he says we talk sh you got time do this shabas do do it the spiritual energy from shabas will give you the strength to do it next week gifting the Mish the Tabernacle in the desert it's not you know in modern Hebrew me means disposable dishes right it's it's one time this is it you've got only one opportunity to gift to the it's too late if you don't do it now you're not gonna do it tomorrow there is no tomorrow it's a onetime opportunity to gift to Theon therefore the Tor says here and only here take for me it should be for the sake of Heaven you've got to do it right now for the right reason maybe one Mitzvah will affect another Mitzvah I'm not going into that now I do one Mitzvah might affect other MIT even if one Mitzvah can you know I'll do it but it'll affect something else but it won't this Mitzvah is finished so one it's one time therefore the Torah says the Torah says it has to be we have no choice we have to we have to work up that spiritual resolve to do it for the right reason this safer that I quoted answers he quotes a later Authority the he explains take from me right that's the old question you're supposed to the command is to give a gift right so why does it say why does it refer to take from me a TR he says like this the in says important person right you give something to the president the Prime Minister someone important right the the giving is receiving right the fact that he takes your gift you feel very important right if you're just giving it it's it becomes holy the fact that he is appreciates the you gave it to him you're getting something from him right the person who gives is actually the one who receives in fact there's a famous Paradigm that that Vu to give the T says to give front words and backwards spells Vu right you give you take you get you even when you receive when you give all the more when you give something to the you receive something from him that's it's you're actually taking something but he says that's only if you do it sincerely if you do it he quotes another Authority writes if you give somebody an important person you actually gifted to him then his receiving it is to you like you've gotten something right you receiv you took something there such a thing is giving a gift on the condition I'm lending it to you like by a lul supposed to be your lul so if you give it to someone else to use to make the BR he doesn't have a you have to give it to him on condition he's going to give it back to you otherwise you when you take take it back from him it's not yours anymore right so if you give a gift to an important person here Rabbi use my lul right doesn't help right the is a gifting that being said the the gifter doesn't really feel it that way right he's really giving him his thing he's not getting anything back he's getting his own thing back even though Rabbi say gor says if someone gives St on the condition my son should be healed my son is sick I'm giving it on condition my son should be healed har s he's a sadik he giving staka ohura right right here but he wants to get something back in return he's giving it for an ulterior motive he wants to receive something here even if you give it it's still a gift still a gift that being said however you're not really receiving anything because the guy who receives it Theon you're giving something Theon insincerely well okay thank you very much but he doesn't appreciate it that much right you're not being sincere with me you're not being real with me you're not being straight with me so you're not really getting anything back from him that's giving therefore rash says there's no two ways about it it has to be sh you can't give it to the raon insincerely because you want something back that's not going to give you satisfaction you're just waiting for something that's what the is saying a one-time deal you have no choice and that's why it's the only place in the Torah that we're told to do the one more point he makes let me go a little deeper I want to say something else this is where he puts in his own tah a gift proper gift to God shall it is when I give to him I'm getting something it's not possible to give God anything what does God need right doesn't need anything right says you know you can't give me anything it's a contradiction in terms think that you're gonna do something for the you're gonna build a house for you're he really needs it the whole world what are you gonna give you're gonna give nothing it says the whole world is under his his feet you give to with the feeling I have something and I'm giving it to God he built a house for God built a sh let's say the temple we're talking about the this is not sincere I'm not it's not sincere God doesn't dwell in such a dwelling there's a failure here but if somebody gives somebody gives out of poverty out of humil total humility and he puts in yish whatever he says inish I am giving something to the Mish but I know full well that I don't need to give anything can have do anything he wants that is coming from the Heart by it means giving something giving something knowing that it's not really from me because everything I has is from him right everything I have is really from so by giving him I'm not really giving him anything I'm surrendering everything to admitting that everything is really is the more humble person is right God will that he will receive godliness from that's why it said instead of that I'm giving my gift is really I understand it's not a gift I'm giving it to the raon it's not mine it's his I'm giving it to him he has everything I'm giving him mine which is his and he has his right right so I get something from the Theon gives me spirituality with that I have I live on a very higher plane okay that's what he says we'll have time for one more thing from him I hope let's go to Rev hutner on page two now here Rev hutner is um starts out with a in our par in our para thean we have the in the truma we have the various uh parts of the mishkan are described the technical structure of them and there's aan there's a table upon which we put the the the loaves of bread that miraculously stay fresh from Friday to Friday from shabas to chabas and the ran writes on the P it says a ziv it is a has a rim a crown a crown a Golden Crown now let me give a little bit of an introduction of of what he's trying what he's going to try to bring out here when the world was created God created bit moments that when God said the world was good means that he created things the world was created once he created the world there's nothing that can be created anymore right everything comes from the original creation that's tme it's very good everything is in the creation but something happened terribly when when Adam sinned right K farder he sinned at the at the in ganaden that ability was removed and there had to be new bit moments which were already hidden in the world and those bit moments had to appear as time goes on so that's what he's going to discuss here that there are certain barit moments that will happen again because there was a stoppage let's say of bit moments when we Sinn we have to bring back the bit moments through our efforts okay so now the first one he's going to talk about is the shulan the ran on the shulan on the table in the in the Mish he reveals the secret of the table the blessing of God which he created at the beginning of the world was that after that nothing was created ex nilum everything that will be created will be created for something that already exists right the only one time that things were created ex n we're at the creation of the world everything was created from nothing but after that things that have to be created or recreated let's say because of the sin of man will be created through something that already exists the world goes on regularly everything that's created comes from the world itself ifas it says God created the world and he set it in motion and now it's everything is going to come automatically from the world itself but if there's something that's has Source material AIT moment kind of thing give you an example he very he's going to bring two examples from tanak Alisha Alisha came across a woman this is in uh in MIM B Alisha who was the great student of el he came across the the the Widow of aadya the Prophet aadya The Prophet was an amazing person and when one of the wicked Kings killed prophets he took a hundred prophets and hid them in a cave he saved a 100 prophets so now aadya's Widow is is penniless so he sees her Alicia says what do you have in your house up in her house took all the oil she had a little thing of oil and he filled everything what she bring me the oil he lit it he filled the whole house with oil and she had money from the oil to buy things right he created something sort of new right out of something that was already there a little bit of oil and BYO is rebi himself back in MIM right he found a widow also a woman a poor Widow and uh he asked her to give him something to eat give him something to drink that I only have like not even have enough for make a bread I'll bake a little bit of a biscuit or something and I'll I'll give it for me and my son and I'll I'll give it to you so once she did that like the of Aya saving the the prophets that created a moment a bous moment so she had everything she wanted he miraculously brought made her have bread and water and oil she had everything she had everything she needed and enough for parosa so so to the what's the him and the bread that we put on the table in the Mish the BR is in that bread it's on that table that's the Z that's the Golden Crown is Jews will have food to eat because of the new bit moment of thean in other words that's the that's the ra okay we're not talking these stories here about Al not that they can they can Abracadabra change nature it's not that they change nature the nature is already there El it's a blessing of Hashem because of the of her husband and because of the that this woman did to ELO by want giving her the crumbs that she had that created that that changed the the the direction of the world from the sin of Adam to the iy of human of humankind and that will bring us back to the to moment to the barit moment nothing has changed he can't recreate the world but he can bring something from the created World itself it's created but I can still bring good out of the world even though you man you you ruin that you ruin that by sinning but if Jewish people do the right thing then the world will recreate that that spiritual Destiny and that's what El did that's what Alicia did and that is the shulan that the shulan in the bet mikdash in the mishan has the power to feed the Jewish people by performing the Mitzvah the Mish of the upon him the Jewish people will have Fu next paragraph the creation by itself is the world is potentially very good very good it's full of hidden just like God said at the beginning of creation we have to understand when you see a flower growing you put a little seed in the ground you say and you have an amazing fruit tree that comes right because it's already there it's it looks like it's new but it's not new this is the the of this is nature mother nature this is that God created it's the way of the world G the growth of this this little seed into a tree fruits this was infused into the creation of the world this is the T Of The World God it's a it's it's it's functioning the way it was created the spreading of goodness that's a Ab BR is the spreading of goodness but the original the original to the original ability that the world will spread all of its goodness that was created was was destroyed the sin of man of when he was punished and told you're going to plow you're going to work but you're going to have thorns and thistles it's not going to be easy in place of that great which existed in the world came this terrible terrible travesty this blockage of the bran but from this ran in paragraph three we're learning something a new fundamental thing here Alisha what Alisha accomplished right by giving this woman oil and bread and and parosa it's not a miracle it was not a miracle she didn't he didn't really change anything the power of ala was he brought back that that ability to take from the existing World already that little bit of oil and that little bit of flour and create more oil and more flour so it all came it it was it all came back this T came back through the oil and the bread that he made should come same thing with Alisha with the with the Widow of aadya because of the of aadya he removed the thorns and the thistles to come back to but what brought it about was the of or the of that brought this out from the world itself from The Source goodness the world that exists already you need something that's already created to bring out to bring back that spreading of goodness of BR of blessing now so we've got the shulan we've got Alicia bringing life back to the the the Widow of aadya and ELO bringing life back to a widow and further on bringing life back to a child who was sick who was dying was dead right we're not going to go to that M but F now he brings another one erel now we have to understand why is what's this greatness about that we say it's flowing with milk and honey what's the what's the great BR that Isel is Flowing with milk and honey course is talking about the miraculous what we can what we have done to with gift that gave us what we what we brought back life to right it's not just that we have we have milk and we Havey no the key word of the Bro here is not the milk and the honey but it's the flowing the the the spreading that it is it is overflowing that is the BR that there it's overflowing it's it's flowing now we can go back to the ra that was the that's why it's called it has a crown that's Mal that's kingship wealth greatness amongst the Jewish people from this table of kingship of greatness the entire Jewish people had had food to eat because of the food the bread that's on the table of the just remove that just do chva bring about a better world as you create a moment a new source a new source is gonna come once you have the root everything will come from it is is one of those one of those new B moments that golden that golden on the shulan the golden rim on the on the crown on the on the was that sign it's a moment it's a new moment it's a moment to spread the wealth to the Jewish people now final paragraph We Say the Holiness of it's the ofel that creates the reu in the world unfortunately the world is not really aware of that or maybe they're too aware of that and they're jealous of it and want to destroy [Music] it this is the moment the to moment of thean and of Isel and that through that comes Mish so the sanctity the Holiness of of er Isel is similar to the Holiness of the table because ER Isel in many ways it does provide to the entire Jewish World wherever they are in fact it's really the center of the universe you see it they can't get out of the news right trying the world is trying to destroy it the insanity of what's going on is perhaps because they don't want to recognize the kadha of er Israel when you see what's going on it it just it it boggles it boggles the mind I don't really want to get into politics but how America is now treating the Prime Minister and Israel and not to go to Rafa and the Palestinians the Egyptians built a brick wall with with with they have tanks at the border a brick wall and and wire so that the Palestinians from Rafa cannot get in they can't get in no Arab country wants to take the Palestinians why with Ukraine every country in Europe and the United States Canada the world England everybody took from the from Ukraine but here they're saying that Israel is what Israel is doing they're going to kill the Palestinians gonna kill it's it's insane it's insane what's going on right that's only one example I think all of you are falling news knew more I think because that they can't handle the Kad of Israel they can't handle what we are okay final piece also from thisha and one of the items that the Torah speaks about in the mishan is the Ain the arish there was an Aron the Aron aish that we have in a besset in a is mirrored after which holds the sa for Torah is mirrored after the arodes in the which is the microchip really of the temple the mishan and that's the um where the the two tablets were housed so he wants to talk about something which relates to this and he quotes a gor in shabas because of two sins unlettered unschooled people will not not live a full life it really means I think a spiritual life it doesn't mean they're going to die it's a punishment Al other they don't get it because they call the holy Ark a a cupboard an AR an AR a cupboard that they refer to the the as a House of the people in fact lenu I remember there was a non-orthodox in in Toronto many years ago called bam they called themselves bam the bam it actually actually disappeared doesn't exist anymore the whole neighborhood fell apart it just didn't work out but Rashi this is an insult you're saying you know it's a Jewish Community Center that's basically way you're saying the is a Jewish Community Center place where everybody Gathers you're calling it a closet that's what they call their their their closets right an ARA they call it an ARA so they're calling the Arna Kish a closet right commentary he explains not so simple it's not only that they're insulting this is demeaning and diminishing the these unschooled people they don't realize that God is here is here what mean it's a Jewish Community Center it's a place that brings together it's the meeting place of is and the rabbi how do you know that God is found in because God is found in the congregation of God when they call the house of the people it's to serve the needs of the Jewish people right social life for the Jewish people whatever but there's no there's no godliness right that's the mar okay but he wants to add something V Lar well first he says closet one of the commentaries writes we're talking about not only in the not only in the in the in the of the Mish we're talking about the there is an opinion by the way in the in the gor we don't P like that 10 people plus an Aron can make a minion if you have nine people rather nine people my math is in if you have nine people plus the Ares you can have a minion right that's the power of the AR we don't pin like that but what does mean the letters of someone the one person who is the one who sees and is not seen makes a minion means nine shoes and the one who sees and is not seen beautiful God is everywhere but we don't see him the unschooled people they call him closet not only the diminishment the insult they don't have the feeling the sense the intuition God is with us they don't live with the understanding the the the sense that gives life to the entire world next call that's what he says they die if they they call they call the they die now what does that mean do unschooled people die before Torah Scholars everybody dies D but it means even in their life they're considered as dead right they're dead man walking even though they're alive they're not living a real meaningful meaningful life they don't have really the what life is all about they like they look like they're alive there's no God in the world you take a the tail of I guess a weasel you cut it off it'll it'll it'll move around is not alive anymore one has to always feel the presence of a god of God I put God in front of me many shs actually they have that on the AR cish finally he says finally he says this not only about WR in every Jewish is a a house of God so he put a on the door it's God's house God is in every house there are three Partners in the creation of man husband and wife person has to be very careful not to chase God out of the house so that the house will be clean from from personal passions and desires but it'll create a sense of of humility and modesty says Where's God found he says Where's God found wherever you let him in wherever you let him in God is everywhere where you don't throw him out that's where God's going to be found so first thing we have to do is be our home should be a Jewish Home story about a Jew in Taria it's a very holy Jew inaria for years people sent money to him that he should go do by the holy places for for illness to to heal illness to solve shom's problems he was a holy Jew and he would pray when he was an old man he didn't have the strength to go d by the by the holy places said I'm gonna make my house in the I'm gonna I'm gonna D in the house so this idea I think is just a Charming idea calling the the besset a Jewish Community Center is not just that it's an insult but it's that you're you you've taken God out of the equation that the Rabon is is part of the equation in the bet mikdash in the sh and in the private Jewish Home okay so this is R alter the G rash a little bit ofic Charming thought