Parsha Perspectives for Today (Pekudei, 5782) - Building Slowly

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the double language and moshe did the accounting moshe was both the rabbi of the shul and he was the chair of the finance committee he was the controller he was the bookkeeper he was everything moshe the campaign is complete the project has been built the michigan has been built it's going to be functional and moshe does and offers an audit he does and he takes an accounting what's going on over here there is much to say ayla for day that shirt let's keep growing reading did everything that he was commanded by moshe in his josh mosher moshe feinstein points out the following day he says this is the reckoning this is the counting this is the appointment this is the mission of you know what the biggest accounting we have to take the biggest audit we take of our lives is not only our finances of course that's important these we'll talk about more in a moment we have to be beyond reproach we have to act with honesty of course in our communal affairs and our personal affairs but i'll pee drush ramosha says a le pekude you know what the number one accounting you have to take is ashurtsiv hashem am i following what hashem wants for me am i living life for me am i living life for him do i think he works for me or do i realize i work for him i should see hashem there is a prescription for how to live in this world they're called there are 613 mitzvos and those are the expectations that is what hashem is waiting and assumes from us and for us but in addition to the universal missiles that we're all bound by we spoke about a couple of weeks ago that the torah testifies about petsalo that hashem had given him these skills these talents whatever we're born with they're on loan from hashem hashem granted us that for our mission our purpose every one of us is here for a unique and a distinct reason the biggest audit of our lives the biggest accounting we should take of our lives is ashurtzi va hashem you know naturally we have to do our taxes once a year we're getting to that season so the government's rules and regulations demand that we do an audit of the finances of our life but how often do we do the audit of the spiritual accounting of our lives how frequently is it annually only an elbow before rush skipper do we do it quarterly do we do it semi-annually do we do it monthly do we do a weekly review how often do ila pakude asher siva he gives us skills and talents he gives us strengths i show you of us we will have to submit an accounting he will say i gave you 60 70 80 90. please got 120 years on that earth what do you have to show for it what did you do with it what contribution did you make in it how did you approve or repair how did you advance my interest in this world what did you do with the talents i gave you how much did you binge watch on netflix how much did you obsess over the news cycle as important as we're seeing is how much did you sit in your gossip how much did you pursue accumulating and amassing things and how much did you change the world in whatever way you were meant to do and for some that means you got out of bed this morning what do we do with our money what do we do with our energy what do we do with our resources what do we do with our talents so beautiful jerusha of moshe elephanta ashore hashem that the biggest accounting we give is our siva hashem is about our relationship with all that hashem commands of us there's a brand new volume i just picked it up at the wise farm sale on the parsha volume two very indebted to dr alan weissman who took and collected the torahs of schefter he printed volume one on the parsha he has a yantef he has a haggadah and now he just came out with a volume tour of shakhtar and the parsha volume to a highly recommend and he says the following quoting the taghuman notes the repetition of the word mishkan understanding mishkan as being related to the word mashgod a security a security loan a security loan the taran comment that the implication of the passage is that hashem took the two batte miktas as collateral for the alveos of the israel in other words this is the accounting of the mishkan which is a mask means collateral what is collateral collateral is security of a loan you want me to lend you money let me hold your watch you want me to lend you money let me hold a valuable piece of property i'll return it to you when you pay the loan but you want to secure the loan how do i know if you default on the loan that i won't be out so you secure the loan with the mash going with a with a deposit with a mash gun so what's the implication who took the tubate mikdash as collateral for araveros he destroyed the two mikdash that he came to dwell in as collateral for our verse it follows that once benedict israel to chufa and hashem accepts that shuffle and he forgives us then he'll be obligated to give back the base i make dosh if i lend your money and i take your watches collateral and you pay the loan what do i have to do i can't say well i've gotten used to the watch i like it i get a lot of compliments for it i can't take the repayment and keep the watch the moral and ethical thing to do is once you repay the loan i give you back the collateral so once we do shiva we repay hashem so to say the debt of the mistakes we've made then he has to give us back that collateral namely the battement why is this interesting it means the relationship with the baseline dash from hashem is not out of kindness or compassion from him but rather it's due there's a sense of justice it's rightfully ours we earned it that's the relationship we have and this form says the basis of the vilnigan's practice regarding the third bracha of benching what in the world does it beginning of parasha's pakude have to do with the third bracha benching so there's a machlok is between [Music] i yerushalayim do we long for do we ask do we bless hashem to build you shalom or to build yerushalayim baracham of with his compassion the villenegon collection of the practices of the villenegon quotes that the villenegon benched you would say bonai yerushalayim amen he would omit the word barachama following the opinion of the mahabharata unlike what he normally did quotes to richard explained based on the apostle with righteousness it will be redeemed and its captives with success so given the comment on the medrash hazal um means hashem means shiva those who return those who do chuva will be an act of kindness on his part but once hashem forgives the abheiros now he has to return the mash gone that he'll accept archuva but once he accepts our trooper and we pay the debt of the mistakes we made now bamishba now it's a sense of justice that he has to give us back what's rightfully ours and therefore it's not barrachamav and that's why and that's why the film lagoon omitted the word even though he generally passed him like the rama we deserve to have it returned and because we deserve to have it returned he would omit the word in his introduction in particular in order to arrive considering himself of the base measures of the by virtue of the fact that israeli was the talmud of laghner he therefore followed them and hugged him of the guru albeit privately because thomas writes he would say benching out loud but he didn't want to disclose that he was following the gra against the rama so he had another person usually his son-in-law recite the conclusion of the third barakah out loud so even when he led benjamin would say every word out loud but to not contradict the rama though he passed him like the gra when he got to that third bracha you shall i am he would omit the word he would have someone else conclude the benching his son-in-law or someone near him knew his customs so as not to contradict the rama so that's the typical parsha inside of shakhtar moreover you're not going to find hasidis in jerusalem he'll find a halal connection based on the pasta but it's fascinating you'd say what does the third barak of benching have anything to do with the first passage of parshas bakudai and if you're of shakhtar then you know only everything from elephant and he finds that connection he finds that beautiful connection one more interesting insight on this notion of illa pekuda mishkan the beautiful the biggest accounting or audit we do is are we fulfilling our mission in life financial audits are easy they're easy if you're honest but they should be easy anyway but a spiritual audit to spiritually audit our lives it's a lot harder that is a lot harder that's why i'll just share because we mentioned again in our parasha the kiowa was located near the mizbayach and i'm not going to review the whole back and forth and debate between moshe albano and hashem about the cure was made from the mirrors the women used to beautify themselves moshe rejected them vanity and hashem said vanity it's the most precious to me and salvatrix insight that on the way to the mizbeh you gotta look in the mirror you can't walk up to this back and offer you can't claim to want to come close to god what is a karban the root of the word carbon is karov to draw close to hashem the carbon was not some archaic barbaric violent graphic way of you know offer the animals sprinkle the blood say two of these and three of those and you're good to go there was a deep meaning and a deep purpose and a deep symbolism a person as we've spoken about would slaughter the animal inside themselves we live in this battle this tension am i the animal instinct the animal impulse am i the godly soul the godly spirit we walk up to hashem i'm offering this carbon because i want to draw karov i want to be close to you and what's the best way to be close to you what is the greatest form of flattery imitation hashem i want to be more godly and less animal-like so i'm taking this animal impulse this animal instinct which causes me to act like an animal and eat like an animal and talk like an animal and indulge my animal impulse i'm slaughtering this animal on this altar so that i can come close to you by being more godly and less animal that's the whole meaning we'll talk more about it soon in safer vayikra so the rav said you want to get close to god you want to walk up to his back and offer a carbon you got to stop and pause at the key or you know why because when you're washed in the key or you know what you're looking at yourself you have to be willing to look in the mirror you can't walk up and off of the car but if you can't look in the mirror self-awareness something uniquely human is self-awareness animals have no self-awareness animals have no self-awareness the animal doesn't say how do i look in this outfit the animal doesn't say do you think i've gained weight is my hair going gray or white the animal has no self-awareness the animal has just an animal impulse that's why it's called an animal but the human being is supposed to live with the self-awareness and that's this ramosa elephant ashore hashem stop at the cure and take a spiritual audit before you walk up to this bach and claim you're a holy roller before you walk up to that miss bath and say i'm offering the core but i want to be karo if i want to be close to you hashem says to my favorite back up and look in the keyboard for a second take a look in the mirror be honest with yourself and have some self-awareness one more insight on this comes from the major the yaakov shimoni the beginning of pakude says what in the world's going on over here i find this to be one of the most disturbing and yet one of the most comforting passages in the whole torah we speak about it every year because this is the great moshe they knew moshe bain who was the savior who takes the jewish people out of egypt moshe rabbenu when all is helpless and hopeless when they have given up when they believe this is simply their destiny and their fortune they fatalistically think that they will be in slavery forever all of a sudden comes on the scene moshe and he liberates he emancipates he gives them a new lease on life and you know what they do say hey moshe and i was like a few sheckle missing from this accounting i know it's a multi-million dollar budget but we've called a special board meeting because we're concerned about the discretionary fund where some of the money went it's not all adding up we can't figure it all out mushroom doesn't look at them and say you know what i'm out of here find another savior i'm done with you incorrigible impossible people what should i mean it doesn't say are you kidding me you know what card moshe rabbenu could wave says the akut shimoni he could wave the behold basie nam on who karo you know what card that is you know who endorsed moshe and said he is beyond reproach he is trustworthy reliable credible no audit necessary you know who testified and said that not the head of the irs three punishable hashem himself testifies about moshe there's no one like moshe the basic he's the most credible reliable trustworthy the jewish people say yeah that's nice god moshe if you don't mind hand over the books yeah that's nice hashem but moshe if you don't mind we'd like to see the books we need the password to the uh what's that system called you see who doesn't do the books here show cloud man what's the other one whatever what does everyone do their books on quickbooks quickbooks thank you you see i am reliable i don't go near the quickbooks i don't even know the name of the program i couldn't even open it up if i wanted to so mushroom nice hashem says we'd like the password to the quickbooks and the sure cloud we want it all so why allah mushi is ramadan so the message tells us that moshe comes back and he hears murmurings he's over he's listening into the kiddush and what are they supposing about the kiddush the fifth behind and the fifth they say moshe not bad he's a good guy gave his freedom earned us the mon not bad but i heard he's cooking the books i heard he's been in the rules so what does martial avenue do he does this accounting and we've spoken in the past we're not going to believe but now what did he find was missing we mentioned it last night is sitter snippets i love it when city snippets and parsha come together we began last night and satisfying there are 15 words in a row that begin with the letter v and they correspond with the 15 that moshe forgot to include in the accounting in our parsha there were hooks that held the mishkan together they were so insignificant inconsequential inexpensive that moshe forgot to include them he just simply dismissed them because they seem so unimportant you have a pile of papers that's your magnum opus you don't think about the paper clip that's holding them together so motion forgot about the valve and corresponding with those fifteen of them says the balatura men are parsha we have the yatsev and the kai and the yashar the vovs of each of these paragraphs straight and honest and reliable it's all these votes of moshar bain and pakude listen to sitter snippets for it to all come together we forget sometimes we forget how important the verb is the vapha khibor in hebrew grammar the verb is the but it links and it keeps things together so moshe hears these accusations these suspicions and what does he do he sits and he does a whole accounting he now makes it all work out he remembers these voting and that's how our parsha begins that's all the backdrop to the parsha when moshe has the balanced budget when she's able to pass the audit that's when he comes on the stage and he says membership meeting here are the books balanced here they are transparent it all works out it all works out so you see moshe bainu removed from himself any sense of why why was he listening to the late sonum the scoffers and the cynics those who were suspicious why did you have to give them the time of day why didn't you simply say do you know who i am do you know on beyond reproach and if you want to be suspicious about me i have 15 other nations waiting to hire me to be their manager see how many opportunities i have i can make a lot more money a lot less effort live a lot happier life i have 15 other money positions i could be taking you're going to question me i'm out of here like vladimir mosher bennett doesn't say that you know what he does he sits he stays up all night and he does the accounting scenario of moshe schwab of gateshead he says you see you see that the importance of being lucky the importance of being clean and pure beyond reproach that answer even the late sunum the lightsani adora are so dangerous the cynics and the scoffers and those who are suspicious can sow a sentiment of poison that can contaminate and germinate and metastasize and spread and it can corrupt an entire nation and most sharpening recognizes that he doesn't do the accounting because he's doubtful about himself and his own integrity he does it because he understands the danger of the cynics and scoffers where do you see this you see this earlier in the torah he doesn't bring this but i'm adding this you see it earlier in the torah it's born looking exactly like avraham why does he look exactly like avraham he's the twin of the spitting twin of album why because the late sana ayador used to say avram's not the father of yitzhak when sorrow is pregnant they'd say avram's not the father you know who the father is because made a miracle yitzhak would look exactly like avraham the question is why that's worth a miracle because of the the people the um jfks you know jfk is a new term i don't know what jfk stands for not john f kennedy not an airport not a president jfk is just for kiddush there's a whole term now that's the that's what kufa we're living in jfks are the people who come to jfk just for kiddish they don't make it in for davening they don't come inside at all they come to shul we're laughing we should be crying the jfks or we should be laughing that's not the time but maybe they at least come to shul the jfks could meet somewhere else jfks can stay home under the covers at least they come to shul rebellivies would say oh look at these holy jews they don't connect to davening they could have kiddush anywhere but still they come to shul to have it isn't it amazing so we should have a little bit more of livia took in our lives but anyway the jfk so what does they have to answer the late sunny adore what does they have to answer make a miracle yitzhak has to look exactly like avraham to answer layton a door but deserve a miracle yeah that's how pernicious they can become that's how dangerous that sentiment can be and that's why mushroom responds here too and that is a model for us beyond reproach the honesty the integrity with which we have to carry ourselves if anyone were to stop us and challenge us rather than act defensive or resentful or angry no problem here are my receipts here are my books here's full transparency i have nothing to hide moshe bano is our rabeno he is our mentor and teacher even in this area we i have nothing to hide whatever you want to see the global campaign we will provide full books brsonline.org global if you're enjoying so far with this of misha if you enjoyed this through mr schwab if you enjoyed this beautiful insight of rabjecter you gotta contribute to the global campaign and we'll give you a full accounting afterwards full transparency in fact if you go on the website you see everybody who contributed to it and the nice little message they write so even if you're just voyeuristic and you want to just see who's giving who's listening who's actually cares about goldberg so go on there and you'll see and hopefully you'll be moved enough to press donate to be counted yourself and we'll give you a full paku day a global campaign afterwards uh afterwards okay we know the architect of the mishkan was betsalo a very young man at the time he did everything that hashem had commanded through moshe everything that hashem had commanded through moshe revolba has a fantastic insight in alex ramosa has the following insight rash at the beginning of our partial quotes initially but sallah was called why because of his wisdom because he had this wisdom that's why bitsala got his name because we know that there was a discussion between him and moshe khan fields we're going to get to this in a moment but there's a fundamental debate between moshe and mitsala but i want to have some courage to disagree with moshe moshe is the gobble of every door to have some courage to disagree with moshe so moshe abana tells him first make the calum and then the mishka build the utensils order the furniture and then we'll build the house first you build the house then you order the furniture what if the furniture arrives before the house is done um and bitsala plays the trump card here and he says that's what i heard from god first you build the house then you get the caleb so what does moshoven respond again does moshe double down does he dig in his heels moshe is rabbenu because everything he does we can learn from what does he do he says you're right i'm wrong i concede i concede and he says you were in the shade or the shadow of god you're right you're right i was wrong i was wrong so you see according to broncos here because of the wisdom when hashem said go tell betsal to make him moshe reversed the order and told him first the aaron and the utensils then the mishkan but tell us that that's not the normal way to do it and moshe said vittel you are in the shadow of hashem he gave you that wisdom and that's how you knew that's how you knew you intuited you knew because you're in the shadow of hashem you were right you were right i was wrong beautiful like do you ever see that anymore two people are arguing person says a says a and then b says you respect but i think it's b and a says no you're right i was wrong you're right it's so refreshing it said that that's so refreshing but it's so unusual today but salah taught a very timely lesson but the purpose of the mishkan was to house the arun and the luchos it contained the shrine would rest on the our own and moshe would receive the nivua the navau the prophecy the word of hashem came from between the kruvem we spoke about the crew of impartials truman the group of these angelic child-like figurines on top of the aron and the voice of hashem emanated it came from there from their purity from their innocence from their appetite and their inquisitiveness and their curiosity so with this in mind how could you not start the building of the mishkan with the arom how could you choose to begin with the walls and the curtains the answer to this question was basal's measures for all generations in other words moshe seems to be right even though mitsal is correct that ordinarily first you build a home before you order the furniture what happens if you get the furniture delivery before the home is built you have nowhere to put it you'll be in trouble so you're right that solo is right when it comes to an ordinary human being at an ordinary home but this is no ordinary home it's the house for hashem so shouldn't you need to build the kalim which will bring the countenance shouldn't you first need to build the utensils which will bring hashem's presence and then from there the mishkan so what was bit salah's answer and what message is that for all of us so the vulva writes he says you know we say in davaning search for hashem and look for his presence always a person who wants to fulfill this might feel compelled to search for hashem by trying to seek his presence whether through davening or mitzvos or lofty thoughts will say you know what if i do it well i'll feel i'm in the presence of the shrine the root of the word shrina is shakhen what's a shaheen a neighbor the idea of giving hashem a presence means that hashem is not lofty and distant and abstract he's not conceptual i don't study about him i don't go to weinberg say i don't go to a yomium or i don't go to some seminar to to analyze the evidence of god's existence he's my neighbor he's my neighbor hey neighbor neighbor can i confide in you can i borrow a cup of sugar from you i'm so grateful you're my neighbor is that mr rogers i'm so grateful to be your neighbor i want you to be my neighbor so we turned to gershwin and you say won't you be my neighbor won't you be my shahrain won't you feel close to me and intimate with me enable me to confide in you i want to feel close i want to feel connected so how do we do that how do we bring the shrine down how do we feel his presence how do we lean on him and rely on him feel the support of him how do we cry on his shoulder and how do we hold his hand and sing and dance and celebrate and tell him about our triumph and our victory how do we protest and object and push back how do we feel he's right there by our side so to his great chagrin a person who thinks you know if i dive in or do mitzvos then i'll be in hashem's presence the harder we push to attain the goal the harder we'll fall so what's the mistake so if alba writes one who wishes to seek hashem's presence has to build his own mishkan just as there's a specific order in the construction of the mishkan person must follow the blueprint the construction of zone nishkam you must begin building from the part of the mishkan that's furthest from the aram hashem's presence the outer walls and only then the ultimate goal the outer walls represent the derek that precedes the torah if we too would like to build our personal mishkan we have to make sure the construction takes place in the proper order we have to first work on correcting and perfecting our character and our middles and only then building in our own in other words what's revolver saying you want to skip a step so you say you know what i want to feel in the presence of the divine i want to feel so uplifted and enriched and transformed and connected so you know it doesn't matter that my midos are terrible it doesn't matter that i'm obnoxious that i'm mean i'm dishonest i'm impatient i'm stingy but i'm going to shuckle hard when i dive in and i'm going to be really holy i'm going to be a holy roller in shul i'm going to have the longest shmona sra in the entire community i when i leave the exit of the shul i'm going to be the most ruthless in business i'm not going to hold the door for anyone in the way out of shul i'm going to be unkind obnoxious i'm not going to give to the global campaign because i don't value what i receive i don't care getting the theme because i'm stingy and i don't appreciate and i don't say thank you for the learning i get so no that's the wrong order you can't build the aram before you build the mishkan the mishkan's the derek you have to have a house you have to have walls you have to have a structure you have to have a foundation and then on top of that foundation now you could have an ara now there are people who try to skip steps they try to be holy rollers and they present themselves as spiritually advanced and sophisticated and the very foundation is so weak there is no foundation the foundation of spirituality is their to emulate hashem to imitate hashem if i'm vital writes why don't we find me those in the torah why don't we find the medos in the torah study all of torah you'll find target so 613 mitzvos laws of kashmiris and laws of tomb and tara if you're learning daf yomi you're going through that right now you have laws of shabbos and laws of young different laws of shortness and laws of there's a million lost 613 missiles in the torah where is the mitzvah to be patient where does the mitzvah be kind where is the mitzvah you don't find that klein vital wonders where where the medos in the tour you know what he says you know what else it doesn't say in the torah there's a mitzvah to breathe there's a mitzvah for your heart to beat you know why it doesn't say that in the torah either because it's a given if you're not breathing there's no torah he says midos are like the air you breathe they are the prerequisite they're the prelude to torah before you get to target mitzvos you gotta have midos you have to have a foundation you have to be strong and that's exactly what's going on says revolve in this conversation that's what's going on in this conversation is that mushroom says you know the caleb and then the and then the michigan mushroom says first the utensils the holiness of hashem the word of hashem because that's who moshe is and that's where moshe lives and betzala says not so fast rebbe first we have to have a foundation slowly lap lot you have to go very trip who very met with and um i just put online today a little recap video with some of the highlights of things that they said we met with rav from shore the summer of godaddy that i'm sure he spoke all about this slow incremental steps the ramp you know a ramp if you're not walking slowly if you try to run too fast they still there you guys still there somebody comment on youtube if you're still there somebody comment if you're still there so i said it's for hashem of course not it's for us it's for us to ground ourselves and center ourselves and that's what ravashaws writes that's what he writes is what the meaning here why are we learning is it just cute play on words what is the word a hundred times a day recognize oddness a hundred times a day recognize hashem is the master hashem is the creator hashem is in charge see we're in a world that is so confusing and it's so easy to lose our compass and it's so easy to lose who we are and where we are that we need a hundred times a day to remember what matters and what's important and who's in charge a hundred times a day an exercise in humility this is what rabasha writes and it says the tour of the balaturam is the one who quotes adanim is based on admis it's a cute it's just a cute tour it's just a cute bala tourism a hundred no there's something diff yes and what is it just like the sockets they hold together the entire mishkan so you know you have a lot fancier things in the mishkan you have curtains and drapes and you have walls and you have coverings and you have utensils and gold and shiny there's a lot more beautiful things flashy things in the mesh gun but you know what holds it all together these little sockets and the little sockets are not in place they're not secure you know what happens to the mishkan collapses it implodes it falls down it falls down hashem do you know what holds you together you're so flashy and fancy and you shine like gold there's so many beautiful things about you but you know what's really holding you together in your relationships and your personal life and your professional life you know what are the adani what are the sockets that are holding us together the maya brachus the hundred brachas we say a day the hundred times a day we say hashem i just killed the deal hashem i just sold the piece of real estate i made a killing i just made a killing in the stock market i just met a killer case before the judge is a lawyer i just killed it in the operating room that's a poor choice of words i just i just brought someone back to life in the operating room i just gave an amazing drusha i brought them back to life after i put them to sleep in the shul akersh barchu so you know what keeps us level headed you know what holds us together you know what makes our relationship function and work the hundred prophets we say a day are the hundred ada nim are the hundred sockets and he says says he has a kabbalah from the khasanesh she is what should be the emphasis and what is the core of our serving hashem today what is the measure of whether you're in a good place and you're serving hashem today you know what it is whether you gave to the global campaign okay no not whether you get to the global campaign that's also true but the khazanish was before the global campaign otherwise he would have said that the icker is lavar imagine the great khazanesh he didn't say sit in 12 hours a day and observe and adopt the latest homura of the week and you know what said he said have cavanaugh when you make a shahako have carvanha when you make a hammock you have carvanha when there's thunder or lightning you acknowledge it's from god have kavanagh when you come out of the bathroom come out of the bathroom there are people who are desperate for a foolish lima people we know young people young people what does an ashra yatcher take how much time does it take nothing my buddy yasi who visited us in a wheelchair he joined us part of the fly and we sang and we danced together he and his wheelchair we spun around and around he started a program ushered to the yazar it's a man who had a tumor on his spine and he's confined to a wheelchair and all he wanted from hashem was not to need to be catheterized for his lifetime he dominated and he started a campaign to get everyone to have kavanaugh for the brock of asia and his hosts listen so far he should have refused layman get out of that wheelchair and sing and dance at his wedding but many other young these are young people young people are sure this morning is also for unfortunately nested four words even if you don't pay attention the rest of us and you heal all flesh um and you could make miracles you could make miracles just like sir says kavanagh on these brachas that is our avodah of today our mission our mandate our voda today of course it's learning dominance talking to all the other things but that's our job that's our mission that's our mandate all the avodah of the mishkan the evoda yum kippur it all relied on these little sockets and without the sockets the whole thing collapsed and all of our avodah it relies on our hundred brachas a day who we are and how we see ourselves and what is our mission and what are the relationships in our lives it's not just a cute play on word says revasher but there's a much deeper deeper connection of the just like the adanam are the core that are holding the mishkan together so to these hundred brachas are the core that are holding our lives that are holding our lives together and that's what says it's not a coincidence it's not a coincidence that the word adonim the adam of the foundation of the mishkan we testify hashem is the master over everything so just when i think i'm in charge i'm in control just when i start to blame myself and feel guilty and ashamed and stressed of what i need to get done i make a bracha and with each bracha i say i once again submit and surrender to hashem i once again testify that he is in charge that he is in control it's a lot more to say we have a lot of difference can we learn this from also experienced a pandemic in his time david milk experienced the pandemic and his time that's when he introduced instituted everybody say a hundred bucks a day but and hashem removed the pandemic if we want to finally come out of this pandemic permanently a hundred bucks a day to have a little kanban it takes milliseconds it's no time at all you know how good your marriage would look if 100 times a day you said i love you for no reason and out of nowhere how lucky i am to be married to you how beautiful you look how amazing you are thank you for everything you do it's annoying to think the other person needs it or wants it or demands it but i know how amazing your marriage would be if you'd volunteer it because says volunteer 100 a day to me not because i need it do you know how your life will change if you do this exercise in humility paragliding test possibly the tent all the utensils the hooks the planks the bars the pillars the sockets they schlepped and they brought it all too they brought it all to moshe why'd they bring it all to moshe so the medrashtan kumi here tells the following says that moshe erected the mesh gun and another says it was the first of the month that the mishkan stood up so which is it did moshe stand up the mishkan or did the mishkan stand up on its own did moshe actively do it or did it rise on its own how did it happen it says the major alabama so they said everybody already on the count of three let's lift it and put it together it's like a prefab house you ever get stuck on the highway between behind one of those prefab houses in the back of a truck they pull up everybody on three lift the walls screw it together you're good to go so everybody on three lift up the mish gun we have the architecture the design the engineering the materials it's built it's designed ready to go everybody on three they couldn't get it done they couldn't lift it up so they bring it to motion i'm emotional in your de la mido says what do you want from me i don't know how to lift it i'm one manchester stand up and do it and it'll stand up on its own and i'll write that you're the one who did it so really it stood up on its own but moshe was the one who went through the motion as if he lifted erected as if he completed the mishkan so hashem fulfilled his promise he recorded it that moshe completed the mishkan even though the michigan was completed on its own because hashem orchestrated that moshe would be there that it's written as if he did it so you have to ask yourself why wasn't moshe given the strength to do it he's the monika on the whole project mushroom has the strength to take the jewish people out of egypt mushroom is the catalyst of ten miracles and of a splitting of the sea of countless plagues so why didn't asham taka just give moshe the strength to lift it what's with the charade what are we going through these motions moshe stand there it'll look like you did it but it did it on its own and all right that you did it just give them the strength to do it i'll record it i'll write it as if you did it moshe was in each emmaus what would you expect moshe to say thanks but no thanks if i didn't do it don't write that i did it this wouldn't be the first time moser said erase me from the book don't write that thanks hashem but no thanks you know someone offers you a rabbi i'm going to write down is it no no mushroom is the ishmaelis he's the quintessential man of truth so why doesn't he protest why doesn't he object why doesn't he say to hashem don't record it as if i did it if i didn't do it so the mashiach says that we learned something great from here hurry up the work is not upon you to complete we don't have to get everything done we can't get everything done we are mere mortals we are finite human beings so what's the pastas the simple understanding of means don't feel you have to finish everything yourself you're not entitled to not start you have to start but don't feel obligated to finish you can't do it all by yourself don't feel obligated you're obligated to start but you can't finish it but you see something more says he says doesn't mean call it quits after you did a little bit you could technically finish it but you don't have to finish it all by yourself you don't have to deliver or assemble the homicides by yourself get a committee do it with other people get us started yeah you could but you don't have to that's how we classically understand the mishnah but according to the masjid what the mishna means is not that you could but you don't have to you need to know that you can't you need to know there's nothing that's in our power to complete we are mere mortals and we are finite we need his divine assistance we need his divine approval we can't finish anything on our own so what is lmi what is he waiting for for us to start when we start that's an expression of our amunah when we start we say hashem i'm invested i'm interested i'm starting and that's what they say in the name of salantar he has it here in the yiddish but i'm not going to embarrass myself by trying to read it in the yiddish we have to try but the success is in the hands of hashem we go through the motions we do the exercise but hashem is the one who makes it happen and hashem so you have to offer it fela you're going into the operating room you're going into the board room you're going into whatever room you're going into the gym you're going into the shoe or you're going into whatever room of life activity of life hashem your agent i'm going to go through the motions i can't do this on my own i need your assistance i need your partnership i need you by my side it can't and it won't happen without you it can't and it won't happen without you so that's the message that says to moshe i'll write it as if you did it not because that's not a not truth what's the mashiach explaining when i recorded that you did it did moshe do it or not the answer is he did do it because he tried when we start and when we intend and when we try even though we can't complete it it is connected and associated with us because our intention and our motivation and our attitude and our heartfelt sincere approach it is eternally connected to us moshe a couple more quick uh thoughts we give a little bonus partial perspectives for global week stay with us a couple more minutes page 538. it was the first of the month second year and the mishkan was lifted and the krashov and the he brought everything he brought everything in i saw this new safer of ruben feinstein shlita he says the it says the following motion put up the mishkan the adonam the crusher instead of the erected the pillars he spread the covering over the mishkan the next passage you put the cover of the old on top of it the swarno here comments if you look at this far no inside safarno here comments he put the covering before the walls he put the roof the roof if you're from the midwest before he put the walls in i'm not sure what's going on over here maybe there's a miracle that took place but it was in the most unusual fashion nobody builds a house this way it would never pass inspection or code from the sukkam it sounds like the mish gun was put up first and only afterwards the walls were put in place first put the covering first put the roof and then the walls and then the walls so what's going on over here what's going on so ruben feinstein says it emerges the first thing motion did was to put up the innermost covering of the mishkan and then he put up the structure that would hold it up until the beams were erected the cover was held in place by either people says the swarno or by a nasa miracle the sequence is now clear but we have to ask why why was it done this way the answer is right survey is moshe put up the ceiling first to teach us in order to grow you need to have a goal in mind it's not enough to merely begin to build ourselves from the ground and see where we can reach if one approaches devoted this way he'll inevitably fall short of your potential he will reason he will be trying as hard as he can and he'll be satisfied with less than his true ability you have to start off with a specific and careful plan goal in mind and that will allow us to maximize our potential so it says first the ceiling then the walls you know why you got to mark your calendar with the next cma and then begin the daffy me you mark your calendar with the theme of the mishnayomi and now you start the mishneyomi you mark your calendar with the date you want to weigh in being healthy and well and meeting your target goal and now you can begin your exercise routine you have to set a goal you have to have a ceiling and now you'll build your walls to get to it but if you just start walls and you say let's see how high i can go let's see how far we'll get you're not going to get so far because you'll feel good about the little built the little wall you put up and you'll not get nearly as far as not far as you could so first you have to set a goal and then you can begin to pursue it that is the insight of ruvine based on the based on the swarno based in this farno but i saw another insight but it was the rashiba of tifaris yaakov in cape said he's quoted in the state for the sitch and he says bear with me a couple more minutes we're going to finish up he says the following nirma's because you know why the ceiling went up before the walls because it was a message the ceiling is always there hashem it's always there the countenance the covering the shade of hashem it's always there we have to put up the walls because we have to put up a place for him to reside so hashem is in our life all the time but now we've got to lead a life and build a home where he will reside so that was built in this unusual order sort of out of order in order to communicate the reality which is that hashem is always here and now we have to put it over our head over our head we'll finish up with one last puzzle perhaps with this we're finishing not only partially but safer don't leave you want to stay for the hazak big big finish in a moment the cloud covered the tent and the glory of hashem filled the tent motion could not enter along moshe couldn't enter because the cloud was over it so a little throwback to our friend rodrique his aishtam and we didn't get this in last year so we saved it for this year and he says the following he says moshe couldn't go in couldn't go in he dedicated his life to this moment he ran the capital campaign 17 and a half million dollars they built the building this is the inauguration ceremony he wants to go in and there's a cloud covering the entrance and moshe hesitates moshe doesn't go in says the medrash you think moshe was afraid to go in harika foreign he did go in but it was cloudy it was foggy he had to be led and accompanied by hashem so why does it say he didn't go in because he didn't go in until he was granted permission by hashem until hashem invited him in so you have to ask why does the pastor say elohim how do you understand the madrish we're saying that he could come in he just waited for hashem so what do you mean valoyacho what do you mean so you see moshe gave honor to hashem that's called loya something will be a source of honor to hashem to not do it that way for moshe was loyal the other way was not an option it was not an option you ever nobody's going to admit it but i will you ever in bed and about to fall asleep and you realize you didn't die marv it's miserable this happens on days that you fly back and your flight was delayed 17 times and you crawl into bed at three in the morning when you finally made it home and you're a pile of mush and you've got nothing left and you're finally closing your eyes and you're exhausted and you realize and now you got to get out of bed and what will that matter of look like and the first question about what that model will look like is you're in your pajamas and let's not now imagine the imagining could stop right now what what a person sleeps in whatever that state is is that how you dive in marv or do you say i gotta get dressed i'm about to sit and talk to my my creator no matter what time it is no matter how exhausted i am davine marv so for the moshe albanese of the world veloyakov it's not that he had to dig deep and find the energy and strength and get dressed in that marv at 3am he just was incapable of davnie marv without getting dressed how could you say shimon este amida without getting dressed many of us would make excuses so yeah what do you want from me hashem sure it's like i found some slippers and this won't be my best marvel but it's better than nothing for moshe i've been a villain there was no other option there was no other choice there was no other way there was no other way they say about ramosha feinstein that someone called them for an important conversation for the telephone but there was someone in the middle of davening in the path that moshe was walking to go moshe was walking to go have that conversation so emotions stood still so they asked him what do you mean there's a wall i can't walk through the wall for moshe someone standing divining was like a wall you can't walk through a wall for us these things are negotiable and debatable and we can rationalize and we can excuse him for moshe rabbenu he couldn't walk in without hashem saying come in he could physically walk in he could physically do it the fact that hashem didn't let him know yahoo he couldn't walk in later and say for the virus says they couldn't they couldn't traverse they couldn't penetrate into the border of ammon rashi says what do you mean the border of amman washroom so rashford and then say that says no you know why it's ki azkville banayamon because hashem said don't go into ammon so therefore there was a strong border there was a wall if hashem says you can't go it's not well i'm trying so hard to listen and not go our goal is to get to a point of life that velo yahoo so that's first number one um number two it says what is it grabbed motion by the lapel and slept and dragged him in he hesitated so i understand that moshe walked right in and now the old moed hashem has to drag him in why which one was holier i would think that there would be more of a barrier tyrosina than there would be to the omoid says druck no why harsina is all top down that's all hashem it's less holy almost all the jewish people donating and dedicating and building and sacrificing and compromising and giving like to the global campaign prsonline.org global so therefore that takes more you invest you give a piece of yourself you're giving your doing therefore totally your tire what comes easily to you with spoon fed to you being invited on top of the mountain you can walk right in but what you invested what you earn what you compromise what you sacrifice what's hard that that already you need to be invited and i shall not degrade them and lastly you didn't think you were going home today without the helicopter says the goal is the pinnacle is the peak an audience with hashem the shrine his being our shahrain is the purpose of it all so why would there be a cloud why would there be a covering why would hashem want to make it difficult why would he make it difficult so if nachman says he says because the things that we care about the things that matter most you have to fight through and walk through that cloud sometimes they feel like they're covered they're inaccessible sometimes they're hard to find sometimes you think you're walking through a fog in order to get there speak to people in dating and the path it took until they knew that was the one people fertility who desperately are trying to bring a child into this world and the effort that they have to take talk to the baltimore or the person who's struggling spiritually to navigate their way towards a meaningful relationship with hashem sometimes it feels like there's a cloud that's covering the destination the goal we have to work we saw a great siddique last week on our fly and you should watch our summary video if you get a chance but one of the themes that permeated everyone we met with agra no pain no gain that the effort the reward is proportional to the effort it takes are you willing you know if there's no cloud covering it then it's not a big deal to experience it but if you've got to get through the cloud foreign said when it feels like there's a barrier when it feels like there's a blockage when it feels like there's something preventing us from breaking it through to that result to that success to that triumph that we want it's hashem in the barrier hashem is in the blockage. they're both true simultaneously hashem is blocking us but hashem is also inviting us we have to fight through we have to overcome we have to take his hand and be able to get through and navigate through and over and under and around to be able to get to the other side of his success or whatever we're looking for in our life and with that venezuela we should be strengthened i'll tell you the closing thought twenty more seconds my body grabbed your field of spiro i sent him the video of our flying mission and he called me and he said the following vote touched by a story i was touched by his devour torah spirit says the conducive sea on the previous the father of the previous bubba varaba says the kanusha and you know most commodities in life when you give away you have less if i give you money i have less if i give you time i have less he says but when it comes to torah's hashem kazakh when i give you i don't have less strength when i give you strength i have more strength we should all be strengthened prsonline.org global if you enjoyed even if you didn't enjoy the share you should give because you were here and there was coffee so please take a moment before you pull out today from the parking lot and help support our stop campaign here