Parsha Perspectives for Today (Vayakhel 5784/2024) - The Importance of Being Part of a Kehilla

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happy to help you also last sponsor Li father thank you for your generous sponsorship as well okay page assembled he gathered all of the Jewish people and he said to them these are the things that asem has commanded you to do and what is the thing that he commanded him to do the of the Holy shabas we love chabas you know that if you join us every Friday when we turn our Friday into a of shabas and our 10 minutes and we get ready and our holy sh AR so much to say let's get started so we begin with says the following on these mosha gathered all the Jewish people and he said to them he had a message these are the things that hm has commanded to you here are the things that you must Doos that you must do sounds like active actively do perform behave construct do wonders so after that introduction gather everyone together Inspire and motivate and get to work get started there are things that we have to get done so some so what would you expect to find mitzvas of doing build a mishan build a Suka craft thein pluck a chauffeur off the head of the animal I don't go do create a committee start STA go do but what's the first Mitzvah that comes after mosha gathers everybody and tells them I'm going to give you instruct you motivate you inspire you charge you to do things and what's the very first thing what you don't do shabas is all about passive shabas is all about inactive shabas is all about observing the the 39 categories of creative labor so what's going on anyone who does anyone who's active anyone who constructs is put to death it's a capital CR is all about not doing so why would we introduce get everybody together and say I've got a big announcement I got a big message I have a big charge are you ready here's what you have to do don't do anything on and then the Torah elaborates and says don't light a fire in all your Dwelling Places on shamas we'll take a closer look at that PK momentarily here are all the things you got to do you ready go do it what's the first thing you should go do don't do anything on since we're being commanded on chabas which is passive why do we begin with so why introduce it with all of that says the words MOS gathers everybody together he unites them and he says I got a message there's something you need to do the you need to do is not going on shabas shabas is passive the words there's something you need to go do is going back on everybody come together talk about you know the title of our Isa perspectives for today every week we try to glean messages and lessons and inspiration from the paraa relevant to what we're going through right now and here's a partial perspective for today say go do is not going on shabas because shabas is about what you don't do what's going on V meaning I might have thought you read the p v Moshe it's just the backdrop it's the narrator just setting the stage on the scene Moshe gathered everybody and now oh let's hear what he has to say but no Cesar of Dr he gathered everybody and he said you know what you need to do you see this Gathering you see this Kenneth you see this Unity this is what you need to work on always stay United Stay Together stay cohesive stay a community that doesn't happen passively it doesn't happen accidentally it doesn't happen unintentionally we will only remain with akas United cohesive collaborative a community if we have intentionality if we work towards it if we're mindful of it if we're willing to compromise and sacrifice and suppress even things that upset us or bother us or individuality because it is a value that we have say so importantly and so Pressly that being together and remaining United does not happen on its own sadly and tragically that is not the default it takes it takes work it takes effort it takes reminder it takes programs it takes energy it takes messaging you have to work on you have to create and only then can we receive and live the Torah you see this also when it comes to tells us today we the Jewish people gather together men and women and children who come to give their parents reward for bringing them and then the Torah is read in the ears of the Jewish people and there we call it h h go gather go unite so they'll listen and learn and what is the word they'll guard Safeguard to do rash says the king would read from the beginning on the beima on the platform but you have to wonder what's going on over here says R hak means Gathering so what is L how are you guarding the Laos and he says the same thing hak means to gather to unite to be together the King has a message he's proclaiming the Torah the Torah is the vocabulary that unites us but it doesn't happen by accident and it doesn't happen coincidentally or by chance and it doesn't happen automatically and it is not our state of being by default is hard work it's hard work you know after October 7th we felt this wave of unity and the differences and the dividers they dissipated they fell apart they dissolved those differences projudi reform anti- judicial all the differences diaspora jury Israel jury it all disappeared because collectively we had experienced this tragedy and we continue to mourn but you can already begin to feel it falling apart the AAS is already in danger because as much as we feel and want and wish and Dav that that AAS that Unity would endure and that Unity would re really be this new permanent definition of who we are it's not so simple it takes work takes work it takes effort Safeguard protect care enough be invested in order to create them to create them you know our community has exploded we're so proud and so incredible thanks to you thanks to our community we 8 this morning and a thousand families and I'm not giving you a little promo we're almost at the end of The Campaign but creating the community within communities become easy because we're living in a generation and we're living at a time in which people want on demand and you have partisanship and people have special interest groups and people want what I want my that meets at my time that is my Kish with the person I want giving my Torah with the room set up the way I want with my B everyone has their want their need so our breakout Manan they're exploding you can't get in the room that's easy it doesn't take a lot of work in order to accommodate and indulge people desire for their on demand special interest partisan group you know what takes to work when you say we're not just the Jewish Community Center that happens to house eight separate minum where are we United when are we together how can we create a sense of AAL hak vak AAL aor how can we be a community how can we be a community made up of smaller communities Community within Community but the community within Community has to be within in community the value of community this is increasingly a lost value in our time not specific to the Jewish people in the western world everything that we have and who we are we are increasingly divided and fragmented and focused on our individual want small subsets and small groups and many communities that's what people want but how can we be patriotic and be a nation and a People Beyond just our partisan or parochial need how can we be a seor a kahal a community Beyond just the different minim that are inside this is a value put differently we're living now within the stabilization of America the stabilization of America you see it all over and communities all over which are people are in their own home and maybe somebody just let it know that not a great time to make popcorn in their own home they're creating stees in their own home they're creating Min those don't have a sense of community on every block there are some communities that every block have three home but the a sense of it takes work and it takes effort and we have to created it doesn't happen on its own number two of the day vashi says when was this when was this V when did mosha gather everybody it was the day after when mosha came down from the mountain mha gathered everybody he sent out a text message an email a phone tree he called everyone he said unite gather there's a message there's something I have to tell you and when was that Yumer the day after Yumer now why why was it the day after yum Kipper after yum Kipper everybody's pure and perfect and innocent everybody has purged their mistakes transformed themselves everybody's holy so why was that the day that everybody had to come together listen to what says there's no jealousy there's no hatred there's no anger and yum Kipper nobody has time head space nobody has the energy to fight yum Kipper is the day that we're all fighting for our lives we're fighting for Our Fate we're fighting for our family we're pouring our heart into our FAS we're on our best behavior so nobody's looking with jealousy or Envy oh look at his K what a fancy K you know nobody's looking at everybody is just focused on their family their faith their connection to hasem and if there's ever a day that we feel United it'ser several of them young and come together and we unite even though they meet separately over for we take the chairs out of this holy sanctuary and we pack the people in it's a carries me the entire year it's an unbelievable why because during the you just want to put your arms around the people next to you you just want to tell everybody sing as loud as you can make these walls shake and reverberate there's an and you look around and there are no differences and disagreements and I forgive you and I forgive you and I forgot that and I don't care about this because we're all fighting let it just be a good year let us all be healthy and well let us all be back here next yipper keep P but what happens the next morning when you wake up then you say actually I am still upset at you and you I'm actually still not talking to you and you yeah I still don't forgive you and I come late to sh and I get get the person who's sitting in my seat and we revert right back to where we were right back to where we were you know during Co we made all kinds of promises to ourselves right our Simas are going to change forever our shabas will change forever PES even though this was the first time I ever made PES because I had to in it was beautiful in my home I'm never going away again ever and we forgot all the promises that we made and right now after October 7th CL Israel has come together we've healed so many open ws and we've been there for one another and we care and our daving and our learning and our connection and attachment to Israel and more importantly to our brothers and sisters there and we say that will be forever but you know what happens there's a laras there's a day after there's the day after and the day after too often we revert back to the way we were says so when does mosha gather them on the day after he already sends an email out by the way the day after we're having a congregational meeting why after you need a congregational meeting yeah because the day after you need a congregational meeting the day after you need a h v the day after you need to remind everybody don't act like it's a day after continue and maintain and grow and lean in further to that sense of you see what we just experienced let's battle it let's collect it let's contain it let's grow itas on the day after on the day after Community leaders and our whole Community need to be thinking about the day after let us hope and dve and that's today or tomorrow that the day after this war let's hope and Davin but today already is the day after tomorrow will be the day after but what will be on the day after who will we be how will we be changed what will we hold on to how can we maintain that akot his father the great the great mag and his father explained you just finished seven times in a row you blow the show for the you sing someone gives a clap you begin Mar and what's the opening words of marem forgive us you just finish him Kipper there is not a moment that you are more pure in your life then while you're singing and dancing what do you need to say for because already Byer we are in the of we're already in the after oh Yer is over you know people are taking off the talus they're folding it up they're just any Mar their K they're looking around now they already see that person oh they were singing so loud screaming in my ear that person didn't scream enough why couldn't they contribute through their song you this person's blocking me to get home I want to break my fail I heard they have a break fast they didn't invite me already Byer we're back all that and all the angel and all the Holiness and all the Purity and all the white it's gone so already by Mar we have to say by that point so when does mosha gather them already by we need to be reminded and reinvigorated and strengthened that sense of you talk about par perspectives for today those two insights by takes work it's not the default it doesn't want to happen on its own it's not automatic by the way it's true in every level and the concentric circles in which we live our family is not the default of a family Shas and love and loyalty and everyone getting along takes energy it takes effort parents grandparents have to takes sometimes it takes expense person has to make an effort to bring the family together to create opportunity for cousins to play together to know one another it doesn't happen on its own a family it takes an effort I think I've shared with you before somebody I know and admire has set up in his Estate Planning and for his family a specific trust money that can be used only to bring the family together when he's gone while he and his wife are alive they bring the family together every year every other year as often as they can they set up a trust he told me his sons are not the trustees his daughters-in-law are because he trusts them more to make sure it will happen and there is a trust specifically that money to be used only nobody can complain or argue this here we can't we can't afford we don't want to allocate for that we made a Sim no there's a trust doesn't affect anybody it is exclusively to bring the family together because it doesn't happen automatically it's not a given it takes an effort it's true for a family and it's true for a community don't assume everybody believes and buys into community Community is an increasingly lost value we have to teach it to our children and grandchildren by the way when you get married and you move somewhere and you eat at the Kish and the sh and take advantage of the youth groups and ask the sh to the rabbi don't forget to join the sh you'd be surprised don't forget that that's a basic men thing that you do that being a member of community matters particularly when the sh doesn't make finances an obstacle and says pay whatever you can afford but that's a men thing Community matters it won't happen on its own it should be part of classes and kala classes that among the things you have to do is when you'll get married and you'll be somewhere what Kila are you gonna be part of Aila matters Aila matters because when you'll need Aila you know a minion you could find three on every block a Kish you could find five on every block even without the daving you could find on every block but Aila find Aila in a time of need in a time of celebration in a time of crisis for clol in a time that you need someone who has the congressman's cell phone number because your passport expired and you're supposed to go to Israel tonight you need a kahila for those moments and the convenience of that neighborhood minion don't take the place of a kahila when you'll need it and they need you because the Kila needs the people and what each of us bring I have strong feelings if you can't tell on this lassos it takes effort it doesn't happen on its own even when it happens we can lose it so easily you got a plan for the day after they both say the same thing on this because what's the next thing we saw what does mosha launch into after he gathers everybody together he launches into what mitzvah shabas we know that when the Jewish people put we will do before we will listen the Angels came down and they tied a crown two crowns on each head of the Jewish people two crowns on the head of every Jew one corresponding with we will do and one corresponding with we will listen but then we came down from our and what happened on our wedding night we had an affair we cheated on we worship the golden calf Angels came and said uh taking it away give me back the ring give me back the crowns we lost them the says that on every shabas listen carefully listen carefully this will transform your shabas every shabas we get those crowns back we stood at har and God put two crowns on every one of our heads because we said we love you we're in we in tell us what to do Nas we're in we're in vishma now tell us what to do and the two crowns that were taken away when we were Unfaithful loyal they return to us on every shabas and that's what we say in our ding only has all week long he has everybody's crowns because he got to keep his he didn't violate theel but on shabas he only has his portion because we got our crowns back so says why did Moshe take all the crowns for himself because because the was rampant was raging the evil inclination we made such a mistake we had such confused clouded judgment and if we wore those crowns it would have attached itself to those crowns but shabas we worthy of those crowns again because shabas we return to asem shabas we revert to who we were before the that love that loyalty that incredible romantic connection intimate r with the almighty says these two crowns correspond with love and all so we come on shabas and we can connect to Hashem both through love and through awe we pull back a little bit he's the creator of the universe we recognize and respect and we therefore feel distant we recoil with awe but we also lean in and come close and feel that intimate connection with the and that's that is shabas shabas we return who we were before the we revert back to that to that sense the says the following what wondered to do them what do them the next instruction is shabas and chabas is passive so R's answer was to do them is not going on shab it's going back on says something different what is the tells us what is the aod when we use the term a t we use the term it means the service in the but that's the external service where we offer the sacrifices and burn the incense what's theod what's theod that we do in our heart the the service that we do within our heart is prayer how does one DAV with their mouth these are the the this is what hasem wants us to do and what's the thing he wants us to do is DAV and how does he want us to DAV wants us to DAV with the sense of don't DAV alone don't DAV by yourself don't DAV with just a few how should we D with a sense of ail be part of ail that's why the the said before one DAV what should they say accept upon myself before I could talk to hem and ask him my needs I have to turn to my neighbors my friends and I have to express unconditional love you want to get something from me tell me how wonderful my children are get along with all my children take care of and help my children and then you got me then you got me at hello we're about to talk to and we need first we have to love his other children our siblings and that's what it means so sort of like before before it's a very powerful idea walk into sh and look around you know you don't talk in sh going to be my article this week is all the things that we're doing for our brothers and sisters in Israel there's something we should not do for our brothers and sisters in Israel and that is talk during daving there's so much for us to do but there's one big thing that we should stop doing in their honor in their Merit and that is talking during daving so it's not we don't believe in let's just be on record we don't believe in talking during daving but we believe in talking before daving and after daving that means to say come early to daving and say hello connect and unite and be a practice look around and say oh this is aor this is my team this is who I'm going into this with this is my unit let's go let's do this every on a front line of appealing to Hashem this is my unit let's go we've got this that's before one accept upon myself and that's what the was telling us make the effort to connect with the other people in your and then now you're ready to speak now you're ready to DAV now you're ready to turn to Hashem and to connect and to connect with him and to connect with him also focuses here on the concept of on our Unity the says the following is the gatri of Mal what's royalty why because the says when is the when is King when is the monarchy when is royalty at is greatest when we are united when there's a nation you know if you're a Reb but you have no I got bad news for you you're not a rabba if you're a king but you don't have a nation you can put a Crown upon yourself and you could take a sh and you could walk around and people think it's purum because if you don't have a people and you have no nation that you rule over I got bad news for you you're not a king so when are you the king when the nation unites and gathers and connects when there's a community when there's a people that's when there's Mal so when we came to the place if there was ever a leader or ruler who could unite us it was the of Moshe the of Moshe that had the DNA of all of is malus so the greatest malus the greatest manifestation of malus of royalty is when you represent the most amount of people when you unite and bring together and create a sense of peoplehood and Nation that's why it's only when we are united that we can fully realize our Collective Nish every individual has aish and the Jewish people as a whole has aish the Nish of CLA when is the Nish of CLA whole and complete when we are United last week we read about theas two weeks ago theas that has the we're only whole when there's space and room for the imperfect for the fallible for the PO is for those who don't live the observant life or don't make the choices we wish they would make but when we have nonetheless when there's space and room and we invite and we have a sense of unity among all then we realize the Nish of K the soul of the Jewish people becomes complete that's what we say in the M we're G to read soon what does it mean what does it mean the M tells us gather together simple meaning is means stand up for your life fighting for our lives says what it means is when we are gather together when we are united when we are one when we are together when we are loving when we are loyal when we are complimenting and supplementing One Another We're realizing the of we're acting at our best at our height no anti-semite can touch us no enemy can harm us when we come together when we are united then we are then we are nobody can defeat us we're able to stand firm and strong and tall and no one can taple us over that is the strongest that we are that's why that's what was we were united we were together and that's what we long for that's what we want to return to that's why it was such a if we just stood if we just had that if we just realized the who we were even if we didn't get the Torah that's why we have a Mitzvah to always remember why do we have to remember standing in our remember receiving the Torah why is it we have to remember you know why because when we stood at when we had that unity and that collaboration that cooperation that Community then we had the sh and Sh was fully realized then we were our best selves then we were in defeat of then we were our strongest days do work on the seventh day is if you do work on that seventh day death penalty it's a capital crime when is put to death we've shared many times that in our religion work is not a concession in other religions work is a concession in the ideal world we wouldn't have to work work is a session but you see the Torah says six days be constructive be productive do work work is not a four-letter word work is not evil work is not a concession work is how we conquer the world said go multiply promulgate the world and control it manipulate it be in charge of it conquer it study it Torah doesn't just say on the seventh day rest it says six days be constructive be constructive ransi this here gave a sheer last night and uh met privately with some people last night answered questions and he spoke about yes were asking him what's the best use of yes's off time learning Torah we know is the best learning Torah is the highest thing a person can do we're making contact with our immortality with the Divine but when you're not learning so he said the worst thing in the world is Bal when a person is wasting time that is they're they're they're destroy they're wasting their soul they're not wasting the time you have to fill that space with something meaningful and productive and that's it's not a concession we're doing work this whole time Rashi says you learn from here shabas is coming now before Mish and what do you learn from here says Torah repeats the obligation to observe shabas before reminding us about the construction of the Mish why to remind us that building the mishan doesn't supersede chabas you might have thought I'm committed to chabas I'm a sh shabas but building the Mish creating a house for hasem so significant so virtuous maybe that even supersede shabas no no you don't say you don't say building the Mish supersedes shabas you have to observe shabas would we ever say bring the let's have it's the best day nobody can do anything anyway no one's going anywhere anyway so have the Torah let's celebrate a new Torah on chabas sofa will come I'll finish the last letters we'll tie it up because writing a Torah should nobody would say such a thing so why would one think that the building of the Mish why would one think that so says and I'm not sure exactly the but I want to tell you something you have to understand why the Torah goes out of its way to teach us this year listen carefully I never heard this before the what happened last week's para what happened how could it be the greatest moment of Revelation in all of history unprecedented and never repeated the greatest moment of revelation God almighty the king of the universe the Creator revealed himself and spoke directly to us and we were in love we were smitten we were taken we stood under that mountain like a like a and we fell in love and we married him and then that night how could it be we build an idol we worship an idol how could it be the answer is not as it seems don't read it simplistically and superficially what went wrong thei says this says this many say this it was aah the people panicked they calculated mosha was supposed to return at a certain time mosha didn't return by that time they said who's our intermediary how will we connect we need something tangible physical material God Is So abstract God Is So esoteric God Is So conceptual I can't connect to someone in something I can't see or hear or feel or touch or smell how am I supposed to connect mosenu was my conduit moshu was my connection remember they didn't have a sa Torah they didn't have a sh they didn't have Moser raenu when they saw him when they heard him he was that intermediary he was that connection they panicked so they said you know what we don't have Moshe we need to construct we need to craft something else physical we need to craft something else material that will be our conduit our intermediary our physical manifestation connection because otherwise he's too distant he's invisible I can't see I can't connect him so that's called a Mitzvah the Mitzvah was they had an authentic genuine urning to still connect hem it was B it came about in a corrupt way because you can't just even with the most noble intentions build an idol you can't just no matter how creative you want to be come up with a new way you're gonna serve Hashem that's why what does Hashem do the question we didn't ask is we have then then we repeat everything we already had in why are we repeating it because the mishan is the antidote the mishan is the response to the God says you crave a physical material intermediary legitimate I acknowledge that I that that's a legitimate reasonable need but you can't make it up you can't creatively decide it on your own you have to follow only the word of that's what the says over and over and over again we see a reference as God commanded as God commanded as God told you we can't creatively come up with new ways of serving Hashem there's room for creativity in Torah and mitz come up with Dynamic new programs new inspiration new learning opportunities but when it comes to the Mitzvah and the you can't decide you know shabas for me is all supposed to be about rest Tranquility serenity for me I find that when I do yoga on the beach so it's okay to drive to the beach to do yoga because that to me you can't creatively come up even when you have a noble intention that's a Mitzvah even if you have a noble intent but you know the road to H double hockey sticks my kids would say is paved with those Noble intentions even with the most noble intentions it's a Mitzvah the ago is a Mitzvah they wanted to connect hem they didn't have mosha they panicked they said we don't have mosha we'll substitute we build an agel God says you can't make it up on your own it has to come from me I'll give you a mishan legitimate fair I'm giving you the mishan giving you a physical place I'm giving you somewhere to come to I'm giving you a physical material building in which to connect to me so therefore now in the aftermath in the shadow of the it is spe specifically now that Moshe has to teach them building the Mish doesn't supersede shabas why because you can't do a Mitzvah even though you want to build the Mish that's a noble deed it's wonderful and Noble you want to build the mishan you can't do it through the a of of violating shabas salant the great father and founder of the musim movement this was one of his core principles he called it a don't have a don't be so from don't be from don't be from you know Klein used to live here he used to tell me that in Europe they used to say a is is a is from a gal a priest is from a Jew is I can't it's not that Yiddish is my first language but you can't translate that a priest is don't be so a means you you have a bias you have a distorted judgment you're trying so hard to be from and when you try so to be so was once in sh standing next to somebody putting on their Talis so you know when a man puts on his Talis properly correctly many don't but they do when you put on your Talis properly you know you pull it up over your shoulder you wrap it over and you throw it over one shoulder so what happened a put on his Talus totally and had no idea what was going on around him he threw his tals over his shoulder and the talus he whipped the face of so he turned him and and rebuked him you can't put on your Talus with such zealousness that you smack another Jew in the face and that that's how lived his life you know they would ask now the Matas already were made since khah there's still places making mat today but they ask what should I adopt when it comes to PES when it comes to my mat what 18 minute matah from the time of the which should I adopt what should I adopt he said you know you should adopt make sure that the widows the women working in the matah factory are paid well and paid on time that's the you should adopt he'd wash his hands in someone's home in a day where it wasn't so simple with sinks and indoor plumbing people had to bring the water and While others would splash the water generously up their arm and enough water knowing that there was someone else who had to bring it and schlap it and set it up for him to wash he was more concerned to follow the minimum Shear the minimum measure of washing but the maximum of not taking advantage of someone who would have tolap it and there's many examples R brings R the great brings many examples how these were hisas don't put on your Talis with such rigor that you end up smacking another Jew in the face don't be so careful washing your hands that you make someone else become your schlepper don't have such a when it comes to matah and neglect the fact that people are are not paid on time what he called a with all the noble intent and all the virtuous living don't be so righteous on somebody else's account a person so why is that taught right here D now because that was the mistake of the it was aah with a noble intent we need something physical material and intermediary to connect with hem they went and they build an ago that was a Mitzvah B don't think you can build the mishan by violating shabas let Hashem give you the rules let Hashem teach us the hierarchy of what is most important don't do it for don't do it for yourself we have 39 categories of creative labor but only one of them is spelled out in the Torah 38 of them we learn from whatever was deemed creative labor for the building of the mishan is creative labor that you're not allowed to express or exert on shabas one of them is spelled out which Mal you can't light a fire you can't burn a fire on shabas we've spoken in the past about the mitz of eating CH chabas we learned from here because the kites who interpreted the Torah literally understood you can't have a fire burning in your house on chabas they would sit in the dark and only eat cold food but we know you can't light a fire on chabas a fire that's pre-existing from before shabas you can which is why we have lights that we benefit from that we leave on from before shabas and why we've adopted a Mitzvah to eat a mitzvah for a to eat a hot food on chabas in order to demonstrate that they're not a carite we eat hot food to demonstrate we're not a a carite so that's the origin of chant we've spoken about chalant in the past thetically interprets this Hally interprets them how says the schah and Thea says similarly fire is an illus a metaphor for anger you can't get angry when it comes to shs no you shouldn't be angry all week long either but especially in chabas don't disrupt don't interrupt the peace the Tranquility the serenity the Holiness the happiness of chabas with anger don't let anger burn in the any of your Dwelling Places be shabas on shabas and on a of shabas a of chabas is one of the times that people are most V able susceptible to getting angry what do you mean you didn't set the table what do you mean you're not ready what do you mean you're not even close to being home yet from work what do you mean you didn't do the one chore I asked you to do what do you mean you left that in the middle of the floor what do you mean you didn't pick up that food I asked you to pick up it's very easy to lose one's cool on air of shab weekly weekly so the Torah goes out of it way to remind usas and one of the suggestions about how to avoid getting angry on chabas one of the ways to get around it says any home where they entered chabas in a state of anger there was anger on Friday night in that home something doesn't go right for that family that week could be failing a test in school losing the soccer game could be the air conditioning gave out could be but if you enter chabas with anger that fire burns and when a fire burns it destroys it consumes he says I saw it with my own eyes and I've tested it you want a schoola Shalom Bas is to have Shalom Bas is to go into chabas with an intended mindful concentrated effort no matter what happened this past week no matter how disappointed or frustrated I am right now just letting it go just letting it go and going into shabas with a sense of Peace say and one of the suggestions about how to do that is tell us when a person goes into shabas they should go in with an attitude and with a sense that all your work is done all of your work is done not just the great journey song but all of your work is done it's not done there are bills you still don't know how they're going to get paid there are things that to be taken care of there's news that's still coming in that's very upsetting but you go into shabas feeling whole and complete and you take all that and you put it up on a shelf even if you're going to bring it down afterwards and when a person is able to say I'm not looking at what's missing I'm looking at what's here I'm not looking at what I still have to do I'm looking at what we got done when a person can go with that attitude you can have peace and Tranquility going into going into shabas the great G alter has another interpretation he quotes his great Z who makes the following observation in the name of his father first Ina last week's para the Torah mentioned chabas after the mishan and here in V first shabas and only then the mishan why why the Torah between last week's para and this week's para why' we change the order says the explains the difference discussed the topics before the comes chronologically after the before theel the Jewish people were on the mad we were on the level of tell us we're in and then tell us what to do we would grow every day reaching the highest level in chabas shabas would be the culmination we'd grow a little bit each day and then chabas would be the Pinnacle the culmination chabas is discussed after the mishan first the mishan grow each day and then shabas but after the the weak days themselves need shabas to help them stay true so therefore shabas is mentioned first before the we worked a week and the reward we got to shabas now we need the Holiness the sanctity reminding reminder of what matters what's important we need to come together and be Aila and take all of that in order to bring that into the week explained the statement of the M that after theem warned CL he said you've ruined Nas by making the AO take care to uphold nishma you ruin Nas now at least take care to make sure that you uphold nishma now certainly that doesn't mean that we were no longer committed to NAS to fulfill the MIT it means says that originally when we were singularly committed to fulfillment of MIT brought one to Nish to an even higher depth of understanding but after the Precedence of NASA to nishma was lost and instead nishma understanding brings us to NASA we lost that commitment that we're in now tell us what now we say tell us what help us understand and that will inspire us to feel we're in connects us with the above principle of shabas he says the following shabas affects a mindset of nishma opening the hearts of Jews to hear so that during the week we come to have proper Nas shabas we're in a state of nishma we're listening to T listening to theha we're listening to Theos we're listening to One Another we're listening to our own shabas is all about so then it can bring us to a proper state of before was after became and so before it was Mish shabas after it is shabas and then and then it became and then it became and then it became Mish okay let's keep going hasem spoke to the entire people and he said this is the word that hasem has commanded saying notice anything funny in that says the sorry let's keep going we are repeating the solicitation for the Mish this is the mishan campaign this is the word that hm has commented take for yourself a portion for hem everyone whose heart motivates him shall bring it as GI to hem Gold Silver and copper what are the words how do you understand that so let's go back to says the following why do we say so Theo explains mosha speaks to he speaks to this gathering this community and he says this is the matter that God commanded you take could just say take a gift a donation what does it mean so the explains it means designate people who are gonna chairs of the dinner make people who are going to do the campaign but why still should just say why why so develops the following idea shabas tells us that when we make it to 120 and come upstairs we'll be asked a series of questions and one of the questions the first question we're asked is did you do your business dealings Faithfully did you have integrity did you have honesty were you Faithful why is it the first question very important of course it's fundamentally important but is it the most important Mitzvah in the whole Torah is that really the first and only measure of man why is that the first question that we are asked why is that the first question that we are asked maybe you should ask did you put on fill did you keep shabas did you fast oner did You observe did you speak did you give why are we first asked about this why are we first asked about this so ruk's father answered because there are people who when it comes to religion they observe every stringency there is careful with every there is you know you wore 100 pairs of tittis you had 15 pairs of and you bought the most expensive esrog you your name was in light because you gave the biggest donation to the global campaign to the capital c the campus campaign where'd you get the money I love it that you had so much tits I love it that you wore so manyin I love it that you gave so much sta where'd the money come from how'd you earn the money how confident are you in your tax returns that they were honest so the first question we get upstairs is not tell me how many pairs of tias How many pairs of how much Sak you gave the first question is all the wonderful things that I'm sure you'll tell me about that you did first question is where'd you get the money what paid for it where did it come from was it ker the gift the donation you're about to make to build the house for me says God it has to come it has to come not from your neighbor not because you stole or cheated on your taxes which is also she always says you know people rationalize in their own mind if I steal on taxes I pay so you can't say this anymore in the State of Florida where we have vouchers people used to say I pay so much in taxes I don't even send my kids to public school so therefore it's okay if I earn it back by bending the rules on my tax returns you know when you when you cheat on your taxes someone else has to pay more taxes because the garbage man and the post office and the roads being paved and the bridges being kept up that's called stealing you're a GH of you won't put your hand in someone else's wall and take their money so don't be dishonest on your taxes because you're cheating your neighbor stealing stealing so therefore the Torah says when you take the money it's got to come you're building a house for me don't make a donation to the global campaign BRS online.org Global or don't make a donation to the capital campaign or to youru or the K or the Mikvah the kasas or the don't make the donation on because you stole it from your neighbor it has to be it has to be you you collected it you arrived at it you got it in a way that was kosher it has to be money that you got it has to come from you it has to come from you such beautiful ideas here we are running out of time we have time I think for one more beautiful but maybe we'll do yeah we'll Skip One More also we have to be able to say Turn the page one one partial this week so it's short page 524 made the on the arc he made it of wood a wood two and a half AR in length an AR and a half in width and an AR and a half in tight the says R says R Dr the Aron didn't take up any space in the Kash the Aron The Arc that contained in it the tablets Theos the broken tablets the shos for Torah a little of man little container of man that Aron that Arc that had all those things didn't take up any room says take didn't take up any space in the holy of holies of the Mish was 10 by 10 the was two and a half by anama when you enter the when you put the in the and you measured on both sides there were five amas how could that be the whole width was 10 Arma and it took up two and a half Arma how could you still have the same 10 Arma left it wasn't miraculously somehow even though it was there but it didn't take up space what about the luos inside the Aon did they take up space yes the luos and the Aron took up space but the Aon didn't take up space how do you understand that what's the significance of the Aron the luos if the luos are what animate the Aron the tablets are what give significance and sanctity to the ark so why is it that the ark doesn't take up space or room but the the tab was do it doesn't make sense says re the following we know that the arc the is a metaphor for tells us tells us the ark was was layered with gold on the outside and inside and we learn from here if a a scholar a righteous person if their inside doesn't match their outside their outside doesn't match their inside they're not a righteous person you have to be through and through you have to be consistent you have to be in public and in private but if you're only righteous in public not in private if you're righteous on the outside but not the inside you're not a so you see the that represents a and the same way that the is a Bas say for Torah same way that the is housing to sa for Torah every is a B for tah for Torah so who is was like the Aron doesn't take up space why because the like Theon shouldn't see himself as significant should live with and practice such a humility that they have no significance they don't take up space the real is not looking at how big an influencer they are online you think has any clue how many sh has posted online how many people have listened to them he wouldn't even know how to find online the doesn't take up space I'll tell you something amazing about him I sat on several zooms with him and other major postum during Corona that were trying to give guidance to community lead leaders about what to do I've sat in meetings with in such circumstances and many others are vying to take up all the space in the room to give their opinion to be the first to express it to monopolize the conversation to show how much they know Shar sits there quietly and until someone says Shar what do you think he doesn't assert himself he doesn't insert himself he doesn't push himself he doesn't take up space in the room a real like Theon doesn't take up space is not looking to take up space so why Theos then take up space within the Aron because the Torah that's inside the have to take up all the space of the the Torah takes up all of our space it informs and inspires all of who we are so the Aron doesn't take up any space in the Kash but the the Torah takes up all the space of Theon to teach us that to be a real is not to need to take up space in this world but the Torah should take up all the space inside us to fully inspire all of who we are lastly on the same P these words we just read it made the he made the why does it say says the other things he built he made the AR he also made the man and the sh and the and M he made everything so why doesn't it say when it comes to the other things Asko why does it only say it here so Rashi tells us because Beto really gave his all so when someone gives their all to something it is associated with their name and says when you sacrifice yourself for something it is known by your name when you give your all when you compromise when you invest when you sacrifice yourself over it it's called by your name it's true everywhere Miram was called because Aon risked his life to save her to D on her behalf so she's known as the sister of Aon MOS it's called Tas Moshe why is it called Tas mosha the Torah of Moshe because MOS was mes for the Torah and we have several other examples that every time somebody's for something it is identified with their name with their name we can learn and they don't have an effect on us but if we want Torah and Mitzvah to be truly ours to change our Essence to create a real connection to Hashem says Raa you got to put in a real effort we have to be willing to sacrifice person has to be y person has to make that effort we want everything to be easy of lansi spoke about last night too for it to have a Bren a life to carry itself and to not feel like a burden of oppressive then we have to put in the effort we have to make it ours we're living in a generation or a time of What's called the tyranny of convenience goes back to the stabilization of America everybody wants what's comfortable what's convenient what's most local what's easiest what's fastest what's at the best kidish and and you see this volanski spoke last night about his son worked at a ESR store in Brooklyn and a big ve wealthy person came in and spent a lot of time no no not this one bring me another not this one not this one when he finally settled on his esrog an expensive beautiful high level esrog they brought out a bottle of mashka some alcohol they made a and they did a dance that esrog whatever esrog it's prepackaged it's pre-sealed hados it used to be the manura the kanaka candles you remember your fingers would get so oily because you'd put the thread and the wick and the wick inside the floater and you fill the glass with the oil with the water you have a used to be that you had a so my father was saying last night after the shear I have such vivid memories of growing up we had these metal poles they were labeled the labels fell off or they got rubbed out every year we'd have to re- remind ourselves and figure out where those poles went anyone remember that we had bamboo not the bamboo mats you unroll it's easy it pop up you throw it in the air you have a Suka we had bamboo mats you had to tie them together would go come apart they'd fall they'd hit you on the head they were wobbly you had to alternate the thick side and the thin side you had to line them up over you had to put the wooden slap so it wouldn't be sitting on the metal and there was an effort to build that Suka you didn't throw a su in the air and it landed and you had a Suka waa you didn't go to the store and you brought the prepackaged manura the kanuka was done you're going to go to the store in the next few weeks and you're G to see you know what you're gonna find they're selling it's it's maybe this is the biggest indictment over our generation of anything in the world salt waterer we're at a point that you can't even make salt water you'll be able to for PES go and buy I'm not I'm not joking I aside from the fact you're going to be able to go and buy 10 pieces of KET to hide in your house that already is made manufactured numbered I'm surprised they don't have an apple thing on it with a tracer so you could find the 10 pieces with an app so you know where they are that's coming in fact if you invent that I want a royalty on it that's coming salt water we can't even make our own salt waterer so it says Raa V when you put in an effort it becomes yours you become it you're intertwined you're Associated that effort is defining of who you are don't take the easy way out don't take the easy way out put in the effort because the effort is what creates the relationship when you chop I vividly remember my my grandparents mothers here with our children The Chopping ball among the last things we have from grandparents from Europe the chopper The Chopping ball that har us that was that that these are the memories that are embedded inside us what memories are our children going to have I remember I needed an outfit for the morning and an outfit for the afternoon and an outfit for the late afternoon and an outfit and if I was inid I needed twice that many outfits that's what they're going to remember the luggage and the Bellman and getting there early and leaving there late that's that that's what they're going to remember about pesak I remember that I went and I bought the salt water from the store should remember it's the effort V says says we are identified with the effort that we put in we should all put in the effort should be a day B toas help us finish the campaign let's see if you helped us during this year real live update stay for tillum all tillum nope we're still 5,000 away help us vs online.org global