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Parshat Pekudei 5784 (2024) by Rabbi Baruch Taub
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Delivered Leil 2 Adar II 5784 / March 11, 2024 www.ouisrael.org facebook.com/ouisrael #OUisrael #torah #judaism #torahlectures #parsha #parshathashavua #pekudei
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let's learn a little bit uh the
first the first piece is from the
sh the son of
the
and and he brings out a very interesting
thing which I think sometimes you can go
through the par and things just somehow
go over our
head
Mish Moshe put up the
mishan he put in the the the connectors
the whatever the
the the the boards support Bo the
beams oil and he put over the the oil
the
tent right the first thing he did was
theot the
lower uh curtains the goat skin curtains
he first put that
up and afterwards he put up the
supporting beams the
crushing the rabbi say Mish
Mish Mish the beams are not called
mishkan the the curtains are referred to
as the actual Mish the actual Tabernacle
right IM
um
Moshe the vacuum I don't this seems to
be a a typle a typ here in
this I'm
sorry when he put up the
Mish the Mish the word mishkan the
Tabernacle refers in a technical sense
to the covering to
the the term seems that he put up the
lower curtains covering the whole
mishkan first
right the under curtains there are
different levels of
curtains o he put up the O Pur
Rashi the goat skin the goat skin
covering of the of the
Mish CL
if you want to say that the order of the
Mish is there's a general statement and
afterwards individual
statements um that's
fine right in other words the point is
there's something missing here this is
this is backwards
right he actually put up the the the
the lower cover of the
mishkan um before he put up the beams
the supporting beams which hold it
up so so according to the he
writes either you had you had people
standing there holding it you know like
some some places that you they have a
minut that you give a cover to four
people to hold the at a
wedding right so it could be you could
say that they had people holding up
the curtains the riot until the crushing
were put down
oh the rabbis actually say right uh it
was done
miraculously so we have to understand
why go to this trouble having four
having you don't need four people you
need a lot more than four people you
need about 100 people holding up holding
up the curtains until they bring in the
breams OR it was a miracle why why why
not what the you know there was a mlus
between K between um B and Moshe what
goes first the mishan goes first the
kushim goes first right he told he told
them to build the the the cim and so
said to mosha what do you mean you first
you build a house then you put the cim
in and he says bet kale you were
standing in the that's exactly what the
ronam wanted we're not going into that
conversation what mosha Renu had in mind
but they had this whole discussion right
what to build first right so good terms
of building first it's all hit it on the
head you build the the the curtains
first and then you build the bring in
all the Caleb but but what was this all
about
right what purpose do this
serve why didn't they build it like
normal construct construction companies
right first you put up this supporting
beams which will hold the the curtains
right that would come
afterwards and afterwards curtains so he
says
something uh very beautiful thought very
beautiful thought I want to
S the whole purpose of the Mish was a
dwelling place for the ronam that the
ronam should come down and live amongst
us and influence our lives right
right the Mish and its were to bring
down the the spiritual uh light of Theon
to be that it should it should it should
affect
us like he gives an example
a there's a body that carries a you have
two very contradictory items there
right so now we're going to see
the
right which he did
with this is after the we discussed this
last week also building the Miss was
after
the and at that
point the Jewish people were not exactly
ready
really ready to embrace Theon and have
the the in other words the Mish the Mish
was actually a gift right we were on a
low level we were bereft
spiritually
so it it we were at least animated
enough to
want right we wanted something so and
hasem wanted to know that was there was
much more okay so El
put first
preceded so he put the curtain which is
like completing the mishkan he gave us
that spiritual the total spirituality of
the mishkan even when we were on a very
uh low level spiritually right and
before we were ready for it right
um to strengthen us
spiritually so that we would be would
respond to that that Cur that really we
really not really deserving of it was
Mish a gift from AES being on an
inferior spiritual level right so the
wanted to inspire Us by giving us the
whole thing he gave us the whole Cur the
whole structure of the mishkan on top
right at least they wanted the he knew
that they wanted the he didn't stop
there they wanted the there right
but we knew we knew that we had not
reached the the ultimate levels of
spirituality we needed to work on
our we we had to carry the carry our
weight we had to carry the K we had to
do
something therefore the were put up
first he gave us the entire he gave us
the whole thing he gave us the whole
thing before
the the supporting beams were
there afterwards he put in those things
that are going to carry the mishan IE
the spirituality to create the
spirituality from our perspective right
Noti there's two Dimensions to the
mishan mishan is called
mishkan it's called mikash right on the
one hand it's Mish
is he comes down from Heaven to Earth
but it's also mikdash that we have to be
mades we have to hold up the beam so to
speak and make the kadha go from Earth
to heaven right it's a two-way street
our relationship with the so he
Mish he knew we wanted it we weren't
ready for it he wasn't going to give us
but he gave us he gave us the the
curtains he gave us the cover and and
that we had to now put up the we now had
to put up the beans we had to do
something to demonstrate that we have to
participate in the K of having the with
us and based on this he has two examples
two different
examples in Egypt we were on the 49th
level of of T we were speak
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okay
I'm
right we were if we would have stayed a
little bit longer in in Egypt we would
have been irredeemable we were so iMed
in the negativity of
MIT right thean would have waited any
longer it would have been the end of it
would have been to borrow from the the N
the musel or the nimel curtains okay to
use a phrase right so we were not worthy
of that's the point right he rushed us
out
I'll on the on the hope that taking us
out
of the whole purpose was to take us to
SII to Hari to receive the Torah right
and that's what he did he he he sort of
made a catchup he rushed us out there
was rushing us out he the whole exercise
of was rushing us out right getting us
in in in a in a spiritual mode to to
want to desire to be desirous even
though we weren't worthy but he wanted
us to create that sense of worthiness
amongst our selfworth amongst ourselves
to get to ouri and he says another
example who
Shabbat we say in the second not in the
first L the first L the first of the Ten
Commandments
that Hashem giveth the shabas because he
rested on shabas but in the second right
it's
right in the last it's because because
of what was the point of
this would not give a shabas until we
were ready he wouldn't have given us the
Torah when shabas until we were ready la
Al there would never be a Torah we were
we were not ready to receive the Torah
we were not deserve but we wanted it
right there was a certain
desire but but shabas spread it its
wings
on and that heighten our desire to do
shabas that this whole thing
of we were not worthy of being taken out
of Egypt if he wouldn't have taken us
out it would have be the end of Cl
Israel but he took us out because he
know we wanted we wanted to do the right
thing even though we weren't really on a
level to do the right thing so
that'ss bringing us
to
right in the first set
of in ISRO The Ten
Commandments we on a very high
we could be prepared for shabas even
before it
comes is not mentioned as the reason for
shabas in the first luas we're a very
high we didn't need it we didn't need to
remember right
right so that's that's the point here
remember right that I took you out I
rushed you out I got you out of there
and I brought you to a spiritual moment
that's what's in these
finalas okay then he just he
off one of the
four which we read
before right in the month
of So reading
pares right and um the month of niss the
preparation for PES is like it's like
almost putting up the curtain of the B
mikash of the mishkan and before the
crush him and we come into the Seder
with the crush him okay I just want to
add one thing that I saw many years
ago said that um why is it called shabas
a shabas before PES why is it called the
many answers to that question why is it
called
shabas so um
he says because until we had only one
reason to keep shabas
first
because rested on shabas therefore we
rest on shabas
with with PES we were given that second
or sh to keep chabas shabas now shabas
there are two reasons for the the origin
the source of Kad okay let's go to
number two
this is from the D morai we used the DOR
M last week Mor Dro great who a great
was a great mugg in yusan but he's going
to ask three questions and he's going to
answer the question with a piece from R
hutner he's going to really paraphrase
something that MIM of R hutner so let's
see what his questions are the PUK says
at the beginning of the
parish these are the pish Mish the Mish
of
testimony M this is the counting that
was done Al Moshe by
Moshe
okay um Rashi on this on the words
mishan the mishan the Tabernacle the
Temple of testimony of adus what is the
testimony so Rashi says
it's testimony
to now the word v is a difficult word to
translate
V he um he was lenient he overlooked he
overlooked he
was he
overlooked for the sin of the the
remember that word it's very very
important he
was he overlooked the fact that they the
of the the doing of
the stayed with them stayed with us now
I've got three
questions number
one theor says
in teachers
anyone who says
that closes his eyes and pretends he
doesn't
see
right his life will be overlooked to say
such a thing about Theon doesn't
Overlook anything right he's God of mish
right his works are perfect he
everything he does is M it's Law and
Order how do you say that overlooked
the what does that mean right question
number
two it
says for for protection
K from this word thear there
sh theel the golden calf is sh the
golden calf is still with
us there is no such thing when when when
we sin as CLA Israel sins part of the
punishment will come because of the sin
of the agel the sin of the agel is is
somehow always mixed in it doesn't go
away was such a Trav
it's still
there it
says on the day that I I chose you
right so so he didn't he didn't Overlook
the sin the of on the sin of the
right third
the fact that
fact allowed us to have the mishan and
he is g to live with us because he was
he was there he atoned for the US for
the right not
true God never leaves us he lives with
us even when we're
impure even when
we're so three questions he's asking
right what do you mean k is a VIN that
he overlooks K anyone who says that is a
VIN he overlooks his life is finished
right number two he asks that the agel
what do you mean the agle's gone the
agle's not gone the Gora tells us that
every time qu Israel sins there a people
that the agel plays a role here the part
of the punish is for the agel right and
thirdly what do you mean he dwells with
us because he forgave us for the agel he
he he forgave us of the angle overlooked
the agle no K lives with us even in our
Tuma he really lives with us right he
might be angry at us but he lives with
us
okay so he's going to answer these three
questions with a piece from
rner he says
all and I heard an explanation for this
based on something R mimer we might have
done this mimer many years ago I'm not
sure but it doesn't matter says like
this there were two Dimensions to the
giving of the
Torah on the second day
of chose
us to be the chosen people we were
chosen on the second day of
right that's when he chose
us
says you will be a treasure to me from
all of the nations of the
world right whether the six the seventh
of he gave the actual Torah to
them this says so you have two things on
he chose us
on the second of s and he gave us the
Torah on right so rner
explains when a person
sins there's two things he does when a
person sins there are two tra
travesties he is he has he Wasa he he
sinned against he trespassed against the
Torah itself the MIT that he was given
the mice the MIT that he was given right
secondly yes there something else
another trating another tragedy the
hasem in the the relationship the
intimate relationship
with right someone sins against a mother
a father a loved one it's the sin that
he did right he yelled to say that a
parent right and the second thing is he
the relationship he destroyed the the
relationship with the parent right so
that's the two two two dimensions of a
one is that you have you have sinned by
doing the the the ver and number two
that you've you've distanced yourself
from you his Embrace and you haven't
taken it you
right was po the god chosen is the
chosen people right youve rejected
that chose
he brought us close right what does it
mean to be a chosen people that he gave
us the Torah
right for the sin
itself IE building doing the golden
worshiping the golden calf
right hitting a parent
right on that Theon is not forgiving he
doesn't Overlook that on that Theon is
does not
overlooked right and the hairs
breath the sin is not is not overlooked
he's not lenient right he's not
compliant with it
right
therefore there's never a punishment
that comes does not have a little bit of
the a right a little bit of the aego
because he wasn't M on the
itself Overlook at the what did he
Overlook what's
the that
means ofel not the sin of the AEL but
what was the overriding Mel that they
did an
AEL right
it was a that they they it was against
God right
Al as as a as a chosen people who were
chosen right embraced us he wants us to
embrace him back we didn't Embrace him
back on the making of the idol itself
that there's no V you do an a shab
shabas whatever you kill somebody sh
anything you do a right there's no VOR
on that you got to do cha right there's
no overlooking but on the
relationship that you you moved away
from me that hurts but I I can't I'm I'm
I'm overlooking it right now I'm hoping
you're gonna come
back and he kept the there right my
finally that answers the first two
questions right
on the final
question God lives with us even when
we're right even when we're
impure
explains that's
not that's not a
a a priori situation that's not an ideal
situation but
have the preferred thing that who wants
he doesn't want to build the he doesn't
want to build the Mish in such a
circumstances in that being
said he kept his there okay so you hear
what's going on here he was V he
overlooked the the fact that we
devastated him we we we we rejected in a
certain sense the relationship with him
that he overlooks he's hoping will come
back the sin itself he doesn't know
looks okay final piece on page two is
from the saer
iasha which is from the
gash altar the rashash Sha of sh alter
the rashash Shiva of
G who in the last few weeks has not
failed toh disappoint us right not to
disappoint us rather
right okay so here he quotes from one of
his grandfathers the imis was one of the
gas the
imis during the first world
war he was in Warsaw during the first
world
warar he said
the to answer the question of
the here's the P we're dealing with
saish you he put up mosha put up the the
whole area of the courtyard of the
mishan the courtyard of the
mishan Mish around right for the M
inside and he put up the the curtain the
curtain which would be the Gate of
the completed the
this is before Ma I think the end of the
par right he put up he he was making he
was
Yak the the courtyard
right uh is God commanded motion now you
know many time so many times in this par
it
says every time that mosha did something
it says
but first of all um
I think I skipped something
here why doesn't it
say just says it says he completed it
right the he did the he did his job but
every other thing in this para and in
last week's para was something that was
built for the Mish it
said as commanded Moshe to do right
every and everything that was done so so
here's the answer of the
IM theater is a metaphor
toay the courtyard the inner Courtyard
where the is is fear of
God theor
says Whoever has Torah it's aor shabas
anyone who has Torah might be a big he
might learn Torah
right he doesn't have fear
of G he's like a a gizor a minister
let's
say he gave him the inner
keys he didn't give him the outer keys
right the is the key to get to
Torah the courtyard where you come into
the
house that's the the the inner
sanctum in this same place in the
gor
announced woe to the person who doesn't
have a
courtyard with but he made a fence
around the courtyard doesn't have
anything inside but he made a fence
right you have a lot an empty lot you're
going to build a house so you put a
fence around the lot where's the where's
the the house right explains one of the
great commentaries in theor
shabas means the card
right when the was put up
it doesn't say Moshe you know did as he
was commanded to do
right right because talking about
yay
isay the courtyard is y right Torah
without Torah is kind of superficial
compar comped to the Courtyard inside
which is and the
says what is from
you he wants you to fear him that's all
God wants me he wants a little bit of
fear of the Lord we should have a sense
of sense of
the the explain on
this everything is in the hand of God
except right so there Rashi says whe one
is tall whether one is short whether one
is dark skinned whether one is
light-skinned right etc etc right all
these things are in the hands of the
right we have no control over this right
you except
for that we have control
over this is the internal thing that a
person has to work
on it's true that it was a commandment
of God to build
the the T says put in
the but the Torah did not bring it out
as
a to point out that mosha didn't do what
he was commanded to do no no
no in order for
be he's got to do it on his own he's got
to do it on his own
notem Moshe the way God commanded mosha
to do not good enough that's for
everything else in the Mishka but you're
aay it's not because God commanded you
it's got to come from
yourself now I want to add something
else here before I finish this piece
something that I've said in past years
and understanding this kamorra I might
have said it recently I don't remember
but
this right so Rashi says Rashi gives the
explanation that I gave you everything
is in the hand of Heaven except right
everything's in the hand of Heaven
whether you're tall short whether you're
light or complexion dark complexion etc
etc except for Rashi says sadik rash
whether you're going to be a sadic or
the opposite right so why does the
gamorra not say that rashi's why does
the simply it makes more sense
everything is in the hands of Heaven
except whether you're going to decide
whether you're gonna be inside every
other choice about your it's not up to
you right but this is a choice why
doesn't it say that right makes sense
right what dides it say what does it be
except for so I always learned the gor
the following way if you go to an
Earthly judge you go to court and the
judge says all right listen you have a
choice right here's the choice either
you you you pay up or you do jail time
pay up you're gonna pay up or you gonna
go to jail which one is it right the
judg is objective right bu said
right he doesn't say except for being a
s or being a Russia what are you going
to do he gives away the what's the way
that you become a
is his hand
right to be except to be AIC in a Russia
but please be a s everything is in the
hands of Heaven
except is giving away what he wants he's
not he's a very subjective judge kav
right that's the
okay let's see the last part of this
piece from from the
G now he's gonna focus on something
else it
says you should lift up
the right
how do you raise a courtyard exactly
right in last week it said make the you
gotta make it
right it's talking about the curtains
right by putting the
curtains you've made a boundary around
the it's there already it's earth right
the ground of the courtyard is there the
it's there
right what does it mean to lift it up to
make
it the second Callum IM is based on the
IM that we started with
right
means and he's telling
M Elevate the elev move on makes makes
sense J
it can't be made by itself you can't
make it
right regular material thing
right you make something round or
Square the
airace the space the empty
space the airace of the Mak is there and
the ground of the Mak is there
just make a fence around
it that's not good enough you can make a
a beautiful fence right can make a
fantastic fence but you haven't done
anything tangible right sometimes you do
something negative right the the world
the great world the great leaders of the
world are are critical of the that we in
Israel because we're we're not we're not
taking care of the Palestinians we're
killing the Palestinians right right
when it came to a
million in Syria that a million were
killed nobody said anything in
Afghanistan nobody said anything in with
in Ukraine every country in the world
including Israel took in Ukrainian
refugees right what's going on here why
Israel has to save the Palestinians
Egypt built a great wall immediately
built a wall so they couldn't get in
every Arab nation is not why aren't they
taking them in
the wall but you avoid doing what you
really should be doing right excuse me
for the political example but that's
what he's saying
here you can do Torah you can do Torah
mitz back to
reality you can't just come
to right you can do misses right you can
you know um but it doesn't mean you have
right you have to work on it you have to
elevate
yourself you have to work very hard on
fear of fear of
God in order to acquire
it to get that inner fernel of of uh
living a spiritual life theay right
that's up to us God doesn't give it to
us
now he concludes at the end ofos we have
this
week that The Cloud of Glory was on top
of the mishan during the day and a was
there at night that was the great
miracle of traveling in the in the
midbar in the end off is
thek is in the ey in front of the eyes
of all the Jewish people
say in all of their Journeys right
rash I got a
question the clouds were not there
for when we were traveling the cloud was
there when we were when we were resting
so what do you mean the cloud was there
and the the fire was there when we
traveled right but
how do we understand this Ella listen to
what he
says place where we
camp that's also a
journey from the place where we camp we
we we go to it's a stop it's a rest stop
like you see on the highways rest stops
right and maybe not in this country but
you see in other countries a rest up
right so you're also traveling
everything is called a everything is
called a journey a rest is also
called how do we understand that what he
says the
opposite resting is also the traveling
is
resting because we're going to a place
of
rest so why do we call the place where
we rest really a journey
it's coming to tell us a major thing
here the journey that a person takes in
this
world this is not a place of this is you
know it's not the place where we're
resting right he
gotas it's a journey life is a journey
we have to keep moving right not be
satisfied with what we have physically
right
we're on a journey for 120 years to get
to the world of Truth the pror Trin this
is the this is the you know the the gate
house into the main store Main Place
right right then he he he says he has
got yish here we're going to skip the
yish prepare yourself in the anti
chamber right this is our
world so you can enter we can enter the
world the world the world of Truth aor
he says here proor we said before is
theay that's what's going to get us in
there the the
courtyard our life's
work that we leave this world
with we come to the
while we're here in this
world TR we remember the Trin
right all okay I don't want to know just
in yish he say really the sometimes
gives us a Shuckle you know if you know
those of you who know Yiddish what he
writes here I'm Gap their B sh sometimes
the the owner of the palace the king of
the palace sometimes gives us a little
bit of a an earthquake right um to
remind us that we don't M off we don't
live here this is only we're only
stopping this is a stop stopping right
mate we're going to another place and
we're not
right so a little bit of a powerful
serious piece but that's why it
says Hamish you have to elevate yourself
that's what the mishar and the that's
what it's all about to elevate ourselves
to to a lofty world through yay to that
that as I always said I said last week
the purpose in this world is for us to
to embrace Theon to have an intimate
relationship withon because that's what
he has with us that's what he wants with
us and that's the way is one of the keys
the main key