Parshat Teruma: What Goes Around - Comes Around - Rabbi Yisroel Perelson

[Music] this week we speak about the building of the Michigan the building of the Michigan the utterly Michigan vishakan teba sacrum how colors Burke who says make me a Michigan and I will rest in the in your midst and I've got the spark who says God says I want everyone to feel like this space I make this this Michigan Mesa make tas's later but this Michigan belongs to every single Jew and how am I going to do that the equally trauma every single Jew is going to take some kind of gift and give it to the Michigan nobody will be exempt everybody is responsible to do this and this is the master circle this is the half a shekel we're also going to give a half a shekel right by your right before poram right by poram right by medical people give masters a Shaco hey Shaco and it's to commemorate this time of the year where the base I make that up the Michigan was built and when the Michigan was built also cloudy throw all contributed so this way this wasn't a building that belonged only to this individual or that individual it was collectively it belonged to cloudy strong but the terminology that's used over here is a very interesting terminology being equally true ma they will take for me a true mom what does that mean they will take so the question that everybody asks it should say they should give why take what's the idea of taking there's a story with an individual that saved the kid that saved the king's son and he saves the king's son and the King tells them you know what I don't know how to pay you back I don't know how to pay you back you saved my son my son is more than any amount of money that I could possibly give you what could I give you he says you know what I'm going to allow you to go to my treasure house and for two hours you could take whatever you want anything you take belongs to you and the guy was excited Wow wonderful he's going to collect all the stuff he's going to retire that's it he goes to the treasure house and he throws up bags and he begins to carry it out to bring it to his car and he brings one bag and it's heavy it's heavy and he brings another bag and it's it's too much you ready and he thinks to himself what's going on I said I did the king of favor and now I got a work extremely hard because I did the king of favor and what's wrong with this how does he pay me back this is his payment I'm sitting and working here for two hours of sweating away should have never saved the son I wouldn't I had this this headache now of emptying out there's uh his treasure house to my car obviously we all understand how foolish this is nobody asked you to attempt thi you won't go back home nobody needs you to do anything and in reality this is exactly what a college Borg who gives us he gives us mitzvahs he gives us Commandments and those myths vote yes they're hard some of them they're difficult we're carrying a burden on our shoulder it's it's not easy but who is gaining from it we're the only ones gained from it there's no one that gains from this except for us in the sense this is where I could lose Bob who says ve who beat rumah the equally true my let them take when they're building this mish gun they're not building a Michigan for me they're not building they're not doing anything for me I'm okay I'm gone I'm not missing anything by definition I'm not missing anything right but the ich who let them take it for themselves when they're taking what they're actually giving it's nothing more than than taking a person thinks to himself you know I'm giving to a poor person you know Wow thank God I was around if not if I wasn't around god to create another guy like me another wonderful guy like me that's willing to give this poor person out otherwise he would have dropped that no not at all that's not really that's not that's not what's happening as cause I'll tell us that more than the person that receives more than the person that receives is actually the person that gets is really the one the person that gives us really the one that's receiving the greatest amount Y of you have said it in a very very powerful way you have rights in court oh so not if out boy if you did if you did a sin if a person sinned what did you do against God you think you did something is God any worse off you didn't do anything no nothing happened ver roboshark Matassa boy and if your sins grew large what did you do to him he's not damaged it's not like anything bad happened to God beam so dr. Marty tonight and if you were righteous and you did a mitzvah what do you give him you didn't give anything he's not better off now that you did a mitzvah God is not better off mommio dekho iike what is he gonna take from your hand is there anything that you could give God from your hand in other words what a of a saying in a sense God doesn't gain or doesn't lose whether you do a sin are you doing Mitzvah there's no gain over there friend he was the same God before the Mitzvah and he was the same God after the Mitzvah he was the same God before to sin and he was the same God after the sin you did nothing for God and therefore a person has to have this approach the equally true mom which means to say when I do something good there's only one person in this world that gains and that's me when we think we're giving that poor person or we give a donation to the shul though we whatever we do it's not for the individual that's receiving we're the only ones that are gaining God will not drop the ball it's people think you know why did I see this all the time oh I don't donate to the show if you don't donate to the show the show will still exist if you don't put on tefillin the world is still going on if a person doesn't keep Shabbos still nothing runs any different you didn't do anything for God nothing the equally true MA well you're doing is simply taking for yourself simply taking for yourself and a person has to have this approach in life the approach that I do whatever I do at the end of the day I'm going to gain from it God by definition is not missing a thing by definition right why did I call the smoke will create us the only person though it purposely created us is to do good for us that's the only person that's the beginning that's the end just to bestow good on palm people that's it so meaning to say when a bird said gave us 613 commandments he says go grab it you right now in the treasure house grab what you can don't be like the guy complaining oh my god this is too heavy what am i doing nobody don't do it don't do it I could go ahead and and and and be against him if I want if I if I get it if I get upset and so this is what he was saying nothing is altered believe me right you can't spite him he's gone he's infinite there's nothing that you could do against him a person meets someone at the crossroads and when a person meets this individual across the road he asks them which way is the best way for me to get to my town so this individual answers em there's Derek our rule cook Serra and sarra Arouca which means to say there is a short long way and a long short way who's that mean he's talking to him in riddles what does I mean a long short way in a short long way means to say that there's a way that you're gonna have a nice paved road in the beginning but the end is all full of thorns and going to get bloody and it's going to be problematic or you could take this road and it's it's long short there's a little bit of bumps but the end you're cruising away you're cruising in the sense that is what our approach in life is and our approach to up and everything a person goes to college a person studies hard puts a lot of effort yes he's taking the long short way it's long it's hard but eventually it's going to cruise and it's gonna be easy or a person in his youth could party away he could have a great time but he's taking the short long way at the end when he'll have a Miss barkow have family will have children up they'll have a very very difficult time so everything in life is this way and this is the same thing with a person and his religion a person a religious person a lot of times yes he's got some restrictions he has to do things a certain way but at the end a person will appreciate it and you see this so many times I remember speaking to a person you know what in fact I don't think he minds if I say it the one that started this year Ronan the one that started it we all him a lot of credit yes Sadiq he told me and he's to tell me many times it says you know rabbi when my parents came to this country so they sent me they sent me to Sheba and they didn't have anything didn't have anything we were poor and they sent me to Sheba and their friends would ask them their friends would ask them what are you doing look at us no tuition we're driving nice cars it's beautiful we're having a wonderful life I've been wonderful life years later is when everything came very very clear years later you saw the crossroads that these two families of these number of families were presented with one chose to be poor and to stick it out and and to sent the Kitty Siobhan today that family has children and grandchildren and tremendous amount of Nahas and the other ones the other ones took the other path what's public school it was whatever path they wanted to take but at the end of the day they always turned to Ronan's parents and they said who gave you the wisdom who gave you the sense you ask them where where are your grandchildren Oh don't ask my children might have a child in San Francisco he's living with a girl I always tell them you know why can't you give me a little bit enough let's get married already give me grandchildren you know I always convince them but he never listens to me why you took the short road which is tremendously long so a person has to understand be equal be true mom when you follow a college bird whose ways it's not you're not giving to God you give me to yourself at the end of the day you're going to be the one to have all that NACA's it's not something that you give away or the tuitions it's hard you know people get right when they begin to write the check for the tuition they develop instant of thright Asst you know very very hard to write the check right why this should be the first thing this is the investment that will help for life this is this is the nacos talking about your daughter's knock us this is the mattress this is it pays off it pays off in this world we're not talking about the next world of course in the next door we all believe that we're gonna get tremendous amount of reward but forget that we're not talking about that we're talking about now we want instant cash right we want cash in this world and this is what it is we receive cash in this world the cash is that tremendous amount anak us we're all of a sudden you have your children you know where they are it's not like a child you ask yes the parent the parent stays up till 3 o'clock in the morning because the daughter decided to hang out with a bunch of girls and you don't know where she is this doesn't happen this is not this this is not the life that we look forward to no the life we look forward to burn necklace Hanako you children around your house around your table you have the Shabbos table and it's enjoyable with singing with good food with where does that happen that happens if you take the long the long way which is very short at the end and not the short way which is full of thorns and full of miseries and there's absolutely no knock us for anything that a person is done we know the Gemara tells us Skaar mitzvot Baha'i al maletto which means to say that the reward of a mitzvah in this world doesn't exist doesn't exist what does that mean what does that mean that there's no reward in this world no crashing well Evans explains that what it means is that God could wants to give us so much but we're not capable we don't have the wherewithal to be able to accept all that goodness for example if a person comes to you with a cup and he says you know what can you please fill the entire Atlantic Ocean in this Cup it's impossible it's not possible right it's the same thing when I've got this book who wants to give us give us enjoyment that is stored in the world to come there's no way he could give us in this world this world were holding a little cup how much could you put in this little cup how much in German does a person have period in this world it's very very little enjoyment you give him a little bit of foody you gotta wait six seven hours until you can give him some more good food right every enjoyment is very very short-lived and therefore in this world I could have article cannot really really pay us and a person has to understand that there's many levels of enjoyment many levels of enjoyment and each time verses has to graduate to the next level we understand that a little child 3 years old enjoys a pacifier he loves it it's great it calms him down he looks forward to it it's great but if that little child becomes 20 years old and he's still enjoying a pan so fire it's very concerning at that point at that point you got major problems right why because you expect them to graduate with the enjoyment a person that stays with the enjoyment of only earthly things things in the in this world it's a tremendous problem you tell a person new what about Shabbos well Shabbos I enjoy driving I enjoy going to the beach these are tiny enjoyments this is this is such this is such a little my new thing how could you give away so much for a tiny enjoyment besides the fact that you sit around the Shabbos table with children with singing with children with cocoa with all the greatest foods and you give it away for something so tiny it's like still sticking to the pacifier when you're 20 40 50 60 get out of the pacifier it's time for for it's something that really is moving for something that that that enriches you so for something that that that gives you spirituality and fills you up I was just yesterday unfortunately as a rabbi I get to deal with end-of-life issues so I went to visit Jack Hirsch was his father-in-law unfortunately this should be should help him out also this year and it's touch and go it's touch and go and I decided before I went that you know let me take maybe a grandchild maybe we could do something so called up Jack and I asked him you know let's take somebody he says you know what take Monica and Monica was smart enough to bring her guitar she brings her guitar and she's playing over there she's playing over there and the person was completely honored unresponsive her grandfather was unresponsive until she started to play in the middle he literally opened their eyes his eyes without any strength but fighting as much as he can and leaning towards her and and and saying to her basically couldn't talk but just the gestures I stood there dumbfounded I was like I was watching this I couldn't I couldn't stop watching it she brought him to life she brought him to life on the way back I take her back and I said you know you did such an amazing thing for your grandfather so she tells me and this is a 60 16 whatever I don't know how old she is 16 17 she tells me rabbi I never had such a good feeling in my life when I was able to give life to my grandfather I really want to continue doing this type of thing I think I'm going to visit people in hospitals what does that mean I said you know why you were so happy because you did something godly you didn't you you weren't busy with something physical physical brings you tiny amount of enjoyment this type of feeling this elated feeling that you received now is something you could only do you could only get and feel when you do something godly that's a higher level of pleasure it's not the same simple level of pleasure that's the idea the equally trauma take for myself in other words when you do take something higher take a Shabbos take it to fill and take it's it's a stake for yourself take grab because these are items that will forever ever stay with you kupets Heim says he brings a mushroom similar muscle to what we had before brings a mushroom with an individual that saves the Kings wife and the King tells them go to my treasure I'll take whatever you want this guy's a little bit smarter he prepares he brings bags and when he's in the treasure house he doesn't talk to anybody he doesn't eat he doesn't breathe he's busy working every moment and he's slepping and schlepping and working hard and he empties out a tremendous amount years later his children come to him and telling grandpa his children grandchildren grandpa dad tell us what was the best day in your life and he says I want you to tell me what do you think the best day well one grandchild says when when the King honored you know the grandchild says when you stood at the at the wedding of your of your daughter and each one is bringing another another thing and he says you know what the best time of my life was when I didn't eat when I was working extremely hard when I didn't go to the bathroom although I was working ten hours a day when I didn't stop for one moment I didn't even breathe I was sweating buckets and I was working that was the best time of my life in the Kings treasure house working for 1012 hours that was the best time of my life we look at a person that works and it tries to be firm tries to be religious tries to do every possible Mitzvah and we have to understand that person he's a been hiring says in the Cabana Clarion LM Misha I said material who was it Ben Clarence someone that that delves into Torah why you have Ben Horne why you're freemen look at this other guy he does whatever you wants you could do you could sit and watch 25 channels today at the same time eating popcorn drinking soda and beer and a free life free life right it's wonderful it's amazing I have a better life if I'm sitting and working hard says the cuff it's kind yeah absolutely because that work you're working with the idea that you're saving for eternity and not only for attorney even now your life is going to be so much better just like that individual that's worried that was working in the Kings treasure without taking a moment's pause and you look at him you say wow what do you mean look what he's doing I'm able to do whatever I want look at him working hard this was the best day of his life we're really a ship says what's the difference between a slave and a free person what's the difference a slave works hard I know plenty of free people that work extremely hard right the richest people in our community work 16 to 20 hours a day ok I know personally I know so what's the difference between a slave and somebody that's working hard they both work hard could be the person that's fries working a lot harder than they than the slate what's the difference scissor Billy a ship does one difference one at the end of the day pockets the money in his own pocket and the slave at the end of the day only enriches his boss says a Kadesh borrow be equally true ma take for yourself because at the end of the day if you're working in this world and you're working extremely hard right what happens at the end at the end what are you taking with you what do you have so you worked for the wife and for the kid and for the who knows maybe for the second husband and who knows for what right who knows for who you worked for the person works very very hard who knows if you get a heart attack and the next husband will have it so who are you working hard for but if you do something spiritual of course if a person works hard so you could put his kid in yeshiva so you could give a donation so you can help this one out he could be available for that individual then that work is worth that he will get skarphol he'll get credit for that hard work that hard work is eternity he's not wasting his time but a person's focus is only that I should make my lifestyle so Wow and that's his entire purpose in life then at the end of the day he's missing the be equally true ma that you'll take we're not taking anything you're not taking anything and therefore colors both who tells us in the beginning and EF says believe me whatever you're doing in life person comes to shul he thinks to himself God now I came to shul and I would stayed for a Shearer and now my business God you owe me one you are what are you kidding me what kind of joke is this alright you owe me one that right now my business should run you shouldn't have any problems today who are you kidding it's for got it for yourself and therefore be equally true mom cuz for who says take for yourself because at the end of the day I could hold my own I don't need anyone with this concept in mind we could really capitalize on each moment in life because anytime we have an opportunity that comes our way and we grab it it's ours for eternity we give a for man ten dollars it's wonderful ten dollars a meal that doesn't compare to what he gave us he gave us something that we will never forget could always look back and say I'm happy I gave it away I don't feel poor or richer I'm happy I gave it away I wish everyone a good Shabbos and thank you for listening and we should go with that attitude that lets grab and grab we're right now in the Kings treasure in the Kings treasure house no missus should be too hard we should never complain all my god what is the King doing to me he's giving me this hard Mitzvah it's for you take it grab it enjoy it and it's yours for life [Music] [Applause]