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The Elevated Hearts of the Jewish People - The Most Fitting Ending For Sefer Shemos!

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okay friends I want to share with you something on the trop in vak that I saw in ransi he says that you know we have these two levels I'm going to talk about that um in the next segment we have and we had those who their hearts generously compell them and we have those whose Hearts were uplifted interestingly the Trum on and they came each person whose heart elevated them and F is troubled by the placement of the here it says every man whose heart elevated him came pause and anyone whose heart generously compelled them you would have expected the pause should be as follows you would have [Laughter] expected meaning why doesn't it group together why is uh separate clause and then it continues and says the placement of theak tells us that they are a category unto themselves what does that mean says that there's a difference between generosity and generosity indicates you have an inner desire to give generously it comes from the generosity of heart not so n is not coming out of somebody who he wants to give you know some people are just givers they're very generous they they en enjoy and get a a satisf action out of being of generous Spirit but the category of Li is a completely different category the category of is somebody who is seeking is like a personal Liberation he's seeking to activate the potential and the capabilities and abilities that lay dormant inside of him it's not that he wants to give that's generosity is somebody who feels they're brimming with ability capability energy and they want to unlock this potential says that is a description of anybody who heard the call of said we're building a mish that created an elevated spirit in every Jew that they want to elevate them themselves bring out their greatness bring out their potential bring out their ability and capability certain that affected all of Cl is in some it expressed Itself by craftsmanship by some it expressed itself in weaving in building or in generosity but the beginning of the p is every all of Cl is who's their their heart El at them came and by the way one of the Expressions was but these are not two equal categories or two categories that are even remotely similar the Trump indicates that is a MAO that stands on itself and it's found so to speak uniformly in some sense across the spectrum of Cl is if I may add um a beautiful thought that I saw in Rabbi Emanuel Bernstein saer Dimensions Andes because I'm sure many are familiar with the comments on the ran on the words the ran has a beautiful uh presentation on the words that the ran says think about it you know these Jews who were in Egypt what were they doing they were Paving streets they were building buildings with big bricks and mortar it was not skilled labor it was manual labor and all of a sudden M says okay now you need to craft the delicate and sophisticated um design of the Mana or the Kim or to weave the Paras where would they have this ability from right it's like a guy you pull him off the street you see a guy um he's working on the roads of the BQE he say pal you know you could you paint the Mona Lisa for me like where does this guy have the ability to paint the monisa would you mind uh copying van Go's painting where did these Jews have the ability to make the articles of the mishan San says that there's a phenomenon called where somebody who is inspired who wants to do something for for a higher cause fores will be able to tap into unknown and unaccessed abilities that he never even realized he has but lay dormant in his soul so Rabbi bernin just pointed out that this is a very beautiful conclusion of sa sh how so because we know sh is the book of G so literally it means okay we were enslaved in Egypt and now we're free but it's much it's much broader than that because being enslaved in Egypt meant we had a very low morale and we had a slave mentality and we had no aspirations in life and we were not only in the physical restraints of MIT but we were in the personal constraints of the matar that that placed upon us we were very small-minded right so aside from the national slavery and servitude there was a a person a personal Straits that we found ourselves in we were of low morale low self-esteem no hope no aspiration in life but think about the liberation of sa sh by the end of the book the Jews were liberated to such a great extent that you had people who stood up and came to Mosa and said I could craft a Mana I could craft a Kim I could weave a that was an expression of of talent and ability and expression and really personal freedom personal freedom from being able to access all the greatness that laid constrainted in their soul so that's a very beautiful way that saer sh ends aside from the fact that the raban himself says that the G did not come to completion until Hashem came back and rested on the Mishka on the way he rested on the house of Abraham of of the a but this is a certain element of the liberation of okay that's what I got I have for you today I wish you all a wonderful chabas C than