Vayakhel: Yearning For Gan Eden! {L"n Ava bas Ilana Esther}

Good evening everyone. Brookim, we're here tonight to commemorate to memorialize the beautiful life of Ababat Elana Est. We all hope the detra that we speak tonight, the short detra that I have the opportunity to share with you, Rabbi Saban's detra should bring an aliyah to her, she should come under the kav and pray to that hashem brings all of Israel. He should watch over us in Israel and wherever we are and her should have a higher and higher aliyah so she could bring the gah. Amen. Amen. Does anybody know the very first mitzvah in the Torah? The first mitzvah in the Torah. It's very interesting. You know, the Gar tells us Shabbat that after 120, they're going to ask you six big questions, six biggies. In other words, you have to keep all the 613 mitzvot. But there are six fundamental questions they're going to ask us. They're going to ask us, "Did we work honestly?" They're going to ask us, "Did we try to have Jewish families? Did we establish, did we set times to learn Torah every day?" The Gamarra says one of the six big questions that they're going to ask us is Yeshua, did you yearn for the coming of Msiah? It's interesting. They're not going to ask, "Did you wear fillin?" Ultimately, we're going to have to answer that. They're not going to ask, "Did you wear tit?" They're not going to ask, "Did you light candles Friday night?" Of course, we have to answer in the affirmative, but that's not some of the big six. One of the big six questions they're going to ask, "Did you actively daily await the coming of Messiah?" You know, my grandfather was a Holocaust survivor. He passed away recently at 106 years old. He was a student of the great sadikim of pre-war Europe. He passed away on the first day of Pesak, the day of redemption. His last words in this world world, my father asked him, you know, Tati, are you okay? Everything okay? My grandfather wasn't responsive. And he said, yeah, I'm okay. Everything's okay. I'm just waiting for Msiah. And then he passed away. My grandfather awaited Msiah. Like you order something on Amazon and they say it's coming Monday or Tuesday and the doorbell rings and you say, "Maybe that's it." Yeah, we all say, "Yeah, Msiah, Msiah." We say it as words, but not as reality. My grandfather waited for it like reality. Did you know the very first mitzvah in the Torah is to await the coming of Msiah? Say, "Really? Where does it say that?" You know, it doesn't even say the word Msiah one time in the whole Torah. Yet the smack sevan who lists the 613 mitzvot says the very first mitzvah in the is to await the coming of msiah. Which mitzvah? The first of the ten commandments. I am the Lord your God who took you out of Egypt. How does that say you have to wait the coming of Msiah? says the the mitzvah is to believe that just like God took us out of Egypt, he's going to take us out of the five towns. That's the mitzvah. The same way God took us out of mitim, he's going to take us out of America and bring us to it's the very first mitzvah in the Torah. We don't get too comfortable. It's the first mitzvah in the Torah to await the coming of Msiah. Just want to share with you something very interesting in these parot. We have four parot that describe the building of the mishkan the mikdash. There is no subject in the Torah that occupies more real estate than how to build the mishkan. Interesting. I want to talk about some of the ingredients of the mishkan. where these ingredients came from. You know, we have the Shamuim. If you ever saw a picture of the Cohen, he had he had something he wore on his chest. 12 stones that each stone had the name of one of the he had precious stones on his shoulders, precious stones on his chest. Where did these stones come from? What in the desert? You think they were like digging in the sand to find stones? Where where they get the stones from? They got them in Egypt. There no precious stones in Egypt. Yehuda says something amazing. If you look at he says where did they get the special oil that they sprinkled on all the kaim and the beta mikdash? Where did they get the incense that they used for theat? Where did they get these things from? We read in this week's par literally the princes brought them. But says the wordim does not mean princes. It means clouds. Clouds. The clouds brought them. Where did the clouds get them from? Says the clouds went to Ghana. Then they went to the garden of Eden and they brought the spices. They brought the oil and they transported the spices and the oil from the garden of Eden to the desert. That's where the stones came from. The clouds went to the garden of Eden, took the stones and brought them to the Jews in the desert. Very interesting. That means there four ingredients in the Mishkan that came from the garden of Eden. The she theat the shamuim came from garden of Eden. Did you know there was something else in the Mishkan that was a replica of the garden of Eden? I want to share with you a kush. It's virtually unknown. You know, everybody thinks about the kuruim. You know the cherabs that were on the the holiest box in the world, the holiest spot in the world. The kuruim, the cherabs, the angelic figures that stood on top of the Aron. And we say, "Wow, you know, that's the first time we saw Kruim in the in the Torah." Is it? Is that the first time you saw Krueim in the in the Torah? No. No. That's right. The youngest are always the smartest. Where else? Where else, my friend, do we read about the Kuim in the Torah? In Beracius. So we read and this is how we learned when we were young but it's not necessarily accurate that in the garden of Eden after God chased Adam and Eve out of the garden of Eden he needed to guard the garden of Eden so that Adam and Kaba do not return. So what did he do? He put and what do they have in their hand? The rotating sword and you have these two cherubs, these two angels standing at the gate of the garden of Eden, you know, waving their sword to make sure Adam and Eve don't return. That's what they told you in kindergarten says in the garden of Eden there were two cherubs and God rested his on those two cherubs. The same way he rested his in the Mishkan, there weren't angels guarding it with a sword. In other words, this is very important. You know what the Mishkan is? The Mishkan was bringing the world back to the way it was in the Garden of Eden. The Mishkan was a replica of the Garden of Eden. I see we have the of Saban with such a it's like in this sh you're always in Gadan the Mishkan was a replica of the garden of Eden you had shaman you haveim you have theuim the cherubs on the aron were a replica of the garden of Eden in other words if you wanted to know what is the mishkan we read in about the mishkan what is the mishkan It's Ghana. It's a replica of Ghan. Oh, now we understand says there were 10 miracles that happened in the Mishkan. You know what some of these 10 miracles were? The meat never rot. No woman ever miscarried. What was common? What was the common theme of all these 10 miracles? The common theme was in the Mishkan there was no mita. There was no decomposition. It was like being in the garden of Eden. So nobody miscarried. The meat didn't rot. All the miracles in the Mishkan reflected the fact that the Mishkan was just bringing the world back to the way it was in Ghana. That's why after we read we pray and God return to us. bring us back to the beta mikdash in the beta mikdash it was like that's the meaning of that so this week when we commemorate the hila the yard site of this precious n it's not a coincidence it's the week of the week we read about the mishkan because when we read about the building of the mishkan and we remember the mishkan had Shham from Ghanaeden, a miluim from Ghana. Kuim like in Ganeden. It stirs our heart. It makes us aspire that Hashem should bring us back to the beta mikdash. Back to a time when there's no shalom, no, no. back to a time where we have these kuim a child like this, a young woman like this or even in her she had such amuna. She was like one of the kuruim, one of the angelic figures from Ghana that came down to this world to be with this special mishbah for a short amount of time to teach us a little bit to remind us what life will be like in Ganed Mikadan. And it's so significant that we read about it this week in parad. So it's an honor for me to be here to be in the presence of the holy matra to be together with my dear friend and to be together with this holy mishbaka who were the who brought this who brought this angelic sad down to this world and for to be the host to show Israel what life will be like when the Mishkan is built. When the mikdash is built and it stirs our heart that we should all pray together, we should be only to have. Thank you very much. We should cheer in cheer and happy occasion. Okay. [Music]