Tzav - Respect The Process | Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

Hi, this is David Olowski and welcome to the para in five where in five minutes we give you a little idea on the para pares. Yeah, there's a lot of interesting uh parios in par different subjects that are dealt with and one of them is for those of you who say corbonos in the morning and I mean the whole nine yards of carbon. Some people just say the carbon tid. Some people say the carbon tid and they say kyus. Um but if you say everything you know the first part that you say is trumas hadashin. Truma sades is a little bit strange right? uh when you learn about it, it means that the first aoda that was done and it could be done even before morning and uh the Mishna Yuma says that they would do it even at night before when it was very busy. So, uh, it meant that a Cohen would go up to the Msbayak and take a little panful of the ashes on the Msbayak, take them down and put them on the ground next to the Msbayak where they would then get swallowed up. It was a miracle. Even in the time of the second B mdash, you could see this. the floor would swallow up the ashes from the Truma Sadashan. So, um it's a little bit strange and yet the Gmoran Yuma tells an interesting thing about the Truma that they didn't even have a lottery for it. For everything else they had a lottery but for the Tumashian not too many Kohhanim showed up it was could have been at night already. Yeah. And so those who were ready and there they had a race up the ramp and uh whoever beat out the second guy by for Amos, he got to do the trumadesh. Here people are running up for the chance to be able to take some of the ashes off and put it by the side of his be. What is this a voda? What is this all about? It's to teach us something extremely important and that is today's avoda begins with yesterday's of voda. You understand? Life is a process. And I've quoted many times Rabbi Kish, one of the master educators uh today has a gift for bringing back those who uh who uh have had trouble finding their way. His one of his favorite expressions is respect the process. was a process in order to be able to um uh achieve what you have to achieve. You're not existing in a vacuum. Um there's an old expression that we're midgets on the shoulders of giants, but when we walk in, we have so much that was done for us beforehand that took place um from the previous generations, and we don't always appreciate it. Mark Twain, uh, he said, "When I was 17, I thought my father knew nothing, and when I became 21, I was surprised how much the old man learned in four years." There's an old expression, you don't have to uh uh, you know, reinvent the wheel. Something that's already been invented, something that's already been done for you, take advantage of that. And so the things that have been done before you and by the people who have gone before you, use those abilities and the avoda of what you accomplished. I'm always amazed that we have people who have no patience today. I saw a sign that said, "God, grant me patience and give it to me now." You know, because, you know, we expect things instantaneous, you know, WhatsApp. people are terrified to go into their WhatsApp because then everyone will know that you've read it and you haven't answered immediately. You know, there's a process. Yeah. You have to you have to take time to be able to accomplish something. And people are like, I'm not there yet. Why? I I would meet with girls and uh come to seminary like, you know, November time. I haven't changed yet. Gosh, it takes time. And that's why when you get to be my age and you tell time not by months or by years but by decades and you say this is where I was in my 20s and my 30s and my 40s and you get the idea. Yeah, it's a whole different way of looking at time. So the first avod is you take yesterday's ashes and you say today's avoda is being based on those ashes. And that's how we have to always go. We have to go as the Maharal says time is not a circle where you just keep repeating it's a spiral. Yeah, you come back to the same points but always on a higher level. And so we look at the para and we understand that our aoda has to be built on the avod that we've already done. I have to be a better person today than I was yesterday. I have to be a better person this year than I was last year. I have to be a better person this decade than last decade. Everyone should have a good chabas.