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Parsha Perspectives for Today (Ki Sisa, 5782) - Silence Is Not Neutrality
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The Torah and its messages are timeless. Join me as we draw from the weekly Torah portion to extract lessons and inspiration for today from a wide and diverse range of sources and personalities. For more content, visit http://www.rabbiefremgoldberg.org. - Introduction - We Are Counted By Our Contribution (R. Weinfeld) - Redeeming Yourself From God (R. Soloveitchik) - Upper Limit of Donation (R. Nachman of Breslov) - Talents and Calling (R. Moshe Feinstein) - Calf As a Leader (R. Reuven Feinstein) - Moshe As Leader of the People (Meged Yosef) - The Sin of Silence (R. Yechezkel Levenstein)
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god spoke to moshe
of the jewish people according to their
numbers how do you take a census of the
jewish people well in america they knock
on doors they send a link and you fill
out a survey you take a census the most
efficient productive way
by counting people but that is not a
jewish census the jewish census is make
a contribution now interestingly unlike
my little appeal just now for the global
campaign or my big appeal for our
capital campus campaign this was a small
appeal a half shackle and not only was
it a small appeal but they do
collaborate
don't give less everyone give the exact
same thing
it's a funny appeal we don't run appeals
like that we have levels and layers and
names availabilities like yaakov the
gold silver platinum uh the shvatim
different holy cities in israel
committees sit deep into the night
debating what name should we call the
different levels so we get people to up
their level and wear the lanyard and get
private access to the vip event
but not the
sheco
there are no levels there are no names
there are no layers there are no
lanyards there is no vip event
hashir
yaga
you're poor you're impoverished you're
indigent too bad you can't give less
than half shekel you're rich you're
wealthy you want the world to know you
want your name
all over too bad they can't give more
everybody gave the exact same thing for
this
for this
census
you collect it and it goes to albodas
omoid it all goes to the carbonus tibor
the public sacrifices the funds
necessary to provide to support the
public sacrifices the sacrifices on
behalf of the community all came and
that's why everybody was equal when it
came to them so it's interesting that we
count people
we don't count people
we don't count people how do we count
people by
their contribution
it's not an interesting insight
the jewish people
we number
of weinfeld who i like to quote weinfeld
says you know the total jewish
population on the globe
is a rounding error in the population of
china
the total population of the jewish
people across the globe are a rounding
error of the population of china and yet
we're counted by what we contribute to
the world not by our number
we're counted by our contribution not by
our number and look around the world at
our contribution to technology and
medicine into the difference we make in
the world look at how many nobel prizes
look how many breakthroughs look how
much advancement like how much progress
look how much
ethics and morality we are meant to when
we succeeded in contributing to the
world we introduced to the world to the
greatest truth of monotheism of ethical
monotheism so the beginning of our
parish is a reminder that we're counted
not by our number
but we're counted by the contribution
that we make by the contribution that we
make
it's a very very important lesson a very
very important message but i want to
take a look at it by salvation to get us
started where salvation says the
following but each one give to hashem an
atonement for his soul what we were
meant to give kisa when you lift when
you count somebody by the way when you
acknowledge they exist
you lift their spirits a person feels
invisible a person feels they don't
count a person feels they don't matter
is rosh when you acknowledge someone
exists you lift their spirits you lift
their head
the nasty person has to give each kofir
nafsho what did you contribute the mahdi
shekhar represented a co-fair naf show
an atonement for your soul it's a funny
kind of a sentence could you imagine
someone knocks on the door and they say
would you like to think would you like
to participate in the 2022 american
census the florida senses the book its
own census and you say well i don't know
i don't really have time and i can't
really get involved right now and i'm
not really interested in they said whoa
whoa
you have to do it for ko for a nap show
it's an atonement for your soul
you slam that door as quickly as it
would shut
atonement for your soul what are you
talking about
trying to count on many people there are
so many chick explains the following
he says
hashem requires that each person redeems
himself to buy himself back from god
what is a redemption what is a ko for
naf show to redeem your soul is to buy
yourself back from god the entire world
is consecrated it's hectic the only
legal means by which we're allowed to
use haktish is through redemption the
halaq means to redeem an object as a
trade you can exchange the hectic item
with a non-active item the
non-consecrated item takes on the
consecrated status of the item while the
hectic item takes on the secular nature
of the non-consecrated item so myself
the farmer the farmer we have an amazing
farmer spoke here a few weeks ago and
she's our guest on behind the bema
tomorrow night if you weren't in boca
raton synagogue to hear her a farmer
observing shemitah
you you'll want to tune into this
episode which is incredible so the
farmer wherever they lived in israel
separated their maester cheney and it
had to be brought to you shalom but it
wouldn't necessarily make it there so
you'd be potent you would redeem it onto
something else and you'd bring the coin
and you purchased something there so you
were able to remove the sanctity the
consecrated status from the food and put
it on the coin the coin became
consecrated and the food stuff became
mundane so
a person can redeem the sacred or
consecrated status from something sort
of say liberate it allow it to simply be
mundane one's body wants close one's
children the entire universe requires
redemption to allow us to make use of
them yet what can man possibly offer in
trade that could affect such redemption
the entire world belongs to god so
salvation says you know we live in a
world that's all the hectic it's all
sanctified it's all consecrated all
belongs to him
if we're lucky it's on loan to us if
we're lucky we borrow it but really it's
his it's not ours so what right do we
have to use it what right do we have to
enjoy it
what right do we have to collect it
upon reflection on this paradox
in a moment of resignation proclaimed a
man cannot redeem himself he cannot give
on to hashem his redemption payment
passage
memphis yet many jews have tradition of
reciting khaparas on arabium kippur
where we quote a different passage in
which hashem says
redeem him from descending to the pit
i have found ransom possible
when hashem's attribute of judgment is
evident
versus operative while when his
attribute of mercy prevails the pastor
from eo pertains redemption
is indeed possible
what makes this payment says thereof in
three ways you ready so these innocuous
words at the beginning of our passion
each go for a nap show that when you
give that contribution when we count and
make ourselves counted we are redeeming
our soul how do we redeem our soul in
other words how do we have license to
live and operate and derive pleasure in
this world maybe every single moment of
every single day should exclusively be
dedicated
to sacred
and holy activity what right do we have
to do mundane things like eat
and enjoy
and interact with the physical world
around us how do we redeem it how do we
redeem ourselves he says three ways
number one
hashem the infinite enzo contracted
himself to allow the existence of the
world to make it possible for a finite
world to co-exist with the infinite in
keeping with the imperative of the
man must also engage in symptoms
hashem is everything he existed before
us he will exist after us he doesn't
take up the whole universe he is outside
the universe we can't even describe what
he is because it's outside our
experience
so how does hashem create a world and
allow us to have a relationship with him
in it
so the kabbalists the mekobalam explains
through a process called simpson
hashem contracts himself
he contracts
in order to be able to fit into this
world though he's infinite and has no
boundaries he contracts himself so that
he could operate in this world many
harbor illusions of greatness thinking
his abilities are limitless that he can
attain infinity first redemption coin
that god exacts from us is our own
contraction just as hashem himself
engages in symptoms so must we
man expresses symptoms first and
foremost by observing the precepts of
fealty to jewish law is unenforceable no
police no executive branch or government
no jails no punishment by following
allah despite the lack of external
enforcement we engage in symptoms so the
first way we do symptom is i want to eat
anywhere anything
but i don't
when i electively voluntarily live a
restrictive life i'm being with
something myself i want to look at i
want to say i want to eat i want to go i
want to do
but i create a set of boundaries and i
live within those boundaries i'm
emulating god i'm imitating god i'm
practicing simpson
i'm living within the boundaries that i
set forth we don't have police and jails
so why and in fact without that you see
the world today the levels of
assimilation levels of intermarriage
levels of walking away the levels of
people who have a casual attitude
towards halacha to jewish life and
living because there is no enforcement
system there is no
there are law enforcement so when we
voluntarily electively do it we are
imitating god's symptom hashem you
contracted you constricted yourself and
so do we
even though the world is out there
now there were many periods of jewish
history centuries and millennia where
others
created simpson for us they stuffed us
in a ghetto and they said you can't go
to this university you can't go to that
graduate school you can't hold this job
you can't enter our restaurant and
whether the jew wanted to be mid samsem
or not
they had no choice
there's goldman medina this great
country in which we live that gives us
such freedom and democracy and liberty
for which we must be
incredibly grateful and proud also
creates challenge
and
has spun us into a crisis because it
says come there is no simpson there are
no boundaries come join erase whatever
differences be who you want who you feel
you are participate and partake of
whatever you want to be in
so when we have to nevertheless be
medsante ourselves
this is a challenge of our generation
we have kids not only kids adults
they said boeing but i want to live like
everybody else but i want to live that
lifestyle but i want to partake but i
want to go but i want to wear but i want
to say but i want to eat but i want to
do
what do you mean i can't what do you
mean i have boundaries what do you mean
i'm different
we imitate hashem through simpson
through simpson the next attribute of
hashem that we must imitate the second
redemption coined to redeem our worldly
life is hester or nellam the attribute
of obscurity the ribonuclear not only
contracts himself he obscures himself he
does not act damage demonstrably nor
does he seek recognition
hashem
is a kel
mistake he's a hidden god he's hidden he
controls the universe but behind the
curtain
he doesn't reveal himself to us
he's comfortable and he prefers to be in
the shadows and that's what he wants
from us
man is naturally inclined to strive for
recognition for honor he wishes his
efforts and actions to be appreciated by
as many of his peers with as much
fanfare as possible not everybody
but there is a natural inclination and
instinct part of the human psyche to
love honor to love
attention
yet the greatest individuals and jewish
is to reflect precisely the opposite
tendency a predisposition towards
obscurity take for as an example an
august institution from thousands of
years ago the ancient sagadola the men
of the great assembly this group of
rabbis preserved the remnant of israel
through the first
golis
instituted the form of contemporary
prayer as well as the standard formula
for brachus laws of muktsa and the
abundance of shabbos their impact on
everyday life is immeasurable who were
the representatives of this noble body
how many of its names do we know
we don't have time now but if i asked
everybody shout out how many members of
the unshakeness psychedelic can we name
ezra
everybody knows that's why he knew all
those languages
that's what we know
the gemara states they were prophets
among this group who were they
we don't know
why they not include their names why in
the transmission of our torah shabbat do
we not know their names
because they walked in the way of hashem
in the members of the kadisha there's no
plaque we don't list their names next to
the pillar society
the people who participate in this
holiest most sacred mitzvah the
can't be repaid it's an obscurity it's
in the shadows it's quiet it's humble
it's modest it's the second redemption
that we pay so to say of our souls
is to do what's right without
recognition or attention
unless you're giving a large donation
then we are happy to put your name up
and lights
the rashba has achieved it's an
exception it motivates other people to
do it but generally speaking
we operate in the shadows in the
background and finally the third
redemption coin
in order to make use of this world is
elaine voiceless mute passive acceptance
reveals himself in a dramatic faction
hashem of glory thunders more often he
is mute and passive this tendencies
towards silence is also included in his
slowness to anger
a jew regularly decides to break up on
eating and satisfying his hunger all as
well he's healthy in the possession of
his faculties one can readily sense the
presence of hashem in cruel contrast
upon the tragic death of a mother
father-son daughter's spouse we tear
clothing we say bart and emma's a person
prepares the body for burial places in
the ground shows her at the top of the
casket everything that means anything to
him lies lifeless before in the grave he
recites the bracha where's the atta
where's god's presence at that moment
he's most tormented by the question he
responds with kaddish affirming that the
world is god's everything that takes
place in it is a reflection of his will
unanswerable unexplained tragedies have
accompanied the jew in his long history
when faced with death when a jew is
confronted with the ultimate taku an
unanswerable question he recites the
brahms emotional sublimation is the
greatest act of redemption that you can
pay the holy one so thereof i think very
beautifully there's a lot more to say
but not right now
really beautifully describes
these three
coins
the coin doesn't mean a physical
material monetary payment of redemption
the coin is the symbol of making a
payment
we pay god we redeem ourselves through
through experiences of simpson
i want to eat everywhere i want
saturdays at the beach i want to dress
like look like act like everybody else
but something ourselves there are
barriers there are boundaries i want the
spotlight i want the fanfare i want the
i want the ego the honor
yourself do what's right promote what's
right be the catalyst for what's right
but like hashem in the background
and lastly i want to understand that we
see later in our passion
show me your face
why do bad things happen to good people
the question of theodicy that's never
been answered before
a horrible horrible question it's not a
horrible question it's a horrible
question because there is no answer
why do bad things happen to good people
whether it's one
good person a child
whether it's six million
why do bad things happen to good people
if we protest hashem if we object hashem
if we want to and crave to understand to
comprehend
that don't feel bad or guilty because
none other than mushroom the one who was
closest with hashem than anyone ever
was bothered by this very same question
hashem show me your face
let me understand
and hashem says you can only see the
back of my head nobody can see my face
back of my head means only in retrospect
only after the fact can you sometimes
put the pieces of the puzzle together
but as it's happening in real time you
will never understand
because with the admission with the
concession that there's a god
is the admission and concession that we
are not god and therefore by definition
there's so much that we can't and won't
understand we don't
and that is the third act of symptom
that is the third pinya nephesh the
third coin that we pay
is hashem to live in your world the cost
of living in your world the cost of the
privilege of living in your world
is to surrender that we will not
understand everything
we won't understand so what do we do
the first famously said don't ask lama
but lima
don't ask why why do bad things happen
to good people you could get stuck
and there are
i think heretics will try to give you
the answer they make lots of videos they
try to get lots of followers
and they're very um
sensationalistic so they get a big
audience this is why hashem did this is
why the holocaust happened
insane people
make videos today
telling us exactly why the holocaust
happened
and this is why women get this type of
cancer and this is why men suffer this
illness and this is why this is
happening there are people and they have
followers
who say and pretend that they are god
and they can tell us why things so moshe
rabbanu didn't get to know but hashem
gave a direct message to them
it's heresy it's absolute heresy
it's a
failure to pay this third and final
pidonefish
sesham i don't know why
and i'm not going to get stuck on lama
i'm not going to get stuck on why
because that is a question that has no
answer instead i will ask lima for what
how can i be better how can i grow how
can i improve how can i change
because this is the reason it happened
so that's what i need to change
who knows when we get upstairs we'll
find out
but it's a good idea to change
nonetheless whether that was the reason
or not
so don't listen to anyone who tells you
they know because they're competing with
hashem and hashem no interest he doesn't
need to compete back with them hashir
lawyer bell we said let's move right
along the rich person cannot add more
the rich person cannot add more why is
it specifically half a shekel wonders
of the rest of
us
a much more efficient way to do a census
is everybody gives
a whole shekel why a half shackle
and why is everyone equal what is this
communism socialism
everybody gives the exact same thing
i went to russia twice i went to moldova
kishnev my cousin was running yeshiva
there i went wants to help on success
i went from israel i was in my second
year of israel
flew on moldovia airlines
so when they went around up and down the
aisle the cart for drinks
put down the tray which barely stayed
so they were handing out cups of seltzer
to everybody i said you have coke
and i'll never forget her russian accent
the woman said
everybody gets the same thing
and i thought to myself wow
communism is not quite yet fully
over
so everybody gives the same thing half
shackle
why is everybody given the same thing
wouldn't we want to encourage the person
who could give a million checkout give a
billion check out a trillion check out
half shackle same um nope can't take
more
i understand the honey you know you have
a minimum threshold trying to tell
everybody there's a minimum
beg borrow steal do what you got to do
everybody's got to give the minimum but
a maximum threshold
why would we tell the poor the rich
person stop
can't give more
says
you give a half shackle you think have
shackles of garnished this is a nothing
i'm contributing next to nothing
inconsequential
invisible makes no difference
negligible what's a half shackle what's
a half dollar
it's nothing
and this is exactly the point that toro
wanted to communicate
lola is by isla says
don't hesitate don't pause don't be
ashamed or feel guilty for giving small
things to hashem
this world is built on small things what
seems negligible what looks
inconsequential what seems invisible
is what changes the world it's what
means everything to hashem
it is the backbone the foundation of
relationships
marriages aren't made or broken
by flowers and chocolates
they're made and broken by whether the
socks made it in the hamper or whether
the toilet seat was put down or not
you're laughing i'm not joking
i'm not choking
come to a mysterious i get and ask where
did this marriage fall apart
and it didn't fall apart by major
ideological differences
fell apart because the small seemingly
negligible things
you don't mean my needs you don't
respond you don't communicate you don't
acknowledge my bid for connection and
the relationship with hashem is no
different of course it's the big moments
of course it's rise to the occasion but
it's the seemingly small did you make a
little bracha did you say thank you
the bid for connection do we acknowledge
its existence do we connect do we answer
the call
they need a tenth for the shiva minion
it's inconvenient you already started to
take out your filling you got to put it
back in and get in your car and find the
address and get there small
insignificant inconsequential negligible
who cares did you make the tenth of the
to the person saying shiva it's not
small
to the ribonus shalom it's not small
the world is built on these seemingly
small things
the things that look unimportant
the things that look inconsequential
sometimes what seems small and
inconsequential is us
we think what difference do we make
we're small we're inconsequential we're
fallible we're frail we make mistakes
does hashem really care about us
little small me
who even notices if i don't make it to
shul
who even would notice if i disappeared
tomorrow
what difference do i make
sure
so we think you know my little shimano s
frame my little bracha
my little dollar
there's somebody in our community a very
very holy person
a very precious holy person who moved in
recently
and that stalker box sadly only passes
the man's section every day
she comes to davao and shakur's milk
with the minions
very holy i'm embarrassing that person
right now i apologize
it comes to diamond every day but the
stucco docks doesn't make it around the
edges nation
so she puts a dollar every day
in the little slot in my door where
other shilohs are left and
checks are deposited
there's a dollar it's just a dollar bill
every day i take it in every dollar i
think wow
she thinks it's so small it's a little
dollar you know what that dollar is
she could say that stock a box they
don't care enough to pass the stock a
box around there is ezra's nostril
they don't get my stucco
a little dollar every day in that box
what it does for my day every day to
start my day a dollar a little darling
says
the torah says every year every jew i
don't care if you're a billionaire
trillionaire you're on tom
everyone has a half a dollar and
everyone gives the same and everyone
needs to know the little small things
they seem insignificant inconsequential
they mean the world to me says hashem
they make all the difference in the
world who shall
person thinks hashem only cares about
the shema estrella in the bracha hashem
only cares about the daphyomi or the
capital
of the tsadic of that sadekis
i was asking my we're doing this uh
global campaign in a few weeks so i said
to my kids at dinner last night who
should we have on behind the bema that
week we have to get a large audience so
the global campaign to help us to sure
so my nine-year-old son says i have an
idea i said who he said you should get
refrain
so i don't think he's doing podcasts
these days
he's like he's the biggest he's the
biggest guggle
i love that he knows that and thinks
that
it's incredible it's incredible i love
that he's so cute that he thinks that we
could get
on behind the bhima
but we think that sadiq gadolin oh he is
learning his bracha his talent he's
holding the door for someone his dollar
in the pushka that's what matters but me
i'mma cut that i'm
what's the point of the few pages i
learned that if you tell them i don't
even understand that i say
the fact that i made it to shul the
dollar i put in the rabbis
for limited
iraq nothing
you know we always find ourselves the
mistakes that we make we beat ourselves
up and we sit and we marinate in shame
when we come up short
but do we find and do we celebrate the
success
do we identify the little victories do
we recognize the nikudo satovas those
small little things that are good
every jew no matter how distant no
matter how full they've far they've
fallen every jew is positive
do we emphasize do we celebrate do we
pause and identify
you know what it means to hashem we
spoke about several weeks ago
to give what that means to give us
we know how good it feels to give our
parents our boss our spouse someone we
admire our mentor to give them
see how good it feels to know we give
hashem
the little things give him the greatest
and that's the mahi sasha shirley
misho usher of mitsubishi
if you're wealthy in total in mitzvos
you finished shah 17 times and you made
billion dollar donations to the
community
lola his goes don't get arrogant or
proud
don't feel so proud because you have so
much the dao and if you have so little
low yamit don't see yourself as small
everyone just give your mahathi sasha
everybody show up and everybody do your
part and everybody contribute what looks
and feels to be so small everybody do
your thing and that
dear friends is also the theme of this
program caught on today when we have two
adars a leap year such as today seven
times every nineteen years or something
like that we have a purim katana lipier
and adar shami so purim is really in the
second aadhaar so it's adjacent to
nissan
smith
we create the redemption next to the
redemption other shami and nissan but
today's purim khattan you can't let the
15th of other go by 14 divided go by
in a small fashion so there's a purim
we call it small
but the swarmakadosham say it's even
greater and bigger you know why when it
comes to the real purim you need a
sticker
you need to put on a costume in order to
really lose yourself and surrender to
experience a bittle
to really get the das
the highest knowledge you can have is to
know how little you know
the greatest das is to be mavato yodas
sounds paradoxical right
the greatest das
the highest level of knowledge
is to know
that i know
nothing what do you mean if i know
nothing how's that the highest level
because that's the highest level
the people who think they know
are on the low level of knowledge
but the people
you know daniel kahaneman the nobel
prize winning economist
cousin of the panavicious russia shiva
he was asked what does he think is the
most dangerous thing if there were one
thing he could change in the world what
would it be and his answer was
overconfidence
wars have been launched
relationships have been broken
people have died because of
overconfidence
doctors of themselves
if you could change anything it's
overconfidence
so the greatest knowledge the highest
dos is when you have no dust
the highest knowledge is when you know
you know nothing
so we dress in costumes and we get
inebriated and we actually carry
ourselves we look around the world that
people are in costumes i don't recognize
i don't know i don't comprehend i can't
see
it's a it's a venus who the world is
upside down i don't know the difference
between mordechai i have no das and
that's the highest
so we need all those other physical
stimuli to do it on purim but on today
we get to that level of das without
those things
so it's even higher it's even holier
it's an israzom they're people we have
to dive in for there are things we have
to dive in for
don't let today go by without leaning
into it and davening
don't let today go by without realizing
that we have to fight the amalek in our
own lives amalek is that voice of
that nothing's worthy of awe
or versus e to be a yield is all
shem you're everywhere this world you're
awesome
to be among is
nothing is worthy of allah nothing is
significant nothing is impressive
everything is coincidence and random and
chance and cynical and sarcastic and
there's that voice inside us and today
we squash it we extinguish it we silence
it instead we express our voice not of
but of awe wow hashem you're everywhere
and you're in every one and you're in
everything
and that gives me the chills that gives
me goosebumps that fills me with awe
and defeat the amalek in us
it's a day of ace ratsong esther went i
showed lokidas she went
she wasn't invited to the mall but she
barged in and she made her demands
if it meets the king's
if the king is willing please so today
we go in we're not invited
the tour says where those evil friends
come they come from esther
she says
we come in we say hashem i'm not worthy
i'm not worthy you didn't invite me i
don't deserve to be in here if you
decapitate me at this moment you're in
the right however
however if it pleases you
could you give a refusal to esther to
ila
carmel shy ben reza and everyone else
who needs one i'm not invited i don't
belong i'm not worthy
but
on this eighth zone
could you help those who want to be
married find their spouse
those who want to be pregnant have their
baby
and let those babies come out healthy
and well
mama martov so you got to take advantage
of the small things the mahathi sasheko
of nachman says
you are in torah in mitzvos on this
purim
we're nothing i don't care poor you
think you are hadalo yamit you think
you're unworthy you have nothing you can
still barge into the king and ask for
what you need
this purim khatta is a special day don't
let it go by
paragulam
turn the page
turn a few pages page 488.
i'm skipping a few sections of our
parsha they're worth talking about
we have in the past you can listen next
week when we don't have shear there are
many years of parsha shirum online by
yakel you could hear online you can find
them so we have the kior
which again the question begs itself
this is one of the vessels of the
mishkan why wasn't it back in parshish
truma
i
we have the basaman marjor mordechai
we have the incense we talked about last
shabbos the torahs
if you see minna greet it from the cloth
i'm sorry
for my little rant
the taurus the significance of the
guitarist and that brings us the pair
glamour of pasagala by dabberish
he said i have called you by name but
sal the son of the son of horror of the
tribe of yehudah
and amaleo
kim i have filled you with the godly
spirit
put a special pinch in your hat
you're the first
this is where it comes from what is the
philosophy of the balatanya what is the
definition of
certainly i am inadequate to tell you
for another time we can explore it
together but that's what hashem is
telling us
telling betsalo that he filled with
salah with those things
so
has a fantastic insight
as soon as i find it i will tell it to
you there it is ramosa
he's an artist and he's a craftsman
he's a designer he's a builder i filled
him with all these qualities and all
these talents ray c karasie i previously
called him
maisha asked for moshe where when
what are we talking about first of all
how old is betsal here
it's a bar mitzvah
he's a bar mitzvah
and he's already the architect of the
mishka
don't dismiss the kids
but why the word
see so listen to what moshe says
listen to what moshe says
i'm going to baltimore the shabbos i'm
speaking in bolton when i'm trying to
figure out what to say in the past i
hope the people of baltimore don't
listen to the posh class
i don't know what i'm saying there yet
so if you're from baltimore
forget everything
so emotions has the following is a goof
where do we find that god called out him
and said you have these talents and
skills
and the answer is
because he had those talents and skills
says ramosa
when a person thinks about their life
when a person looks into themselves and
says what am i good at
why am i here
what am i programmed to contribute to
this world
what are my talents what are my skills
what are the gifts that i was given
that's hashem calling you
he doesn't have to actually knock on our
door send us an email kris barco doesn't
call our cell phone
course barcode doesn't speak to us
he speaks to us through the gifts he
gave us
so if we look in ourselves and we say
you know what i'm good at this that or
the other thing and i'm not good at it
only for myself
those talents those skills those gifts
are not just so i can have more money
and more things
and more experiences
although there's nothing wrong with
enjoying that
but those were given to me to make a
difference
to contribute and to better and to
improve the world around me
that's why i have them
that's my responsibility
with them
it's the beginning of myself
the foundation of foundations and the
root of serving hashem
is for a person to ask themselves
what is my duty and obligation what is
my responsibility in the world well how
do i know i didn't get the memo
how do i know i didn't get a fedex
package
i didn't get an email i didn't get the
file where does hashem tell me what i
meant to do to the world how do i know
the answer is you have to sit down and
ask yourself
we have to sit and ask ourselves
so moshe says this is also the shot that
hashem said to avraham
sovereign says what do you mean how am i
supposed to give a bracha what do you
mean
how am i meant to be
look at your life and ask yourself what
talents what skills with gifts what
difference are you meant to make we
don't live this world for ourselves we
are here to serve we are here to make a
difference
and i have to tell you
if you want pleasure and happiness and
you like yourself
there is nothing you can do more for
yourself
than be a difference for others there's
just nothing better that feels better in
the world
so maybe it's ego maybe it's
narcissistic maybe it's self-serving
but it happens to be that he programmed
us that when we make that difference
that feeling
that i've actually contributed at a
positive outcome in the world
there's no better feeling that's why my
job is no better job on the entire world
than my job
i wouldn't trade it for anything there's
no better job in the world than what i
get to do i have the privilege and the
gift to do
is to try to everyday help and to try to
make a difference and you can do it too
and you do do it too
you don't have to be professional
that's the strike against me
when i get upstairs well that was your
job you got paid to it that was your
career
when you run the khadra kadisha or the
hassel or you volunteer to give the
shire you're the gabba in the minion you
call the person you visit the person and
you're the it's not your career it's not
your profession it's not how you get it
paid it's not what you how you made a
living
and you far surpass
any rabbi
but to be a difference to make a
difference to others says of moshe
where did hashem call bitsala where do
we see that where's the evidence of it
you know what the answer is
it's all had those talents and skills
whatever talents and skills we have
means it is our calling
it is our calling
that's what we're supposed to make our
our avocation our vocation our location
our advocation
our calling
is what we do a job or is it a calling
if you're lucky in life
it's both
for some who are less lucky but they
need to pay the bills nonetheless
they have a job
and then they have a calling
for some they are separate and if you're
fortunate they overlap
but we look at our life and we say what
am i meant to do and that is hashem
hashem says hey i called out to you and
i told you
i gave you these skills you're a great
communicator you're
incredibly and highly organized you're a
leader who can get people to follow
you're a foot soldier who gets things
done who are you what's your talent
what's your skill what are you artistic
are you creative what difference do you
make hashem by giving you that talent
and skill was calling upon you to use it
don't ignore him pericle on the days
plus aleph we're skipping shabbos the
parsha is so rich and filled and we're
skipping all these sections i guess
because we'll speak about them in
baltimore apparently
saitishmore
it doesn't say shabbasi observe my
shabbos it says observe my shabba sis
why
this weekend next week well why stop at
two
and every shabbos you're really keeping
two shabboses
what are the two shabboses you're
keeping every shabbos
come to baltimore the shabbos like that
now we've spoken about in the past like
mecklenburg has a fantastic insight but
moving right along
we get to the vayaram ki boshesh moshe
paraglam it based pasagalif
oh the people saw
if you don't correct when you start to
read this where it all begins to go
wrong
so beautiful he took us out
ten plagues splitting of the sea
miracles
falling of the month it's been
incredible building of a mishkan a love
affair a rendezvous point
and this is where it all goes wrong if
you don't cracks when you read this and
say oh
i hate this part
i wish they didn't
i wish i could warn them don't do it
the people saw that moshe had delayed
coming down the mountain where'd they go
wrong
they didn't realize that the day follows
the night so they miscalculated in the
timing and he said 40 days
when the 40 days were meant to begin
versus when they began and therefore
they panicked
elohim
they panic
they gather around our own rise up make
for us gods that will go before us for
this man moshe brought us the land of
egypt we don't know what became of him
where is he he's not back he's gone he
climbed the mountain he's never coming
down
so we don't know what to do so new
what do we do
so our own says take your jewelry bring
it to me they fashion aaron aaron is the
spokesperson iron is calling for the
building of the ego how do we understand
all of this so before we get to that
aruba in feinstein beautiful safer that
was given to me nah shalom rav rubin
feinstein i checked by the way when he
quotes the russia shiva is talking about
his father of moshe ramirez says this
possible begins the sequence of events
that led to the terrible sin of the ego
moshe was late and returning they
panicked they thought he was dead they
come down on the demand did he make a
replacement they felt their emissary was
missing they needed a new vehicle to
continue their relationship with hashem
every year we explained the kusari or
vidalia i find the most compelling
explanation they were not in fact
they were not in fact disloyal to hashem
they were not worshiping an idol they
wanted to serve hashem they had just
become accustomed to serve him through a
physical tangible means
we are physical people we operate
through our five senses
and therefore we believe
the truth of what our five senses can
perceive so when moshe could speak to
him and moshe could hold their hands and
moshe was a presence in their lives
through moshe they connected to hashem
and they panicked
without moshe what do we do we're all on
our own we can't do this
so the idea was to build an ego
we'll build a physical
manifestation which will take the place
or at least buy us time
question is
ask for really feinstein a great
question
why when motion does not come back
i never thought of this question before
i've learned precious question a few
times in my life never thought of this
question
when they panic
there are a lot of alternatives of what
they could have done in their state of
panic
give me an option what could they have
done in their state of panic
was there an alternative to moshe other
than a golden inanimate calf
good arum
never occurred to me that question why
didn't they say moshe aron
holy arun brother arun
your brother motion's gone he's not
coming back i guess you need to take
over
continuity
you are the successor
arun i know you're older than moshe
euros number two but slide over see you
just became number one you just became
number one he's not coming back
i was recently uh talking about i love
talking too but i was talking about my
good friend of a jonathan morgan in
scarsdale and the horrific horrific
story that happened in that community
there's a terrible fire one shot this
morning the beloved rabbi and rebecca of
the community passed away in a fire
friday night and he went from a young
assistant rabbi not necessarily on the
trajectory of the rabbinate for his
whole life
and he like the community came to show
that morning to find that room passed
away and his rabbit sin the whole
community came to shabbos wanted to find
out that they were gone and young
assistant inexperienced rabbi you're not
only now not not now only the senior
rabbi of the community
you need to comfort and usher the
community through this horrific loss
it's unimaginable
i have such awe of him
so the people could have turned to aaron
and said some loss is a tragedy we don't
know where moshe went he's not coming
back we're grieving we're mourning we're
in a state of loss but you know what
you're taking over
why build an ego instead of simply
passing the mantle on to aaron it's a
good question
it's a good question i never thought of
that question says rubin
says reuben why did chrysler need to
look elsewhere for the new mushrooms
they knew that well why wasn't it the
obvious choice
why wasn't it the obvious choice
the answer is
the old saying goes i never heard it but
the old saying goes better a calf from
the street than our own our own
when it comes to appointing a leader
over people it's important that their
impression of it be one of honor and
dignity in this way he'll be looked at
with the proper respect and will be able
to lead the nation when a person grows
up among the people like our our own did
the childish behaviors and immaturities
of his youth make an impression on
people that sticks with him even when he
grows older because of this it's very
difficult for people to completely
accept one of their own with complete
hispanics they remember him as a child
before he earned the greatness he now
possesses the nation gave no thought to
making around the new emissary but they
knew him as one of their own
moshe only motion could reign over them
in other words says reuben feinstein
where did aaron grow up
among the people
they saw him make noise in the middle of
shule
they saw him throwing candies and
collecting and scurrying at a bar
mitzvah they saw him leave his plate
after kennedy put it they knew little
arun loud aaron they saw him grow up
like every child
where did moshe grow up
moshe grew up in the palace moshe grew
up among royalty
that's why hashem arranged it that way
swarno says even ezra say moshe grew up
among royalty first of all he would have
the confidence of royalty to confront
royalty but also you'd have the respect
of the people who would say oh he's not
one of us
so our own was different now that moshe
was gone klaus saw a calf from the
street to take his place rather than the
great aaron who grew up in front of them
and my grandfather allah shalom's
funeral in elizabeth new jersey my
grandfather san diego
so revelates
gave hespit and he said about my
grandfather
my great-grandpa my grandparents were
elizabeth before the titus the press
but
my grandfather knew rabbi tyson
young rabbi tites from when he was born
so in his husband he said about my
grandfather that from the day that he
took over for his father he became a rav
of jc and elizabeth my grandfather never
called him by his first name he called
them the rav he called them rabbi tights
part of the hess that he gave about my
grandfather was that despite his having
grown up and been in his class and
interacted with him and having seen him
as a little boy
he treated him as his rev with awe and
respect
because even though he was
much as younger that was the
relationship he had with him so that's a
hard thing to achieve not everybody can
achieve that says reuben feinstein and
so much so that the people didn't
achieve it and they saw aaron as great
as much as they loved him
as accessible as he was and as warm as
he was and as much of a peacemaker as he
was and as much as they loved him he was
still a little around so they had
trouble connecting and loving him in
that way
loving him in that way so what happens
they build the ego
hashem says
hashem says oh boy moshe i know that
we're having a yom yoon up here i know
there's a great yakikawa going up on
here i know we're having a great
convention up here
but
while the cat's away the mice are
playing while you and i are stagging up
here at the agora conference at the rca
the ou whatever conference it is
let's hope it was a all above all the
above conference
you need to go down le time to go home
you know why
your people
that i brought out of the land of egypt
they are corrupt they've lost their way
now if i'm moshe what do i say right now
which word in that puzzle bothers you
you know it's like if your heavens out
my kids are older now when they were
little kids closet you need to come home
because your kids are not behaving
and your kids are out of control and
your kids are not doing their homework
and your kids are not going to bed and
your kids are not doing anything and you
need to come home right now
because your kids
hashem says to motion you need to go
home right now because your kids are not
behaving so your heaven says to me what
i would think moshe albania would say to
hashem
my kids
they're not your kids
moshe says that my kids
all of a sudden you're not the
omnipotent infinite creator source of
the universe
they're my kids
your kids
what's going on over here what's going
on over here
climb down from your greatness climb
down from your position of distinction
because you only have it on behalf in
the merit of the jewish people
and now that your people have become
corrupt now that you people have made
such a critical mistake
what do i need you for so i'm taking
your status i'm taking your title
left right go down down and out
so asks the megiddo yosef astro of
seratzkin
tamuahadhava i don't understand
mushroom
hashem testifies about moshe how much he
loves moshe and cherishes moshe
and all of a sudden moshe is using moshe
ah you're people they're corrupt
i lost the people
what what good are you to me what good
are you to me
that's the gemara
what do i need you for what good are you
to me
i'm just using moshe
and moshe doesn't have
a status this greatness on his own
what in the world is going on here
okay he lost the people the people lost
their way they became corrupt they made
a terrible mistake but moshe's still
moshe
moshe is still humble emotions
you why do i need you anymore why do i
need you anymore
so he says the following amazing is so
he says i want to get to a few more divi
taurus i won't read it to you inside he
brings a lot of my murakazaw but he says
with what we're teaching us what this
pasta what the torah is teaching us here
is
when you're privileged to be in a
position of leadership never ever think
it's your own worthiness
never think it's your merit
never think that you've captured and you
own that title
it's this ghost of the civil war it's in
the merit of the community that you
serve
and when they come when you've lost the
community then you've also lost that
position of distinction
know that it's the merit of the
community you serve last week i'm behind
the bhima we had rabbi ali mansour who's
a great orator great time a great
speaker if you haven't watched it yet
you should i always plug
again i don't make any money that's not
my career but hashem is not my future my
life wouldn't change if it stopped
tomorrow but we have such incredible
guests and you hear their message their
inspiration forget me it's worth it to
listen to them so when matsura said i
asked them how do you get it all done he
has five websites that are updated daily
daily
gemara daily this day and he runs a
large safari synagogue in brooklyn and
india how do you get it all done
so he answered is this is
that comes when you are leader of a
community it's this course of the
community
he said just like the torah tells us
there's a concept called
to get from point a to point b should
take this amount of time but when you're
doing it for the purpose of a mitzvah it
takes a fraction of that time and
eliezer went to go find a way for rifka
he married a frieza sandera
so so too when you're preparing shiron
when you're working on behalf of the
seaboard in their merit
you get more done than should be
technically you should be able to get
done he said he knows that because when
he leaves his tibor to go speak
somewhere else
he leaves the seaboard to go on vacation
and say hey would you mind speaking it
takes him 10 times longer to prepare
than when he's in his own seaboard but
he doesn't have the merit of the
seaboard
he doesn't have the efficiency the
productivity he can't get done
everything that he gets done and that's
the message over here torah wanted to
tell us if you lost at sebor you lost
your merit moshe is still the same moshe
and moshe's greatness is still
appreciated and beloved by hashem but
the doula of moshe the stature of moshe
is on behalf of the merit of the people
leaders lose that they sometimes think
that the people are lucky to have them
instead of realizing they're lucky to
have the people it's the people of the
seaboard that they serve they serve the
zebra that sibo doesn't serve them and
if the seaboard loses their merit they
lose their merit do i think that any
invitations i've ever had
to the white house or to go meatballs
because because of me
you think it's from goldberg
the charm or the good lucks
it's because palm beach county our votes
matter they make a difference
it's because we decide and we determine
presidential elections in palm beach
county
you think i'm foolish that if i were in
new york or california i would never be
invited
because everybody already knows which
way it's going to go you have to know
who you represent in that merit and the
moment you forget that and you lose that
then you are lost and that's what the
torah was telling us here and that's
what the torah even tells us he brings a
lot of rays but here's an example of one
when moshe gives the shilt on yeshua it
says
says that the wellsprings of wisdom were
closed up
why
mushroom the wellsprings of wisdom were
closed up all because he passed the
mantle to yeshua why
the answer is that that high speed
connection came in the merit of the
people he was serving now that he became
the emeritus
moshe rabbenu emeritus had said on the
stationary now they became the emeritus
he lost the host of the seaboard so
nistatmu
a leader needs to never forget and never
lose sight
that their gifts and their opportunities
is just the blessing and the merit the
leader serves the community the
community does not serve the leader
i vasmir
we did not get a criticism of time here
let's see one or two last ones let's
throw in
okay i'll tell you which one i want to
do
do one more i'm excited to tell you
11 stream on this pasta
we'll do one more
and i have my whole purchase here for
next year prepared yay
we were
bothered hashem says to moshe go down
you have it come home
your kids are misbehaving
so the shrabba says
hashem
my kids are not yours
my people not your people my community
not your my membership not your
membership
so the medrash answers
that you know who it was who was
misbehaving it was the erev
i so if it was the heir of wrath if the
whole catalyst the whole
manufacturers of this ego were the
aravrov
they were the i don't even know how to
translate iraf
they were the uh the riff raff that's a
good translation thank you it's a group
effort here they were the riff raff so
if the whole
troublemakers were the riffraff why were
the rest of the jewish people punished
if they didn't actually contribute they
didn't run they didn't do that in
worship
why were they punished
says the following
apostle
you know the people were quiet they
didn't protested and objected and say
anything even as they watched the
riffraff among them
wreak havoc
and yet they're held accountable and
that wasn't an easy thing to do to
intervene or interfere to say something
was not easy
the
rashi brings to sha allah moshe
said i'm coming back at the end of 40
days
the 40th day was in shavasana
the sultan came down and confused the
whole world
and it looked like darkness
and cloud and they said moshe died the
kakba is
it must be there's such a cloud over the
world there's such a darkness that is
descended on the world
it must be because moshe died and moshe
died he's not coming back and that's
what led everything so rashford says
come in
they saw as if moshe was being carried
up above
he died and he was ascending on high so
you see
levenshtein
if you were there
if you heard moshe was coming back
if you got caught up in this
the day he was supposed to come back
instead of his reappearing what is there
darkness and cloud and confusion
descends to the world
i am loyal
would you two not be filled with doubt
would you two not be confused
would you two not consider that maybe
this riff raft
maybe they're right
maybe they're on to something
it's very very easy to fall and pray to
this confusion to get caught up to get
confused to remain silent and to not
protest
the only ones who do are lazy let me
step out let you stand up and they make
a difference it's a big finish of this
magician
is that
the ego
this monumental hate which we continue
to suffer from until today like the
marathon and other this
was not actually actively building the
ego but was the silence to protest
so i'll close by telling you i just
wrote i don't know when it's coming out
magazine has a new feature where they'll
have a statement and then they have
three people agree or disagree and why
so they had a statement
something like i forgot the exact
statement
which was that uh if there are people
who look like me and dress like me and
they're acting in an inappropriate
behavior it's never okay to be silent
agree or disagree i forgot exactly the
statement so i wrote my opinion and i'll
share it with you
a little preview to this little column
in closing based on this insight of the
ego
your nation failed they became corrupt
and what was the corruption
corruption is not only when you actively
perpetrate
silence is a form of corruption
i wrote the question like almost all
others does not have an absolute answer
some extremists are already marginalized
and irrelevant to publicly condemn them
would give them the attention they seek
however most often it's critically
important to confront the denouncers
of the outrageous anti-torah behavior
particularly those who dress are
affiliate like you it's more natural to
condemn the other we have a greater
responsibility and have a more powerful
impact when we decry the behavior of
those who identify with us either
religiously or politically failure to
help
particularly within a community which
you have a say
makes you an accomplice to it the
ignorant chavez stuff
tells us anyone who had the capability
to protest the sinful conduct of the
members of his household or the people
of his town or the whole world that
didn't is liable for the sins of the
members of his household or his town of
the whole world and is punished
says you shall
would not have been destroyed had it not
been for the people's failure to protest
or prevent each other from sinning we
find in these moments that we're most
accountable not for what's perpetrated
but the silence indifference
apathy complacency of those who are
there come on soto yura says
paro asked three advisers what to do
with the jews everyone knows this good
morning
billam
counseled paro he said throw all the
jewish boys in the nile
eof
quiet he was silent and israel in the
sign of protests ran away so much says
hashem punished yo
and hashem punished billam eo was
punished billam was punished and
yesterday was rewarded that he ran away
in protest fracked the brisker briskarov
asks the brisker of
i understand bilum's punished because he
advised paro
heinous advice i understand yesterday's
reward he ran away in protest
eo don't reward him don't punish me just
move on switzerland
he's uh sweden he's uh
neutral
neutrality
why are you punished for neutrality ask
the brisker of so he has such an
important insight
he says that firstly when someone's in
an influential position they remain
silent they're an accomplice
you're punished for silence because
silence is not neutrality
silence always benefits the perpetrator
never the victim always
but more than that he says
eo of silence in the face of power's
terrible question
actually emboldened billam it gave him
the confidence he needed to suggest its
plan of annihilation
when a good respected person
like eof is quiet so bilham said okay he
tested the waters
here's my plan here's what i would do
eof anything to say
no
billam says if a good respected person
is going to be quiet now i know there's
no opposition i can go forward with my
plan
silence is not neutrality not wanting to
get involved is getting involved because
our silence and indifference embolden
and benefit the evil do where it never
protects the victim and it never
advances justice
martin luther king jr said this could be
the first time he's quoted in a magazine
if it makes it in
he said in the end maybe not i shouldn't
have said that maybe not
anyway he said in the end we will
remember not the words of our enemies
but the silence of our friends
one day the rabona hashom himself will
call to account those who perpetrated
wrongly doing against him and against
others but there's no doubt he will also
remember those who remain silent when
they could have and they should have
spoken
and i'll tell you i've experienced this
i'm sure you have
but there are there are crazy people
and they're radicalizing others
and when they're not called out for
their craziness and for radicalizing
innocent people
when they're not called out for inciting
people
they're not called out for what they're
doing when the world doesn't want to get
involved and doesn't want to interfere
and doesn't want to stand up and wants
to remain silent
you're going to hold people accountable
like he did eos
because silence is an accomplice
and silence always benefits the
perpetrator
occasionally people say to me rabbi
there's so much courage you stood up
about the aguna whatever i'm telling you
i honestly don't know what they're
talking about when there's something
obvious and right to do i don't think it
takes courage it's right to do
but sadly you look around the world and
you see so many people people in
leadership positions who are of the
privilege and the blessing
and are living off of the skus of the
cbor
and they don't use that microphone that
megaphone they don't use that
platform to stand up and to call out to
confront
the silence is deafening and that's what
hashem says to moshe
it's only the rabble rousers it's only
the riff ref we're causing the problems
hashem doesn't say to moshe you got to
get down there the riffraff are acting
out you got to get down there there's
two crazies making insane videos online
hashem says you got to get down there
because there's people making crazy
videos online
and nobody's saying anything
where are the jewish organizations where
the jewish spokespeople where's the
jewish leadership
where are they to marginalize where are
they to call out where are they to
confront where are they to de-platform
we become corrupt
we're silent and indifferent and we're
quiet
and we're not willing to confront the
people who need to be silenced
have a fantastic week everybody in a
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