Parsha Perspectives for Today - Pekudei 5785 (Be Normal)

okay good morning Boer to welcome back to para perspectives for today we have the privilege of reading and learning para PUD together page 530 in the art SC Stone very often vak PUD are linked together this year we are learning them separately we're able to give each one its proper attention each para is filled with so many lessons and perspectives for today we begin as we always do with gratitude to our generous sponsors thank you Becky and aiats and family who have sponsored our Series in memory of David Grossman Le nishma Becky's father D Ben this morning is also sponsored by Naomi bellaz in memory of her mother Sophie mandav Aliah Thank You by Amanda Lions thank you for the learning adds to her week by Sharon Wanger and Jonathan Wanger and loving memory of their dear husband and father Bruce Wanger Dove Ari Ben Isel on his ninth year side is the sh as well thank you to all of our generous sponsors it's great to be back together again after last week being off this coming Tuesday again traveling for a Sim so she will be not Tuesday Morning 9:30 it'll be either Tuesday afternoon or Tuesday evening stay posted in the par WhatsApp group we'll announce when it will be either Tuesday afternoon or Tuesday evening but for now we begin page 530 in the SC mosha these are the accountings the reckonings this is the audit of the mishan the Mish that was uh reckoned was accounted for by Moshe among all of his jobs Moshe the righteous scholar teacher of Torah the Bala M among his many jobs mosu was an accountant he was an auditor he does a tremendous audit of the campaign this was the labor of the leim under the authority of isar the son of Aon hak there are many peculiarities in this opening P including the repetition of the word mishkan of mish Mish Mish the are the reckonings the accountings of the mishan which mishan you get confused how many mishk are there Mish the mishkan the Tabernacle of the testimony why does it have that name Mish Tabernacle the mishkon there was a Dwelling Place a building built according to the specs that were given divinely by Hashem himself followed through by bsal the great architect engineer and general contractor of the mishan we know which mishan it is why does the Torah further clarify or Define not just Mish Mish so says rashash Mish the entire edifice this building was a validation that Theon was V was forgiving was flexible overlooked Theo here the Jewish people had infidelity they cheated on God on their wedding night with him he spoken about about this before on that night Moshe Hashem held the mountain over their head like a they were married an intimate Embrace with Hashem and right from there where did they go they built an agel incredible Act of disloyalty and they worked it through they reconciled they repaired and what was the evidence that the relationship was restored Mish this mishon was a testament a testimony it validated that the work was done the repair happened Hashem moved back in he moved back in couple have a crisis and the crisis can be emotional it could be physical crisis could be one of trust and faith having to do with money or with health and there's a barrier there's a breach there's a break there's a a Schism between them and they separate and what's the evidence they've reconciled and repaired and worked it out a willingness to move home a willingness to move back in a willingness to be able to live a future together says rash this Mish is not just called the Mish but rather it's Mish it was an testimony the Mish itself gave testimony was a testament that was forgiving about the Wonders wonders the great are we redu ing the mishan to evidence that they repaired and recovered and reconciled the mishan has such a bigger purpose and Mission what's the purpose of the Mish it's where we offer coronos it's where we draw close it's where we have a with the almighty to where we feel the intense divine presence of the creator of the world why do we reduce it a home a house a place where people are experiencing and sharing love building and raising a family trying to make a dwelling place for God Almighty is so much more than we once had a fight we made up we're back together what are you gonna put a billboard a big sign in the front of the house the fact that we live together is testimony all the rumors should stop all the all the uh controversy should stop all the Tabloid magazines Paparazzi get lost but up a build big board on the front of the house we moved back in this home is evidence is testimony we worked it out that's all the home is that's what it's reduced to that's what it's about the mishkan is so much bigger so much broader it's so much more than just than a testament that we worked it out all the possibility everything that was achieved in a accomplished all the closeness all the intimacy all the randevu that we achieve in the mishkan was only a result of the hard work of chuva because we didn't gloss over it and we didn't simply wish and hope for a better future at the core of the was a breach and a break of trust unfaithfulness disloyalty distance day daylight from hasem we cheated on him we declared something else this gold we declared it our God and what's the repair how do we fix it we do the opposite what's the opposite of distance what's the opposite of putting daylight what's the opposite of being unfaithful and disloyal to draw close I just want to feel close I just want to feel connected I just want to restore trust I just want to recreate loyalty everything that would happen all that they would build everything that would come out of that place was on the foundation of the hard work of the repair of the chuva of the reconciliation they would do so it's not Biz it's not to disparage the Jewish people that we had made that mistake it's not to hold on to the past with an inability to go forward in fact the mishun was everyone who would approach it would know and see and say to themselves even with the mistakes I've made no matter how far I've fallen no matter what I violated no matter how Unfaithful I've been to the Almighty I can still come here this is a place where I belong this is a place where I find hope this is a place where I can still connect how how do I know because that's what's at the core that's at the foundation that's what's Central to this entire edifice this is a place where there is forgiveness but it has to be earned it has to be achieved it has to be worked on but this is a place where you've never fallen too far where you're never irredeemable we you're never hopeless this is a place where you can always come back and that's why it was a mish it wasn't just a mish righteous people holy and pure and innocent people can come and connect this is a place for everyone if you've made mistakes this is also your home if you feel you fallen this is also where you belong if you think you're irredeemable and you're hopeless doesn't matter we want you here because we can all come back and that's why it wasn't just mishan it was mishan this was a place of chuva this was a place of repair this is a place of redemption and this is the model for all of us and all of our communities if every SHO in fact is a mikdash a temple in miniature if every Sho is a recreation and is built on the model of the mishan it means our shs need to be places that are welcoming and warm that tell every yid every Jew this is a home for you if you're willing to put in the work if you sincerely want to come back if you want to improve then you're all we're all redeemable no one's perfect we all make mistakes we've all fallen and we can all get up and we can all climb back and we can all recover and we can restore and not only that I shared with you before there's a Jewish therapist her name is Esther perel Esther Perell I think she's from Amsterdam originally she's a very famous therapist she's written a lot of books and best-selling books she has a podcasts and one of the things she specializes in is helping couples navigate coming back from infidelity and she has a TED Talk that was I think in the tens of millions of views which is very powerful to watch I've mentioned it before and sadly I've had to recommend it and share it with people who are working exactly on that circumstance and what she talks about is she says most people will be married more than once in their life question is will it be to the same person or a different person will you discover through the mistakes and missteps of your life what was missing and what was wrong so you could repair and you can fix it and be closer than ever or will it dissolve will it fall apart will there be no recovery from it and of course Hally it's complicated which acts of infidelity can you Rec return from and which are irreparable leave out the not because we ever set aside but for this conversation leave out the complication of it but she talks about the path back and that in Every Act of unfaithfulness there was in fact a revelation of what was missing in the relationship and if one does the hard work to take responsibility and ownership to ask for and earn forgiveness but also to learn and discover what was missing and might have caused it Without Blame or judgment but simply to grow then one can have a greater and a better marriage than ever and in fact I've seen it I can give testimony to it that those couples who put in the hard work in whatever let act because infidelity and unfaithfulness comes in many forms not only physical a breach and a breakdown of trust but when the hard work is put in people can come back better and stronger and happier and healthier than ever and that's what I hear the telling us why is the Mish called Mish this is welcome to the sh welcome to the mishan the sh of forgiveness of second chances of coming back of improving of being better than ever of doing the hard work and discovering what's missing and a place and a safe place for all kinds of people for every Jew we're all not hopeless hopeful and we're all filled with possibility and a future if we're just willing to do the hard work and therefore even though the mishan is so much more than the like can we move past it can't we move on why do you have to keep bringing that up maybe in a relationship it's bad to perseverate or to be paralyzed by the past but when you're talking about this edifice which is a model this edifice which is a a centerpiece for clausel it has to it has to resonate it has to be something which when one approaches it they're not recoil with a sense I'm not holy enough I'm not pure enough I don't belong there but this is a place for me this is a place for everyone for everyone our para this last para of the book of shos begins with a summary of the critical components of the mishan so we're starting with moosha with this accounting the donations the materials and then it goes through these critical components continuing did everything God commanded Moshe he worked with Al and he worked with all of these materials and all of these ingredients in order to be able to build in order to be able to assemble the Mish throughout these last paros the Torah over and over again acknowledges the list of the builders and the Craftsmen and The Architects and The Artisans beginning with balel and and each time those who made the Mish are called they're referred to as is wisdom where do we normally associate wisdom with the with the head and yet they are described as we ordinarily think of the heart as a place of emotion the head is a place of intellect and wisdom and yet the Torah says these people were endowed not only with great skill which is in itself a conversation how did slaves just redeemed from Egypt who didn't graduate Elementary School lower school let alone college or graduate school they didn't go to any specialty school where did they learn these crafts how did they become Architects and Engineers how did they become Builders and Artisans where did they learn it all from is a question we've addressed in the past and not for now but their Torah highlights not their great skill craftsmanship what the to Torah highlights is that they are all they have the wisdom of the heart the wisdom of the heart later the Torah calls the Torah asks us to have a heart that knows the wisdom of the heart and a heart that knows and there's so much to talk about where is wisdom is it in the head or is it in the heart is the heart a place of only raw emotion and it's the head that's disciplined intellect or is the wisdom and an intellect of the heart and why do we want it to reside in the heart and not in the head Alone by focusing not only the plans the measurements the materials and the mechanics of the building but also focusing in our parha on the people on their character on their sincerity on their authenticity the Tor is communicating a critical important lesson which is it's not only what we do but who we are and how we do it it's not only the result or the outcome it's not only what we do but it's what do we bring to what we do who are we when we do it and what are we thinking about what is our intent what is our Consciousness what is our mindfulness what is our motivation do we have a presence in all that we are doing we're going to get into this more in the Pasha I'll just tell you for those who learned the D yomi today's DYI sanedrin da what da are we on it's the challenge of the DFI super speed today's what's today I'm in good company today's in today's the gar tells we're in a series of D that are talking about longing for mhia when will mhia come when will the Messiah come we're so desperate for peace we're so desperate for Safety and Security we're so desperate for the days of mhia so comes I think rather and he sees Elijah the prophet and he says no when is mhia coming already and ELO Elijah the prophet says go ask him what are you asking me says ask him where can I find him he said in the marketplace the lepers those who are who are struck with the malady of SAR they are changing their bandages they're healing themselves and that's where you could find that Leo go ask him when he's coming so Le goes to the market and he finds Mia he finds mashiah and how does he know who's mashiah no gave him the hint and he finds him everyone else they're taking off all their bandages at once and Reb bandaging everything at once and super speed trying to expedite everything and aloh is doing it one by one slowly and methodically so he finds based on that he finds mhia based on that and he says mhia new when are you coming and he says today so you can imagine gets very excited ha M's coming today wow the world as we know it's going to radically change finally what we've been waiting for mh's coming today when the day passes Mia doesn't come so goes back toi and he says no did you find mashia says yeah I found mashiah and did you ask him when he's coming he said he's a liar shakran he's a liar he said he was coming today and the day passed and he didn't come Lei said you misunderstood him he didn't mean today today if you listen to God's voice and the simple understanding is any day mhia can come on any given day if on that day we would earn if on that day we'd be worthy if on that day we would Merit for him to come when is it that he's coming today today if you listen however I once saw a beautiful interpretation that it doesn't just mean that each and every day if we married he would come come that day what does it mean and why was the hint you'll find mhia among the lepers they're all changing their bandages at once and he's doing it one by one what mhia was telling Le was do you want me to come do you know what you need to do what life you need to live in order to earn me you need to learn to live in the moment be mindful and present in everything that you do don't be stuck in the past and don't be lost in thinking about the future and everyone else is doing everything all at once in a world and we're talking the gamar 2,000 years ago of multitasking in a world of distraction in a world of competing interests everyone else is taking off all their bandages at once and mashia has described as doing it one by one by one because whatever he's doing he is fully immersed in and he's fully present in whatever he's doing so he wasn't lying when he said Hy he didn't mean necessarily I'm coming today what he meant was if you begin to live a life of H if you begin to live present today in the moment mindful conscious connected to whatever you're doing then mhia is going to come so our par is beginning not only by focusing on the outcome on the result we got all the materials the donations all came in the accounting finally worked itself out though it was complicated at first and we have an edifice we have a mishun no it's not only the result and the outcome it's about who did it and how they did it and what they brought to what they were doing doing intent and mindfulness and Consciousness and motivation every action each experience and all that we do is made up of the physical component the physical act but it also has the Rus the pus the frame the context the kavana the essence of what we are doing whatever is in our heart when we are challenged to make a particular choice what are our thoughts and our feelings when we're going through a particular experience we radically transform it we elevate it we energize it we Inspire it we don't just do empty acts we don't just go through motions we don't just live a checklist yish kite but we're doing so much more and because of this the farno the great Italian commentator of avadas Forno describes how the gold and silver that fashioned the of the mishkon were categorically different than the gold and silver in the rest of the world it was imbued with and transformed with the Holy intent that the people brought you see all the gold and silver in your kitchen cabinets and drawers and your breakfront in your Aro and everything in your home you just bought it you went to a fancy store it was gifted to you you went online and you ordered it somewhere it was manufactured and you have no idea who built it who manufactured it what they were thinking while they did it and the thought and the intent but this was different says the listen to listen to what this spno says can you imagine open the drawer of your kitchen can you imagine if you gave a name to every Fork every knife every spoon every Cup every serving platter every crystal glass every wine glass each one would have a name O tonight I'm going to eat with you of the fork today I'm going to cut with you s the knife I remember when I melted you and made you and molded you and created you and how hard I had to work in order to earn the silver in order to melt into this KES Cup tonight I'm making Kish on you Mah in the mishon every utensil had a name and what is the name it's a description it's a connection with it means that unlike the and we can't live sorno is not suggesting we live with the level of mindfulness that every pen every paperclip it has a name and a meaning and a purpose and a connection we wouldn't we wouldn't get anything done we couldn't start our day that's not only not realistic it's not healthy way to live but we do have areas of life where we try to elevate and uplift in that way and says the spno one did not only refer to it by the nature of the category a fork a knife it each had a name and naming it individually gave it a permanent significance and elevated its usage more than just functional or transactional it had a holy intent and a holy purpose and fulfilled a holy Mission there's no doubt that anyone who saw the bik ofl the the temple that schlomo King Solomon built was moved we have Testament in the in the navi and in the Torah in the in the in theud the magnificence the opulence and the ostentatiousness they marveled at the absolute aesthetic beauty of the B mik terms of beauty it was far larger far more expensive far more impressive and far superior to the mishan after all the basa MOS was built under Jewish sovereignty and where was it built in our homeland Jewish royalty Jewish wealth and Jewish prosperity and the Mishka was built from the petty pathetic donations of a recently released poor slave Nation constructed in a desert with little access to material or Goods the mishkan was put together by the modest jewelry and used clothings and sheets that they could scramble together so which one would you think would last the mishan or the mikdash the beautiful opulent aesthetic marvelous magnificent built under Jewish royalty and sovereignty and wealth and prosperity the little mishan on the run in the desert put together with whatever you could find which would last and be Eternal and which would be temporary for points out the bik of schlomo it was destroyed and it disappeared it was built by hired laborers from Tor with no emotional or spiritual connection to what they were doing yes under the supervision of Jewish royalty schl but they were hired laborers and it was eventually destroyed and it was totally lost and the inferiority of the building is evident from the fact that the building itself was in need of regular almost annual repairs if you look at the navi Mal you see the upkeep in the repair PS that were necessary in this incredible edifice of the of the mikdash second base of mikdash was built by King kores who hired pagans to build it we're very grateful to him we actually have an illustrious history with Persia kores the King of Persia is the one who allowed us and actually endowed built the second B Mikes we had here several years ago believe it or not and don't ask me why but the son of the Sha the prince of Iran spoke in our and he shared and he appealed to us the Jewish community and people this has to be 10 years ago and he said Persia and the Jewish people have a very rich history a good history he said don't forget what my ancestor koresh what cus did to build your temple in Jerusalem and he said now we've been taken over by the Revolutionary guard and you need to help us the Jewish people should be rising for a revolution in Iran to overthrew the tyrants and oppressors and to restore that wonderful Rich history of a relationship of Persia and of the Jewish people King kores built it but who he endowed it he paid for it but who built it pagans idolators that he hired the mishkan on the other hand was made from genuine authentic sincere people how do you know that and that's what Torah tells us they weren't just Artisans and craftsmans and skilled workers and laborers how does the Torah describe them they were may they gave their heart they were present and conscious and mindful and they gave their heart to everything they did each donation they gave and every object they constructed carried their love devotion Spirit kadha carried their commitment to the Jewish people their devotion and selflessness to the Jewish cause to the nitus to the eternity and immortality and because they were connected to the eternity immortality of what they were doing and what they gave it lasted forever Theo says that the original the original vessels and utensils that we're reading about right now we don't know where they are or where they went but they will resurface in when the third bik will come and there'll be a resurrection of our people says there won't only be a resurrection of our people there'll be a resurrection of these vessels because they are unique they are distinct they singularly carry the the heart of the those who fashion them he learns us from the words the word om the the AA word wood that stood in the construction of these utensils om we should take the word om literally om is read in the present tense and what does the word om mean they will endure they will stand indefinitely forever says the if they endure and they stand indefinitely and forever no matter where they are right now they will resurface they will come back those are the ones we will use one day and why why what makes them so special why can't we replace them why can't we upgrade them with the newer and latest version of them because they're special these were made and donated and molded with the with those who gave their heart with those who gave their heart and that's that's who we are what we're about right that's this last year and a half that's this last year and a half I spoke to a a woman whose husband was at War and kept going back and was in the reserves over and over again and had to manage without her husband raising her children with the terrible fear of his not coming home and the danger and I asked her how did you do it how do you still do it and she had two words connect with eternity so every time you're giving a bath to your child because your husband's not home fighting a war for the future of the the Jewish people you're not just giving a bath every time you're doing bedtime every time you're doing the laundry every time you're making dinner you're not doing mundane activities you are connected to Eternity by enabling that husband to go fight that battle you're connected to Eternity that's all of us where do we find the strength and the energy where do we find the will and the resolve and the resiliency connect to Eternity that is the message of our people that's who we are and how we are here and that's what's going on in our para says this farno Bas on mikash enormous opulent ostentatious magnificent incredible and it disappeared it was destroyed and it was lost forever mishan Pretty Petty pretty pathetic pretty puny just put together by the little donations they could get it lasts forever what's the difference between them what we brought who built them one we hired laborers you see this every Jewish funeral unfortunately in other denominations I've attended funerals and the eulogies are given graveside and then they'll skip right to Kadesh and then everybody leaves so that the workers can lower the body and fill in the grave but the traditional correct approach is to say to workers thank you very much stand on the side we don't delegate this to others this is Holy work and holy activity it doesn't matter if it's July or August in batone and the sweat is pouring out of you hotter than the hottest SAA we don't hand that shovel to anyone else we do it ourselves because even that act of filling a grave is not mundane and empty it's not just to bring about the result of a grave that's closed each shovel full is an act of Holiness we're tucking in that person for the last time here on Earth so we don't delegate that to others we do it ourselves because when we do things ourselves we Elevate them we lift them we enrich them we are connected to the says the The Eternity of the Jewish people it doesn't lie be part of is attach yourself to Eternity be present and mindful and conscious and that is a big message I gave the prees workshop on Sunday which is my annual taking my life into my hands by telling the women around me that you should be able to clean for pesak in a couple hours and your kitchen in an hour and be ready for PES in less than a day if you're following if you're doing spring cleaning you're doing something else Al together but if you're following Jewish law it shouldn't take long but part of that lesson is every draw that you're wiping down and every every utensil that you're cering and preparing and every recipe that you're following it's not a mundane act that's a necessary evil because it's Al that we have to follow that is grueling and makes us exhausted and miserable no it's a holy Act holy act the rsk and others talk about what you're listening to what you're speaking about what you're thinking when you make the kala and the cougle is in the koule and the kala what difference does it make follow the recipe put in the oven the kala knows what you're thinking about the cougle absorbs your intent the answer is absolutely 100% And what do you want to feed the people around you gossip and lashar narish and nothingness or are you listening to the par while you're making the on the cougle are you listening to the Amun here are you making call phone call after phone call to check in on those who are isolated and alone that goes in to be a is to not just have a heart to give heart to our intellect and to give intellect to our heart and to put all of ourselves in everything that we do the last example of this and then I promise we'll move on is again the work of the kadisha on occasion our kadisha is called to do a tahara the burial preparation not in one of our locations but to use a funeral home and I remember once getting there early and finding that they weren't yet done the funeral workers who were using the home before us without getting to graphic or gruesome outside of the traditional Jewish World when they prepare a body for burial I remember the TV was on in the room people were on their cell phones and they're applying the makeup and they're getting the corpse dressed and they're just going through some activity this is their job that's their paycheck pretty gruesome and morbid but that's their paycheck when aadish come into that burial preparation room nobody talks about anything extraneous there's no music there's no TV there's no radio playing there's no conversation other than what's necessary for that loving affectionate careful preparation it's the intent it's the mindfulness that we bring to all that we do it goes in it sinks in it is absorbed in everything and if you want it to be Eternal and everlasting and you want it to endure it's the attitude that we bring to what we to what we do the also on this opening P then we'll move on says we have the word Mish two times in a row this is an illusion and a reference to the Mish the that was destroyed twice that were destroyed so the rash is alluding to says the word Mish is made up of the same letters as the word mashon what's a mashon collateral what does this have to do with collateral why does one take collateral because if you come to me and you say Gober can I I borrow some money I say sure but we've done this before and I never get it back so here's the deal I'll lend you money give me your watch I'll lend me your money give me your expensive sweater I'll lend you money give me a mashon I need to hold collateral until you pay it back soem took from us our Temple our as collateral till we pay our debt the mistakes that we've made we made a withdrawal from the Heavenly bank account through the mistakes the error of our ways hasem said I'm taking I'm holding it collateral and I'm not giving it back until you pay your debt of the mistakes that you've made then I'll give us back our collateral and he will return and restore the zeld says R asks the great Rabbi of Y however the Torah tells us when it comes to Collateral what's the what do you have to do with that collateral you have to give it back every night the person needs it they need to sleep in it they need to hold on to it they need to get it back you have to give it back every night because the person needs it so we need it we need you you took our bik as collateral till we pay the debt good we still owe you we still have a debt we still have to pay it but until then you have to give us back our BAS M every now and then after all that's a law of collateral it's a unique law of collateral there's no bank that you borrow from that asks for collateral that when you say but I need it says no problem here it is give it back to me again that's not the way the banking industry to the rest of my knowledge works but the Torah Jewish law requires us to act at a moral level far above the banking industry and so even when it is right to collect collateral it's right just to return it when the person needs it so you took the collateral we need it give it back that is the kakas the great question that he asked and you know what he answers listen to this answer what is the driver of when you have to give the collateral back at night to a person who needs it who wants it who feels they're missing something without it that's what you have to give it back to but if what you took as coll the person who borrowed the money has duplicates of they have many more of they don't need a back they don't ask for a back they don't want a back you're entitled to hold on to it we we're living such a life and lifestyle that we say to M we don't really miss it we're good without it we're pretty happy it's nice palm trees in bokeh it's good pin colad poolside in bokeh nice golf courses and tennis courts and majan games life's not bad in bokeh and Tink and Muny and Lakewood in the five towns and South America and Australia and South Africa and Europe we're doing pretty well we don't miss it we don't need it we don't want it we're okay without it and that's why Hashem doesn't give it back to us if we were to live our days and our lives Hashem I'm incomplete something's wrong something's off I missing something I'm missing you I can't live this way without a b mikdash he would have no choice following the laws of mash to give it back but because we've adapted because we live comfortably because we live just fine without it he's not obligated to give it back if we really felt the pain and the absence of of that closeness of that connection without we're missing a central part of our Lives then if we knew that our lives today are incomplete our lives are nothing like they were or they should be he would have no choice and then continued tells us when after 120 we will all get upstairs and meet our maker when we will Ascend to the Heavenly Court we will be asked a series of questions famously about our honesty in business do we set aside time for Torah learning if you come to the parure class on Tuesdays you can answer yes you need to do more than just that but it's a good start did you set aside time for Total Learning and one of the questions we asked is Le Yeshua did you hope for and long for and wait for salvation messiah in other words were you satisfied with your life the way it was or did you say Hashem this something's missing the world is so unfair the disdain you know just today Israel took out one of the founders of Kam today one of the founders over this last week 10 days since they went back in Gaza they have been eliminating one by one and as as many have said may they Rest In Pieces terrible evil horrific horrible people they should rest in peace as many of them and including the founder one of the people they took out today it's it's so painful to be a Jew was a so-called reporter for Al jazer but who himself was not a journalist he was a member of Kamas and how do you see it reported even by the way on Fox News today that Israel killed the journalist we've seen that so many of these journalists were workers for unra were actually Kamas terrorists and accompli and it's so unfair and unjust and painful to be a Jew and do we realize that's because there's no mashiach if we live in the period of Messiah the time of mhia justice and Order fairness and truth would be returned to the world Jews would live in Safety and Security in peace and harmony with our neighbors that's what we're longing for that's what we're missing and that's what we will be asked see p Yeshua were you happy because you had two cars in your driveway food on your table a roof on your head you were happy put an addition on your home you're going away this pesak life is good or did you realize there are hostages still in tunnels if my friend coach Bruce Pearl the coach of Auburn number one of the country could on the biggest stage being interviewed for March Madness as his team is winning in the tournament and he starts out a press conference not talking about basketball Auburn is not in Lakewood New Jersey Auburn doesn't play in Brooklyn New York Auburn doesn't practice in Muny do you know where Auburn is Alabama I've been there I went to visit him I went with a group of Delegation that gave him an award for his pro-israel work Auburn Alabama doesn't have a milon of Jews it's not popular there to do what he does what does he do he starts a press conference by saying that he got permission from his team most of whom probably never met a Jew for most of their life that he could start the press conference by talking about the American Health hostage in Gaza said his name Aiden and said everyone needs to know his name and we can't stop till we bring them home he wouldn't talk about basketball till he talked about hostages his Hebrew name Bru Pearl's Hebrew name is morai you could hear his whole life story on behind the Bea from a couple years ago when he did this once before in an interview during March Madness and he's a special a special Jew of course because he has connections to bokeh think his mother and sister live in bokeh but anyway see p Yeshua he interrupts his career risks his career and his life by talking about hostages so do we go on and say oh pesak is gonna be beautiful my kids are coming in I'm going away I'm all well and good or do we realize something's missing there are hostages underground there are soldiers in their lives there are lies being told on networks of news and Yeshua are we longing for mhia when do we fulfill this obligation how will we answer in the affirmative when we get upstairs that indeed peua we longed for mhia so the says and we say the in the if you learn s Snippets with you remember we said this a few bras ago which yesu if in that blessing asav the blossoming of King David and the beginning of redemption we say Hashem please redeem this world it's so dark it's so broken it is needs your repair it needs your light please bring mhia if we actually concentrate and we're we give our mindfulness and we think about the when we say it that's how we'll be able to answer positively when we get upstairs leua goes on and on he has a long essay here about Yeshua and how we fulfill it that's what we say three weeks the N days anyone who Mourns for the destruction of Jerusalem merits and sees its rebuilding what does that mean in the present tense merits and sees it should say you will Merit you will see when it will be rebuilt the answer is how do we build it just by missing it what's the first step towards Redemption realizing we need it you can't get better till you realize something's wrong so the first step the first step of recovery of repair of redemption is to know something's broken and to know something is wrong okay I told you we get past the first p in this relatively short par the next from the tribe of Yehuda did all as God commanded to Moshe says the back Moshe that God Moshe it doesn't say Moshe commanded him it says that God commanded Moshe other words Bal should have done everything that Moshe told him to do but that's not what the verse says what does it say not that Bal did all that Moshe told him but did all that God told Moshe even things that his re didn't tell him Moshe commanded what should we do first build the home or buy the furniture Moshe said first comes the furniture what are you talking about we've got our great campus our construction so excited we're building could you imagine if we order and we get delivery of our new tables and chairs and pews and desks and AR and hello the walls aren't up yet you don't get the furniture before you built the building mosha tells Balo build the furniture and then we'll build the building and Balo says Moshe with all due respect after all how old was Balo 13 years old at the time and he says with all due respect I don't know much but I know that first you build the home and then you get the furniture that's what I heard from God the name is a conjunction of in the shade of God you were you're right indeed that is what God commanded and therefore that's what we should do first the Mish and then the C and you read rash and you can't help but think and ask what in the world is going on here what's this conversation what's this debate of course PSAL is right of course that's God's vision why did Moshe disagree why did mosha give a different instruction what is going on what is going going on over here says got his very name from his wisdom when God told Moshe go to B and have him make for me the and the Cale and the Mish Moshe went and changed the order said to Moshe the other order and Moshe finally conceded what's this moreover says the there's another debate that mosha has what's his other debate we read about this in Pas last week and we spoke about this back in Trum the women donated their mirrors and the mirrors were accepted by Moshe and what did he use those mirrors for they were the basis of the Basin the sink where the Kor where the on them every day would come in to wash their hands and feet to prepare for their service the base of the Basin was made out of those mirrors and Moshe says mirrors instruments of vanity of beauty there's no place for that in the holy mishkan and God says those are most my most holy and precious materials absolutely you're accepting them those are the most precious to me those are the most precious to me absolutely accept them so wonders what are these two debates M's de what order first the furniture or first build the building he's debating God the mirrors accept them or don't accept them what's going on over here what are all these debates and he has a long essay and he says the following listen to this fast fantastic if you want to build a mish if you want to build a holy holy place for God's Pres pres and dwelling what do you need you need big things you need to do something that is that is outstanding that is extraordinary you need to do something that's Supernatural you need to do something that's extra you want God to dwell in a simple building man made by man you've got to do something out of the ordinary something fantastic something special something big so mosha thought to himself yeah yeah the rest of the world you go build your house then you get your furniture but this is a different place and I want the world to be talking about it and I want everyone to be watching it and everyone who comes to it to feel there's something extraordinary out of the ordinary something special something that's not natural and nature but it's supernatural and then you'll put that's why he told him do it out of the order and similarly he says to God no mirrors no vanity no Beauty nothing that women used in order to entice their husbands to tempt their husbands to seduce what place there is in the Holy Holy mishkan you're gonna have something that was used for seduction to provoke to tempt that doesn't belong in a mish says you know it's even greater than something out of the ordinary find Holiness in the ordinary you know what's even greater than Supernatural creating Holiness in the natural in the natural we don't achieve spirituality and Holiness by transcending and by escaping from the natural and by the normal and from the ordinary Hashem doesn't want us to live not normal lives out of the ordinary lives don't stand down out don't be not normal you know what he wants us to do be normal is the r of the Mir Brooklyn Z and listen to his words mid normal kite that's a Yiddish word apparently mid normal kite says to what are you doing we're just we're normal we're normal here first you build the building then you put in the furniture normal people have relations with their spouse it's beautiful it's holy it's pleasurable it's obligated in the Cuba it's part of marriage it's the foundation of intimacy say yes I want those mirrors you know why this is a place for normal people living normal lives and finding Holiness in the normal normal kite normal kite if you want me to dwell I'm not going to dwell in a place that's fanatical I don't dwell among extremists I don't dwell among out of the ordinary I want normal ordinary physical world following my word my prescription my blueprint and that's where I'll come that's he has a long essay and he develops this but I love it because I think it's so important it's so correct we saw back in he writes comes and what do they do they break bread Torah describes they sat down they ate bread with the father-in-law of no mosheim no you should talk about Kish is in the Social Hall the doing is in the sanctuary when are you before God at The KES or in the sanctuary where is god well if he's at the Kish he probably gets an elbow to the eye got run over by somebody aggressively trying to get to the food he The KES I hope we're showing him respect there but the reason says of that the describes you know where hasem is your dining room table at your kitchen table even in your bedroom is in the normal activity and mundane places and parts of life and when we do it with when we do it when we do it with intent and with depth and with personality and with purpose then Hashem is found in the normal in the normal kite a yish kite of normal kite should be the title of an article yish kite normal kite be normal don't be extreme don't be fanatical don't be out of the ordinary this is R telling us and that's why they broke bread with is because that's what you do when your father-in-law comes you say I'm making a barbecue you say we're having dinner let's sit let's talk let's connect and that makes it listen to what he says well you say well this is for sure they were talking T they were reviewing the para that's what made it right wrong breaking bread shmooing about sports on the news in the stock market asking how was your trip did you get upgraded did you have extra leg room was it a smooth flight how was the food just the when you do it with purpose when you do it with personality when you do it as a when you do it m normal when you do it as a normal person when a person does something in the extreme out of the ordinary fanatically in extremism a person is not successful they're not successful shall normal Kem wants you to be normal we heard this in she over and over from from would say Hashem wants normal be normal re do I have to and they do and eat it this way and and hang off the roof and think the thing and the thing no Hashem wants you to be normal be normal be normal how do we know what's normal is it normal to not wear wool and linen that's our normal is it normal to wear yamaka when you're that's our normal but within that tells us and defines for us what's normal be normal not extreme it's not normal for example to live an aesthetic life Hashem doesn't want you to fast every day all day Hashem doesn't want you to be to be uh celibate and to obstain within marriage he wants normaly love and intimacy and connection so the mirrors were brought into the Mish and hasem says not only am I okay with them not only do I accept them they're the most precious they are the most beautiful to me we find they weren't in we keep seeing over and over and over again that says that Moshe and everyone else did as God commanded as God commanded because the whole root in the core of the was not doing it as God commanded now we're told no we can't have a creative spiritually entrepreneurial yish kite we have to do and follow as God commanded as God commanded we almost forgot the out of the 1775 shekele he made hooks this is in a conversation was recorded between a non-jewish officer and Zaki the officer argued that mosha was not precise in his accounting and each of the 63,5 Israelites give a half shekel of silver there'd be over 200 Kar silver yet Moshe used less than half 100 to make the silver sockets for the Mish answered mosha used the remainder to make the hooks as recorded in this verse there were hooks that held the pillars that were in the sockets together and if you took away those hooks what happens the whole mishan collapses the non-jewish world does not understand why we are so concerned with details writer of salich why do we not have a system which would be which would free us from having to keep Mitzvah that are difficult to observe under specific circumstances why are there any significance to the tiny hooks why should they be accounted for we have so many minua you have to eat this much matah and this much thme and this much white has to be baked in this this much Mar this size and one of the things that we do this is normal for us we bring rulers and measuring devices to the PES Sader the Romain lettuce has to be this many inches by this many inches and the m has to be this many inches by this many inches and you have to eat it in your mouth in this much amount of time why does God care if you like the the U popcorn Flavor jelly beans those the best ones and you want them on chabas so you have to take the good from the bad and do it immediately and not with an instrument because otherwise it's B that's how you take and select and and separate the Good jelly beans from the bad jelly beans God really cares how you take the jelly beans God cares about the jelly beans if youring arm perfectly Square God cares he really it bothers them how you he the food and God really cares about M and the details that's what the world doesn't understand Orthodox Jews he writes are vilified for being pedantic concentrating too much on small detail tells losing sight of the important principles I once approached a college President on behalf of an orthodox student who needed to have an exam re schedules he would not have to violate chabas the president asked why I could not Grant the student a one-time dispensation wondering why we should invest so much time and effort on Min kazal indicate that Moshe himself initially lost track of these hooks until the Holy One Blessed Be he enlightened moshe's eyes and showed him the V him the hooks illuminated like the stars in the sky Moshe realized that without the hooks the sockets could not structurally bear the weight of the Mish without the small details the fundamental principles would have long since disappeared and do you want the evidence I'll give it to you right now look at the segment of the Jewish World who've done away with the minua and details of Jewish law I say this not triumphantly or with any joy in my heart I say it crying sadly mourning grieving the denominations of Judaism that have done away with h the minua and the details the whole structure has fallen apart the intermarriage rate The Disappearance the erosion it's falling apart the denominations that Embrace not having to care about the minusa and the details following Jewish law shabas and kosher and blessings and prayers and fast days if you don't have the details and the minusa then the whole structure falls apart whole structure falls apart and that's true for every area of Life marriages are made up not of anniversaries and beautiful cards and wonderful High moments and vacations they're made up by did you put the cap on the toothpaste or not was the toilet seat put down did the socks make it into the hamper or next to it who cares those minutia those small details that's what make or break marriages yes because the whole system the whole structure either stands or falls apart because of these V because of these little hooks that MOS himself almost overlooked almost overlooked okay we're just starting I had so much more but we'll save it for next year so next week again next Tuesday different time I'll let you know when but it will be on Tuesday please God and uh please remain to stay all to helm please God we should get the hostages home our soldiers should be safe we should be able to answer see peacefully Yeshua should long for and also Merit to see the coming of mhia