Parsha Perspectives for Today (Teruma)

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brsonline.org global brsonline.org global thank you so much for your generosity also if you're listening on youtube take a moment and subscribe if you take a moment to subscribe you'll be notified every time we go live with new she-rim classes and learning opportunities this morning with the privilege of studying together parshas truma page 444 in the arthral stone hamish parshas truma and parshas truma is the big transition from the narrative of the story of the jewish people leaving egypt the story of arriving at har sinai and the experience of receiving the torah the most seminal event in all of human history mishpatham the vav we spoke about last week the va fakhibor that connection of bringing it to of bringing it to this world and into the world of action civil toward criminal law how to bring hashem dearer but into giving a dwelling place down here and to connect with them down here in this world and then we transition from that to truma the ramban we mentioned in his introduction to the book of shemos talked about it being the transition from golos to goula we are going from exile and exile as a place where one is far from god unsure about god exile is a place where you are not as confidential that there is a god in this world and that you connect to him that is exile gaula is living with god he's feeling his presence his love his influence and therefore we have now begun the second half of the book and the transition from the story of gullis of living without god of thinking we're in charge and we're in control to the story of goula of building hashem a home of building a place where he can have a deer bathtub where he can dwell down here on down here on earth now the posix says moshe says god says to moshe speak to the jewish people and take for me a gift maize cause shri adventity bow from anyone who has a generous heart a generous spirit tiku is true masih take that gift and so on and so forth and wonders of druk we're going to jump right into our first aish tamid the first will be strong mayor dirk we've been learning the safer and the parsha among many i wanted this myself this year when being marbus when looking at the parsha it's backwards who runs a campaign this way who does a appeal this way normally you speak about what it is you're trying to raise money for normally you talk about the cause the institution the organization the values the vision here's who we are what we represent we need your help we need your partnership please give and yet here in the partial it works exactly the opposite hear the torah saying please give oh you want to know the cause oh by the way you want to know what we're raising money for so shouldn't we first state first we shouldn't shouldn't we first articulate what it is that money is being raised for and only afterwards do the appeal who's in who's giving go on the website go on the campaign site and do it on our own memory what kind of a campaign is this what's going on over here wonders or druk the yes levar so he says you can explain the following we find similarly when it comes to avraham avinu avraham avina what does have to do with the mishkan have to do with our storyline here cesar of zhuk god when he introduces himself or at least the way we see or read god's introduction to avraham leave your homeland leave your home leave everything you know and go to the land that i am going to that i am going to show you. now when he first reaches out he doesn't tell him where he doesn't tell him where he's going to he just says leave your home leave everything you know and i want you to go to the place that i'm going to show you what do you mean the place i'm going to show you guys i think we spoke about it this year again we speak about it every year why didn't god give him the coordinates avraham had to plug into waze or into google maps or whichever i don't know which uh app he used but whichever one he had to plug in the coordinates where to go so he knows to leave his homeland he knows the departure gate but he doesn't know the destination why does god hold back or conceal from him where is the destination why not give it up front because god wanted to give avraham award on every step and every step that rather than know where he was going and how wonderful it would be there all he knew was you're on this ride barco says i'm the pilot i'm the driver you're the passenger i will get you to the destination you belong to the destination you need to be come along for this ride and that's our test that's the challenge are we willing to let go and let god are we willing to go along for the ride was avraham willing to drop and leave everything he knew for a lachlan to start out on a journey even without knowing the destination of that journey if he knew he was going then the whole journey the journey wasn't a means unto itself and ends unto itself the journey was just the means in order to arrive at the destination but god wanted avraham to go through the journey of self-discovery he wanted to go on this path of figuring out who he was akopseopsia that every step and every progress and every advance would in itself be transformational to him and with the source of great reward that's why hashem concealed from avram that's why god did not reveal the destination to begin with that's why he didn't tell him about it up front yesterday so says now we can understand similarly in our parsha why does god first announce there's an appeal open your wallet bring your checkbook venmo zell however you want to wire the money show me the money bring the money oh what's the cause i'll tell you in a moment and we ask what kind of an appeal is this first you explain the cause and then you ask for the money says ravdruk no had hashem explained the cause before the money then people would have been giving because they believed in the cause but hashem wanted to confirm that people were willing to give because he asked them to give he said i'm hashem you love me you're devoted you're dedicated when i say write a check you say how high elo is giving would have been just a means towards the result of having the mishkan but the giving itself wouldn't have been as impactful wouldn't have been as transformational just like the journey of avraham so god says give and through that giving you will be changed and now what are you giving towards we could talk about afterwards but just the experience of giving is impactful is transformational in fact the rambam or doesn't quote this but the rambam writes if a person has a hundred dollars to give and they can give one dollar a hundred times or a hundred dollars to one person what should they do if i came to you and asked you that advice what would you advise one dollar to 100 people or a hundred dollars to one person what would you advise so i might have advised the hundred dollars to one person it's much more efficient first of all way of giving but second of all it's much more impactful way of giving the hundred dollars can make a real difference in someone's life the one dollar to 100 people want writes the ram-bam one dollar to 100 people why because each time you give you've changed yourself the whole notion of giving we're not going to spend time on now we've spent time on in the yaman narayan when we talk about the three things chuba tv stuck in my viewers and we asked i understand repentance i change who i am i'm deserving of a new decree i understand prayer prayer i change who i am and how i position and talk to hashem i'm deserving of a new decree but stakka would i just write a check to the judge when i write a check to the judge i'm basically buying off and bribing the judge and through that i get a new degree i just stuck a work but if you understand that when i take my assets my resources when i take it and i give it to the right place i use and spend it in the right way then i am transforming myself it's not an external act it's an act which transforms who i am it's an act which affirms my relationship with money my relationship with things my relationship with my material possessions and my assets and when i give them away each act of giving transforms who i am so says the rambam 100 to one person is one act of giving there's one unit of impact but one dollar to 100 people even though the one dollar is much less but there's a hundred acts of giving there's a hundred moments of the impact of transformation so says that's what god was saying the ikuli truma li lishmi lila shmei rashi says god says lash me do it for me do it because i asked you uh what's it going for what's it towards i'll tell you later first i want to know that you're giving for me if you ever had a close friend or family members you're raising money for something important you call them and you say i've got a cause i'm working on something that's really important i want to know are you willing to help me out so if they say does it matter to you do you care about it is it important i'm in now tell me what it is i'm giving to to whom do i write the check where do i address the wire but if they say well first tell me about it and i'll see if it speaks to me so then it's not lash me then it's not about the person's devotion to you they're only giving if it's a cause that speaks to them says me i want to know you're giving because you are connected to me i want to know this is an act of devotion to me i want to know this is a transformational change to you that you're willing to part with your things for me because i asked what's the cause i'll tell you in a moment and that's why the order seems out of order first it's vehicular truma and then it's a perfect example by the way at least for me maybe you've noticed this and know this torah it's obvious to you i've read the parsha many times i never noticed it until this year i was bothered by this question and i'm so happy and relieved to see that he offers this this answer first it's all about and only afterwards then does hashem tell us the the cause and the reason for it he has a long essay he develops further ideas here but we're going to move on if you have the safer i encourage you to read further and to understand uh more about why it is in this in this order okay so the verb is from anyone who is generous of heart here's the gift i want you to solicit here is the appeal you ready there's no website brsonline.org global but rather than material things you have to dedicate you have to give i said i wouldn't interrupt the partial but that's part of the theme of the passion so that's not called an interruption here are the materials here's what was being solicited from the people zahav unakoshas gold silver and bronze these are materials they needed these materials in order to successfully build the mishkan and the kalem in the mish gun and in order to be able to make it happen why now why now so i want to first i'm going to share with you an insight from her by salvation but before i want to repeat something i told you before it comes from the hamra tava hamritava is the safer of simchamev uh great sadduce and he writes the following the medrash says in tandem is when the jewish people at the end of last week's parish bought them last week we didn't get into it in the partial class last week but the end of last week's parsha after we went through the long list and litany of laws then returns to a narrative and that narrative the word nasa of nishma we will do and then we will listen doesn't appear in pasha's israel where the giving of the torah but appears at the end of mashpatem and there's a debate again we didn't get into it the end of last week's parashat chronologically did that really come before matantara after matantora if it really came before why was it placed after maybe an extra mishpatim will deal with it so the words nasa nisma are the end of pasha's mishpatim god says i have an offer and the jewish people say we're in we'll do we'll accept we're ready oh by the way what is it you want us to do these are the iconic words nasa vanishma and then you go from that high of nasa venisma last week to the truman this week where god says okay you're in open your wallet open your checkbook he says you know we have a lot of jews who they go to the daphyomi and they listen to the partisanship living with the moon shear the afternoon kolo they even listened behind the bhima i don't know they have to say birka satora and behind the bhima but there's a lot of people who love learning and they dabble with a minion and they're outside some of you if you're not in boca some of you have been bundling up to go outside in freezing temperatures with enormous mysterious nephesh tremendous sacrifice to continue to dive into davao with a minion and there are people who are willing to give up their their comfort to davon with a minion their people are willing to give up their time in order to participate in total learning and then you say to them by the way we're doing an appeal and all of a sudden they shut down the recoil they distance themselves and they disappear monem atma mitsutaka mammon time they'll give you their comfort convenience they'll give you but the money oh the money there's an allergy the money they'd rather give you their liver and their kidneys than they would rather give you than their money in kane says oh yeah you're in oh yeah you love me oh yeah you're ready to do whatever i ask okay cough it over write a check venmo some money shizakari because this is the core test there are three ways that a person you want to know the essence of someone don't follow their lip service don't listen to what they say watch what they do if you want to understand somebody don't just listen to what they say but watch what they do and we know kiso caso and koso when a person gets angry first of all what do they get outraged and angry over and what do they act like when they get angry you learn everything about somebody becauseo somebody drinks becomes inebriated and intoxicated what comes out nicknasa soda you learn a lot about somebody but says the gemara the third one is the kiso the wallet you want to know about somebody check the credit card statement i wrote an article last week imagine somebody found your credit card statement you lost it the mail blew away someone stole your mail imagine someone went through your credit card statement what would they conclude about you if they followed what you spend money on what would they conclude about your priorities so the notion of getting stuck is it's mitzvah hashem says give and we say how much we say how much the truma so such i thought a fascinating insight where he says why is nasa vanishima followed from the equally truman it's sort of anticlimactic we go from this romantic nasa of inisma love and romance and spirituality and then god says okay how much are you willing to give because we measure the love not by the words but by the action if you really appreciate if you're really committed if you've benefited and you're really grateful it's nice when you get beautiful emails but it's about making the contribution to be able to show that appreciation and continue that project and that effort but also has a comment here on these words and says the rav the following he says you have to understand and remember who are these people and where are they coming from when god turns to them and says cough it over contribute share we're doing an appeal who are these people what's their mentality what has been their life experience until now where are they coming from so writes the rub the slaves in egypt had no property rights slaves are not compensated by definition if you're a slave you're not paid you're not compensated there's no 401k no pension contribution there's no mileage reimbursement when you're a slave forget the actual money health insurance garnished you get nothing the jewish people would pass an egyptian woman instead of beautiful clothing while the israelites had all they had were rags so they'd see the beautiful clothing and the wonderful spread of food and the home and the luxury car and the nice watch and the jewish people as slaves to the egyptians had garnished had nothing suddenly they were liberated and given so many gifts all of a sudden the jewish people on the way out we know the the um the um the booty the the spoils of the war that wash up on the shore after the yamasuf we know they collected it and they got great wealth moshe ran to get the bones of yosef but they ran to collect all the wealth that was on the chariots of these egyptians that washed up on the sword sure see here you have a nation over 210 years lived in poverty 210 years had nothing and now they discover wealth they've won the lottery now they have beautiful clothing and gold and silver they have great wealth when one undergoes privation it is natural to want to be compensated for the years of poverty and destitution when the period of privatization ends so when a person goes from being a slave to a free person they want compensation they want to collect we all know the debate between ben gurion and menachem begin when the germans and uh paying the um what was it called retribution not paying uh restitution to the jews the people in israel there was a big debate in the knesset do you take the restitution or do you assume that it's uh are you letting the germans off the hook if you if you accept it so a person goes free and they want to be compensated by their former by their former master by their persecutor but when then hashem makes an announcement and he says okay you've discovered gold and silver you're now wealthy you've won the lottery you're landed on money the people's willingness to give up these hard-earned possessions that they receive from the egyptians is precisely what hallowed and sanctified the sanctuary such a beautiful insight it means that what gave the kedusa to the mikdash what gave the holiness to the mishkan were the contributions of the people who made it up and why were those contributions so holy because they didn't come easy and it's not just that they didn't come easy financially you know every time one does an appeal every time this is not my timing we didn't sit down and time brsonline.org global campaign with parties truma just happens to work out perfectly though i'm not bringing it up in the middle of the parties here but when one runs a campaign there are people for whom writing that check means little it won't impact their lives and there are others who go to their savings there are others who consider what could we live without this year in order to make sure sure the shul or the yeshiva or the kola or the mikvot or the ayrav or the kasras has or our brothers and sisters in israel in order to make sure that the soldiers in the israeli army what am i willing to live without nor that they have so financially the holiness of the stucco we give is proportional to how much it hurt to give it but the hurt to give it is not only true in terms of our bank account the hurt to give it is not only true in terms of the number that it goes down because we've given and shared the hurt to give is also the mentality there are people who are magnanimous they are naturally generous they are eager to share and and be generous with others and there are others who are allergic to giving away there are others that it's painful it's like you're extracting a limb or an organ to take money and these slaves were exactly that people they'd come out of egypt they had nothing and they were afraid of the future what would it bring think about the last generation the survivors the survivors who walked out of the camps as skeletons and they had nothing and they worked tirelessly just to be able to have a roof over their head and food in their mouth and then it was time to rebuild in america and they came and said we need money for the shul for the yeshiva we need money for the era for the mikvah and these survivors who didn't know where the next meal would come from nevertheless took the little they had in order to build the jewish future that was the same thing as these slaves that's the slaves that's the holiness the institutions that we have today we have to remember where they're from and the holiness that went into building them was the sacrifice on the backs of the people of what they gave up for us to have and to live with what we have during corona in the past 12 months we lost two of the founding members of brs two founding members izzy brook and tamar naui alayama and you know our shular community it starts flourishing it's thriving barack hashem hara but not everybody knows the story of the founders and what they gave up to be 10 people who came together to dive in a living room and start from there so here too hashem asks it not of a wealthy settled comfortable people he asks of a people in transit a people who are on the run a people who have not yet discovered comfort a people who a moment ago were slaves for two hundred and ten years he says nevertheless please give zahad they do so readily and generously and that is the holiness upon which our mikdash and mishkan were built continuing right along still on page 444 among the materials that moshe recruits that moshe asks for are avne the afname stones and stones for the melu setting stones stones that you're going to set in the breastplate leftover for the a phone and the ocean for the breastplate so i want to look at two pieces by druk on these words on the notion of the av shaman of name says the following if you looked at all the materials and you had to assign a value if you were going to list them in the order of what they were worth then amnes should have come first before zahala khashoggis before the acacia word would say why are abne at the end when arguably they are of the greatest value and they should have been listed at first this is the question of israel mayor this is the question of the ishtamin and he quotes who says the following says you know why that at the end even though objectively they are of more value you know why they're placed here at the end who gave them who gave them we know the measures tells us the naseem the princes the leadership waited to see what everyone else would give there's a campaign and there's you need a certain number to reach that campaign so they were waiting let's see what everyone else gives first and then we'll fill in the gap those are heroes of campaigns by the way a lot of these online matching campaigns right now you see they have one minute left to the campaign and suddenly they fill in the last million and a half dollars where'd that come from they had someone they knew they set aside we may need you to bail us out to hit that magic number at the end but is that right is that righteous should you be the hero who says i'm going to come in at the end and help you meet the goal or with alacrity and zeal should you be out front i'm going to be one of the first ones you ask to give i'm going to run to give and not wait to see what's missing but i want to be among those so the naseem waited and what looked like a very noble gesture to say we will fill in what's missing we'll fill in the deficit in fact hashem holds them accountable you're waiting you're only going to give based on the deficit of what's there you should have run to give you should have been out front you should be the first and because of that hashem spells the name khasir the word niseim appears without a yud nin allah viewed me it's missing one of the youths why because they're essentially being punished this is hashem's patch they're missing ayud because they were missing the alacrity of running to give at first camacho is asleep awesome they delayed they procrastinated they waited to only give the deficit therefore what they ultimately gave were these stones the stones that listed last correlated with the fact that naseem gave last and one deserved druk i i don't understand isn't this a great thing that a scene did i would love it if someone stepped up right now and said the global campaign stated a goal of a hundred thousand they're at seventy thousand i don't know what people are giving right now during this year i'm not looking because we're learning the parachute together but if somebody stepped up like the museum and said whatever you're missing rabbi in the brs global campaign i'll cut that check whatever you're missing i'll make up that difference and get you to that goal i would give you the biggest virtual hug a huge yashakah so why the naseem criticized for this what did they do wrong where did they go wrong so cesaro drove the following niro lavar says we're doing an appeal a campaign it's not a time to start doing bonos shall it be at first shall we make up the deficit how much should we get lost right away you have to say i want to be listed i want to be counted among those who give. even if the calculation was noble and even if the calculation was accurate but the very fact that you pause and hesitate to make a calculation is in itself a procrastination that reflects poorly when hashem is recruiting it's listening when hashem is asking appealing you say i'm in and immediately to give everything you can and that's why there's a disappointment and there is a criticism that they waited till the end to give and you see this by email the mercilet and parsha's bow i don't want to scare anyone about pesach and how close we are to it that you have to safeguard the mata we know this we pay a very hefty price for shmuramata mata which is guarded guarded from the time of what that's a big debate what is the definition of smart and from when does it need to be guarded different homuras and different price points but our rabbi say don't read it ushmar te mesamattos reading mitzvos safeguard the mitzvos from which hazal understands when you have the opportunity to do a mitzvah don't turn it into hammers just like if you delay the only difference flower and water the only difference between mata and khamenes are not the ingredients flour and water the only difference in mats and in fact are is time the amount of time it takes if you allow time to impact the flour and water hamitz if you move to the lacquered in zeal matzah so similarly when you're when you're presented with a mitzvah opportunity don't turn that mitzvah into khamenes is greater because mata is like math is the bread of the poor person is the bread of the rich person so is what we strive for and crave the bread of the rich person who has time for the bread to rise and who is prepared for it to spoil because he'll just get more but the matzah is for the poor person who both doesn't have time for it to rise and needs it to be something that never grows stale because he has to stretch it out to last as long as possible so if comets is better then why do we say would be possible listen to this kiddish give you a vote for nissan and pesach so write it down for pesach already now listen to this again i never thought of this is why i love rav druksavaram i love this farm we're trying to arrange a special opportunity for a druk to come on our parshashir and to introduce him to you to share some of these div torah live so please god we'll be able to uh to arrange that sort of joke says now we understand mitzvah but wait hamitz is better than matzah not says money monster is the bread of the poor person comments is the bread of the rich person what do you mean don't turn into comments shouldn't i want to turn it into comments what do you see from here that even if you delay to do the mitzvah means you could do the mitzvah better still do the mitzvah right now yahamats is better than matzah matzo we only eat one week a year the other fifty to one weeks we're eating the comments comments is better it's the bread of the poor person it's better the better the rich person yet what do you see from here just like comments is better but don't wait and turn something into chametz even if the mitzvah would be better if you wait don't wait to do the mitzvah better better to do it right now better to do it right now and that was the mistake of the bone of the of the necesem they shouldn't have made this rajput just the calculation will come in and we'll finish and we'll complete the deficit and whatever's missing will make up for it and won't that be amazing just that bone just was their mistake why the letter ud is and why is the punishment of the necessity and remember that these stones that after shaman afnelum that they donated they come at the end punishing the museum but the other punishment is that the nassim is spelled khasir it's missing the letter why is it spelled missing the letter how is that a punishment so listen what if druk says you could read the word naseem without the ud it's just that is the holiest level yud is a yid yad is a jew yiddis contributes to the name of hashem so you could read the word without the yud even though the yud there would make it better and that's exactly their mistake you could do it without it even though having it there would make it better now what a geshmak shot in this whole story about why the naseem are criticized why the abnesham of namilum are listed at the end why the punishment is removing the yud and why atakhmitsana is a bad thing even the muhammad is better than mata all wrapped into one namely don't procrastinate and wait because even though you could do it better later the very fact that you waited and delayed makes it worse even if it looks better always do it immediately i love it what a gishmak shot and then he has another one sarah biram again the question why is at the end and he quotes a second interpretation of the kadosh who says where do these stones come from these precious stones that were placed in the garments of the quran where they come from they descended from heaven they came from hashem they took no effort from kiss so the naseem didn't have to actually empty their bank account they came from heaven they came from hashem they haven't soil and they were no took no sacrifice so you see from hashem that that which came without the sacrifice and effort it goes at the end it goes at the end what you did with sacrifice and effort what you did when you worked harder is more precious and gets listed at the beginning so even though objectively even though objectively avne shama nimilum these precious jewels are more valuable than the other materials and they should have been listed first but because the mechanism of retrieval because the way that we got them took no effort and took no sacrifice they're listed at the end that which we do without sacrifice and effort is not nearly as valuable it's not nearly as valuable that which takes work i always say with my kids when they tell me about their grade in school but hashem my kids get good grades they have a smart mother but i always ask them did you try your hardest does it represent your best effort i don't care about the grade so two kids will report on their midterms simultaneously and one got a 92 and the other got an 85 but if the one who got the 85 says yes i worked tirelessly i studied harder than i ever did and the one who got the 92 said you know what honestly i winged it i didn't really put in my best effort then i'll give better feedback i will be more supportive in responding to the one with the lower grade but it took more effort because even though objectively the 92 is higher than the 85 but the one who had to work harder the one who put more of themselves into it that's of greater value that's a greater value and they deserve the greater reward he quotes the great said this of course when a person makes a see him we say we toil them they toil so asks everybody if [Music] what do you mean we get reward and they and they don't get reward all rewarders in the world to come what are you comparing rewards for how could you begin to compare sadhus khan explains see in this world the reward is only for the result but in our estimation the reward is for the effort they give you know example if you give someone a final on math and you have to solve math equations and you couldn't solve them you get a bad grade i don't care if you spent six hours on the math equations if in the end of the day you couldn't solve them there is no reward you fail the test but if you're struggling with a difficult ptosis you're trying to break your teeth on a difficult on a difficult or prime and you struggle in total for six hours and you know what in the end you don't understand it in the end you still don't have uh you don't have a grasp on the toast voice do you get reward yes because for us the reward is the effort the toil the sacrifice it's of course the result we care about the result not to suggest that we care about the result we care about the result we care about the result we care also about the effort that went in and since the abner shaman of namielum didn't take nearly the same effort that's why they're listed at the end i want to share with you another instant amnesty a third insight this comes from the state for oil moshe and the same for all moshe says stones shohem stones i know family show him precious like jewels name jewel jewel so have they show them show them our precious stones what are avne milluem what is the word mean listen to this if you haven't listened to anything until now this is the best shot today listen to this insight they're all great listen to this malay means to fill they fill a void on the breastplate there were empty slots and these stones filled the slot so what do we call the stone not a ruby and not a diamond and not a i just listed all the names of gems that i know we don't call them by their name even though that would really reflect their identity and their value their abdemilum what are they oh the stones that you put in the spot to fill the spot kind of a name is that he wonders is that their only value all you care about these stones their only value is that they fill the gaping hole that's all you care about what about the inherent or intrinsic value of anima it should have said stones for the eighth and the hoshan what do you mean we're denigrating we're diminishing these uh these stones by saying that their only value their only worth is that they fill the slot omar said listen to this insight these gems they are these are stones are extraordinary and they are inherently and intrinsically of inestimable value but gidola you know what your biggest value is not who you are inherently or intrinsically your biggest value is what service you are to the other how do you fill a role in someone else's life what your value is to you that doesn't impress us but your real value is what do you feel what role do you feel in someone else's life that's the message of avne millu they're called name not avanim of their precious inherent value because the greater value is not what they're worth inherently the greater value is how are you malay in what way do you fill the needs of others since their whole value rashi says is to fill the opening greater than the intrinsic value is the value in the role that they play for the other and that's why they're called avnemilum so two insights into why the avne millum are listed at the end two or haims and a radruck3 insights and the beautiful insight here of rashford burnbaum why they're called milum which really is in some ways demeaning to these precious stones that have an intrinsic value now we get to the famous possum nobody made a song out of these words yet somebody's got to make a song out of these words they also mean hashem says make for me a miktash and dwell where in them and everybody knows everybody knows that the great student of the villenegon who tells us about the grammatical shift the mikdash and the singular the best in the plural says the nf the answer is that hashem was not telling us just to make a building of bricks and stone of mourner and that he would dwell there ultimately where does he really dwell not in the physical architecture alone but he dwells metaphysically inside each and every one of us in fact the majestic tells us that the mishkan corresponds to the creation of man because man is a world in miniature so the mishkan corresponds with gracious the creation of man because each person is a world in miniature and the magic goes on to say the menorah is the i and the shokhan is the mouth and the mizbayacha katars is the nose and it goes on and on and on each one of us is that mikdash in miniature and we all know that's the song of the 16th century makubul balazar askari mishkan evne lahadar kvodo we are all know this is a magnificent song bovavi that was put as a song belvavi in my heart i'll make a mishkan an honor and in a sanctuary i'll place an altar and to serve hashem we are. and and this beautiful nephesh in which we all know takes on particular meaning i think this year even more than normal why because this year vyasuli miktus yasuli miktash in the singular we have one shul but there are many people who couldn't and still can't go to that shul so they shouldn't be disheartened if a person can't dial in shul if a person can't come to any classes that are in person if a person can't yet in to attend live they shouldn't become disheartened they shouldn't become despondent because they have to realize that even the vasuli miktas in the singular there's the shul but vishakhati bis even when we are denied the mikdash we still have the bisocham there is the miktash in our homes there's the mikdash in our lives there's the miktash in ourselves we still have that within ourselves the shame is we know that we have the mishkan the mishkan we have and it takes us through our journey in the desert and we begin to enter the land and then we transition from the mishkan to the mikdash we we then the mishkan is disassembled and we move into when shalom builds the mikdash shamati says the shame ishmael i heard from my father [Music] the edifice each has a different name now the edifice serves the same purpose both were to bring carbonus both were to bring sacrifices so if the similar avodah is done there and the same people serve there why are they given different names either even once we settle in the land shalom should have built a permanent mishkan or even while we traveled through the desert we should have assembled and disassembled a transportable mikdash why do we change from a mishkan to a mikdash so it says that a mishkan because of what we're supposed to feel when you go into the mishkan is the divine dwelling the intensity of hashem being there rabbi lord saks explained that the nature of the word shrina is neighbor it's hashem not as distant and abstract not the hashem of far away and mighty and powerful but it's the hashem who's my neighbor who's accessible who i can talk to and confide in and lean on hashem who's always there so the mishkan projected what this slave nation needed coming out of egypt is to know that no matter how challenging or difficult things got hashrat if you needed a neighbor to lean on long before progressive is that the one who's the neighbor like a good neighbor no i forgot who it is long before like a good neighbor hashem was there if you needed a good neighbor a good shakheen then you turned to the shrine the mikdash however connotes something different the mikdash is when you are living out there in the mundane profane base world of materialism and you strive contact with holiness come to the miktash because the mikdash is all about kedusha it's about holiness it's about preaching we're learning in the show now we're up to the peric the media of precious the media of how we can transcend the physical how we can live with some sense of abstinence may allah from this world so here's the thing but why the change so now is where he says mikdashikri mishkan um it's true that the name changed but both have both components the mishkan was also a mikdash and the mikdash is also a mishkan and one can use the names interchangeably because i think both edifices had both qualities and therefore we looked to get both from both sometimes you needed to a neighbor even with the mikdash and you treated the mikdash as a mishkan sometimes you needed contact with holiness and therefore you treated the mishkan as a mikdash each one is called the other because both contain both components and and we in our shul the goal of a shul the goal of a community is to strive to provide both as well to strive to provide a place which is a contact a portal to holiness and a place that can to provide a contact with hashem as the neighbor when you want to feel a good reliable neighbor dependable neighbor to feel connected to hashem that you can go there as well now we start to get into the niktas the first is our own you make the aran out of acacia wood and if you go back to listen to previous parsha shirum we've gone in depth into each of these really beautiful the dimensions and the materials and the names magnificent clay yuckers on these partials i encourage you if that interests you to go back and look so the iron is made out of and why by the way the iron is the one cli that is listed in the singular all the other klim are described in the plural this clearly is listed in the singular and the dimensions are only partial they're fractions rather than whole numbers why all these are lessons all these are deep and profound ideas first of all they are fractions integers not whole numbers why to tell us that every jew when it comes to torah you never whole you never complete you're never done you finish shas at the seam you start the next maserta you're never done you've never done learning we're never done growing and therefore it's a fraction because each of us is a fraction when it comes to torah you can never put a check and say i'm done i'm complete it's over so the aaron which held the luchos the arun which held the original safer torah the auron which represented torah is in a fraction not a whole number because each of us is a fraction not a whole number it's written in the singular because it depends on the entire community when it comes to torah it is the entire it is the entire community so this arun is covered as layered the tsipiso you cover it with pure gold from within it from without and there's a gold crown that surrounds it again some beautiful kayakers about the crown that went around they are on the crown around the molding the golden molding the golden crown around the shulhan the the beautiful um symbolism of each of these things so back to the ishtar bacter of druk and ravdruk says the following on this notion of the our own being layered with gold outside and inside says the following i skipped it of druk okay i'll go back and tell you this is a drunk boss of the viktor if the goal is if the goal is for god to dwell in and through each and every one of us then why is it connected to the first part of the positive vessel it should be two separate independent ideas one is build me a home give me a dear better and one is build me a dwelling place make me a mikdash separate and power parallel and independent from it god should shave this want to dwell in it why is it connected and why is it in this order and says there is one capital spiritually of the jewish people and when it unites us then the holiness can flow down from it into and through us to be that sense of the shakhanti first we have to be connected to mikdash and then first he made us a nation then he gave us the torah first we have to be united and then we can pursue our mission first we have to be connected through we also make dash and then we can be that mission charge driven people of the shakhanti bisocham okay back to the aurum so the yard of vitipiso tahor it is layered with gold me by sumirts on the inside and outside you have to layer it says what do you learn from here why in the world is the gold layered on the inside if i were running this campaign i'd say save some money we were interrupted we were in the middle of a capital campaign for our shul to expand hashem we were bursting at the seams when corona so rudely interrupted so if we were looking at our budget and tightening our belts and figuring out where we can save and where we can shrink our budget our expenses i'd say just have the gold on the outside that's the part that people see the inside nobody sees you don't need the gold on the inside you only need the gold on the outside so say the rabbis what do you learn from here a righteous person who's outside and inside don't match if you have gold if you're flashing ostentatious on the outside and yet you're poor and simple on the inside then you're duplicitous you're hypocritical you're a fraud to be a time you're outside on your inside have to match if you want to glow on the outside you better be glowing on the inside canes similarly when the great uh dispute between you become gambling used to sit on the outside of the basement and he used to only allow those inside taco caboro only those who are consistent inside and out only those whose insides and outsides match are invited or welcomed into the mikdash you have to be toho kimboro hini pasha biryani sonia's kevin sharonville dinner my kirin son of gossip so if i ask you what matters more your inside or your outside not so simple one might say scissor of druk that your outside matters more why does your outside matter more because let's say in your heart we hear this from people all the time i have a very generous heart in my heart i'm a really good person yeah that's nice for your heart but in your actions and your deed and the way we know you you're a cheap nasty low life jerk so i could really care less that in your heart and in your mind you're the nicest person you ever met i don't really care that in your heart you're the most generous person anyone could ever dream of i can only measure you by what i know of you which is your hitsonas which is your actions so you might have said the outside the external the manifestation of who we are matters most because that's who we really are le manure toba inatibor if we want people to think of us positively if we want to earn a good reputation it's not based on who we are inside it's based on how we behave outside but to be a righteous person it's not enough to only do the right things on the outside either you can't for show shuckle like crazy when you're in shul and then be ruthless and a low life and gossip when you're outside come on come on for some of shalom person has to be matching what are we saying our daughter in the morning sometimes it's easy to be your shamayim externally you'll get the accolades and you'll get the praise and you'll get your acknowledgement but to be a year is internally besets her when no one's watching to be matching our insights to our outsides volume and we learn this from the auran which was layered in the cold inside and out yeshua says you can add sugar sat on its base it didn't have legs the arun didn't have a stand it didn't have legs because if it has legs if it has a stand protrusions then it looks like it's being elevated who also wrote me sergio it's giving an impression like it's bigger and more than it is and that's not consistent that's not humble and the aron is the model of torah and the model of torah is our insides and our outsides matching it's the model of humility it's being the same and then he quotes his father the josh murdoch why do we say that the inside have to match the outside why don't we say the outside of the match the inside b because if the timer comes inside's like the outside allah the reason that we aspire that the inside chemist the outside is because we can't even the outside should match the inside rather is because there are people so great we can't even begin to imagine inside ghidola israel kaneos the greatest people we have we can't begin to scratch the surface of what's going on inside so we say levi if their outside match their inside what we would learn and see of them would be absolutely mind-boggling would be incredible would be incredible okay moving right along still sticking with the arom the iron had a very unusual feature the arm had holes on the side and there were poles there were stabs that were put through the holes in order to transport the arom the iron wasn't unique or alone it wasn't singular in the sense the other caleb also needed to be transported and had a similar mechanism of transport poles that would sit on the shoulders of those who transported them but the difference of the r on the orange and outlier in the tabasa are on you about the poles in the arrow have to go in and they have to remain they go in and they remain and they stay there why do they have to stay there rashi says forever liolum forever forever and wherever loya suru you can't take them out why not once you arrive at the destination and once they lower the aron and put it down so take the poles out how is it different and why is it different than the other caleb if the other calendar you can remove the poles once you've arrived why must the poles of the arun be perpetually present has a magnificent insight so powerful for us today again during this pandemic time much like the vyasuli miktash maybe there's one shula i can't get there but no wherever you are hashem is still with you so the aaron contains the sabres the torah and its messages the torah and its directives the torah and its insight and the first suggests that the presence of the polls indicates the portability of torah always torah never settles in one place torah is not only relevant ever in one time torah is not relevant to one geographical location torah is portable it's viable it's relevant wherever and whenever so the polls remain in the auron to tell us that the torah never settles down the torah is constantly ready to inform and inspire our lives wherever and whenever it's not that the uranu when it arrives in the mishkan or in the mikdash take the polls out now you're done now it's set the torah is ready to go with us wherever we go it travels with us wherever we travel the torah is our faithful companion the torah is our guide it's our instruction manual it's our blueprint it's so powerful now we don't have a base of mita so we don't have a mishkan and the bottom of the torah are symbolic of these calam that they come with us wherever we go and again we don't have the mishkan win on the base of mktash but the torah is as relevant as important for us today as it's ever been we can't necessarily go to shul some of you some of those with us right now still can't go to shul can't look at the arun can listen to the torah being read but know that the torah never removed its polls the torah is with you in your home torah is with us wherever and whenever we are it continues to inform and it continues to inspire our lives it continues to inform and continues to inspire our lives now ravdruk has another comment says why can't you remove them veneer lumber is that darn niffle he says i want to tell you an amazing idea represents torah what is the role of these poles the rose of the poles is to support the aram it lifts the arom so the torah's teaching is a very important lesson just like the poles are a permanent fixture and a permanent part of the our own and never removed the one who supports torah is a permanent part and permanent fixture of the torah that's being learned when you donate to a shul to a yeshiva when you enter your sacrament when you give whether it's to our global campaign or you give to any torah institution you are inseparable just like the polls are not removed to that which is being supported supporting it so too those who support torah are never separate or apart or never removed from that whom they're supporting even when the iron is still but the polls are still there to remember the support tamil nisha mahuba love shalom allah [Music] it's a living tree it should say to those who are supporting it but it doesn't say that it says nobody can so arrogantly and presumptuously say i support total you support torah torah doesn't need your help yes torah needs your financial contributions but make no mistake when you give to torah the torah is supporting you the torah is supporting you you're not supporting torah and that's why it's it's it's it's is supporting them the gemara says in soto daflamet no se es nos of the oran is carrying those who carry it the aaron is carrying those who carry it and that's why the polls remain in place to remind us that when we support torah we think we're supporting torah but through the act of supporting torah in fact the torah is supporting us so why were the poles never removed from the auron even when it got to the location according to referee beautiful insight torus transportable it's relevant it's timeless it comes with us as our companion wherever we go or even when we are quarantined at home the torah is still there it has the poles it travels with us wherever we go and the second instead of druk that the polls are there to remember we think we're supporting torah torah is supporting us the torah is what is supporting us so thank you for learning with me again on tuesday morning i want to invite you to learn with me tomorrow morning first at 8 15 when we do 15 minutes of mesilas isharam and then living with ammuna at 8 45. if you want to be notified when we go live for all the learning opportunities simply subscribe on youtube press subscribe on youtube and you'll be notified when we go live and when you can learn it join us to learn if you've not yet contributed to 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