Parsha Perspectives for Today (Terumah, 5783/2023) - Financial Cycles

foreign family the Katz family he was a very special person I knew him a big enormous heart very very generous soul and we wish nakama to his beautiful family to Becky and Avi and the whole family and my dear friend Rabbi Seth so Michelle this morning she was also sponsored and Moshe Ernest Khan beloved father Susan Rajasthan on his ninth year at site the second of Adar thank you Susan for your generosity and Your sponsorship greatly greatly appreciated and appreciate everybody's flexibility moving the partial Shield to today instead of yesterday we were on the road so appreciate it just a reminder our Global campaign is going to be starting soon so keep an eye out for it next week if you come and if you enjoy or if you're watching and you are listening and you enjoy the content your life is enriched in any way by the content that comes from the book of its own synagogue it's your obligation to do something eighteen dollars hundred eighty dollars eighteen hundred dollars eighteen 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countless words for man ish gather Adam you lead we have so many words why ish why specifically the word ish and why is why do they have to have a Generous Heart and most notably why is it why is it taking it is an act of giving right what I just did we always time our Global campaign and appeal with precious truma I share every year the beautiful Insight many give it's a dick and quote why is precious room after Precious mishpatam the end of last week's parasha NASA benishma we just had harsinai because it's easy to be on top of the mountain hashem's amazing Revelation spirituality connection right you come off in the ELA that comes as the stuff I bring in the Tish you're on fire it's incredible everything's amazing are amazing some are so amazing could you take out your checkbook well it's not so amazing you don't understand what I give what I do I don't really have so does being on fire translate to giving and generosity do you take mishbatham and put it into truma so vehicular should be Vietnam should be giving not receiving so we talk about this every year every year trying to bring new insight into this opening process these openings you didn't see that coming says incredibly complicated Advanced difficult safer of londis said seven seven different mamaram teachings very intricate very detailed the Sheikh she might ask two questions on this rashi rashi says why does God say take for me a gift what do you mean from me the Michigan's for him God needs anything it's a big discussion does God have needs are we interopomorphizing him does he really have needs vehicle take from me Lee says you have to do it how the gifts of the Michigan had to be given the Shema no ulterior motive no self-interest no ego had to be purely motivated entirely for Hashem wonders why is the construction of the mishkan singled out as requiring Le Shema every mixer should be done the Shema ideally ideally every Metro we do putting on filling light in the Shabbos candles sitting in the sucker here in the chauffeur every midterm we do Target mixes every day one should focus their mind one should be paying attention one should be really invested and mindful so why specifically this one is it an absolute prerequisite why is it a necessity don't give if you're not going to do it leshma every mixer should be done moreover we have a principle example tells us elsewhere that when you do something is that if you're not doing it for the right reason better not do it at all or better to do it better to do it why Shema baleshma because if you do it at first for the wrong reason but at least do it when you get started doing it maybe what motivated or precipitated to begin with was the wrong reason you'll come to do it for the right reason I just returned late last night our BRS move action flying oh cover went to New York for two and a half days we went all over the New York area met with Incredible Russia Shiva Bonham Community leaders amazing trip I can't wait to share so much of the inspiration the teachings the messages one of the incredibly accomplished robundum we met with who's written many many farm that you're familiar with shared with us I won't say his name because I don't know he shared this story for publication but he told us I asked him what inspired you to write this genre of svarum the books that he puts out which have enhanced all of our Lives enormously I said why did you start that what did you think was missing what led you to do that he said it was a young man learning in Yeshiva and he wanted to stand out he wanted to make a name he wanted to do something different there was a come competitiveness and learning so he wrote the first book and he went to emotion and he asked for Moshe Shyla can I publish his book sir Marshall said what's the question I don't understand the question you wrote a safer why wouldn't you want to publish it what would be the child about publishing it so he said because I wrote it for the wrong reasons everything's accurate everything's true it's adding something valuable but I wrote it for my ego so Moshe said no problem because you know you wrote it for the wrong reason you can publish it he talksma he's written many many for him and he's a very special person and very humbly he said I'm still waiting for the Shema to come so he said something very interesting where Moshe was saying to him was only when you acknowledge it's lotusma can you do it with the Hope it'll come but if you fool yourself into thinking that it's the Shema now when it's lolishma maybe better you shouldn't be doing it you have to have the self-awareness and the Fidelity of the truth to admit that right now it's Lola Shema and hopefully it'll become leshma so we do all kinds of mitzvahsma person goes to the dafyami person volunteers because they want their children to get a shiruch I wish I were joking but you don't know how many people tell me my kids in shidochem for the resume I need to start getting involved in something in the community Rabbi where can you plug me in say well that's that's very beautiful thought it's very powerful they fall in love with the daf or they fall in love with the satisfaction of being on the cover and doing taharas but people all throughout the day are doing things so why is me the gifts of the mishkah had to be pure military emotive she might say ask the two questions number one every Mitzvah we try to do the Shema but number two isn't it better to do Lola Shema because then it's balushma so why is it a prerequisite here Lee has to be leshmi answer is based on an addresses are possum why is hashems call the take from me donations it should be give so the ashraq explains based on the good morning the good morning condition is a fastening studio for a man and a woman to be married the man has to give the woman the three ways one could get married but our Universal practice today casabian star we do kassef we marry a man is betrothed to a woman through a transaction through the transfer of something of value we also today universally don't give money we do shove a castle something that is equal of value to money we give a ring based on Teslas a ring without a stone the woman shouldn't be misled she thinks she's getting a million dollar Stone little does she know it's what do they call it lab grown shubik zirconium little didn't know he got it in the cereal box that morning so it's going to be a caduce your toes she thinks the guy's giving her a million dollar ring and the ring came in the box of Fruity Pebbles that morning so their fertility says we don't give a stone no stones no don't give a stone don't engrave anything a plain simple band could be made of any material but a plain simple band that's our practice Shabba kassef a plain Simple Man Sigmar says the man has to give um your betrothed to me and then he puts the ring on her finger puts the ring on her finger the gamar gives variations of this scenario where the man is giving something and what about if the woman does not receive something tangible but she commits herself to be his wife through some intangible benefit that she gets so tomorrow has examples of that can he provide for her an intangible benefit where she's actually receiving a benefit intangible that they can be betrothed through that transaction the transfer of something they'll be intangible and in that context the gamara gives a fascinating scenario what if he's a very hush of a person what if he is well-known prominent powerful and the world wants access the world wants to give him things and they can't and she's going to give him a gift and through the tobasana through the intangible benefits she'll receive by being able to give him something can she be married to him interesting right and the gemara concludes yes the fact that she's giving something to someone powerful prominent of great esteem and she is able to post that picture on her Instagram page that she gave a gift to such a person gives her such a status new word status update use word status used to mean something different gives her you know she'll post on her what Sam's status which is social media for really from people she'll post on her WhatsApp WhatsApp status that she gave a gift to such a prominent Persona everybody's gonna write her back privately you know him you gave him I know him I gave him something so he says to you know what taku you're pretty you're charismatic we share a lot of values I'll tell you what let's be married and what is the gift I'm giving you is the benefit that I received the present from you the gemara says it works conditions how such a marriage works so the ashes says so you see sometimes you could receive something by giving she receives kadushan she receives marriage by giving someone great of esteem of prominence something when we give a gift to Hashem the most exalted the most distinguished the most prominent the most powerful the source of the entire universe when we give a gift to Hashem we are receiving we're receiving that relationship and that's why the public says don't think you're giving sometimes when you give you're getting something so much more someone who has access to the Oval Office there are all kinds of rules and regulations how big a gift you can give what you can give you go Lobby Congressman a senator you leave a gift you met someone a great prominence royalty a king a queen you want to give a gift so what are you going to think who got more out of that who got more out of that time together the person is so excited they got uracious kind of plaque engraved you know to the king to the Queen the Asus award on behalf of the book written synagogue she got so much out of it the fact that you got an appointment with the queen to give her for shrunken a gift that's going to sit in some storeroom you got so much more out of that than what you gave and that's the message don't think of it now shmeister takes this and he makes a comment he says that whole scenario the Demonic condition only works only works if it's not a Matana if shiv's giving a gift on condition that it be returned then there's no Thomas and there's no marriage and there's no relationship why because the woman does not feel important with the distinguished man's acceptance of such a gift because he didn't really receive it or accept it permanently it was only temporarily because it was unconditioned so you see giving stuck is considered a righteous act even when there's no ulterior motive but giving to the mishkan is different with mixed emotions you might be giving but it doesn't rise to the level of receiving of taking and therefore Rashi says you're only receiving through this act of giving when it's me when you're doing it entirely with pure motive sincerely for Hashem that's the answer the gives of how it is working why does it say Vietnam Vietnam and why does it have to be why does it have to be lishmi Ephraim as a different approach in such tiny letters he says the following foreign what's the purpose of the wedding there are meetings there are mortgages there are a lot of time spent to prepare for the wedding what's the point of the wedding you all look confused is it that bad what is the goal and point of a wedding for this young man and this young woman to be married it's not a concert it's not a Buffet of Delicacies it's not a competition of Decor it's not a sound and light show it is all of those other things too but what is the point or the goal what is the part that will last and be remembered what is one trying to achieve at that event is for this young men and young woman to be married foreign there are some people who forget the whole point of the night so they invest all this time all this energy all this effortless money who's the singer who's the band how big is the orchestra what's the color what's the decor what's the background for the bedekin does it match the khupa there's an arch before they walk down the aisle is there a flower where the place guards are what are we serving is it meat is it just a dark meat is it also the white meat what's gonna happen at this wedding I don't know the names I have no idea who they are I forgot to wish mazel tov but I got a concert I got a meal I got a sound and light show I got a social event I got a valet parking I got a cookie and a cup of coffee to take on the road on the way out I don't know their names I didn't say Mazel tov the people are confused why they come I know this is an out of town thing we like to say a little very short something under the huppa I know it's an out of town thing and apparently this discussion even in Kabbalah should it be interrupted by other thoughts I did fine but I'll tell you why it's meaningful for me that can I notice so far are three weddings fourth I guess if you include my own but our children in Kenya born all of us why we do it I go to wedding study and it feels like you could press like find and replace it's everything else surrounding them you could go sit through a Cuppa you heard the introductory song you heard the songs when the people three singers they were interchanging the harmony there's the choir the orchestra the decor you were confused and over one by the flowers the an allergic reaction to the to the entire Forest that was put up and and you left you don't know his name you didn't really get a look at them you don't even know why you were there you don't even know what it was about like find and replace just put in whatever singer you know his name the choir you know their name the color scheme of the flowers you know exactly you send pictures on every WhatsApp group you belong to of just how outrageous all of it was you don't have a clue I'm just this is all to make me feel better I just have a lot to get off my chest apparently today I don't know why I'm sorry you were the victims of it but thank you for bearing with me this is he says all of this he's writing all of this between the words so at least say two minutes the virtue of this class and this Kawa why you bothered coming to this wedding while you left a gift I hope why it matters that you came concert you didn't come for the concert you didn't come for the meal you didn't come for the decor you came to watch a union of tuna shamas two halves becoming a whole okay you came to watch this extraordinary transformation under a of these two people becoming confused of a beginning of a new bias nemon of a holy moment in which souls are coming down from to be there we just we've totally lost focus on I'm guilty too I don't want to pretend some of you are probably thinking about we're all guilty we've got to bring it back do all the other things by the way I love the concert I love Jewish music I love the orchestra I love the food I love the decor keep it all I have no problem with it just don't forget to mention are don't forget to say Mazel Tov on your way out don't forget warns us we forget some come rocks good morning tells us the whole world is similar to a wedding um this whole world is compared to one long wedding this whole this whole some weddings feel like they take up the whole lifetime some weddings you need a haircut by the time it's over but the whole world is similar to a wedding and some people come to the wedding this world and they think the point is to eating to drink it to be merry and they forget only it's even worse because this whole world this whole life is compared to a wedding and guess what we are the foreign you just want to rest and eat and you're not gonna connect it's not going to be a loving embrace you think the wedding is you know you're married now you're supposed to be vulnerable and connected you say but did you see the sushi but did you taste the charcuterie did you have from The Carving Station like hi we're married now this point that's all nice but the whole point of this was us but did you see did you hear the singers do you listen do you remember what this is all about this world is all about our connecting we're here to get married to Hashem and some people forget to stand under the stuck at the smorg everyone's sitting and waiting for the hustling kala to walk down where's the Hassan he's at the smorg are you kidding me we're all here for him it happens to be when everybody turns to go to the club but that's the best time to hit the schmork trust me that's the best time wait it out let everybody go early don't elbow and fight it's the best best time is the deck and but you should really be at the badeca but when they all go in before they take away the Shaving dishes that's the best time to hit the buffet if you're a guest but if you're the Hassan you're the Kawa and they're waiting to start the khopah where's the Kala she's at the smork she heard the sushi was outrageous that's what we're doing in this world we're here to get married to Hashem hashem's like hi I'm under the hi I'm here let's go to the Yukon room let's go for the wedding night I'm here to spend my life with you and we're like yeah but just The Carving Station just one more piece just one more piece it's so good we forget um says Russia when we separate to give to the Cohen truma what are we doing the act of truma is an act of Separation The Hashem says for me take from separate yourself do me a favor walk away from the smorg walk away from the buffet walk away from the sound and Light walk away from the song walk away from the trappings of the here and now in this world Hashem says come into the room let's lock the door behind us come with me for me for my sake for the sake of this marriage come come into the eagle room for me break away from a vehicle it's true not for Russia the map fish yourself separate your selfish to go walk away pull back leave the trapping for a little bit spend time with me as is so you think you're giving when you leave the smork to go into the room with the Kawa you say look what I do for you this gift I'm giving you I really want to be with my friends I want the Hassan's dish to continue and never end but I let them end it so I cannot come into the room with you are you giving her something you're taking something you're receiving a relationship you're receiving love you're receiving enrichment says for the sake of our relationship truma show the capacity to be my first yourself a little bit more of Hashem says similarly Russia foreign I need you to do something for me I need to do something for me lishmi do it for my sake for my name sincerely genuinely do it for me if you do it you'll be among those I sure you'd venerally bow I'll know you have a generous Spirit Generous Heart although you have a generous soul I know you really believe are you ready to do it here's what I need you to do vehicles and then you'll be sure you'd run a lipo you know what I need truma I want you to be satisfied with your lot I want you to be happy with what you have I want you to realize that I am providing what you need and I want you to give your money to the people around you who need as well if you do that I'll know you love me list me that you're in this relationship for me and with me but if you're not capable of that you can't part with your money then I don't know if you're really in this relationship um don't wait don't leave it do it immediately do it right now that is the way we demonstrate and show that love that passion that commitment that connection to Hashem you know when I meet with someone I say can I meet with you so Rabbi before we meet I just want to tell you I love the shul I love you I love everything that's happening it's enriched my life it's changed my life it's incredible what's going on I don't know who I was or what I am without it it's just magnificent so thank you so much all that's so kind all that's amazing I'd like you to consider being part of our pillar Society oh oh the pillar Society yeah it's been a tough year and I don't know and you don't know how much I give everyone else and the truth is I know I told you I love everything but they always run out of Seltzer shall I should have so I don't know if I want to support a place that doesn't have cell search I'll show this I don't know but didn't you just what happened you just told me yeah or you meet the people how's it going how you doing how am I doing my business is up seven thousand percent the market I picked exactly I went long I went short killing it you should know how many employees should know you don't see me because I'm so busy I'm crazy busy my business is flourishing it's thriving it's blossoming it's exploding probably read about it that's one of us fantastic listen I wanted to talk to you about we have hungry people is an all-time high Jewish Education scholarship funds people can't afford eggs and mayonnaise can can you help me out perms coming up pace out they can't afford it we put out this incredible pay what you want Market I need people to help make it happen so happy to hear about your oh did I say my business is doing great I meant I I wanted I hope it will you don't understand how many expenses there are associated with how great it's doing now the competition is fierce rumor the measure of a person are you willing to be my fresh with your Mammon can you separate in your part with your money not to the point that you become poor and impoverished yourself but it's the measure of a person it's a talk talk talk talk but do you put your money where your mouth is do you share do you give do you show up are you part of making a difference are you part of making a difference we're going to get past the opening process they are all integers they're all fractions rather they're non-teachers they're all a part of a number not a whole number what is the symbolism we think this Parsha there's nothing we don't have a mish gun we don't have Calum why are we spending so much time on this but I love these partials I love the clay yucker on these partios we've learned them together you can listen for the past year the clerical goes through all the symbolism the measurements why the half not whole why are they different parts not consistent why CR he madaic he goes through and plums The Depths and he sees significance and meaning in the premius and how it's relatable all of us are supposed to make a mishkan in our home so the lessons the ideas and each of these Calum apply as much should resonate as much within our home insert the stabs and the rings on the side of the ark that you're going to carry it with so you make them and cover them with gold says all about the the uh sorry sorry where's the talashani going back sorry go back and possibility yeah we know is covered with pure gold from within and from without cover it make it from a gold crown all around it we uh why don't we just make it gold all throughout the inside it's gold and the outside is gold why do we need the wood on the in between because Toho kiboro we need wood the flexibility again we've gone through many of these messages before the first one of the day person who has an incredible silver collection you have beautiful Menorah beautiful backers a beautiful maimacronum family heirlooms are very expensive what do you buy break front a display case you prominently put on display the wonderful beautiful objects you have similarly says when it comes to your foreign you should not be satisfied without what you bought you inherited I'm not saying anything wrong with you know Ikea or wherever you bought it from whatever a person could afford but we shouldn't over invest in the decor and under invest in what we use to prominently display wouldn't you think the holiest objects on Earth tablets that Moshe got both the broken ones and the whole ones they should be displayed in the most simple case it's the holiest of a spiritual object that transcends material and physical why are we displaying a dafkin something which is gold foreign your bookcase whatever your Shabbos table when it comes the holy objects of our life don't be satisfied with mediocre don't underachieve under display should do even more the official artist so you'll say well if you come I live in a simple home my clothing are simple my car is simple but then my Kiddush cup is over the top the color knife is over the top Shabbos tables over the top my manure is over the top my farm shrink is over the top so isn't that you are a Guyver is it an arrogant it's like and says so he brings down here this brings down many makuras but I don't want to spend the time foreign should the handles be a simple plain worn out wood or the sulfur the cover for the safer Torah today leather with fur with should it be simple and safe for Torah it's the holiest object we have maybe it should be simple no you tell us a filling back you liked her you say photo recover that's where you put the money not the decor in the car not your Ferragamo shoes not your fancy watch that's not really for you you're just holding it for the next Generation that's what he makes you feel better about using up the next generation's money to buy yourself that fancy watch those are not where you put your money that's not the decor in the fashion those things be satisfied with simple where do you see this from because tells us my original safer Torah how do you put it and display it it's not even on display nobody sees it in a golden box why because says I want you to see people to see they come into your home and you live simply except for the religious items the religious objects they'll see where your priorities are but if when it comes to your personal objects you go over the top designer exclusive incredibly expensive and it comes to your religious objects I get asked all the time somebody needs to buy misses so I used to give an example because this has come twenty dollars forty dollars or sixty dollars today Mrs has come sixty dollars 120 250 dollars inflation I know the eggs in businesses mayonnaise I don't know why they're so expensive but businesses have gone up incredibly so they come to me and they say rabbi how is it really that important is there really that much of a difference which mezuzah should I buy so you know what I always answer come let's go to the parking lot parking lot you can't answer in your office after minimum why don't you go to the parking lot so I want to see what kind of car you drive what kind of car do you drive yeah I don't want to insult anybody I drive a Honda Accord I've had five Honda Accords in a row I love it it's amazing for some it's a luxury car I don't take it for granted I love my Honda Accord okay if you buy if you drive a Honda Accord you could have a Honda Accord mezuzah you got your Beamer your shiny Mercedes you got your souped up fully loaded Tesla you can't buy the cheapest musician can't I'm the first one who often gets a tour when the person puts up a new house why not the showing off this is and they didn't budget for the businesses you go you take a tour this doorway this door where this doorway this is the architect 400 archways around and in the planning process nobody said all these archways are gonna need a mezuzah so by time you're done you finish the count 87 businesses 87 resistance for your house your 19 car garage each garage your mezuzah on the inside door the door into the Hat 87 messages I called this suffer can I just get the 40 mezuzah so I saw your house you didn't have the lowest level the shades cost more than my house you think you could get the 40 mezuzah so that's what sora's telling us if a person sees your life and your lifestyle where do you put your money your shoes your belt your belt designer belt that the belt so keep your pants up not to tell the world that much money you have it's the purpose of a belt where do you put your money so there's of posix says they're all bringing down don't put on display your personal Goods that's not where you put your money it's in our religious items many of these objects the Michigan were made out of taloim so the uh he quotes here the baliatosis and the safer tosus are showing say you know why tolas you know why we use a worm says one of the ingredients one of the materials for the mishkan and for the big day Kahuna were tolaim Meshi the Meshi that comes from it's woven from Tolan you know why don't get arrogant from all this beautiful gold and from these materials and from this fine clothing of the big day kuna don't ever grow arrogant stay humble and remember stay humble and remember that ultimately will all be told we'll all be worm food ultimately we'll all be in the ground and will be worm food ourselves next page on top of the our own adorning the Aron are these two childlike Angelic figurines these two cherubs the krugem that sit on top of thee that sit on top of the arum so Rashi famously here says which way are they facing tell me something about this proven says what do they look like what they look like they look like now you throw so the author of kelm says why is it the crew of them look like look like the place of Ashraf sashkrina I'll tell you what I would have put Moshe and the love I would have put make everyone happy now and Robertson bacheva kanayevsky I would have put but it's immaculous and Robert I would have put these mature seasoned accomplished righteous what do we put little pitskiller kid and a little blue girl with her ponytails and her braids and her and they're that's the image on the on the auron this is the holiest object that sat in the holiest part of the holiest place and what's on top of it the image of Anar of a kid of a Kinder why so the author of kelm says he was here several weeks ago he gave a beautiful shot this afternoon class I don't remember all the sukumi invoked but by now anytime you see the word because wants us to preserve the sense of narrus in US often the image of an older person someone who's tired someone who's stuck someone who's fixed someone who's done it's over and the image of a child is somebody who's hungry somebody who's driven to someone who's an appetite someone is just beginning someone who has rigor and vigor and dynamism the Torah says no matter what age no matter what stage of life you're never done be a narrow be hungry be curious the world's backwards today thanks to the internet and the information age now children who know internet better think that they're it's not they think they're smarter they know more they have less respect for authority but until recently children understood and they saw an authority you live longer you know more so children were curious they were hungry life is an adventure they're adventurous that's what the total wants from us we saw cilantro explains the Posse Hashem loves us when we're young and hungry and driven and curious and innocent and pure all those character traits and components all those aspects of being a Nar is how Hashem wants us to feel that's why we say in our David altar doesn't say this what do we saying there is zikna we don't say don't throw me away in my sickness I'm an old person Hashem don't limitly don't compromise me don't give up on me don't dismiss me what do we say don't cast me away as if I've reached the time of like I'm an old person I'm done Carol dweck we're worth reading her book growth mindset she talks about a fixed mindset and a growth mindset so we associate the older people as having a fixed mindset they're fixed they're done you're not going to change them it is the way it is young people growth mindset growth and open and curious and hungry and that's what who wants from us and that's why the our own house is what the Torah the art is the place from which the Torah shines forth so what's the image of the Torah young hungry Dynamic curious youthfulness there are youthful hundred-year-olds there are people in our community and our Schuler in the 90s people in this room in their 90s they're people 100 and over in our community and they're youthful Khan all of us just passed away this year Khan was in his 90s he interacted with sulkan he was a kid he was a little kid he would dance and he would joke and he would smile and he was a kid and I know people in their 20s were old men and women old depleted of energy and joy and happiness and curiosity and love and Adventure they're just done and they're finished and they're fixed and they're from bisana and they're they're done so it's not an age it's an attitude and the attitude associated with the our own is Nar the young be hungry be curious be dynamic you all are that's why you're here Jessica Levinson says in the name of the author of kelm as well that's why he called it is someone who's always in the stage of being a talmud you never arrived you're never done right you think Carol dweck invented fixed mindset and growth mindset she got it from us we don't call it who do we admire whom do we Revere someone who's a Thomas You're only as long as you remain the day you're done being a talmud and you think you're now an accomplished is the day you're Agonist they are garnished you have to remain a talmud in order to ever becham and that's the Nar imagery on top of the Arun also something to say about this and everything else we know should I improve him tells us there were three of these objects utensils the mishkan that were difficult for Moshe to imagine to picture pointed with his finger and showed him here's the design here's what it looks like minora and interesting the menorah come picture it rashford and the end is he threw it into the fire and the menorah was fashioned on its own before some motion is the other talks about this why was it so hard for Moshe to dream to picture how to get the block of gold into the menorah and the answer is because what was the minor how many parts were the menorah made of one so to make it from one part that's a kuns to melt down gold break it into Parts screw them together I'm gonna make it sound like it's easy I don't begin to know how to do it but apparently it's easier but to arrive at the result of the menorah from one block that's difficult Moshe needed an assist you know what else was made from one solid gold block not assembled from separate parts the crew of him on top of the our own assist why didn't he need help why didn't you have to throw the block Into the Fire and it would come out the crew of him why was he able to imagine how to do it on his own we don't find it was done we don't find he needed help foreign foreign the menorah Moshe took one block of gold threw it in the fire beautiful menorah the kroven they also had to be made from one solid block but Hashem didn't assist Moshe had to do it on his own it wasn't as simple as throwing it in the fire and having a result why because the crew of them are children when it comes to our children we don't list them in Yeshiva fast forward 12 years point we're done we don't throw them into the fire of life and now we're done there is no handing it off to Hashem and asking him to be in charge and in control and hand us back beautiful proven we have to work on it we have to toil in it when we darshan we say amaleno our toil our effort aylu abundant children they take effort toil the back of Kaminsky once saw talmud so tell me how are you how's your family what's happening well my family's healthy but I said what's the matter my children it's hard to get them to come to minion to remember to say sometimespa they won't go to sleep they don't want to brush their teeth so if yaakov looked at him and he said that's not sorry that's not the pain of raising children that's called raising children is when a child khalilah there's a challenge which is out of the ordinary which is not part of just being a child all children need raising that's why at the hagada look around mits Hashem is still at the Seder it's hard to believe 2020. still that image of people sitting all alone for the pesachator this year for the rest of our lives look around at a Seder everyone has this close to sit with children grandchildren great-grandchildren great great Whoever thought you'd use those words there are people maybe in this room who will spend the Seder with their great great grandchildren who ever heard of a history people who considered a Seder learn with their great great grandchildren Billy INR a few weeks ago out of the bottom my father was so kind comes upon him was there with me my son and my grandson so four generations we were learning obviously whoever when we were walking out and walking home I said to my father how many times in all the Jewish history Did anyone say what a great khavasa four generations together in all of Jewish history how many of the believer how many times so when we look around the Slater table say Hashem we have children Grant took a lot of work said I'm mayless you don't just throw it in the fire and then you get to have the pictures and the singers and the food and the khupa foreign so when it came to the menorah Moshe was confounded confused they didn't know how to make it happen throw the one block in Hashem will make it come out on its own the crew of them difficult to picture exactly how has to be one block I wouldn't not sure how to do it Hashem says figure it out because when it comes to your children you can't hand it off can't Outsource can Outsource to a third party hashem's not going to come in and bail you out um takes work takes effort it's not easy tells us what they look like place the cover on the ark above uh where's the Posse the crew of them have wings spread upward shelter in the cover with their wings facing towards one another towards the cover the proven face so what direction are the crew them in what direction are they in they're facing one another they're facing one another for the three festive holidays they would pull back the curtain um and they would reveal the aura with the crew of them on top and what would they see the crew of them are they are hugging one another um they used to have the image the crew and one was a male one was a female equity in the mishkan equality in the mishkan one was male one was female they knew their gender they were on top of the Aaron and they were in an embrace when were they in an Embrace when you throw a rose the Jewish people were fulfilling the will of Hashem the image of the crew of on top of the Arun like a man and a woman like a husband and a wife I don't know why it was allowed it was khriba in public okay it's not a problem I think it's healthy sometimes to see what love looks like appropriately and modestly children should grow up and know that parents don't have one another broke it whatever a separate subject but this was the image everyone came from all over the world they came to ushalayim they were in the base of mikdash we pulled back the parochas we revealed the holiest place in the world the kodashakadashim and what did everyone see a man and a woman hugging the crew of him were in a loving Embrace love love when our enemies came into the basement to destroy it and so it says they're not facing each other they're facing away which is it that's the more concludes facing each other facing away when they came in to destroy the basement which way were we facing each other how could it be how could it be it was meant to how could it be so this is thrall the fifth gear rubber the earth side is now round now he says not doing hashem's will is when people only care about themselves no sympathy no empathy the crew of a married mirrored the people says even when they face away still spreading their wings upward you've got a very religious people Sprint they look very religious very righteous very virtuous they're spreading their wings upward but they're facing away from the other people it's no empathy there's no love there's no kindness and those people are called Ana osimratson the fromest everything your wings could be upward in every religious measure you're the starkest and the flemest but you're not is you make people feel invisible you don't acknowledge you don't welcome you don't shower love you're not connecting there's no empathy such a person whose wings are up but who's not is called such a person is called so you see the measure who we are and how we're behaving because not only are our wings up but are we facing are we directed one towards another foreign I skip no I didn't skip the notity bharti rabbi salovich on that word what does that mean I will arrange my meetings with you and I'll speak to you from the top of the arm right service the command about the sanctuary is very difficult to understand it's linked to a great and Sublime secret a expressed on his feet after he completed building the first base of miktash the entire universe is insufficient to contain him how could he dwell on such a small limited space when Shalom opposed the question Hashem apparently provided no response at all instead he continued with the request instead of searching for an answer to how Infinity can dwell in a place of finitude requests that Hashem accept our prayers why does Hashem want a house the answer is so he can dwell among us this is the true intent of the Mitzvah yesterday where they live is where I want to live in a home next to them at any time you may knock on my door and talk with me tell me your worries your dreams your desires without hesitation Without Shame because that is the very reason that I contracted my glory and it is appropriate for me to dwell between the crew of the arum covering one square Amma the infinite being limited to the finite our own habris for it is my will that my house should be called a House of Prayer what's it called throughout their Exile they should direct their hearts at times of prayer to this house as if we're there and Hashem is right next to us there are missiles that obligate us to bring various sacrifices various times of the year rights to rub there are also misses that require us to offer philos there is however a great difference between these obligations a carbon is accepted even if there's a great distance between Hashem and the owner even it's offered by an agent not the case with prayer if there is no closeness there is no prayer even though prayer was established in place of sacrifices it's impossible for an agent to act on behalf of the sender Thriller requires a feeling of closeness as if one is standing opposite him in his Embrace such intent is a central idea and a fundamental principle of prayer the neurality it's a meeting place a place of intimacy a place of connection do you imagine you send somebody to your wife you send someone to your husband I have a message what's the message your wife wanted me to tell you she loves you loves you can't tell me you love you through someone else 's intimacy connection vulnerability that's what the purpose of the Michigan and even when we don't have it wherever we are in the world we face it because we're facing that invitation to knock on his door and talk to him confide in him and burden ourselves in him make ourselves vulnerable to him with no shame and without judgment that's the purpose that's the goal that's the reason that we have it that's the reason that's what it's all that's what it's all about it's a beautiful Mega Joseph but I want to get to we only have one or two moments left there are yes Nick Ford four rings of gold place the Rings in the four corners of the four legs there were four rings on the sides of the shulchan they are on two poles went through those rings and they were used to transport them to the next location the clyaka writes make four rings okay there she is the table had four rings on the side why did I have four rings on the side the clyakar says what shape is a ring it's a round circle why because the circle is a ring the economy the financial system life revolves like a ring and only when we remember that you could be on top today be on the bottom tomorrow be on the bottom today you can be on top tomorrow and we could share endless stories of people who broke through with great wealth and ended up on Thomas and people who were on top of hashabas who suddenly break through broke through with tremendous wealth so the shulchan which is a remnants for the Shook on the table of our home had these round rings because when we have parnassa when we eat our meal we indulge in our Delicacies we should remember never to give up and be hopeless because we have too little never but to be too proud or arrogant because we have so much because life works like a circle and it revolves in order to be the Pacific Time Netflix why and they know the Buddha says this is why almost universally what shape are bills rectangles what shape are coins they're round why are coins round it could be a pentagon an octagon a square a rectangle triangle why are coins round listen to what they need to be the rights dug up and it's obvious ly there is because that which is round a wheel it rolls a circle rolls the coin is going to roll and Roll and Roll It doesn't sit in one place money moves it's fungible and migrates it doesn't sit one person one institution one country doesn't sit on top of it the economy has Cycles to it right talk about it's gonna be a recession no recession they're going to raise rates lower rates what cycle what cycle are we in where are we in the cycle tremendous Insight says that's why coins are round because they're going to roll you have them today they're going to roll to the next person you don't have them today they're going to roll to you foreign so as we transact as we transfer as we do business no one has coins or change anymore but the image still is powerful as we transact as we do business as we acquire as we sell we should remember these coins are not permanent they're not with us permanently and we will never permanently be without them but they move and they migrate and change locations over and over again there's always a lot we left off but we will continue Amit Hashem next time tonight we go behind the bhima with Bernie Marcus the founder of Home Depot a great Jewish philanthropist fascinating Story how he found at Home Depot what Jews do for circus every year in Home Depot it's tonight at nine o'clock until next time stay happy stay healthy and stay holy