Parsha Perspectives for Today (Tetzave 5783/2023) - He Always Hears Us

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Global members who enable and support all of the wonderful Total Learning partials that Sava page 464 in the Arts girls we continue we've pivoted the second the book of shmos it's the story of the mishkan the building of the Mishka and the Tabernacle the design and the materials and the function of the Calum of the utensils that are found therein you Israel Moshe is told to command the Jewish people take clear olive oil who's the you the Atta and you who's the you who is being spoken to here Moshe and we don't use his name about this quote that this Parsha does not have moshe's name in it not necessarily inaccurate the only partial doesn't have moshe's name herein today is Zion Adar the anniversary of moshe's death also the anniversary of moshe's birth Zion will Mark tonight's birthday and death Hashem himself was that day and therefore it's the day of the dinner the ataturated Zion others always the Parsha that doesn't have moshe's name in it moshe's great humility we've shared in the past the inside of the great labavator that Moshe does appear in the parisha he appears even in a higher form than he ordinarily does normally Moshe is limited or contained by his name Moshe but here he's actually referenced at a higher level not contained by his name and even higher level as viata and you and you sounds rude you you sounds rude right to not use someone's name we see it as a greater actor expression of affection to use someone's name it's a very powerful thing next time you're checking out at Publix and you bother to see the name of the person checking you out and you thank them thanks Bob thanks Jan thanks Barrel whoever's checking you out you will see them light up they're a person they're not an invisible Anonymous individual they're a person when you use a name we think a name is an act of expression and we think of hey you as rude right you ask people who are newlyweds what they're calling their in-laws some struggle to say mom or dad or mommy or Abba or adopt the name of calling their in-laws so they call them you until they have a child and they can call them Bobby or zaidi or Sabers now they can exhale now it's easy now they can just call them that but they say you but you as rude but the Bible said no theatah is a higher level a name is limited a name is a boundary a name tries to capture us under that description but you is the essence so this partial is actually revealing and reflecting moshe's Essence and we're not going to go into it because we've spoken about it in years past that's what Mordechai is telling Esther too the active the at you will lose your essence your mission while you're here Esther your name will go down you're one of the king's wives you'll be recalled in the books of Persia as one of the queens of Persia the name Esther but the the at the who you are your essence your personal mission why you're here if you neglect this opportunity if you don't take advantage this is why you're here then you will lose your essence you will violate your very Mission so this is actually an elevated expression of moshe's essence his mission not limited by the name we've spoken about that in the past but I want to begin with an Insight of a friend of the Reba of salavechik a classmate or cellular who writes name is not mentioned motion is referred to only in the second person singular you the only going states that the past seven does not contain moshe's name because this is the Parsha most often read during the week of Zion Adar the day of moshe's death the conceptual link between the Parsha and his date seems obscure right that status is that or that fact we all know sign out the dinners around the world tonight someone will mention tatava's name doesn't appears death okay what's the connection shoot what's that about what's the panemius what's the deeper meaning or significance of that so listen to what the rub says very very profound it is impartial the emotion was informed he was not to be the coin despite being the most obvious choice of the position Moshe was the Redeemer he saved Israel from Annihilation during the golden calf incident Moshe had the strongest claim to this position and yet here he was informed of the loss through these words right just took him later now bring near to you are on your brother and with his sons from among the children of Israel sons of our own they are going to be the kohanam meaning they and not you Moshe I know you thought you were the chief candidate you were the leading candidate the polls showed that you were way ahead I know you thought that you had it however you need to know it's not you you need to bring close to you and you're going to coronate with oil who's going to serve Aaron and His Four Sons at this point still four Sons maybe he had more what's up maybe we'll get to but these four Sons it's in our Parsha not deep very beginning of our Parsha that Moshe finds out that that great position of Distinction not honor because motion is the most humble of all men but distinction to be the kind God will to serve to do the Abode of Yom Kippur to have that position of Distinction it's not going to you Moshe it's going to your brother it's going to your brother Aaron Moshe lost his right to assume the priesthood why why did it go to Aaron not him he's the Redeemer he's the one who achieves atonement and forgiveness Moshe is The Logical choice so why doesn't it go to him he loses as a result of a conversation between Hashem and Moshe back in parashishmos Moshe initially refused to accept the mission that God assumed that God had insisted he assumed to confront Parow and free the nation Moshe argued that he could not lead the people why because he was a stutter to which Hashem replied he would help him articulate during his confrontation with Paro Hashem recruits Moshe and what does Moshe say yeah not so eloquent I'm not so articulate it's not really for me shy I don't like the speaking part thank you but no thank you Moshe demures he hesitates he pushes away Hashem despite this assurance Hashem says I got your back I'll put the words in your mouth Aaron will do the speaking but I'm telling you you're the man I've asked you and despite that Assurance Moshe once again refused asking Hashem to send someone else toradan tells us that Hashem got angry against Moshe and he said is there not our on your brother the levy I know he'll surely speak and Rashi asks go back to parent dalid dollars what's the password he says what about your brother you think that you have an out because you're not going to speak well but what about your brother your brother could do you speaking you know your brother the Aaron the levy why was it necessary to again tell Moshe your brother the lady Moshe didn't know that his brother Arnold was a levy he's his brother they're both from the tribe of Levy pretty clear to Moshe that arrow and is also a levy so Russia said every expression of anger written the Torah uses the term here however we do not find the punishment promotion even though the expression of the anger that Hashem expressed on Moshe repeated refused was ants are here too there is a punishment the word lady was inserted here Aaron was destined to be a lady while Moshe was to be the coin but now Aaron will be the coin and Moshe will be the leafy there's an illusion in the Torah to the fact that Hashem replaced Aaron was going to be the lady you were going to be the coin but I tried to recruit you over and over and refused your mission you pushed away your mission and because of that you lost the Kahuna this Pasha says from salivation marks a major turning point in moshe's life had Moshe become the coin godo basalamiktas would have never been destroyed had motion not initially refused his leadership role The Exodus would have constituted a permanent a temporary Redemption this Pasha alludes to a dislocation in Jewish history moshe's name is not mentioned for he could only give instructions to our own but the avodha would be done only by Aaron the Parsha which does not contain moshe's name coincides with Zion Adar because in a sense this Parsha marks the beginning of moshe's death it's a very powerful image we're about to read a lot more we're only on safer shmos yet wait for us and yet this is a turning point motion not becoming the coin and being satisfied being a levy which means he wasn't going to play the role he could have and should have played in life and he wasn't going to create the condition of a permanent base and a permanent it is the beginning of his death the Egyptian Redemption did not result in the permanent Redemption the Jewish people Moshe died prior to entering the land and that's why the Parsha in which moshe's name does not appear is the same week of of moshe's death because this partials the beginning of his death or put differently to make it a partial perspective for today for all of us put differently every one of us has a unique Mission and purpose in this world and when we fail to fulfill it when we run away from it we try to say Hashem let someone else do it someone else can lead or be the chair of that committee or initiate that project or play that role or donate to the global campaign of the Boca Raton Synagogue let someone else do it when we run away from our mission it is the beginning of our demise it is the beginning of our death we're here for a reason a purpose why are we here what difference are we meant to make what is our purpose and Mission in the world why did we wake up this morning why rabba and munas does Hashem of a lot of faith in us when we accept it and we run with it and we try to fulfill it we're never more alive and when we run away from it story of Jonah trying to run away from his mission but it chases him and it chases all of us we try to run away from it or when we fail to fulfill it it is the beginning of our death and that is the connection that is the Insight at the beginning of our Parsha glory and Splendor which I would think would be antithesis of the nishkan the Michigan the dwelling place for God should be all about Simplicity humility why is it ornate splendor ostentatious how do those reconcile speak to him and what is the purpose sanctify them so which is it is a fagorian splendor is it a fashion statement to draw attention and honor or is it seems like a contradiction foreign why do you have to be so Discerning and wise of heart you have to be a good tailor it's to be a good seamstress you have to be a good fashion designer why do you have to be we're not answering any of these questions but I want you to think about all of them a lab I got them so now we get to list what they are New York sonas touch basements of Nate and make them to serve me skip to pass again place the stones on the shoulder straps of the aphode why Israel Aaron will carry the names before Hashem on both of his shoulders as a remembrance the names of the Jewish people appeared in two places on the shoulder straps and also on the Roshan on the breastplate they're on the aphode and on the Roshan so we start Vanessa irony carries their names he carries their names he wonders the plastic says what's the purpose of them Israel Place both zones in the shoulder straps of the aphid remembrance stones for the Jewish people the same thing is said later in our parasha you skip ahead where it says why does he have these stones for whom foreign rather the breastplate for who to remember this Hashem why do you have to remember something because you are likely to forget memory is the Opera opposite of forgetfulness remember is the opposite the antonym for forget is forgetting to Hashem the almighty doesn't forget he's omnipotent an infinite and perfect he's all-knowing he doesn't forget he doesn't have senior moments he's older than all of us and he doesn't ever forget what does he have to remember we have to emulate limited Hashem and do things that will remind us memory is not only the opposite of forgetfulness memory is emphasis and focus memory we invoke memory not when we're worried we're going to forget but when we want to draw attention and focus sure I feel like even the almighty whom before whom there is no forgetfulness we arrange the stones and we invoke all the shmatam the children of Hashem to remind them we're here we're your children don't forget us and love us he can't forget us but we wanted to focus on us that's why we dive in three times a day Hashem doesn't forget we're here or he knows our needs better than we do but we invoke his memory we remind him we're here because we want him to focus that's a way of creating a connection and a bond the opening two words of isker is feeling that people say and they've lost a loved one what are the opening two words of yisker you score Elohim we think of iskar as for us to remember we'd like to use Kirk candle we remember we remind ourselves of our loved ones who are not here this girl will be said on pesach ippers four times a year is not about people remembering their loved ones the first two words of yesgar are you score elokim because we're not only invoking our memory we're trying to bring attention and invoke a connection to Hashem so just like we're asking Hashem to focus even on that which she couldn't forget we need to do the same the most important things in the world that we know the most sometimes the easiest to neglect and forget and we need to create reminders we need to create rituals and stimuli that are reminders to focus on that which is most important now in our davening when we want to earn Merit or invoke Merit whom do we mention okay and yet here on the A4 here on the hoshan we have the 12 schwartam not avrum Yakov why how come our domini doesn't begin with the 12th and how come the ocean doesn't include the others I'll add that to the questions for you to think about but I'm not going to answer the robe of the aphode the bottom of the robe of the aphid make the robe of the afford entirely out of turquoise wool the head opening folded over otherwise known as a ham as over the Border all around the Weaver's work like an opening of a code of males or can't be torn why do we have a ham around the edge of an article of clothing so it doesn't easily tear so it doesn't easily tear verses and make an attempt pomegranates of turquoise purple and Scarlet wool on a 10 all around and paramone Pitch 472. have golden Bells between them all around and between them golden golden Bells golden Bells so the gamara and erican tells us about these bells the meal is each of the garments in the mishkan atoned for another mistake that we make another poor judgment that we show the different garments in the mishkan would atone for the mistakes that Khalid Israel make what did the me ill atone for the coin were the meal under the afo what did it atone foreign walk with the Garment with bells on the bottom it would make a noise that would ring so let the thing that produces a sound a tone to the people who produce the wrong sounds you raise your voice you get angry you speak Russian are in Gossip you use our voice we use our voices the wrong way let them heal with its voice with the bells that ring let it atone a bell was found several years ago I've mentioned the partial plastic and the test they've now excavated by the way all the way from here David you can now walk up all the way to under the Kota Plaza you can go all the way the same path that our ancestors walked the time of the base I make Dash when they would make their way up you can now walk all the way up it's unbelievable the excavations it's extraordinary and in those excavations they found one of these bells they found one of these bells they found them wonders we know that there were alternating Bells some had the center of the Bell what's that called inbound oh the Rome some have the bell and others were empty others were just what's that called The Bell others were just the Bell without the inbound so if the coal of the sound that was produced is what created the kappara the atonement why did we have bells without the ringer excuse me if I called The Ringer so the gamaran The Clapper foreign the power of speech is to know when to speak and when to be silent it's not always what to say it's not replacing the wrong thing to say with the right thing to say it's knowing sometimes the virtue of Silence is when you know how to be silent you're speaking volumes so alternating were Bells with clappers and bells that were empty so that we would learn the lesson what is not only saying the wrong things replacing it with the right things but saying the right things and also knowing when to not say anything at all it's tremendous power and a virtue in silence there's no value to always speaking nishnava says we learn more from when we're quiet than when we speak we're given two ears and one mouth there is a virtue and a value to silence revolba says when a child learns to speak he gets so excited we clap they said their first word they said their first sentence we're so excited they start speaking but we never teach them how to stop we don't say you stop talking yay getting a lot of trouble if you try to do that you put them in therapy it'll be very expensive they'll write a book they'll accuse you of all kinds of terrible things so we celebrate when they start speaking but revolba says we don't acknowledge or celebrate when we learn the art of Silence to stop speaking but silence is also an art and a virtue it's also an art of the truth is he writes it was a holy Jew who lived in New shalam known as The Quiet One it was The Quiet One so someone once asked him how is it you stay quiet and he said the truth is it's exhausting when I'm too tired I speak but when I have the energy I'm able to remain silent it's the opposite of what you think right takes energy to speak it's easier to be quiet it takes more energy to show self-restraint and to be silent he said when I'm tired and I have no self-control then I speak so the alternating Bells with the ringer and without are to remind us that there's a time to speak as a time to speak and a time to be quiet a base level is the time to be quiet terribly tragically not with bad intention or malice but sometimes it's a perfect example you feel the pain such empathy for another you're so desperate to say something but there's nothing to say so when trauma ties to speak in a situation where there's nothing to say often they say something foolish or even hurtful and silence is much louder eob's friends sat with him in silence that's why the shulkarnak says when you go to a Shiva home you're not allowed to speak until until the other speaks because if the other wants to sit in silence that's your job ah it's awkward ah it's uncomfortable too bad a colleague in front of by Eddie Davis talks about he was once in England and he needed a haircut he went to a barber when he sat in the barber's chair he wrote this in an article in Jewish action he sat in the barber's chair and the barber as he put the robe or bib around him he said talk or no talk which is a very nice thing to offer you wish the dentist would say similarly talk talk or no talk in other words do you want to sit here in silence or do you want me to start a conversation with you talk or no talk and that's what happens you walk into a baseball and essentially what we say with our silence is talk or no talk it's up to you I'm prepared I'm ready to sit in silence because there's a virtue there's a value there's a nobility we have to learn to not only celebrate when we speak but to celebrate when we're silent and that is what is going on over here says as well as well the ramban the bells would produce a sound when he entered and when he left when he entered and when he left us what was the purpose of these garments Torah told us to bring honor and dignity so I ask you is there a more undignified garment than something with bells that rings on while you walk it's like a Purim wardrobe Purim costume it's ridiculous is there anything more undignified is there anything more lacking honor than wearing something that is bells that makes a sound every time you take a step where's the Covenant safaris in it not here on this Posse later Posse writes the following the reason for the bells is so that our own would be heard when he entered and he wouldn't die Kim with Purim Esther it's not her turn she's not invited she's not given entrance she has to wait for what the sharvit has to have one of her hesitations she says to Mordechai it's not my turn if I go and I'm not invited he's going to have off with my head and that's when Mordechai has to persuade her with the argument she says I'm going to go anyway he extends she's welcome to come in she makes her plea come to the party and later for the Jewish people but you're not allowed to enter royalty you can't enter the inner chamber of the king without an invitation without permission how does the coming do that the bells are his announcement that he's coming that's his permission to enter the license to go in that's the ramban so one does the say for the Citra yes now does that make sense to you the almighty God is found in the Holy sanctuary he knows you're at the door he doesn't need a ring doorbell he doesn't need to see the video but you're outside he doesn't need to check and go on the ring doorbell he knows exactly who's outside he knows someone's waiting he knows someone's about to come in you need bells to be the doorbell to enter to announce they're coming in foreign we get capital punishment death penalty for coming in without knocking is a person shouldn't enter their house without knocking on the door the gamarader tells us not only the door of someone else but the door of your own home not only when you know there are people inside even if the house is empty why what are you gonna startle the lizard the Iguana has taken up residence in your house who are you gonna startle the answer is it is simply an act of courtesy it's a proper behavior you knock before you open a door it's just the proper behavior it's the way that you come in it's the way you go into your parents home your in-laws on the way they come into your home the way you go into your own home and the way you go into even your home when no one's there it's an act of their hearts you knock and you enter it's the way that you come in but he's wondering and if you didn't do that if you felt comfortable and Casual if it's your own home if you know one no one's there you're not given the death penalty so why would Aaron have been given the death penalty if you came in without the remonim ringing he says because where Aaron was going it's not the same thing as entering your home or the home of another where was I our own entering a holy place you cannot enter a holy place without stopping and pausing and acknowledging and announcing where you're about to enter at before you walk into shul before you walk into the basement you need to stop and think and pause and contemplate what you're about to do those remonimo ringing not just to alert Hashem they're ringing to alert Aaron I'm not just going into any other ordinary place I'm about to go into a very Sacred Space a very holy place and I need to check myself is my mind where I need it to be am I bring in the attitude that I need to bring and we too need to learn from here he says so sacred so high are the stakes that when we enter a Sacred Space don't just be walking in on your phone don't be walking in a conversation don't be walking in in laughter and and frivolity walk in with seriousness and sobriety pause at the entrance of the basement or of the shul think about where you're about to enter and what you're about to do and get your head get your mind in the right place in the right place vinishma KOLO purpose of this is so that the sound can be heard our first odora for the day the rashonam one there we just saw several interpretations why why did the remonium need to produce a sound foreign other garments are there to keep you warm to keep you dry let's keep you modest protect you from the elements or from embarrassment but these don't have that function so why were they there is Kings and royalty nobody walks down the red carpet with bells on the bottom of their garment and let's see foreign and you're also announcing to the king's servants our meeting is done you can go back in I would add humbly that if you apply what we just saw in those Italian that the same way before Aaron entered an alarm would go off the Bell would ring do you know where you're about to go is your mind in the right place that Bell needed to also ring before he left why did the bell need to ring before he left you could say maybe to distinguish to make Abdullah between the significance and sacredness of where he was and the mundane he was about to re-enter but I would argue something else maybe the Bell needed to ring again to remind him to take what he had experienced inside and to bring it and inform and Inspire what he's about to do that you don't leave Holiness in the temple but you bring it to the space to everywhere you're about to go so the Bell needs to ring and now if you apply it to today we need to pause and consider and focus our minds not only when we're walking in to remember where we're going but also pause and think about what we're doing on our way out and here we're not going to develop it right now we did shavoshuba 2006 Elena was always the end of davening why is Elena at the end of davening and Elena was a din in the end of Davina so for example at the end of Gipper if you're about to recite Nila immediately after you don't say Elena you don't say Elena you go from you don't say allenu we should say allenu the Rob said we should say Elena why we have a break we take a long break so Allah alainu always escorts you out of davening the sake Elena is what escorts us out of Dominique escorts us out of davening many years ago repelkuts is and he said you always find those words it says you know you know the joke the Jews on the Federation Mission to Israel and they asked the Israeli tour guard how do you say tikon Olam in Hebrew chicken Olam sounds like it's just a cat phrase the slogan of the Jewish people everything's tikkunolam social justice that's what we have to do Republicans pointed out we never find the word on its own some humanistic social justice what feels good you have to mold and shape and repair the world how in God's image it's what God wants it's God's blueprint it's God's instruction manual those words have to always go together but alainu is the mission statement not for how to come into shul how to take what you just experienced in shul and bring it with you everywhere you go it's a big question when do you say the David after Alina before eleno where does the karish go Hari kedem is a whole a whole uh sure can has from the roof but our lane is always the end of davening because Elena is the mission statement the charge how to leave Divine where you go and maybe that's the Lord here the Bell would ring not only on the way in to remind you we're about to enter but the bell rings on the way out when you're crossing the threshold of shul when you're Crossing that threshold and you're about you're done learning and you're about to go where you're going you need to stop and pause and say how am I bringing what I just experienced in dominating or learning to where I'm going how will that animate and inform and inspire me at the gym at the supermarket or in the operating room in the boardroom or the courtroom wherever I'm going I have to pause it has to ring in my ears where I'm going but anyway back to that's an original thought I don't know if it's right but it's original oh it's a plus Satora back to answer Plaza Torah here's another reason foreign God was entering and he's telling the Angels out I'm about to experience private time with the King of Kings out get lost go somewhere else if you'll excuse us for some time we're about to be alone you know when we recreate this says we are image of the illa are the gates are closing the gates gonna be locked quickly I know you're tired I know you're thirsty I know your breath is terrible but get it together this is the last chance the gates are closing and they're going to get locked sneak in that last trilo this is it is you're going into a private space with Hashem and you're locking the door behind you Nila until now we were all together but now the amidst I'm going into a Sacred Space Dakota and I'm locking the door and that's the pamon imranim that are ringing are saying to everyone else if you'll excuse us we just celebrated there were a thousand people at the and it was streamed online to a thousand more and there was a drone flying right over the khopa that was getting the aerial view of the whole world came together and they did so in front of the entire world to the whole world to see and now they go into nine minutes to be alone to experience what it means to be a husband and wife and to celebrate Market without the whole world watching to be alone said is not that the doors are locked and quickly get in your TV law that they're going into the code and lock the door behind you it's announcing Angels if you'll excuse us I'm about to have some Hashem intimacy and affection this is my room to be alone with the ribono Shalom I want to tell you another outstanding insight supposedly just read the sound will be heard the voice will be heard when he goes in and when he goes out balaturam asora that the word venishma I alluded to this earlier in the amunisher the word venishma appears three times in Tanakh who here knows appears three times in Tanakh and the other two are NASA and so one is here vinish makolo one is our Sinai NASA venishma and what's the third I'll give you a hint we're going to read it twice next week McGillis Esther where does it appear Miguel zester paragraph and the word of the king which he will enact will be heard in all of his kingdom the word vinishma is is three times in Tana vinishment in the megillah we know that the word this morning you could listen later audio or video and after you do take a moment to give to the global campaign to express your gratitude did I mention the global campaign brsonline.org Global I don't see any of you take out your phones probably because you're just going to stop after Natalya and take care of it there but please do so we mentioned the word King Nella appears in the megillah and it invariably alludes to the king to Hashem the word King the balatum offers a fascinating connection between these three the word nishma appears in three places it appears in reference to the king in the megillah the king and the megill is always Hashem what's the connection what's going on what's going on look at the balatorum but I want to share with you a different Insight from the Gera rashishiva of alter shlita he says the following he says a Jew could easily mistakenly believe or conclude that if Jew is too distant from Hashem to be heard you know who Hashem listens to it's righteous men and women he listens to the holy Among Us the holy and the righteous the people who are Vigilant scrupulous who Daven with fervor me a pathetic failure I forget to make broccolis not so careful with this my moon is shaky I'm so distant and I'm so far I'm so disobedient that maybe Hashem never hears me he doesn't listen to me Hashem only hears the righteous he only hears the righteous says if shall alter the word nishmas only said three times in Tanakh what do they have in common foreign when he enters the holy of holy his voice will be heard Hashem hears all of us you're never too far you're never too distant the possekin Esther counters that thought because what does it says where Hashem here is where every person in every place no matter how close or no matter how far no matter how much you've wandered no matter how distant you are no matter how low or far you've Fallen no matter how much you've stumbled in all the kingdom you're still in the Kingdom of Hashem as long as you live under the malhas of Hashem as long as you believe and you want to talk to him as long as you want to confide or surrender to him as long as you want to lean on him and feel his Embrace and hear him talking to you vinishma he'll hear wherever you are every Jew is connected to that source of Holiness which Hashem has placed in this world so just as are not going Was Heard just as the nishma KOLO are answered so too vinishma we're heard why is that how is that and what Merit is that because of NASA the nishma when we said NASA and ishma in that moment we secured our position our approach in that Merit wherever we are however Far We've Fallen we can be heard by him so don't ever say why I once met with somebody grew up very Stark very from he had fallen very far he was off the darach and he had a challenge he had an issue with the law and he had been out on parole and he was coming for a big trial coming before a judge he went met with me the day before and they told me you know what his issue was he said I know I need to dive into Hashem the real King the real judge to get a good outcome tomorrow but why would he want to hear from me you know how long it's been since I've spoken to him and how long it's been since I asked him for anything thanked him for anything even argued with him on anything he hasn't heard from me in Forever I'm so far away from him so why would he want to hear from me now and why would he listen to me and help me so I Rabbi I don't know what to do because tomorrow is a big day it could be could have been thrown in jail the next day tomorrow the judge could throw me in jail I could lose my freedom I know that Hashem will decide but I don't know how to talk to him you know what I said to him I said he was a young man not married no children I said you don't know this we spoke about this in the Moon this year today at two when you have children you'll learn that there's nothing they can do which would make you not want to ever hear from them it could be forever since you've last heard from them then just don't put money on their debit card and then you'll hear from them quickly but it could be forever since you last heard from them they could have disappointed you enormously but when they reach out you'll be so happy they did no matter where you are what you're doing you'll take that call and you will gladly gladly receive that conversation so go talk to Hashem and start out the conversation and say Hashem I know it's been a long time I know you haven't heard from me in a while I'm sorry for that but I want to talk to you now because I need you and if a child said that to a parent is there a parent who wouldn't hear when we say that in more than years so says that that's maybe the shot in the balatorium three times nishma appears in Tanakh nishma NASA first why because it's not just when you're on the level of Aruna Cohen your nishma is wherever we are however we're behaving however Far We've Fallen he will hear us why as long as for living with the NASA and ishma with that attitude with that approach with that commitment Hashem will still hear us another one of the bugattam the big day Kona is what is the anaron's forehead we're talking here about the tits that sits was placed on Aaron's far end said what did it say on it because I'm on one line or two lines was it written on one line or two lines and then the gamara says one of the great rabbis uses a Checkmate you know what he says appears several places in the gamara and shots he says you think you know I know you know why I know because I went to Rome and in Rome is that sits and I saw it and here's what it says on it and that's one of our sources of evidence that our holy utensils are sitting in the basement of the Vatican not the orange buried underneath but the other utensils are still there and they're ours we deserve them you know because it's printed on the Arch of Titus he celebrated having brought them there but we also have evidence that we have tonight who say I saw it with my own eyes so don't pontificate don't conjecture I can tell you empirically I saw it and this is what it says so where did it sit on the forehead it sat on the far end of Arun forgiveness for a sin of regarding the sacred offerings of the children of of Israel regarding the offerings so here's an amazing thing the ramban rights the propeller sometimes sorry I skipped um before we go back to the ocean yeah good morning says the following is for an extended period of time it needs to every now and then touch the thrilling and remember he's wearing them you can't ever forget you have to maintain the mindfulness that you're wearing thrilling how do you know that because the the siths which said hashem's name one time and yet it had to be Ahmed you have to remember consistently so that's villain which hashem's name appears many times now we don't wear to film all day today we only wear to London when I say we I don't mean everybody I have a nephew who learns a new shalayim in zuberman in zuberman they were thrilling all day my nephew was thrilling while he's eating while he's driving while he's walking wherever he goes they were filling all day or it's filling all day and in fact he's got pretty compelling evidence that they're doing the right thing we're doing the wrong thing why that is why we don't why the mimic for most is not towards feeling all day a topic for another time but the meaning of zilberman is to where it's fill in all day we're walking into shalaim you see Jews walking through let's fill it on and it's four o'clock in the afternoon there's a good chance of learning in the old city they're learning at at zelperman so if you worked for him all day every now and then you gotta touch them you gotta remember mindfulness for them because hashem's name appears many times and we learned that from the tits where hashem's name appears only one time and yet you couldn't have a has he says mindfulness mindfulness is invites us throughout the day if we will be mindful if we live a mindful life mindfulness is not some new age Eastern religion supermarket checkout aisle magazine cover topic mindfulness wasn't discovered in the 21st century Judaism is the ultimate platform of mindfulness it's one of the big books I wrote promised so far I've only written it in my head but I wrote a whole book about the Jewish approach to mindfulness and Judaism as the original platform of mindfulness mindful you don't mind for sleeping mindful speaking mindful listening mindful dressing mindful behaving every part of Jewish life is a platform for how to live mindfully what goes in our mouth out of our mouth what order we tie our shoes in the morning everything everything it's an amazing book it's a bestseller just hasn't been written yet so far it's only written in my mind so revisac share here says that krishbargo invites us throughout the day and all of Torah and mitzvos all of is an invitation be mindful does anyone else have a rule any other religion what order you put your pants on you put your right shoe on and your left shoe you tie the left shoe then the right shoe why now there are deep reasons they're deep reasons for it they definitely are deep reasons but even without the reasons you know what it does from the moment you wake up in the morning to the moment you fall asleep at night you are being trained and cultivated and conditioned towards mindfulness don't arbitrarily get dressed don't get dressed while being distracted be focused and be mindful of what you do because a meaningful life is a mindful life and if you're not mindful you cannot be living meaningfully mindlessness is meaninglessness if you're going to live a meaningful life it has to be a mindful life and that's what hazar was saying here when you put your filling on you're in a higher level than the coing god the way and it sits because the coin god with the tits hashem's name appeared once and yet he had to be mindful and every Jew puts on fill in hashem's name appears many times so much so that the gemara derives at home for the focus and mindfulness you need to have so when we put on thrilling whether it's once in the morning or for an extended period of time it is an exercise in mindfulness and the opportunity to live that mindful life which is the secret and the answer to life what is that sits atoned for what does it repair for it's an arrogance an arrogance has a whole beautiful piece which we don't have time for arrogance what is the worst behavior that results from arrogance casts anger rage how is the tits for anger for rage we'll have to leave for another time but we don't have time for it but I wanted to bring your attention we don't have time for anything else left that I have but I'll at least draw your attention to something fascinating we have the show the turban the NASA is in Israel today you won't find men wearing a Mitzvah but you'll find women it's a it's a fashion fashionable today to wear turban around the head now when one wears a turban around their head what's at the center of the turban nothing the top of the head is exposed so the ramban writes a double repella Festival it's very long and I'm as a foot and a half it was 16 armored and it would wrap it around his head the M sorosa where was the oil poured for the anointing was in the middle the turbine was around the head which meant the whole top of the head was Bare so according to the ramban the coingada would wear them its nephes he was not wearing a yamaka he was bigilirosh the top of his head was Bare when he would enter on Yom Kippur to the code he was bigula rosh could you imagine gets up for Nila yes and he's not wearing a yamaka so tell us the turban is uncovered head how could it be how could it be how could it be so his answer was it doesn't mean that it was exposed it meant it was wrapped around the head even the top of the head there was a tiny little area that was exposed to pour the oil but really the top of that also is covered because the F sharp it's past this it's impossible to imagine however he says there's more evidence that there is Gila Roche even in the base of charaisers there was a lottery every day in the temple to determine who did the Tremors audition Who removed the ashes the garbage of yesterday and when they did it a coin would Omega base says the corner would stand on a circle and the one in charge would take off the tournaments in FS and that's how you'd know where to start when you went around they stuck out the fingers and they did the count and you know who won the lottery so what do you see one of them stood in the mcdosh so he said I asked the mooncatcher shlita how could it be maybe this is evidence again about being in the basement rosh how could it be and he goes on and on and on with Paige is here about what is really the halach of having to wear a yamaka and can you ever not wear the yamaka and how could it be and how could it be and he quotes fascinating sources we don't have time for he quotes one opinion the mooncatcher answered and quote sources when do you need to walk with your head covered or only make a broccoli with your head covered when you are otherwise distracted and could forget Hashem the guitar tells the story I'm sir there was Emma there was a mother one of the great rabbis who wouldn't let him walk out without his head covered because as you walk and engage the world in the street it's easy to forget this Hashem and we wear sitting on top of our head because a covering on the head is like clothing for the body it's intellectual modesty we have here with AMA we remember that there's a Hashem so when you're in a place you're occupied with a practice which is itself holy then you could be the guile Roche because the place or the practice you're in would suffice so the coin government the coin during the doing the lottery the Rama writes also the cross Pacific you're not allowed to read from the Torah with your head uncovered the mugan of rum it's talking about a cut up but the standard to sit to read the tone as you can how could it be the Torah so the answer is you're doing a religious and holy activity you're not at the risk of forgetting Hashem in that moment maybe you don't need to have your head covered so is it really a halacha where does it really come from he has a big discussion here about it we've given shiram on this in the past we've been cheer him on this in the past I could send you the uh where where's the origin of the word yamaka where does it come from so some suggest yarmuka yarim is is uh a Turkish word yarim cup a hat a small hat you're a malka fear of the king as the etymology of the word yamaka is a fascinating discussion you would be shocked if you knew and saw the sources for we today have the practice of the minions fired him not as much I'm wearing a yamaka all the time wherever whatever we do but it wasn't always the practice it wasn't always the practice and there even is a opinion that uh wouldn't wear yamaka even while sitting and learning says in refers to school in Germany they would not wear a yamaka from in a refreshing school not a public school they wore a yamaka for them not for Limited they tell the story they get in trouble for ending with this but I might as well you know that the footner the rav and the rebel the Baba were all in University together in Berlin and Germany that even when he sat through classes he wasn't really paying attention to the classes he had a gamara open he was sitting and learning he was learning even while he was in university so he has a degree and he passed all the tests because he's so brilliant but he was never really listening because he was always learning generous sharpness her footnote to them and he said that's impossible so what do you mean possible already he said it's impossible because yerebi would never learn without a yamaka on his head if you look at the original passport picture of the red but he's not wearing a yamaka later books and biographies of the rabbit was superimposed on but it's not that was the practice then to not always wear a yamaka so anyway there is an illusion that's a Pleasanton reports in our Parsha of the mits nephes maybe being rubrosh magula today the practice is always have a head covered and there's a lot more to say on the subject but we are out of time now again in all seriousness on your way out we value and we need your partnership please do what you can it's really the appropriate and correct thing to do for you but also it helps us and we thank you stay happy stay healthy and stay happy healthy and holy