Parsha Perspectives for Today (Tetzaveh 5784/2024) - Mindful Moments

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now a nation has a religious Center a religious capital a religious home and that is the mishan so last week we learned about read about we heard about the continuity of the experience with the building of a mish so that could be our the he could dwell among us we could feel his presence we could have access to him we could have that continued ongoing experience of revelation we learned about the mishan and the all the vessels that were in it now Pas we move over to a focus and an emphasis not on Moshe but on Aon and the role of the kohanim the role of the priests the role of the the the big the clothing of the and so on you who's you a pronoun who's the you Moshe and you command take clear olive oil crushed for illumination to Kindle a lamp continually and where are you doing this where are you doing this and so on and so forth now we know that whose name is not mentioned in the par mha's name is not mentioned in the par famously the bat the r son the bat famously explains that when Moshe pleads with hem to forgive the people for the horrific mistake next week we'll read in of the the golden calf he misleads or or mosu pleads to forgive the people so he says forgive them describe like gr by theel threatens him Hashem forgive them be flexible Let It Go atone let him move on and if not I want nothing to do with this even though this has been my life work even though I sacrificed everything including to a degree my family for it says Moshe erase me from your book that you have written and Hashem takes mosha up on the offer indeed and he says no problem your name will be erased not from the whole book but from the next Para famous inside of the B does not have hashem's name why specifically this par moshe's name good I was checking whether you're listening now that you're listening take out your phone and go on BRS online.org Global and make sure to do your part why this if it's next week's we have several paros left in midbar of all the paros to eliminate or omit moshe's name from why specifically this P answers Moshe said Erase Me from your book that you wrote past tense therefore his name was omitted in prous that comes before which is when he's going to need forgiveness so we went backwards to eliminate moshe's name from a par AER that you wrote in past tense that's why specifically it's a past which we should read as Erase Me from the 20th safer the 20th para what's the 20th in the Torah excellent the 20th is that's why gives another interpretation we've shared it we won't repeat it it's a beautiful Insight of the why dka it is this para but I want to share with you this morning an interpretation of the holy the ofin in his younger years was a opponent ofus he didn't buy into the movement he wasn't a disciple or student ofas but he was exposed to the is and he would turn this child prodigy into a become became not only a great disciple and student ofid he became a great master and teacher of it all he was converted so to say by the HZ by the and he says the following this is brought down in my friend Aron Gold's new book Torah United where he quotes on each para in Insight from R and Masters and this is from the section of the Masters of this week's para it's a wonderful new book I highly recommend it the gar interprets a to mean that in the middle of a battle was faced with a complicated question and he did not know the answer three soldiers risk their lives says the gamar to bring the question to to the and to return with an answer and though DAV accepted the answer he wouldn't credit any of them by name these soldiers were the one who came up with the answer when couldn't and yet D fails to credit them by name why based on a principle based on a principle and the principle is we do not attribute a statement to the one who most T somebody who risks their life for t t we do not credit them that sounds sort of bizarre I would have thought exactly the opposite it's counterintuitive one risks their life for Torah they Merit their name should be in lights their name should be enormous font hanging on the wall they should get tremendous credit why do they get no credit that did not intend this as a condemnation of the courageous soldiers who in fact had the answer offered this as a praise what's the praise their names are not attached to the statement to this ruling because through their total sacrifice they became part of Torah itself you see the moment you need or want or have your name prominent promoted Stand Out is the moment that you exist independent separate apart from Hashem and his Torah is the moment that there's an eye but the moment that a person is willing to practice ble to nullify to be absorbed and integrated into Hashem and into his Torah is the ultimate sense of devotion it's the Ultimate Surrender it's the ultimate losing any ego or sense of self because the mission the cause is the highest and the greatest Lao Jim Collins in his book which was famous when it came out good to Great where he studied all these companies and he tracked them what makes a company go from good to great and he talks about five levels of leadership and for Jim Collins level five leadership by the way you have to buy at least five raffle tickets if your phone goes off in the par year at least five whether you're a member or non-member you're in for at least five what's level five leadership says Jim Collins level five leadership is when the cause or the mission or the company is ahead of yourself is ahead of yourself it's not about your name your ego the level five leader plans succession who's going to take over after them because it's not about they were indispensable to the company or the cause it's about the mission the mission is greater than the individual self that's the highest level he describes the the level level five leadership I once give AA moshu was a level five leader all the different five levels moshu captured all of them and this is the perfect example of that for explains that GAR this is similar to what's explanation is but explains that gamar it's not that D is criticizing it's not that he's denying those students the opportunity to have their name when they in fact knew the answer the reward was to not use their name they were most at Torah mosmo atmo means their self they surrendered their sense of self it wasn't about them it was about the mission it was about the cause it was about accomplishing something claimed In The Same Spirit you can understand why moshe's name is missing from the para a name represents the essence of a person so Moshe proposed a full negation of himself to save his people m neish is a willingness to Forfeit his place among the people because his name becomes synonymous enveloped in the Torah itself he becomes an Inseparable Link in the giving of the Torah beautiful part about this safer is it is a beautiful essay and then it quotes the actual M so here he has and he writes Bas somebody's willing to die to transmit Torah accur why is their name not used when and he answers and therefore since he was most and therefore his name is omitted because it became entirely intertwined then goes on we don't have the time so I won't read it to you inside but then goes on to suggest a beautiful symbolic link between the absence of moshe's name in the parha and the opening of the par what's the first mitz of the beginning of the par we do not begin to with the big day kunun we don't dive in and start with the different clothing of the kuna what do we start with we start with the obligation of pure olive oil the manura had to be lit with pure olive oil the best quality oil that provides a stable flame and has no contaminants and in the service of his brothers and Hashem Moshe exhibited the same Clarity and the same Purity says the para begins V who's vat Moshe why don't we use his name because it is the ultimate statement of mosha that is M atmo he surrenders a sense of self he's the ultimate level five leader it's not about his name it's about ad Mission it's about the cause it's about it's about the the purpose and that is like the sh to be for us to be the pure olive oil that brings the light into this world is for it to not be about us to not be about us it's a very complicated thing I'll share with you I'll confess to you I struggle with this enormously enormously because if you want to have an impact in the world in life then to a degree you're trying to promote and share promote that there's a sheer everybody come here the sheer promote There's an opportunity online to listen to read to learn so how do you find that balance I've spoken to many G who publish who have teams of people promoting their sh and putting out a newsletter of their Torah and inviting people to their Tish and the fa and their it's a tremendous balance between how do you make it about the cause and the mission and being it's all about hasem that's the mission that's the purpose that's the cause not about me the ego the eye the name the brand how do we make Hashem the brand and not us and yet take advantage of all the tools at our disposal to be able to share and promote and hopefully Inspire ourselves and as many people as possible in the ideal world and that's what the para is telling us by the way we go back in next week's paraa to using moshe's name again moshe's name is not erased or omitted from the race rest of the Torah kadosha moshe's name is used over and over and over again and he is in perpetuity Moshe Ru and he surrenders himself but we have one of the one of the 13 principles of faith is to believe that Moshe is categorically different than all other human beings Moshe is the MOS is categorically different greater than everybody else he's the he didn't do a great job at surrendering himself he didn't do a great job at erasing himself he tried we didn't let him he did a great job we did did a great job of not letting him why because it's also important to have a rabenu to have a Moshe to have a paradigm to have a model of a leader so that's this balance that's taking place between even when we're promoting and sharing and teaching nevertheless it's all Hashem is the brand Hashem is the message Hashem is the mission it's not about anybody's name or honor or influence or followers or friends or monetization it's all the brand is Hashem and that's the balance that's going on so moshu says to be sh Z to be the purest olive oil what's the oil being used for here not salad dressing not to dip your Bretta is that what it's called a little toasted bread not to to sprinkle on your Bretta what's the olive oil being used for not to shmear on your on your skin although also anointing the the priest what's it being used for here to light the manura what's the purpose of lighting the manura to illuminate and dispel the darkness of the world to transform the world with light how can you be the brightest source of light the purest source of Light how can we be the parallel the metaphor the equivalent of the Shem and how can we be that non-contaminated pure oil that holds a steady flame of spreading the message the mission the brand of hem like mosu by being MMO it's not about us it's not about us not about us I won't tell you the story that seasoned Rabbi once told me about how when he was a young Rabbi I guess I will tell you the story when he was a young Rabbi and someone had helped him work on the sh dinner this woman had put in countless time and she said to him over and over again whatever you do Rabbi at the dinner don't acknowledge me don't say my name don't thank me whatever you do please don't just leave me out so a foolish naive new Rabbi he didn't mention her afterwards he heard oh how upset how insulted how Furious how pained how hurt and so he turned he was talking to to a group of young rabbis I I was among them I'm still young Rabbi I was even younger then and he said he learned from then that you have to understand there's a rabic vocabulary when someone says whatever you do please don't acknowledge me it Loosely translates to whatever you do please don't forget to acknowledge me and he taught that to us now it doesn't mean that people don't deserve to be thanked and acknowledged they deserve that people deserve that period hard stop they deserve that because also it encourages more people to get involved and to do and for that person to do further HOV is a basic Torah attribute of course we have to but for all of us we should remember why we're doing what we do and it's not about the name and if Moshe could be V we could be the V it was about the or the it was about the food we cooked or the corpo the committee we sat on or what we helped set up or what we did differently or how we contributed and of course of gratitude should be shown but if it isn't we should remember like mosha we have the opportunity we should be great F they let us be and Z if in fact our name was not promoted or pronounced if our name was not shared or celebrated maybe it was a failure of but it was a gift of letting us be the that mosha merited that mosha merited to begin it's not a coincidence the growon points out as does the Chernobyl they both point out we always read either right before or right after Z what Z MOS his birthday and is day the kadisha marks and celebrates this year's two Adar which Adar both Adar one Adar but Z M's birthday and and his absence from which is always either right after or right before is commensurate fits totally with with moshe's entire life his yite with the reading of T is that his most outstanding quality is that he was MOS atmo he gave up on an atmo he gave up on a sense of atmo in the greatest sense because to a degree he paid the highest price that leadership role that he played and the mission that he served cost him aspects of his marriage cost him the legacy of the mantle of passing it on to his children he was moster not only atmo but the greatest sense of atmo which is our family and our continuity in a certain way that mosha paid that incredible incredible high that incredible high price so it's a beautiful of s it's worth reading it inside which we don't have time for today but to look at the rest of it inside okay moving right along thetion is quoted by the and he says the following you command he brings the that's where the got it from erase me from your book so we fulfilled his request a little bit his name is not included and why did he do this let's not forget it wasn't just that he was the chairperson of the dinner and he wasn't thanked and he didn't mind because it wasn't about him what was the reason that he was doing this why was he Theo why did mosu threaten grab if not erase me what was he fighting for advocating for the Forgiveness of K he saved the Jewish people Hashem was ready to wipe us out another hard reset on the world Shem had had it with us and mhu steps in steps up on our behalf and mosh's was so complete was so whole that it included subsumed within it all of all of the combination of the souls that were destined to exist you know if you think about for One Moment One one egg or one seed of the man and the potential that it has in them because take one woman's egg one egg of one woman has within it her daughter whose daughter whose daughter whose daughter think about the potential of the future and how many so one woman could give birth to 600,000 that that's a tough pregnancy tough labor there's no epidural in the world that's going to help you for a birth of 600,000 but it doesn't mean you're giving birth to 600,000 it means Trace back your ancestry and calculate how one person who gave birth to one and now when you compound it based on the amount of children and the generations to come so that was moshu if you go back to that original egg the original SE what it contained within it was everyone and everything that would come after and that's M mosha did not live life like he was some individual on his own rather he had a Consciousness a mindfulness always that he represented the totality of theas that would come afterwards he was MOS his independent identity Al for the greater ident of and now we can understand why is moshe's name not mentioned the word means is a connection the mitz are the way that we connect to hem s with them his name is not included his name is not included there are two ways that we can live in this world we can live in this world that it's all about me and I and my ego my need my want my happiness my joy it's about me by the way when volunteering for you makes me feel good then I'm willing to do it but really all in the end of the day it's about me or a person can say it's really all about you there's a mission there's a purpose there's a cause there's a people that's what I'm about and if it means risking or erasing the me my interest my need my want my happiness my life I'm willing to do it this Torah is relevant and important and meaningful anytime it's particularly relevant right now when there are soldiers who are fulfilling every Soldier has a name we are not a people that just assign a number but in the Army to a degree you're a number the dog tag has a number not a name because you're a soldier fighting a fight serving a unit winning a war and and the soldiers the incredible Soldiers the awesome soldiers the heroic soldiers are viat they are sacrificing and surrendering their name their identity their want their need particularly reservists saying goodbye to their spouse to their children and putting their life on the line and some paying with the ultimate price why most na na the ultimate my they are literally surrendering and forfeiting their life Al for the Jewish people for this bigger picture and I think they obligate us to ask ourselves how are we we don't have a gun we're not on a front line we are not sacrificing in the same way but this is a time of mysterious neish for everybody to figure out what we are doing and how we are influencing our condition in the world to make it to make it better that is the beautiful we've been going through his brand new safer that came out he quotes the following tells us in this we're going to get past the first here the first commandment to the is we didn't even get to the big day is squeeze the olives and extract from them a pure olive oil to be able to illuminate the manura T consistently continually ongoing where in the and so on so the wonders why why are the Jewish people why are we likened to an olive and the answer the says is to tell us how do you get the olive oil out of the olive say Please Mr Olive would you mind dripping your oil no that will not work what do you have to do squeeze it you have to more than squeeze Aisa it gets crushed it's not called an olive squeeze it's an olive crush it gets gets crushed the Jewish people the best of us only comes out when we are squeezed when we are squeezed when we are stepped on what comes out is better than what it was before there are two substances like that olives and grapes not coincidentally both or at one point had their own had their own BR but have their own status a separate status right know what comes out of an olive is not called olive juice what you squeeze out of the apple is called apple juice what you squeeze out of the Orange is orange juice what you squeeze out of the grapefruit is grapefruit juice mango is mango juice and yet what you squee out of the olive is oil and what you squeeze out of the grape is wine because what comes out is better than what it was Jewish people are liken to a olive but we're also lik to a we're also like a grape and like a fig in we're like we're like a date we're like an OS we're like all these others fruit nuts as well remon were're like a pomegranate so why specifically here like an olive so says r there's a whole process from when we grow the olive till we pick the olive till we crush the olive till we filter the olive the olive is thrown from strewn from place to place until you have the oil so to the Jewish people were thrown and were strewn from place to place so we're thrown from place to place and we're gathered and we're smoed and we're crushed and we're stepped on and only then what comes out similarly K are thrown around and what comes out is CH were improved and we better there's another mush of how we come out the other mus why are we compared to an olive other mixtures if you mix apple juice with water what do you have diluted apple juice if you mix every other liquid with water what do you have the diluted version of that liquid when you mix olive oil with water what do you have it separates which one floats to the top the oil floats to the top similar the Jewish people don't mix with those around us they don't mix with those around us sh Mar we have a Prohibition of intermarriage we have a mission we have a purpose not because by the way we're Superior or better we're not some bias racist people who look down on others you know why we don't mix because we have a responsibility we're the Honor Society we're maintaining a certain grade and we have to model certain Behavior to the world and by the way the evidence we don't think we're Superior or better inherently or intrinsically than anyone else is if you're willing to make the grade and maintain the behavior you're more than welcome to join the Honor Society by the way people want to kill the Honor Society so if you want to join just know that you have that Target on your back the world is increasingly hating on the Honor Society and are systematically trying to eliminate the Honor Society and practice total corrupt Justice against the Honor Society oh you still want to join you still think that we think we're better than anyone else such a wonderful Club to be part of that we've been exterminated and exiled and and uh all through our history we don't think we're better we're more obligated to live and model A Certain life and if you want to join we have a beautiful process called conversion you're more than welcome you can't join by name only you're GNA have to make the grade you're gonna have to maintain the behavior if you're willing to adopt the lifestyle you're more than welcome to join but no with it and you know for many years now I've been involved in conversions and we ask both in the process and again when the candidate's standing in the Mikvah among the many questions we is are you aware that there's something called anti-Semitism and there are people who don't like Jews and now you will emerge a full member of the Jewish people and you too will be the target of and for for 20 years I've been doing this like we just went through the yeah and you too and okay fine I'll come out like ha and Boon it's going to be so hard and Manhattan yeah no problem now we say are you aware are you aware you are endangering your life with this decision you could walk around a non-jew be a Noah keep the MIT Noah nobody's ever climbed out of the mck said you know what you're right I'm out of here I have yet to have that happen by the time we get there we're pretty sure we pretty confident we know what people are going to answer it's extraordinary so the M tells us why we liken to the olive because when you crush us what comes out will never mix with you it doesn't mix it's separate and it's apart not because we're Superior or better not because we're the chosen people but we are the choosing people our ancestors chose Hashem and he chose us to model for the world through the way we're meant to live you could shake up that salad dressing shake up that Italian dressing before you put it on your salad because if you don't if you don't olive oil will be on top all the other ingredients beneath it they're not going to mix and the oil will rise to the top when we fulfill aem's word We rise to the top so which is it is the image of the medish that were crushed were thrown and strewn from place to place were crushed and we're squeezed and what comes out is better so we're strown and th from place to place and when we do chuba when we're crushed what comes out we're more righteous or that we're separate and apart We rise to the top which one so says he believes the answer is both they go together how do they go together they go together as when we understand that we're separate and apart we don't need to be crushed and strewn and thrown to place to place and when we forget we assimilate we integrate we totally abandon what makes us special and different and apart we're thrown from place to place and we remember who we are and that we rise to the top that's what we're seeing happen right now even among although not enough and I think we all have a lot of work to do but among those who are unaffiliated our holy brothers and sisters our precious brothers and sisters who don't have the privilege of the education and the background of the example that many of us do who have forgotten what it means to be a Jew and Jewish practice and Jewish observance and Jewish principles and Jewish life and in fact they replaced their Judaism with other isms and called it Judaism so they thought that environmentalism or social justice or feminism or liberalism or progressivism was their Judaism in October 7th happened and the movements that they had replaced Judaism with abandoned them stabbed Us in the back and now there's a crisis an identity crisis well then who am I and there's a spiritual awakening and we need to encourage it and we need to educate it and we need to support it and we need to love it with no judgment or triumphalism or superiority and say that's fantastic you're looking into what your Judaism is turns out it wasn't those other things the people you marched with who then sided with Kamas the movements that you supported who then walked away when it was Jewish women being raped well then what is our Judaism who are we what are we made of who is it there's a huge gap waiting to be filled with a new definition of what one's Judaism is and by the way I'm concerned for all the people wearing the dog tags y's wearing around her neck it's beautiful they're available you can get in the SCH office as well incredible we Advocate it's on our minds constantly but what happens mem today when all the hostages will be brought home and people will take that from around their neck will they put instead a mugging doid what will we wear our Judaism also can't just be right now hostages and victimhood and martyrdom and death and sadness and fighting that's also not Judaism we know that from all the studies of the younger generation For Whom the Holocaust was not what they wanted to be their Jewish identity they're not interested that can't just be who we are so there's a huge appetite right now some know it and some don't even realize how hungry and or starving and malnourished they are to to redefine their Judaism and for us to redefine our Judaism who are we and what is it and why is it important why don't we hand the keys to Kamas and move to Uganda why don't we hand the keys to Kamas and come assimilate into America welcoming us with open arms why is the Jewish story important why is Israel important why is Torah important why do we have to do all this and when we remember and when we live this way then Hashem doesn't have to throw us around and crush us and squeeze us to bring us out of us right now there's a spiritual awakening we've been crushed and hammered and stepped on and and the yish kite is oozing out like fine olive oil but when we remember that we're salad dressing and we don't mix and we rise to the top and we have to live a certain lifestyle then we don't need to be stepped on and crushed that's how R druk understands and sees the two as going as going together a lot more to say about that but back to the para it is after all a para sheer the second r on this P you know what actually we'll move on yeah let's move on what's the purpose what are we doing with this olive oil to light the so it's in many others the is what are the words we're squeezing these olives to get the olive oil and it's clear olive oil crushed for the purpose of Illumination this is [Music] from quoting from this goes hand in hand with what we said before paradoxically paradoxically when do you shine the brightest when do you shine the brightest when you're the most arrogant egotistical self-promoting no when you're AR arrogant egotistical and self-promoting then in fact there's a dark cloud that hangs over whatever you're doing but when you're hum humble and modest and it's not about you that's when it shines the brightest and that's what it meansis crush the ego you want to shine bright then sublimate crush the ego in us when can our best self our truest self the sense of mission within our self the Difference Maker of ourselves when it can manifest in this world when we are casis when we Crush the ego and the self-promotion then the greatest light will shine and when it's all ego and arrogance then there's a dark cloud hanging over whatever we're doing the be mosha adds he says further rash rash on this says why are we crushing this oil for it's light but not because we're mixing it with the carbon was made out of flower so understand why are we crushing these olives to be using the oil for light not for the word the word it means a gift it can mean rest but it could also mean to fall into a place of sadness of sadness of despondency so we don't sublimate or sub we don't get rid of the ego in order to be down and out or depressed or not even realize that we have a healthy sense of self we're not getting rid of a healthy sense of self person has to know their gifts their talents their skills Their Blessings what they can bring to the world it's crush the ego so you can shine bright not crush the ego so you sit in a corner doing nothing contributing nothing thinking you're a nothing as we've said many times that's not my original thought that humility the Torah definition of humility is not thinking less of ourselves it's thinking of ourselves less often it's not thinking less of ourselves it's thinking of ourselves less often and that's why it's and not moving right on we now go on to the big day kuna the purpose of the big day kunun are big the had these uniforms they were vestments of glory and of Splendor how did it achieve that listen to last year's par year or previous years we went into it in depth there but if you look at promise we turn the page ah there it is the great sound of a page turning at the par very infrequent her page 466 they should take the gold the turquoise the purple the Scarlet wool and the linen and there's an anomaly it's a very peculiar thing that is happening here and what is the peculiar thing that's happening here the peculiar thing that's happening here is for each separate item we're going back and collecting the ingredients again and again and again which is an incredibly inefficient way of building we are doing a building campaign we'll talk to you about that another time we're doing a building campaign so let's say let's say we got a lot going on could you imag imag that we would only order the steel and the wood and the door for each room as we're making that room call Home Depot or wherever I'm clearly not in charge of this wherever one gets the materials for each room pece meal as we go that would be horrifically inefficient and unnecessarily expensive way of doing it instead we look at the total project we see all the materials we're going to need we order all of them and we use them as we need them in the separate locations so why didn't they run a campaign here's all the materials that we're going to need we've got a lot of vestments a lot of a lot of wardrobe going on over here and here are all the materials and fabrics we're going to need and dieses and colors we're going to need bring it all and then as we go we'll use it up instead for each one separately and apart they run a campaign this is from the says what is they should take reminiscent of last week's which was here we go again using that word when it should be soash they both weigh in but he says we already included the ingredients that would we already included the measurements that would include the big so why do I need a separate campaign a separate cause match a separate a separate donation because it seems that the Wardrobe of the kohanim is for their independent personal use maybe they should pay for it with their own money no this two has to come from the collective this two has to come from so let's say the cynical you know there always were late the great cynics at the time of the basa mikdash I can just picture it they K come and they show up for Duty and they're giving their uniform what they wear and it's paid for from the communal funds and every Community has its cynic and I can picture the cynic of Cl I like why do we get to give so much money for the Kum to have this customade fancy turquoise what are we paying for their uniform let them pay they're wearing it keeping them warm protecting them from the elements they need it for their service what do we have to pay for it let them pay for it can you picture it is it what some of you are even thinking can you picture yourself thinking it so the Torah goes out of its way to say no they're serving you they're serving us they're not making it about them and sort of the reward they're not making it about them is it's not about them it doesn't come out of their fund you have to support and provide and enable them to play the role and to do the work that they do step up that's your job and that's your mission that's how the understands the alar of K understands a little bit differently the alter of K was bothered by the same question we have also in our Pasha we just read it with the big day and we're going to see when it comes to each and every article of clothing through the para pay attention when you when you um do your when you're listening to theas each separate element of the Wardrobe is introduced with a list of the ingredients that we need to collect for it terribly inefficient just collect all the materials all the ingredients and then use them up as we go the alar of says the altar that the Torah is teaching us that the materials needed to be collected with the specific and particular cavana that they be used for the big day Kahuna the intent that we have the mindfulness that we bring transforms whatever we're doing and we don't just pile things together even if it will be more efficient even if it will be more efficient have a principle that we don't bundle mitz together it'll be much more efficient to bundle them together we don't bundle maximum efficiency maybe what you're looking for in business because it helps the profit in the bottom line maximum efficiency is not what we look for in R we look for maximum mindfulness maximum presence maximum Consciousness maximum C maximum experience with each and every thing that we're doing even if it's at the cost of efficiency a will save money we'll do two weddings the same we make a with will make the wedding on no yes that would be much more efficient yes you'll save a lot of money but it's not about efficiency and money it's about being fully immersed and present in each and every experience and moment of Life what a powerful message of the alar of K and therefore even if we sacrifice efficiency we keep referencing the materials because the cavana we're going to bring to the materials for each and every separate garment my friend brought this down at we quoted it this week we find the similar idea gimmel says to ensure the Tor will not be forgotten from CL is so he says is going to plant flax wait for it to grow and from it make traps that'll hunt deer he'll them and from their leather he'll make a safer Torah teach each safer to one child and then have five of them teach each other is to six children and that's how Torah will not be forgotten from CL That's How we'll continue the Wonder You belong in the B Med what do you mean that you're GNA plant flax and take care of it and harvest it and make traps and catch the animal and she them and make from them the hide the parchment that is terribly inefficient use of your time you know what you should do go on amazon.com and buy parchment go order clo from I don't know sof for.net go go online and order some cloth or go and even order finish the fre Tor and teach them to the children what are you going all the way back ah to make make sure that Torah is not forgotten in a time in a danger a threat of Torah being forgotten no no no I'm going to go all the way back and I'm going to plant flax and I'm going to grow it I'm going to nurture it I'm gonna Harvest it I'm G why why explained the answer is that said for that Torah to be pure for that Torah to sustain and endure for that Torah to transform those children the kavana the intent the mindfulness to every step of the process ah it's inefficient skip right to the end go onine bu the safer teach the child no no no no that will be a totally different experience than if the kavana were injected and implanted into the whole process every step from the very beginning from the very beginning when you work you have cavana that the money that you earn will go by the safer that you'll learn with your child think about the difference even even that there's nothing wrong with our beautiful program learning programs we have at our mother daughter learning and they end with raffles and the child learns a safer at the raffle and then the parent learns the child that's one level of learning and it's beautiful learning but imagine the parent is working says you know I'm gonna do one more shift so that I can get a little bonus so that I can buy my child the set of mishas so that we can sit and learn them together and as they're as they're sweating through that extra shift in whatever work that they're doing staying on a few more hours when they wish they could go home and now the cavana as they're earning that extra money is going into this Farm they're going to order they're going to sit and they're going to learn with that child don't tell me that be the same experience as if you won the safer out a raffle when the kavana goes in the cavana goes in we see this as well in chabas you know the of says when it talks about Rifka went into the tent of Sarah and and knew she was the one when the dough when the kala turned out like his mother what does that mean the kala turned out like his mother the fancy braid it Rose the right amount she maintained the sour is that what it's called sour d I've been hearing the Torah of a s What It Takes a starter you have to maintain the starter the the wisdom the love the passion sometimes you wish you were as loved as the sourdough the amount of mysterious neish that's going into that sourdough so is that what it means s had a Sourdough oh Rifka kept the sourd going is that what it means say no it means the kavana you bring into your kala impacts the kala so if you're on the phone talking narish while you're making the the kala then the people eat your kala have eaten narish and if while you're making the kala you're listening to the you're saying to H you're making a phone call to somebody you could use a little love and a little uh support so all of a sudden your kala is this it's not your is a of of of and anyone who eats that kala is getting that into their system the cavana we bring from the extra work we do to the money we earn to the food that we make to the carpo that we drive it's not another day carpool and I'm fighting every bring my kid I'm giving them this is the future of the Jewish people I am driving this carpool it's miserable and I don't want to and we're in Florida where you don't have to De ice or shovel out of the snow I don't even want to complain although there you don't have to do that because you have busing but you have state income tax whatever it's still better to live still better to live down here but if the cavana while you're driving that carpol is it's not as miserable in school and I wish I didn't have to where's my husband and why does he have to give that shear and he can never drive it's the is talking about my neighbor the cavana is if the kavana is I am creating Jewish continuity I'm taking my children this child they're going to sit at the feet of his rebi he's GNA open a safer and learn Torah he's gonna be a Ben Torah for life and his children and children after him and that's my kavana when I fill the car with gas filling the car with gas so I could drive it to carpool because that's how I get my child to go learn Torah wow it's absolutely transformed everything that we do once left his house escorted by his him to go DAV and Sh and halfway to sh he abruptly stopped he turned around he went back home he went back into his house and then he left and continued his journey to SCH when they got to couldn't take it said Reb what happened you didn't forget anything you didn't go get anything you didn't do anything differently why did you go home to turn around and go again and he said because when I left my house the first time I was thinking about something else I was Mindless I was thinking about something else and we just started walking we walked to sh and I realized I have to go back to leave the house with the cavana that we're leaving now go to sh the whole walk is different if when I begin the walk I know I'm walking because we're walking we're going to sh it's a whole totally different type of a walk we're walking to sh right now so it says the of that's why these are being repeated they're being repeated said why are they being repeated in order to tell us it doesn't come from the kanim they're wearing it but you got to pay for it because they're representing and serving for you that's the me but the AL of says you know why it repeats it over and over again because you need thatav each and every separate and distinct garment needs its Turn the Page yet again now we're on the breastplate the of judgment what did it have on what was on the breastplate the stones shall be according to the names of the sons of CLA Israel 12 according to their names engraved like a signate ring each according to its name shall they be for the 12 tribes Cesar of salich let's bring in a r salich Cesar of salich this who are the 12 names the 12 tribes yosef's children e and masas each took a portion in the division of the land why then is only yose's name written upon the when it came to dividing the land Ys doesn't get a portion Ys children already said that and are elevated to the status of son likeon so y as a shave it as a son doesn't get a portion of the land masas do so if that was good enough for when we divide the land why isn't that allocation also the most accurate when it comes to theen asks the r ask according to the app indicates it comes to atone for mistakes in judgment each of the vestments that the K wore came to atone for mistakes for things that we did the P I hope we're going to get to it the bell in the bottom of the that would ring and Chirp for lanara that we ring and that we and that we chirp each of the different garments came to atone for different things the tis for the thoughts that we shouldn't have had so what was the the what called the to atone for the poor judgment the poor judgment a poor judgment doesn't just mean that you were only supposed to have one of the corn chips from Trader Joe's and you ate the entire bag that's one poor judgment poor judgment doesn't just mean that you walked out without joining the BRS Global campaign even though you benefit you enjoy you're elevated and the money you spend on a movie and theater and dinner pale you know far outweighs a little something to show appreciation for the that's a poor judgment that's also what it's talking about but it's not what it's talking about what is it talking about the mistakes in judgment means we all judge and we judge others do we judge others favorably do we judge them negatively s Snippets we just finished the 11th Hashem wants us to have it's a mish a judgment that is laced with that we're we givea in the Mish you judge favorably I mentioned last night in the snippet the example you're at the supermarket someone you know comes in they walk right by they didn't say hello so Mish strict Justice would say I'm done I'm not saying hello to them in fact I'm gonna try to find them so I can walk right by them and not say hello to them because Mish our friendship is over they walked by me and they didn't say hello me hasem doesn't love that kind of a mish he loves Meb Whata be generous and gracious with your Mish and say to yourself you know wonder if someone in their home has the flu or covid or RSV virus and they're running into the supermarket to pick up medicine for them maybe they're the ones who are sick and picking up the medicine they can't see or notice anybody and it's not about me right now it's a mish I'm judging with staka by using the mid of staka I'm being generous and gracious in the Mish in the Judgment that I show that's a little bonus sitter snippet if you enjoyed it you could sign up for the sitter Snippets the six minutes every day so that's the Mish the is coming theen is wearing the to atone for the poor Mish the poor judgment people judging without St the kak asks why the A and the were specified to be the products of a master Weaver the term alludes to these sins for which thought is considered equivalent to deed the aod provides atonement for the worship of false gods while the comes to atone for mistakes in judgment judgment is a product of the heart in a broader sense the atones for the Tendencies and thoughts of the heart now there are people says with good values and fine attributes but the moment they find themselves in a different environment they changed their conduct in contrast Yosef never forgot the days of his youth although he was rich and honored his values did not varied and continued to act with the fine attributes to which he was always accustomed so Yosef was pure of heart and did not change his Outlook therefore had to have his name written on theen ysf Whose judgment and his view never changed no matter where he was what status of life so ysf had to have his name even though when it came to the the Conquering and division of the land it Wasim man but here in thean it had to be it had to be ysf him I wanted to get into theas we didn't get into it last year and I made a note we should get into it this year and now we won't get into it this year so apparently that's our Min to not get into it and maybe we'll get into it next year but let's end with the ponon bottom page 470 the robe the of the a was made out of turquoise its head opening was folded over within it its opening shall have a border all around of Weaver's work in other words there's a what they call what's that called a hem not a hem what's no what's the edge what do you make on The Edge a hem a hem you have a hem on the edge and why do you have a hem saf it's folded over inside and has a hem why do you have a hem so one unravel these if you think they're not relevant to us the Magnificent symbolism and the messages if the and the a are atoning for the is atoning for lar we'll see that now with the very so sa it needs lips it needs a hem your mouth what you're going to speak needs lips why do you need lips no one to close them no one to keep them shut know how to filter what you say not every thought you have to share not everything comes to your mind you have to say so your tongue and your voice box and your mouth has lips why so you can close them and that's the sa is not just a description of how this garment is made sa lips a mouth there should be lips to the mouth it's a description of how to protect protect us from from Lara so but adding on to it going further you shall make on its hem pomegranates of turquoise purple and Scarlet wool on its hem all around and gold Bells between them all around gold Bell and a pomegranate a gold Bell and a pomegranate on the Hem of the robe all around the base and I shared with you in previous years you can Google it and find it online in the excavations done at David the pilgrimage road underneath it which was where the water drained and they hid when they were hiding in the destruction of the second Bas mdash they hid under the pilgrim and Grove where the sewer was and you can walk that it's not yet I don't think open to the public it will be it's magnificent you you'll be able to walk from IR David all the way down to the valley you'll be able to walk that pilgrimage Road where the O Rego walked until you find yourself at the kotel tunnel tours underneath the kotel at harab it's magnificent and you can still you can still wipe your finger on the wall underneath and you will take off the black suot the ash from the burning of the bikash you can still touch the burning burnt marks the ash of the B mikdash what they're discovering is unbelievable and what did they find there one of these bells one of the bells that was under the of of a coin absolutely extraordinary Dres Dr Rashi says these bells were round and Hollow like the egg of a chicken so some were Hollow they look like a bell but with no what's that called an anvil a Clapper okay ruined my streak there but a Clapper um some of them had The Clapper some of them did not all around rash describes the ones with the Clapper rang out and made a sound and they did not make a sound on their own one of the brisar students said about him he saw the brisar was silent when the brisar was quiet everyone could hear that silence when he was thinking in a Shear before he began or after he finished or when he sat in solitude or quiet it was a quiet that was incredibly loud you could have a silence on a quiet that is incredibly loud and now we understand suggest why the had alternating the bell with The Clapper and the bell without if the purpose is to atone for the lashara it means use the power of speech more positively say the right thing not the wrong thing why why the Bell without The Clapper because sometimes silence speaks louder than words sometimes being silent is the loudest thing that we can say rolba points out I've shared this before rolba writes that when a child learns to speak we're so excited we teach them to speak I grandchildren of different ages and my highly competitive streak makes me try to train each of them to say their first word to be z z the consequence has been those who speak started out by saying calling me du instead of Z because I Z du Z du I want them to speak get so excited oh their first word oh they said Z they said Bobby oh it's incredible they speak and then we clap and then we encourage it then we give a lollipop and then we say speak speak speak we teach them to speak R writes we teach and we celebrate when a child speaks we never teach them to stop speaking we don't teach them that there's a time just sit quietly you don't always have sometimes be seen but not heard I'm going to give you a lollipop because you you were at the table but you didn't feel a need to interject so here's a lollipop we don't we teach and we celebrate and we applaud and we see the milestone in speaking but also Ina in being being quiet and being quiet there's a big milestone so that was the griz's silence the brisar silence o it was incredibly incredibly loud and that's maybe say Dr the alternating sound is the reminder to us that we atone for speech by making sure that we have the correct speech and sometimes by having no speech at all silence sometimes speaks much louder than anything that we have to say so for next year will all be in but somebody remind me to start with the end of the Tas if you have in your Talis bag a Pak Tas written on a cloth and you think that is some schoa for your parnasa is that a beautiful thing does it have a mo is it maybe even k a violation of where does that come from and what is the why is the altar where the korus was offered in our Pasha where did it belong truma last week with the vessels of the mishan this week are the garments of the K so why is it in the end of our para it's in the wrong place how did it get here m start with that next week if you'd like next year if you'd like we've made it easy for you just take a credit card and on your way out you can actually tap it or swipe it and again this time there's an incredible advantage two two domestic airline tickets to Florida two VIP tickets to yo here at PRS and because you have aov for what you get out of at PRS online.org Global should be a great day for claw you sir