Rabbi Michael Mansour - Parshat Ki Tisa

still recuperating a little bit from Purim traveling action-packed parasa with starting over makatita shekel finishing off things with the mishkan Shabbat falls in the middle then the devastation that was still recuperating from today again the greatest sin in the history of the Jewish Nation even though only done by 3 000 people but we all stood around and we didn't take care of it we didn't abolish it we will bystanders watching the Jewish people getting destroyed in the middle of this two parashiel at the finishing of the work of the miscar and the Jewish people doing the gravest sin in the history that we're still paying back for it till today that anytime somebody gets a punishment it's Incorporated a little of the punishment for the sin of the again Shabbat is right in the middle of it and as she addresses what is Shabbat have to do with right away after the building of the mascara also we're going to try to discuss why it's a preview which we know this parashah is not in its place that she says from here we learned that there's no real order if there is there isn't but there is an introduction of the parasav Shabbat to the again and we're going to try to discuss the connection what Shabbat means to us and how it's connected to the mishkan and how it's connected again now she right away started saying the attack and you believe Israel Africa what does it means every time it says so he says and you and the fact she missed what does it mean say when I tell you to speak to somebody I said you speak them I'm talking to you who else am I talking to can you speak to Ruben for me who do I mean somebody else says it as she ffield even though I commanded you to overlook and tell the Jewish people to go build them is Khan Shabbat don't feel that this responsibility gives you a responsibility to also continue building the mishkan Melaka don't think that now you have to go build the Michigan why why not we have discussed that the Muskan was the place where we connected that champ the mishkan was a place that we connected Hashem where we brought the court by North we did that for that we did all the all our connection was through the beta McDowell but still when it comes to shabbat you have to stop and part of the basuke says because Shabbat is a covenant between God and the Jewish people and by you not doing it like that is because you have to know that I am the one who sanctifies you it seems to be like is the reason why you can't build them why can the president Hashem said so but we need the place to serve Hashem how can we serve Hashem we don't have a mission foreign in order that a person should remember and connect and know that Hashem is the one that makes us holy says a very interesting is a person that gives a gift to his friend he has to the question is if he has to give him or does he have to know the volume about the gift or he doesn't have to know what if I'm about to give says you don't have to inform it don't worry about the clients have alleged a question it says in this week's past Spanish a person you have to know that Hashem is the one who sanctifies you foreign I have a wonderful giving my treasure house the Shabbat Shima and it's called Shabbat vacation I wish to give it to the Jewish people go and tell them so you see that when you're giving a gift to somebody you have to tell them talking about the gift of Shabbat that is not likely to be revealed he's not going to know about what Shabbat is how many people know what your bad is he says it's also going to be revealed the gift of Shabbat why does Hashem have to say it the reward given for Shabbat is not likely to become revealed what's the reward of Shabbat every time morning if you go into places it's very interesting we start the Hassan from where nishmat not from they put them and at the same Pace that they're going the hope is that's the pace of nismat by us we go slow before we change over from going quick to start singing if you go into the real the real shot is like the highlight of Shabbat because on Shabbat you have the nishmatical kai now with Schmidt I always was wondering why in the other places the schmatt is like uh like you're running through the quickest part of the Phila because if you have to do at 905 and they upped in the smile at 904. mishman takes like 32 seconds I never never got it but you don't get everything in this world but the real way it should be is that means smart should take longer than everything else on Shabbat morning so when we say Miss Schmidt called Hai we say the Shama tevarez it blesses hashem's name what is a person have never is the highest Lux is and there goes the net fish Netflix is the body when we say in the smart we start off Hashem should be able to say blessings to you will glorify your name where's the Netflix the Netflix doesn't have to think that Hashem praise them addresses that says how your ma love your mother the day of Shabbat is not a day that the persons the shama is connected with the goof the Goof is a difference the Goof alone becomes spiritual he was the brother-in-law of yaakov kaminez he was killed in World War II he was once taking a walk with one of the rabbits of Pauline one of the great sadikim of him and he asked about from a question it says and I will give my dad that we just discussed in beta foreign go tell them go tell them I have a special gift on Shabbat she asked him what is to tell them that he has a gift on Shabbat says in order to tell them the rewards so the rebel says you know had to tell him they shouldn't you should not trade Shabbat for Google if you think about it thank you this is a very very deep concept today Shabbat became six types of fish kids club and the whole Shabbat is totally destroyed out of lexicon a person knows why he doesn't feel so bad for one reason because he's not he's not utilizing her back he's not keeping her back if a person sleeps the whole Shabbat is that utilizing your Shabbat yeah ghoulished the banished High says a beautiful mashallah we're going to come back to it says there's a guy you know the British guy was the greatest of the great in the past hundred years there's nobody that has a song that was incorporated into the whole kilal Israel and it's a song that is accepted in the whole Canal Israel everybody sings it all the old songs written 500 years ago and earlier a thousand years ago the show name times there's no song that was made up in the past hundred years with its own words that is sung among the whole time except tell me if I'm wrong I don't think there's any other song that was incorporated cloudy said everybody sings with I don't mean in a tune I'm saying the whole shirad all the words of the Sheena nobody 's kind he was the great Cavaliers scientist he knewana everything and he was a great great massage he wrote beautiful Michelle to bring out a point Parables he has a book just Thomas shalim that was one of our highlights when we were kids every week thought certain from my father used to say every week a story from any sky the story is unbelievable when you read stories of ghidolin to your children so he says a story like this there's a guy came from a little set of Nevada I just made up the name where he came from and he comes into a big city and he's collecting for his family you know but I mean man I'm saying Hashem has his calculations but I'm you see the guy just said they're throwing him out of the house he has nine kids 10 kids owes money it's not easy so he's going collecting for his family and he needs uh a good Jew Italian and he comes over to them he says I'm collecting for my family could you help me he answers to him where are you from oh I'm from the town in Nevada oh the valley I was born there my father's day my mother's there my brothers my siblings are still there I married him to a family over here so I moved away there you know there wasn't what's up there was a telephones there was no communication you got to let it once every two months but you really couldn't see what's going on over there okay I'll start talking to him so that he like do me a favor I'm here for business I can sit there and hakima lash I can't just talk and talk and talk so he says okay do me a favor you know them he says yeah we live down the block oh beautiful how much is the max you're making one day a thousand dollars tomorrow I'll give you a thousand dollars don't go to work don't collect come to the office sit with me and tell me how my family is my parents my siblings how many kids they have how they feeling says okay no problem deal comes tomorrow that night he says oh tomorrow I don't gotta work okay I'm going to Doma for a steak and I you make sure he has a good steak he goes to sleep he has two glasses of wine he said I wrote him some wine two glasses of wine he sleeps instead of waking up every day he had to get up six o'clock because he had to get to the first weekend at 6 30. to the next one you had 7 30 that 8 30. had to go around my Obama had to go all around now today no collecting what do you do hey welcome nine o'clock welcome nine o'clock he went to the list when you had in in speaker he ate breakfast went to the bagels thought he had a good breakfast Danny was a little tired he didn't sleep so well took another nap president Khan House of told her at two o'clock and then he went strolling to the guy's office the guy says to him I don't understand you I paid you the thousand dollars to go to sleep and come at two o'clock in the afternoon or the time instead of you spending um collecting the money I want you to come and tell me what's about my family that's the same exact thing Hashem says Hashem says I give you the money for spending on Shabbat all the money a person spends is on him the only money that's not on the person is whatever he spends for his children's education since I got charity and hotel Japan so asham said I gave you the thousand dollars to spend for the day what are you doing you're sleeping I didn't do that for that purpose I did that that you should come earlier to show pray slower that you have more time you have to run to work every day right Shabbat you don't have to run to work I pay the bills to shut back why did I pay the bills to shabbat you should sleep if you think about it doesn't make sense we're taking a Time Hashem says I pay the bills to shabbat we got hot birds from all the all the food that we're eating and what happens we tell our championships paying the bill in fact someone's even at one percent business man he's crazy what kind of business deal is that I tell you here's the money here's everything do whatever you want and sleep all day come on that's that's a businessman Hashem is Hashem is probably a smarter businessman than all you business people but that's what we think he's like a fool but I mean children more more smoky fish and then what I wake up 11 o'clock I have to go to kids club I'm hungry doesn't make sense says the czar it's muscle Shabbat is the day to entertain the shama the Goof is gone why do we have money for the Goof you know what Hashem says if a person's body will still connected to our body but if we give the body a bone he'll be quiet he won't disturb us so Hashem says here give the party a little bit more challenge a little bit more Google but make sure you have time to go pray make sure that you come to learn make sure that beautiful eyes we're giving the food to the body to tell the body stay don't worry about it we'll take care of you but the day is the day of your mother the whole purpose of bedtime was connected to connect our ship what was the purpose of atomic damage to connect Hashem whether it was through the rambam there there are the harambam says it is main point is the Torah learning or to bring The Code by not you know what Hashem says Shabbat you don't need you don't have to be my color of course you have to break once the betamic dash is done but together is done I'm there for you I'm connected to you on Shabbat like no other level possible in the world this is the day they're just me and you back why because nobody else Hashem said this is and what do we do on Shabbat mcdash don't build a better gosh we don't need it outside to be built why because I'm there for you so what do we do our Sam's there for a special now that we have a bad time with us it's hard to connect with Hashem but one thing Hashem says it's Mata the soul is supposed to be separated from the body that looked differently you couldn't recognize one guy one guy came to the one guy came to the Yeshiva and he saw him on Shabbat in the seed and he thought it was a different Rabbi he said do they have a special message back so that he has the boys the boys said no he's the same Rabbi he just looks different same Rabbi just looks different on Shabbat you imagine the day of of the shama of the soul of the person comes to me and on this day I'm with you so Shabbat overrides the necessity of building the Muskan then there's another thing that we could say in the parasavala that is a very big message and this is a message that I think is more important even than the first one a lot of people the reason why they say that they don't go to shoe and they're busy with the kids clubs and this Islam it's not because they don't want to feel that kid Usha they feel that they can't attain such Heights and that could be a valid time now if you don't know the answer to this Donna that means they say to me Rabbi I try I try and I try and I don't feel it so what does a person do if I can if I can make it that way you know a lot of people you see that sometimes they disturb sometimes they they really want to learn but they can't learn so they disturb it you know I don't believe anybody really doesn't want to know how to learn like everybody wants to I really believe that Israel every Jewish person wants to be the best possible everybody wants to feel like everybody wants to feel like the siduro Shabbat the China witch everybody wants to feel like him on Shabbat kodesh but they feel that it's impossible for them to do it foreign what caused the Jew to sin by the golden calf they felt that without somebody connecting them to Hashem they're lost they felt that they needed more serum they needed a leader to something tangible to grasp onto it because to be spiritual and be built your whole life only on spirituality it's too abstract for me how am I going to reach that they made the golden calf the the son of the sin of the golden calf was that it's something tangible that I could connect to and with that I will go serve Hashem they weren't gonna they're gonna serve the the the the golden calf that this is actual God they came out of Egypt even though they said you said they were trying to connect to it they were referring to God that be the some explanations just when they had the golden calf they were able to connect to God because the golden calf was something tangible and if it's something tangible I can relate to it once I could relate to something tangible so then that's a mediary to go and connect to higher-ups foreign told them that is the destruction of the person when you think you need a mediary why do you think you need a mediary because you think you can't do it on your own do you say this you can never do it on your own a person never has the co-op on his own to attain kadusha says the says the fiduciary the person has to know foreign I am the one who makes you holy energy any effort all the mice and all the concentration that a president could give is just showing Hashem that I want to attain the king you're showing Hashem that I'm ready to do whatever it takes to attain it but to attain it on your own is impossible but how does it happen it says in the parashah that Hashem gave moshera Bello the Torah Toledo after he finished teaching it to him how many years did Hashem how many days did a chance 40 days of 40 nights teaching the Torah straight and The Madras says if the 40 days said you know what I know says he said I know nothing Hashem gave it to him gave it to him what do you mean what's he doing for 40 days 40 nights says I didn't drink if I didn't eat I didn't drink what was he doing there play gods permanent so he was learning with Hashem but still Hashem had to give it to him he learned Torah and he forgot it self and at the end it was given to him as a gift says me called kaklama why did he have to go through such a headache is to get back the tip Shema the foolish people and like the pinemo sheikhs planes that there are people in our generation and the generations to come that are foolish and they say I can't learn and there's gonna be one tipesh that says for 40 days and still didn't get it Hashem told us the lesson that the way you get to that is not by learning it so guy says if I was as great as much and I heard it from God I would also know it no even if they heard it from God even if they was greater than them and nobody is going to think that he's close to the greatest but still he had to get it as a gift so once Hashem gives it a gift to him he can give a gift to you you can give a gift to everybody Hashem says when you prepare yourself the gift comes to you it doesn't you don't need no intermediary you know why you believe Janina again because you believe that the levels of kedusha that you acquire comes from your is it comes from your effort it comes from your mindset says the fiduciary where is Shabbat come only from Hashem giving it to us you see Sadiq Shabbat their face shine a person has to have that that son and he wants to work on it his whole life does that means get up Shabbat morning a few minutes early people go to sleep nine o'clock what do you sleep until 11 hours what are you a dead person it's the most ridiculous thing that's when you go to shakrit and you made the miraculous right you get up eight o'clock 8 30 is the Fila you're home by 11 30 with kiddish you have it so that 1 30 back in bed you have to be insane to think that that was shortship I was created for Shabbat was created for to eat drink and sleep we're foolish people but we know that it's about wasn't created for that but we see that we can't attain the level we can't attain the level we have to know that kidushata Shabbat comes from Hashem but not only that our level of learning comes from Hashem we work we try to get a vote in the sugar to get a clerk item we have to work on it it's a lot of work but sometimes we think that it comes from my brain doesn't come from my brain that worked hard their whole lives and they had challenges that they weren't so smart but they became good though they said you know why foreign that I should get it I will get it but if Shabbat means meet boys and tiamaros and drinking um one of those expensive bottles of snaps that the real expensive ones the Tequilas and the mahara wines if that's considered what Shabbat is or you think Hashem is stupid or you don't think about Hashem but one of the other has to be true because that's not why Hashem says your whole budget is on me right Hashem since the budget of Shabbat is on me for what tequila schnapps challenge it just you see I know I would say it sounds funny but that's the way people think it is Hashem says I'll even pay you but this is the collateral that's a person has a collateral at least it's some form of payment but if he doesn't have even a collateral forgive he's so poor he doesn't even know where it's going to come from why Hashem says I'll make sure that you get that money so he's giving that money for what particulars sounds funny you know if you do business to that you'd be bankrupt right and every time a guy tells you okay let's go partnership he says yeah you know what I'll give you a big salary that's it you take care of the rest and then you find that I'm waking up 11 o'clock every day you you'd hit the roof right so but God could do that shabbat shalom together to really appreciate the kid to understand that it all comes from Hashem and when it all comes from Hashem we don't have the Goof our goof becomes separated from us it's and it's considered the day of the nishama and with that there is we even get ourselves higher and higher we're not the same person as during the week we should have a shabbat shalom