Shnayim Yomi - Terumah - Shishi - #6 - R Eliezer Zeytouneh - The Message of the Mizbeach HaNechoshet

This sixth aliyah, this aliyah deals primarily with the the copper altar. The copper altar really was not made only of copper. It was made of shitim wood and coated with copper. It had an adornment of a netting also made of copper. attached to the netting. They had rings, four rings where the poles would be entered in order to carry that misbeh. The Torah tells us that the copper altar was actually hollow inside. It wasn't made of full wood. It was hollow. You know, I think that the Torah is teaching us a very important lesson over here. If you would ask me what you would use as the misbeh are going to go on, I would say gold. I would say use diamonds. I would say use the greatest in metals. But says use copper. Why? Copper is going to atone for my sins, for my problems, the things that I did. Why copper? And it's very possible that what is telling you, you don't have to serve me with the greatest of wealth, with the greatest of gold and diamonds, but I need your heart. God says, I don't expect you to to serve me with things that you don't have, but at least use the best of what you do have to serve me. famous that talks about a boy who wants to serve his father and he wants to respect and honor his father and he gives him a wonderful luscious meal but treats him with disdain and disrespect. Then you have another person who wants to come and he wants to serve his father also. And he tells his father, "Daddy, please, I'm working now. They want you to go serve in the army. You do my hard work. I'll go serve in the army." And the explains that the second guy because of his attitude, because of the way he did his mitzvah, he's no, but the first person is punished even though he lavishly served his father. But attitude says, "I don't care about the gold. I don't care about the diamonds. I don't care about the precious jewels. You can use copper. It's okay. But I care about your heart. I care about your feelings. I care about your emotion. I care about your bond. And if a person does that, we use our wherewithal. We use what he graced us with, what God endowed us with in order to serve him. That's and that will pres preserve a person's relationship with God and in fact secure for him a life of true. Have a wonderful day.