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Shnayim Yomi - Vayakhel - D'var Torah
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Rabbi David Elamaleh shares some really powerful thoughts on this weeks Parashat Vayakhel. Thank you Rabbi Elmaleh for taking the time to carry us through the week! Shabbat Shalom!
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i wanted to share with you an incredible
idea
we always speak about how important it
is
whether it's the torah and every single
word in the torah and every single
letter in the torah that even if there's
going to be one letter missing
or one letter which is added we have to
try to understand why is that
in this week's parashat parashat
we speak about again the mishkan we're
speaking about the mishkan and the
utensils
and something very interesting
it speaks about the nasim
and we already mentioned that the nasim
had one letter missing in their name
what exactly happened over here they
brought the precious stones
for the clothing of the koen gadol
that she already says for the khoshin
for the breastplate and rashi brings
down because what happened was
is that the naseem
they went and they gave an open check
what does that mean
comes then they ask for donations and
they said you know what let everyone
donate whatever they can and we finish
off the job
so beautiful they come they start
donating donating all of a sudden there
was nothing left
so the same world war what are we gonna
do now so they weren't able to give to
the donations of the mishkan but only
for the clothing of the koen gadol and
that's how you have these precious
stones but she says because of their
mistake
immediately when the inauguration of the
michigan were the first ones to bring
they didn't want to repeat the mistakes
so they did it right away but now the
rabbi is coming they say to themselves
one second
what was the mistake
imagine right now we want to have a
project we want to build a huge building
we want to buy it at the knesset and i
come to a machine and i tell him listen
it's a 20 million dollar project 50
million dollar project and he comes and
he says you know what you start getting
the money here's a blank check whatever
is missing here it is
you're going to go you're going to be
ecstatic you're going to be so happy
you're the biggest sadiq in the world
you're
what do we see over here
the naseem one letter was taken off from
their name the naseem it was not written
with the yod switch without the yod
where do we see the same efron
if ron when he comes and he said too
much and he didn't do anything by
abraham avinu when he was going to sell
the burial for what happened
who took out from his name
why i'm going to take it away it's a
punishment
and on the contrary it's his name was
yeti but really the fact that he comes
and he did so many massive we added
about his name we're adding something so
therefore imagine what it is one little
letter
but so what was the sin then we would
come and we would praise them and we
would say everything good about them
what was so bad
and the answer lies
something very deep
a true nasi
a true leader will always have belief in
his congregation or in his nation or in
his group in his community that for sure
they'll succeed
for sure they will be able to come and
get that amount of money there's no
doubt
we don't need an open check
why because i'm gonna get that amount of
money don't worry about it
and therefore the fact that he didn't
have enough belief in them that's where
they went wrong that was their sin not
in the fact that they're giving a blank
check that's for sure because for sure
they're going to get it so why aren't
you going to be the first one that's
going to put something towards it that's
what you should be able to do
comes the rabbis
it's
and it says as follows
they say it's so important to realize
every single one of us
we are kings we are leaders we're in our
house the father is the king in the
house the mother is the queen and the
children are princes
and princesses
what happens all of a sudden we have to
give immune in our children we have to
put that belief we have to have this
belief in them that we are trusting in
them and we know that they succeed can
succeed we know that they could grow and
the more that we're going to do that
that's actually going to be one of the
conditions for their spiritual growth
once they see that you're giving them
responsibility that you trust in them
that you know that they're going to
succeed they will succeed that's one
musa that we have for our children that
every single one of us aren't as seen do
we have the same trust in our children
but the second one is not only in our
children the second one is when we talk
about also ourselves every single one of
us we have to trust in ourselves we have
to have this belief that we have it
within us we have the potential and we
are able to succeed but only if we
believe in ourselves just like we have
to believe in our children that they
succeed so do we have to believe in
ourselves that we can also succeed and
this is also one of the secrets to
success i just hope that from this extra
letter from the torah taken out that we
could learn from the mistake of the
naseem and say no
every single one of us we could put the
trust in our children and they will
succeed and we could put the trust in
ourselves and we will succeed once we
come and we put the belief that we're
able to do everything and we're able to
overcome all the obstacles in our path
have a wonderful shabbat shabbat shalom
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