The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth and Delight in Abundant Peace with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] Shalom Alim everybody welcome back to the ER mid where we are guests and we're so happy to be here um we're in pares truma and I just want everyone to know first of all a warm a very warm welcome home to Torah um in Paras truma I gave this year many years ago and it's very long and what I did was I kind of went slow in the beginning and I rushed at the end so what I'm going to do is I'm going to do the opposite because I think the end is look it's all important but the end I want to emphasize a little bit more so what I'm going to try to do I'm going to attempt to do in the first 10 15 minutes is give what we would call an overview of the first two pages and then spend the next 45 minutes on the last two pages I'm talking about from the Hebrew so you all have only the last two pages in Hebrew by the way the ones I gave out it's just the last two pages in Hebrew but you could use and I I expect you to use the English sheets anybody that wants the English sheet should email me and I send them in advance um but only if you email me at at Aon david.com okay you can find that on the website our Yana website so you can Le know how to spell it um so this is how we're going to do it I'm going to use mainly the English because I'm going to just translate it quickly from the Hebrew by the way if you do get on the email list to get the uh English sheets you also get the Hebrew sheets not as pretty as the ones I have here just simple black and white but I encourage people to learn Hebrew so you can use on our website download or at least uh click on and they um they can enlarge the Hebrew sheets okay so just keep that in mind in the meantime I'm going to go quite quickly as an overview to the first two pages which again you guys don't have here and I didn't send them out either we're dealing with Exodus chap 25 verse 2 and 3 now I want to also mention for those this are this I always mention these are the fundamentals of Judaism the clear here says this is the foundation of all foundations what we're going to talk about tonight is theod of theodos of the Torah okay it doesn't mean the secrets of although you may think it of Secrets mystical Secrets but this is mamish the foundation of what we call our religion okay and you'll understand that clearly at the end so verse 25 chapter 25: 2 and 3 that's number one in the sore sheet the first thing we know in pares truma is the word truma appears three times take for me an offering right and you shall take for me an offering you should take my offering so in Hebrew the first thing it says take from me God says take for me truma and the second statement he says again take my truma and the third time truma is mentioned is the offering that you shall take from them now there's a lot of questions I have five questions that the clear uses and that's what I'm going to try to explain those five questions but before we get to those five questions know that there's a statement in between the first two truma from every person whose heart inspires him to generosity the Hebrew ISO his heart is as we're going to see either it's nid it wants to willingly give voluntarily we have a lot of questions already which I could you know throw out but I want to go in order so we coming up we are now in Adar it's Adar alive but in the Jewish calendar year when Adar begins and we'll do it next next month in Adar betet we start collecting the half shekels welcome back we start collecting the half shekels for the temple now we only do it as meaning only in order as a remembrance because back then when we were building the mishan and every year after the half shek would go to the carbonos to the upkeep and that was HEC that's called holy and you could not use it for anything but the the communal offerings so keep this in mind just go back to a second there were three truma we mentioned truma three times the first truma Rashi mentions and you can look was for the sockets we're going to call them adim and we're going to discuss that name the sockets that were underneath the Tabernacle holding up the planks okay that's the first of the half shekele the second half shek was for the corbano for the offerings for the communal offerings that were done throughout the year meaning every day the daily offering shabas musaf and theim and whenever a communal offering needed to be done the third offering the third truma was uh not set amount wasn't a half shekele like the first two and it wasn't even obligatory in the same way what people gave as the third truma was as Rashi mentions there were 13 materials mentioned in the section and they were used for the work of the mishan or for the garments of the Kim or for the upkeep of the mikdash itself and so people donated for that okay uh just let's go on uh here are the five question after reading those verses that one verse that we just said well it's actually verses 2 and three of chapter 25 so here are the five questions of number three if you look on the sore sheet in English there's five questions like this this is the observance he he saw them and he was bothered enough to to uh to POS them to us if you notice the first two Trot they relate somehow to Hashem because God says Trum asashi says somehow God is connected to one of those tumas the first one the second truma isum take my truma so God himself is relating to that truma however the third portion it says God's name is not connected God himself is not connected to the third truma but rather the one who's giving it okay that's going to be the first observation why is it like that number two um there's a language that says right which take and the word truma which is the portion that's being given so if you notice going back to Source One it says take first and then the offering the word taking appears before the word truma the second time in the second truma again taking is before the word truma the third truma it says it's in reverse order you have the the word for the gift for the portion before the word taken that would be his second observation why is it like that then we mentioned that the phrase from each person whose heart inspires him to be generous is actually stuck or inserted between the first truma and the second truma now those trumo were actually obligatory and to be taken so when you use the word take it it really means it's obligatory and so the third one was not obligatory in the same way you could give and you brought whatever it is you wanted to so why would the words whichever P whoever's heart is motivating him appear between the first two which is not dependent on the heart being motivated that's his third observation why does that statement why is it inserted between the first two portions and then the the fourth question so in this in the third one why does taking appear at all taking shouldn't even appear at all because it's it's brought and I'll show you where if you go to um Source number nine 355 chapter 355 uh it's number nine it's on page five right take from yourselves an offering for the Lord every generous-hearted person shall bring it so it shows that you brought it wasn't taken that's his fourth observation why is taking it all mentioned even though it's out of order what do you need that word mentioned at all and then the fifth and last question now you may not notice this unless you knew Hebrew but the first time take is used is in third person and the second and third portion it's mentioned that you shall take so let's go let's review that again if you look at source number one it says have them take from me so the Hebrew we said was the Trum they shall take from me truma whereas the second offering it says see you plural should take from me the truma and at the end where it says this is the portion you plural shall take from them why is the first one in third person that's nistar and the second and third in second person present no that's the the the Hebrew phrase that's used okay so there a lot to uh absorb here in these five questions and I'm going to try to review them quickly meaning the answers quickly because what I want to really get to is the nut and bolts the foundation of foundations of Judaism okay so to answer some of the ideas he does bring down an AB barbanel that mentions something you know we do not count Jews what do we do they each give a coin and we count the coins we all know that however according to the barbanel there's no problem counting Jews you don't have this on your sheets this is a review however the barbanel does mention that when you do give I'm sorry when you do count you need to give charity as aish some kind of atonement for your souls and I think this is going to relate to the answer we're going to talk about at the second part because your soul belongs to God okay your soul belongs to God he created it and the idea here just by by the way when you count something even the word no we're going to talk about at the end like pares noso is well the idea of counting making a a census so in parus N by the way you're talking about the the um the leaders bringing coronos for the altar the word where you you were the leader because you're you only count things that are important so the word noas no is also related to a census in the meantime the clear brings down the opinion of the barbanel but what's Most Fascinating that the cleard does bring down and this is a very important point in our discussion and that is what is the statement yenu right I mentioned in our first verse that we're talking about if you look at it again that it says that the um in every person's whose heart inspires him generously look at the word it sayso we all know Rashi says that is to like volunteers you guys are all volunteering making tias you're not your your volunteers there is a n missing from this word now in under the laws of grammar it makes sense I don't know the laws of grammar well enough but there is a specific rule that the nun would be dropped okay so the clear explains where does he explain it in my here number seven look at number seven before we get to number seven I do just want to give you some back ground why we don't count Jews so when we form a minion meaning a a prayer Quorum and we want to make sure there's 10 Jews we can count seats we can count yamakas we can count prayer books some use a pusk that has 10 words and we count the words with each person basically we see in King David's lifetime he went look at number six he went and counted the Jews and there was a plague and David himself said that he has sinned okay and um we'll have to talk about how even the Jews or David is able to um according to according to the Barb just give SED after you count and that should be okay look at number seven it says the wordu there's an and there's a bet so Al would be P it means giving with Goodwill simple explanation Rashi says an expression of good will and in in old French it's called present meaning a present what do you give a present is a gift okay so that's the way we're going to explain the first wayu as the N was dropped but that's really part of the root and it's a language of n however when you turn the page and look at the second explanation this is something that the clear is going to explain at length I'm going to try to sum it up that BAS basically there is no nun it's not the word we were thinking of but rather it okay so basically have y venu now the word in the PK it's with a bet and he changes it with a VV now how can he do that so it actually changes the whole meaning you ever hear the expression give until it hurts guys have you ever heard that expression Okay so you weren't at too many fundraising dinners but at fundraising dinners they would encourage you to give until it hurts right so if the wordu with a V instead of a bet means to ache it's painful to give right you're hesitant to give now how does thear come across this idea quickly if you look in number eight there's a verse that says you shouldn't be a you shouldn't talk raus raus is Gossip how do we know ra means gossip cuz Rashi explains that you're basically like a Rael the gimmel and the are interchangeable you're you're like a marag is like a spy you're looking around you know someone who's a yenta they're looking around to uh find the dirt on someone else so down below in the middle of page four he he explains how uh the different letters there's five different parts of your mouth there's 22 letters each one of the letters will fit into a category whether it's the uh the teeth the lips uh the tongue the pallet or the throat so there like in other words there's each one of the 22 letters fits in a certain category and once it's in that category they can be exchanged and we all know a vet meaning a bet without the dot soft vet has the same exact sound as a v therefore he claimed that the yenu is not as a free will offering but rather giving until it hurts and we kind he kind of answers that point because he asked the question how come yenu is placed between the two obligatory ones so they're the ones that are obligatory okay then the next thing the clear brings down is um so the gabbi the collectors they would actually be appointed speak to the children of Israel they should collect from me remember we said why is it in third person so they should collect it's the gabo but it's teaching you something that the gabo have to give first before they collect from other people because of a famous concept that you have to ornament yourself make yourself better improve yourself before you go and try to improve others and the g are trying to help us by reminding us to pay the debt that we all have to pay to pay the dues to the temple so before they have they can collect they have to collect from themselves first so that's very important Point especially because of the V right when it says and they shall meaning and they shall collect once you say and they shall collect what does it why do you need and because they have to give first okay that's a very important point when it says specifically by collecting it says we already said it's the heart that is in pained by giving the giving the G The Giver is pained okay he doesn't want to give he's not giving from the uh the bottom of his heart in fact when someone comes to collect he might argue with them that's why it says the next statement is you shall collect who's you Moshe and Aon or somebody who's you know that when someone who's very important the mayor of the city comes to your house because they're putting a playground up or whatever you might give more than if some you know simple tax collector comes right when the rosesa comes when some kha person comes to collect money then you might like most likely will give more so this is actually not only um to send the reg regular G but to to send the the more gabim um going back to the aranel he explains a little bit more which I'm going to skip so now we're on our page shin and bet and um it's very important to understand because we're talking about God's attachment of his own name to those uh the first two right and TR so the clear says they're actually kerish like the abarbanel explained even though we don't pasan like the abarbanel that we count Jews but the we have to understand what the barbanel was trying to say that somehow it's kerish by counting Jew which is okay according to him and then giving money because somehow or another and look in Chapter 30 verse 15 so you'll look that's that's number 10 it says the richual shall give no more the poor shall give no less so everyone actually had to give the exact same amount which with which the give to give the offering to the Lord to atone for your souls what atonement is it so the whole concept of the temple the mishan has the altar it's going to atone for our souls and there's so many things besides by the way just so you should know when it comes you know Christians want to claim that we need this uh yashka guy for some reason CU without a blood atonement you can find no atonement there are so many things going on in this in our mishan that have to do with atonement you know from the different beim of the different clothing of the Kim uh from I just want to tell you that a a premeditated sin there is no there's no prescribed Corbin it's only for shog okay shog means inadvertent and when mesiah comes sin offerings will still be brought talks about this in the navi because shog would still happen shog is inadvertent you're not rebelling against God when God's obvious presence is filled in the world as when Messiah comes people will still inadvertently sin they will no longer be any Rebels so corbus will still be brought but this is a misnomer amongst the Christians they think that somewhere in Leviticus it's only only through the blood sacrifice will you find atonement God already set up when you rebel against God he wants your chuva he wants you to do chuva and that's the only prescribed method period okay nobody has to die for anybody sins right it's the inadvertent ones that are because of negligence that this is supposed to get you a little bit mo more motivated to learn the and be aware okay so so since we say this is a it's an atonement for your souls I want you to look in because this is also key in Ezekiel look at number 11 and behold All Souls are mine God right All Souls belong to God and you know what it's a of to take that half shackle from us as a Trum in in in um in in what's the word I'm looking for trat not just tat sorry T in exchange for our souls that's T in exchange for our souls this was the there's no blood atonement here there's no blood we're talking about money maybe that's why we call blood damim damim is the same word as blood but anyway so here we have that's why the first time it says you shall take from me God's name is attached the second time is God's name is called upon them but when it came to the third one there's no obligation it's not attached to God's name but to the person who's giving it and that's why it's says it says you're going to take it from them it's it's it's dependent on The Giver that's why it says meem it's not from Hashem so the first two is atonement for your soul no blood it's just blood money I mean it's just money okay and now this is the part I want to go slow with everything up until this point was preliminary we're now going into the CLE cars he wants you to pay attention if he claims it's easy to understand another reason why hashem's name is attached to the first two trumo but not to the third the every place every place where you have within the framework of humility and another word for humility hak submission amongst the humans amongst us that's where you find the might the hidden might of God when you are humble when you feel and I'm going to use the word lowly but we'll understand it that is where hashem's presence his his will dwell who with the contrite with the with the humble the and if I not mistaken it means the meek okay and I just want to show you that again you know in this Christian religion they claim oh my God this guy is like coming out with all kinds of beautiful sayings like love your neighbor as yourself well that's in our Bible right how about the idea that who's going to um who's going to inherit the earth The Humble look at number 16 37 chap Psalms 3711 but the humble shall inherit the earth I you know in Hebrew you're talking about anav Yu the meek shall hurt the Earth okay um so going back to the clear these are old these are old Torah ideas old meaning before that guy walked to the Earth if he did umava meaning wherever there's a place even a tinge of htin inem does not want to unify does not want to connect his name to that now the first two Trum every Giver had to give exactly the same amount as the verse says in verse 30 verse1 15 chapter 30 verse1 15 that the rich cannot give more and the poor cannot give less there's no place for anyone not one person to be proud over his friend to you know Pride to have some kind of GL self- glorification over his friend by saying to him that my gift was bigger than your gift no once they're all equal then hasem will relate to it remember in the first Trum says it's you shall take for me and rash says for my name sake Kates and we're going to look at verse chapter uh 20 verse 21 that's number 12 very important idea that this verse says whenever I allow my name to be mentioned I will come to you and bless you so we see that God is allowing his name to be u United and combined with these true OT remember we already said first of all that the soul is finding its atonement the soul we are part of God we are okay so when we're doing the right thing we're going to be blessed hasem will bless us and um this altar the this idea of the altar that um the carbonos we're going to see the carbonos are brought on the altar what is the altar the altar is made out of AD what are we we're Adam and the the altar is made from Adama so when we're going to as we're going to see the reason for bringing the carbonos is to break this Spirit now that doesn't make sense in English but it's as we're going to see a concept called it's basically the point where I think it means getting rid of the ego when we can get rid of the ego because it's the problem it's a setup these first two where nobody's able to say I gave more we're going to see the third one where anybody can give wherever they want that's going to be a problem and God does not attach his name to that because of the possibility of somebody um tripping up and putting their ego in and we're going to see it very clearly soon what's y's name the exclusive name we're going to see it right now he says like this that every one of the four letters of God's Great Name actually is it actually teaches and reflects this concept now you just mentioned UK how does y teach us humility there's a statement in the G that says everywhere you find his greatness you find his humility wait till you see the chart I have here in number 18 and I actually made a large copy I don't know if you can see it but basically if you notice that hashem's own name okay let me just explain the gatria AL if is one bed is two each letter has a numerical value however on the right side you'll notice that it's called the the gatria mil milu means its fullness so is Al you spell the letter and therefore 1 and 30 and 80 is 111 bet which we normally would say is two is two and then 10 and then 400 because bet it's 412 if you take a quick look the lowest besides udk VK look at the chart you'll see you know gimmel 73 lamid is 74 Z is 77 those are like the three lowest but they go into the hundreds even 400 several of them are like up to 400 but yud he and V spelled out Al together is 54 I mean this is four letters imagine any other word has to have at least two letters and most have three God created the language right he created everything in the universe he created the language and he chose for his own name the smallest where you find his greatness you find his humility in his own name I mean you know I I'll say it anyway you know a guy by the name of trump I don't know if you ever heard of him but you know if you built a a hotel or Resort or a casino you put your name up there I mean you know your name's up there like it's all about you well Hashem in his own name made it so diminished in terms of the value this is mindblowing but this is the point we are creating the image of God we are supposed to imitate God and as we will see that when it comes to that third um we'll see all three all three truma are going to reflect this idea in a big way wow ready for this the um anything all things similarly the thing that is produced from those first two trumo are similar made similar to The Giver to the one who's giving it or the offering it itself remember that they're all equal meaning the money I'm sorry just as all of them were exactly the same not only the the half she that you gave every Adon every Adon was the same one second hit there wasn't any room there was no place there wasn't any possibility of raising yourself up over anyone else okay and that's exactly what was made from the first truma was the Sil sockets for the inner um the Tabernacle remember even the name sounds strange sounds like the word ad every socket it was like a rectangular like you think of like a um uh a cinder block how most cinder blocks seem to have these holes in them of course that's for the rebar and to fill with cement and but these were for the planks that had two um protrusions and they were interlocked with each other and therefore it it stabilized and held up the walls of the Tabernacle and they were all like each otherin ready for this you kind of have to you know I would ask for drum roll here but one second that they were underneath they were of the entire building it like a doormat that was treaded upon linion that was the foundation of the entire building and therefore going back to those other verses if you look at um did I skip it one second I think it's on the next page yeah look at 19 and 20 so this is really weird uh odd that you have two verses it's really not that odd in Psalms but you have two verses that are exactly the same page8 19 it's Psalms 115 ver8 like them shall like them shall those sorry like them shall be those who made them vers both verses K you so basically think about it you're giving for what for the foundation of the Tabernacle a half shekele it's all equal everyone's made equal and they're all the same that's what you're becoming like what you're making is what you are becoming like like them shall be those who make them Kem you OEM you're becoming that which you're giving for okay then the Clear goes on he says just like the ones who are doing and producing this gift they're all equal in their giving and it's not possible for any one of them hit to raise himself up over his fellow and that's what was made for him these these sockets now what do the sockets represent they're actually representing and teaching us how to be humble because this concept of humility is the foundation of the entire structure of the Temple of the Tabernacle all of which we the Jewish people are founded and based on this humility the why are they called it's very strange name it's true this is the base and yet the name itself self implies Mastery and Authority so what's going on it's the base you know why because anyone who makes themselves and I don't think it's literal you don't have to be an actual doormat but it means within the framework of humility and uh uh modesty down here Below in our world what's God going to do then you will become you will be made a master in the upper worlds in the spiritual world and here drum R please Andor aravan in page 13B which I do have I just want to read the verse the statement first anyone who lowers thems Hashem will raise him up we have this in we can find it here look at number 13 on page six this is to teach this happens to be why do we pasin like be Hillel over B shami that's what the gamoran aravan is discussing now the truth is the reason we pasan like Hillel over B shami is because he had more students he had more students we go by the majority but the question the gamor really wants to know is why did he have more students so he always allowed the other meaning B sh to speak first to explain his his his stance and you know what if he agreed there was no argument but at least he could repeat back is this what I hear you saying and then he would say well I disagree with it if he disagreed but this gorah now describes the character trait of anava in other words why did he have more students this is to teach you that anyone who humbles himself the Holy One Blessed Be he exalt him and anyone who exalts himself the holy would the holy blessed one humbles him now the Hebrew is beautiful it's actually on the next page but uh little now the next part of the mishna anyone who seeks greatness greatness flees from him and conversely anyone who flees from greatness then greatness seeks and chases after him and then the last part anyone who attempts to force the moment and expends great effort to achieve an objective precisely when he desires to do so means he really has no patience and he wants what he wants when he wants it the moment forces him to and he's unsuccessful conversely anyone who is patient yields to the moment the moment stands by his side and will he will ultimately be successful I don't have for you the copy that I have in front of me but this is from the Ben that's the benai on this particular gamorra and it's beautiful and I'll try to sum it up but the first thing he quotes and remember you don't have it is he quotes the um the mahha but in the gorah itself there's a a Bas ysep on the gamorra and there's a Mahar on the gamorra and I want to read that first basically why would if the H is going to go like hillo we're basing it on the fact because he was nice and humble he was kind and patient and humble does that make sense we're talking truth we want truth so the base ysph says that it's actually you might have thought right and it is true that another actually is a good and it's the opposite of sh it is opposite of but the real reason is this is like if you want to have a sense of Prophecy you want to be able to see the truth you have to get rid of the ego the ego is obviously is um it's the I mean it's it's blinding and it's OPC but once you can get rid of that ego then you can see clearly the truth okay so it's very important according to the B Joseph to explain that that way the mar explains that the very fact that he was kind and humble he would never enter into any argument of any particular side sh at least The Winning Side remember he could because he has a majority of students simply stop all debates what do they do in the Congress they can you know there's a certain statement that they do when they extend a a debate they can end the debate well here right he could stand but he didn't he wouldn't stand on principle that he has a majority he would engage any any way in the debate to get to the truth because he was able to see the truth clearly because of his humility that is the way that the maral explains it however the um the explains it a little bit differently and I'm going to try to sum it up because it's very long is basically he says all three of these ideas were talking about um as the Mion had said that um about if you humble yourself you bring yourself down you'll be brought up he says that has to do with wisdom and then he said anybody who seeks greatness that has to do with like power and then anyone who attempts to force the moment that has to do with money and he says this is all intertwined they're all intertwined and um he basically says Hashem will like it's almost like a wave you're riding a wave all three of these ideas are in all intertwined so if you lower yourself then God will raise you up in one of these areas but then push you down in another area and once you tasted that greatness in that area you know it's you know it's taste good and you want more so you're motivated to rise again and you'll rise again and then hasem will bring you down and with all three of these ideas and the example he gives is from King David himself um I'll just read the words came to that all three of these good qualities that all intertwined anyone who brings themselves down you know humbles themselves like King David did you know he was Ro he was what's the word he was a shepherd He was not concerned about his honor and what dides do he raised up as we see in first Samuel 16 ver1 so basically God took him from that position he lowered himself to be a lowly Shepherd and hasem made him King as Samuel says in God's name I have seen a king for myself among his sons but God is saying I see him above me he's like my king as if he's a king over me now after barakula remember even though he was King he was crowned King to a you know he was appointed King he ran away and he went back to the Sheep right he was became a shepherd and he was a slave to King saw he didn't rebel against King saw to take the kingship away from him while he was alive and what happened the kingship returned to King David because he was he went back to being a humble guy God eventually caused that King Saul and all his children would dieom and shortly afterwards King David himself took the kingship over all of Israel and even his his enemies were made peace with him now after he was king of all Israel then his son abshalom created a uh a rebellion and um he even left King David left yush the The Throne of kingship to fight with AB Shalom and anybody that assisted him um but he did not force the hour right the last piece Barak M he ran away from Yim he didn't stand there and fight y g shimi even shim B he cursed him but he didn't attack King David did not attack him he waited until the right time s because he was patient then time caught up and he was of course crowned King and he didn't have to run away anymore even abshalom was killed and all of Israel returned and was submissive to the king and enjoyed his his kingship okay so now I want to get to the last part of the cleard because this is fundamental of all fundamentals so now we're on sh bet we are um where are we oh here well we just said these things are called ad right in the middle of the third paragraph there's a inference from the word Adon and some type of Mastery and authority and that we said is if you make yourself like a door down below so we just saw aravan fine so here he says so if you make yourself part of this Foundation you end up carrying and bearing on your weight on your shoulders the entire building just like these um sockets they are the foundation and the C of the entire building and he describes the word Nasi now in our part we'll see Nasi is plural and it should have two Ys okay let's get we'll get that in a second but the word n is Prince by the way it means to carry right we spoke about that it's to carry to make important and even the word for marriage right is is to be married because you're carrying each other other and not only that I remember seeing once I don't I don't know if Jews do this but going on the wedding night the man picks up his wife and carries her over the threshold I don't know what they call it but imagine the word marriage means to carry because they are carrying others you become lifted up to a high position because you're carrying right you're carrying car carrying caring for others that everyone is dependent on him okay now what about the second truma we said that was for the carbonos Trum have view corbano that's where the um the community offerings were taken from that pushka from that uh piggy bank so to speak came sh every single day we had the the daily offering one in the morning and one in the evening and I brought that verse down just so you know that it's there somewhere Kev it's in chapter 29 verse 39 there was one lamb brought in the morning and the second one brought in the afternoon but most important this is where we're going to get to is in Psalms 51:19 where is that on the sore sheet that would be number 15 the sacrifices of God are a broken spirit so somebody asked what do we need God doesn't need anything everybody knows that anybody believes in God our God the god of Israel he's not lacking anything and he doesn't have any real needs okay so what does he want your corbas the word Corban means actually to come close so this is the way I don't like sacrifices is not a good translation um offerings is probably better but here this is kab.org the sacrifices are God or a broken Spirit you will not despise a broken and crushed heart okay so going back to the idea that this is really the purpose of it says in Psalms 51:19 the sac the offerings of God or broken Spirit meaning to say the purpose the sole purpose of these offerings to bring a person to this point now according to the ramban he explains that when you see your Corbin being offered you imagine wow that's what I deserve or that could have been me something to that that extent so that should bring a humility and a broken spirit in a healthy way this is why the related the first one is related to God because God's there because your ego's gone and the second your Lego is also gone so we had the uh in the second case we're calling it R and in the first case we called it so by Theos we used which will just translate as humility and humbleness and over here um Rish a broken Spirit but it's equal it's equivalent it's the idea of humility okay so that's why Hashem can attach himself as it says that right um they shall take from me my truma I'm sorry you shall take from me my truma the very idea you're offering money and you're making from it the result is the coros therefore the idea is remember we said you are like what you give when you give you become that so you're giving and you're becoming humble so we understand why God said this is my truma he can attach himself when you become humble he will attach himself you do not act in a humble way he will not attach himself simple as that Trum now we run into a problem because the third truma you can give as much or as little as you want and you would have to admit this is quite um challenging right because you could easily say I gave more than the other guy and we probably would right that truma we're now on Shai gim not everyone gave the same amount remember some people give more or less the rich person might give a lot and there's room or space to say to Al to feel proud right to raise himself up over the poor person and what would he say I have a bigger portion in the house of God right in the synagogue then the poor person right because the abundance of gifts he might even say they made the Ares because of me they made the kabra because I gave all that money and any other of the so without any doubt so therefore he would feel or they would feel Superior over others you even have a gold crown on some of these items right on the arodes you had K Torah you had a crown on the M that would be K the the Kahuna the Zar the um the crown on the Shan NE neged k so by the way just you should know so to have the you had to be had your father had to be Coen to have your father had to be fromo was anybody could acquire T and he says so you might have thought oh it's to these fantastic vessels and the gave extra so of course he's relating to hem no from the very fact that there's um the very fact that they they're collecting these gifts nevertheless there still is place for pride and haughtiness right to the one who gave more over the one who gave less and that's why God's name is not aach attached to that third category where people could and might uh uh exalt themselves now one of the questions not really mentioned in the beginning but what everything he relates to is going to answer this question the question we did not ask how come right when it says the 13 um ingredient starts out with gold and then silver and then copper and it goes through all the list and you would say and Rashi does say this is the order ofus or the the value but all of a sudden at the end it's talking about these special stones and the special Stones like one little Diamond can be worth a lot more than some gold so it sounds like it's out of order and the clear is now going to answer that question based on the thesis that he said up until now and he at the end he says this is the foundation of all foundations of the Torah so listen well and now I can see the ability to answer one very important question after the fact that we thought we consider the list originally as a list of what's considered important or valuable starts out with Z if that's the case then why at the and you have right so the answer is well this is part of the question we already know that the stones can certainly be much more expensive than the gold so you're actually able to answer by saying we all know if you look at Rashi in chapter 3527 let's find it it's number 21 Rashi mentions that you know what the the you know what the princes decided to do now we have to find out what was their motivation they said let everyone else have a chance let them all bring their donations and at the end we're so rich we'll just do we'll just fill in the blanks whatever is missing we'll fill in but guess what they missed their opportunity everything was collected so we're going to see I have it underlined since at first they were lazy Rashi says they did not immediately donate a letter is missing from their name is written with one yud but I told you it's plural right and it should have two Ys one yud is missing and we spoke about the yud which we're going to see why is that yud missing a FR why is that y missing why is that extra y missing from their name so let's go back now into the clear and he says okay we saw we saw Rashi and that's the reason why they're mentioned last because they were lazy and they brought it at the end but but actually according to the Hess of the that's why according to our way of explaining KES who wanted to teach them you know what in this case one can give more one can give less but everyone in the end is going to be equal in God's eyes that's why the most important people were mentioned at the end and there won't be this hoiness of the rich person over and above the poor person by saying I gave more right it should have been written in the beginning but it wasn't and furthermore in the end what happens Their donation is mentioned last that is an expression of Hess right it was the Hess that brought them to this point that they ended up donating at the End by saying this is what they said let everyone else get first whatever they're lacking whatever ends up lacking we'll we'll fill in the blanks we'll pay we'll complete this is a very hoty and arrogant thing to do or to say to say if anybody says I have in my ability I have the power to complete whatever you lack that's why their uh um gift is written last anyone who exal themselves brings them down for not only that the word the is it's missing a y as you saw you can look in verse chapter 35 verse 27 this is the only letter in that word right that is God's that's one of the Gods the letters of God's name that's missing a because if it was plural that it was because of this display of arrogance in through their words that Hashem took away his own letter from their that that name GAA this exactly according to the clear his thesis his premise is that it all teaches you how important NOA is like we saw earlier on in chapter 20: 21 every place that I allow my name to be mentioned I will I will come to you with a blessing so we understand this is so important that's the temple that's the Tabernacle this is right and when we act in humility when we imitate Hashem in and it's a Mastery it's not easy I mean we're we're Flesh and Blood God created us that way we all have an ego we all have an ego yeah even me I got a big one uh it's it's worthwhile working on he says this is how he ends I mean hats off to the clear that this is the greatest either fundament mental Concepts or greatest secrets of the Torah and he ends by saying the the actual right the Y is raised from the it's the smallest letter but it's also raised up it's high up there we're called what do we call we're called yid we Jews are called little Ys we're Ys so the the actual the way you write the Y is in other words it's the smallest letter it's the most humblest letter there's a lot more we can discuss but I do want to end just with one verse because we are in a certain situation I'm not going to get into it because I don't want to get thrown off YouTube so anybody who has a brain and a mind can understand this it says in Mali look at number 22 chapter one of Mali verse four and five should Adam say we were poor but we will return and build the ruins right I don't want to talk about who Adam could be and might be so said the Lord of hosts they shall build but I will demolish and they shall be called the border of wickedness and the people whom the Lord has damned forever and your eyes shall see and you shall say the Lord is great beyond where beyond the border of Israel Rashi says we were poor meaning the verse says it Edam says we were poor if Edam says at first we were poor but now we will be rich from The Spoils of Jerusalem I'll just say this anybody who thinks they can come up against us and fight with us and say after after they are defeated that they will come back again and again and again so the Lord is great beyond the border of Israel don't waste your time just surrender surrender anyway I'll just read the Rashi this is based on yonathan rendering May the glory of God be magnified as he has widened the border of Israel the yiden by Nature I know we have certain hpah I get it I know we're what's the word stiff necked I get it that works to our benefit because we are so stubborn we're going to stick with this no matter what um at the same time we are very humble and you can see the whole world is seemingly seemingly allegedly against us but we will prevail and I wish everybody Mish and shabbat shalom and porms coming up but it's still another month and a week away but anyway have a shabbat shalom and a great life and we'll see you next week [Music] bat [Music] oh