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Hi, this is Dov L. Amdursky with the
Parsha in 5, where in 5 minutes try to
give you a little insight into the
Parsha. And I'm going to do
Parshas Ki Sisa this week, and I want to
go right at the beginning. I know we
have a lot of really dramatic stuff in
the Parsha and on you know, we've spoken
about some of it in the past years. But
I want to go right at the beginning
where we start off with what is
essentially Parsha Shkalim.
And it says that everybody should give a
half shekel
in order to go and build the Beis
Hamikdash.
And when we talk about it, it uses the
word Venosnu.
And Venosnu, then the Parshans point
out, is a palindrome.
I love that word. Very hard to work it
in. A palindrome is a word that can be
read forward and backwards. So, for
example, mom is a palindrome. Uh the
name Bob is a palindrome. Not very
interesting. But there are much more
interesting ones. Uh they made a
palindrome out of supposedly when Adam
met Hava. Madam, I'm Adam.
That's a palindrome. When they were
building the Panama Canal, they made a
palindrome. A man, a plan, a canal,
Panama. You can read it forward and
backwards. So too Venosnu. You can read
it this way, you can read it that way.
Why? Because when you give, you get.
Whatever you give, you give back. And
this is very important. And that's why
when we collect the half shekel, it's a
half shekel. Don't give a whole shekel,
give a half. Because your donation has
to be joined with somebody else
in order for it to be meaningful and
build the Mishkan. Because the Mishkan
is, as we spoke about back in Parshas
Terumah, echad, it's one. It brings
people together.
And that's why our homes
as Bilam pointed out, Matovu Ohalacha
Yaakov Mishkanosecha Yisrael. Every home
is a Mishkan. We are building
a mini Beis Hamikdash when we get
married and we have a family. And so
when we build this Mishkan, we
understand that it's two people working
together. Each one giving a chatzi
shekel and when you give, you get.
It's so interesting that Ahava is from
the word hav, to give.
The more you give, the more love you
there is.
And one last point I'll point out.
And that's in the Haftarah of Trumah,
there's a pasuk. V'yaslu bayis chalonai
shkufim atumim.
And the Meforshim explain, the Chazal,
the Chazal explain, what does that mean?
It means that when you make a window in
rock, it's like a skylight. It's narrow
on the outside and gets wider so the
light is diffused.
But the windows in the Beis Hamikdash
went this way. They were narrow at the
end and wide on the outside. Why?
Because the Beis Hamikdash didn't need
what was outside.
The world needed what the Beis Hamikdash
had to give.
And so we have to understand that the
Beis Hamikdash has a power to be able to
light up the world. And b'ezras Hashem,
we should be zocheh that we should build
the Beis Hamikdash that will light up
the world and in the meantime, we should
turn our homes into that Mishkan that
can light up the world. Good Shabbos.
>> Mhm.
