The Weekly Chaburah on the Parsha (Terumah)

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begins Hashem spoke to Moshe saying Israel speak onto the beneath Road and take on to me truma which means a portion if shamshu referral hers actually says that there is no actual translation for the word truma because many Hebrew words are actually not translated correctly in English because there's a lot of depth in the word in the shower of the word so you can't just translate it to the showers in the word and the showers of the word of true he says comes from the word Rome which means to uplift now you uplift you uplift Yourself by giving donations to to our college baraku so that Berman age 12 equally true my take on for me a portion a a collection from every person that wants to give willingly from his heart you should take the tumor in other words don't just take people don't force people we don't want this to be a fourth situation we don't want this to be an appeal in a way we want people to come willingly without us bothering them because the building of the mishkan has to come from the heart it has to come that every Jew wanted and gave from his own self-understanding and not from being pushed to do it but to the famous question here that the malfarsham have asked I've seen it so many times what's the Russian vehicle take for me it should say Vietnam give on to me not take you don't take you give if you're giving truma you're not taking you're giving so what's the lesson take on to me so all the Bali most uh many many people like to say on this that when you give you get that when you're really giving and you're giving from your heart you're taking for yourself because you're changing your essence you're changing who you are as a person so if you change who you are as a person and uplift yourself like the word Rome like that means like from truma to uplift yourself then you're the one you're the one benefiting really action doesn't need our Mishka and Hashem doesn't need anything he does it for us he does it that way for ways for us to get close to him yes back and forth it's it's the same correct beautiful very nice yes I didn't know that now what was the purpose of this Michigan what happened here so after the eagle Moshe rabena was very worried that Hashem did not completely forgive the binay's thrill he was worried he said how am I going to know that my children my people Claud Israel are being forgiven by you Hashem completely so Hashem said you know what I hear I want you to build a mishkan call your throat will bring carbonate they'll bring sacrifices I will accept those sacrifices and that way the world will know not just the Jewish people not just Clydesdale but the world will know that I forgave them so the mishkan really was a vehicle of hashemskin arresting because Hashem is any everywhere anyway but Hashem says a specific portion of special watching over there's gonna it will be in the mishkan but it was really there because so the obvious question should be here when is the where's the eagle mentioned and parishesa next week's Parish uh two weeks Parsha right we're what is this talks about the Michigan is only coming so why isn't it mentioned after parshisa after the story of the eggo so I saw a very nice answer that we see this many times actually in shots and in different scenarios of of the journeys of claudiusville the concept of Reform before the Maca that Hashem likes to give her a four before the marker we see that Emporium that Hashem already had the in place the whole story with with Mordechai that he was the one that told um the king about Pixar and sarish right and therefore Hashem was already creating the reform that he would get rewarded and the king would love him and vice versa and the snow and the story would continue but Hashem had that reformed place even before the marker of Haman wanting to destroy the Jewish people so we do find that Concept in many other places the refor the healing the medicine before the plague so in essence that's why the mishkan is mentioned here before the story to teach you that there were four before the marker okay now many different items are being brought for the mishkan and one of the items is for us Iris elimin Barrister different types of wool and linens and Scarlet Woolen beams are supposed to be brought so the obvious question is you're in the desert where are there wooden beams where did they get wooden beams from right now Hashem could make a miracle obviously and they grows but it wouldn't have been time enough but it seems like these beams came from somewhere sarashi Rasha brings down this this question they were actually used for the for the the building the foundation of the base of the mishkan the walls were made they covered it with gold but but it was actually made from Crusher actually she didn't Cedarwood so where was it so I'm in Hollywood where they have it by Midway in the desert the message says that one day they're going to have to build a mishkan in the in the in the desert Behavior Rose them and he bought Cedar Wood limits and he planted them there again he replanted them Festiva LA vonov and he commanded his children to take it um Imam with them when they leave in time so basically he planted it in between when he got there he had it before he replanted it in Missouri he told claiso to take it with them right and they should carry it with them they didn't know why he didn't explain to them why the mentor says but he said I want you to do this so of course they're going to listen because Yakov told them but what was the message that yaakov wanted to convey Hashem could have made America wanted to say listen make it from I'll have I'll have the same way I had the well as a well of Miriam the man I covered I'll have trees grow quickly so I saw beautifully that jacovino is teaching class A very valuable lesson that the foundation of the Jewish people the foundations of the Mishka the foundations of the places that the Sheena can rest has to come from an earlier Source it has to come from parents from others from from the the the Patriots and has to come from the foundation of that led plowfield to where they are so that people should understand that your foundation really started years earlier and we're just continuing with with the with the foundation that we were seeing and shown so therefore yaakovino actually felt the need that they should and also the mysterious Snapfish don't get me wrong there's also mysterious aspect here that they're carrying this they're planting it over there they're bringing it with them they're taking it through and try them they're carrying through the desert all this could have been a question on them also what are we doing this for no we don't question we do but the mysterious never that they took it with them was also the way the foundation of the Michigan should be built not only should it be in the divlay from the giving of the heart but it should have the element of the forefathers the element of yaakov that element of mysterious Netflix that they brought it already in the building of the mishkan okay so the famous I mean every plus is famous but there's a positive that people like to talk about they always like to bring this up and I looked at all them first from every single motherforest brought this plastic there possibility Hashem said make for me a make Dash and I will rest in you so the obvious question growing up was yeah let me hear what is it correct it should say I will rest in it in the mishkan but it says no it says that when you build me a mishkan I want you to build it so I will rest in you what does that mean I will rest in you you know when we go to to assure really Hashem is everywhere right technically we could just be where we are and if we get we have enough inspiration that would be enough for wherever we are right but the answer is we do need to go to a show we do need to go to bedkin I said we do need to go to bed midrash to learn we need to go and build and go to these places so that we can internalize it for ourselves so we go to shul really is to know that I'm going to shul I'm diving in with a group and then you bring it home with you and you internalize it but really it's all about what's in your heart the most important element is Hashem says build me the Michigan over there but I want you to internalize this year and bring it into your heart we must learn to understand that we are small mishkans ourselves we are our own sanctuaries okay we have the capabilities we have the strength we have the the the the the strengths of our colors Baruch we have uh salamelokiminas we have in us the capabilities yes we need outside help especially after certain sins that were committed we need outside sources but in reality every human being is a walking mishkan every human being is a walking bed to make Dash is teaching you that Hashem says I want to rest in you build it over there and then internalize it and bring it into you so that selection into them and to yourself and not into it the mishkan okay now the first Kaylee that's being brought down in the in the from the Calum of the of the mishkan is the is the our own and it says also our arunately should make it out of him again if it's a piece of and you shall cover it with gold I don't know if you're familiar but there was a a wooden foundation of a box a inside that was a gold box and outside that was a gold box so again wood inside that was a smaller or according to it was a nest that actually that it was the same fitting but was inside was the the gold and then outside was gold what is the message of that the essence the oven will symbolize Torah right Torah right the essence of a Torah of attack of Torah has to be wood has to be simple has to be humble the center the essence has to be wood simple humble and plain then in that you have gold to teach you that you need to be gold also inside you need to understand your value you need to understand yes your wood but you also have value because your your seminating Torah you are you you are the the spokesperson for Torah so you need to be gold and gold on the outside to teach you that your outside should be like your inside so wood gold and gold Essence wood humble simple plain you need to internalize that you are taller therefore also you need in you the understanding that you're gold but outside of gold also to teach you Toho kabaro that that your insights will be like your outside and your outside should be like your inside you shouldn't be two-faced okay so that's why the oven was built according to midrashim in that particular way we also learned that the badim the actual poles that were in the around were never removed there's a pussycure that says um You Are by the law you're still room me man who never take off the the the poles of the of the Arab why so I saw something really beautiful that a lot of times people say because aren't symbolized horror a lot of times the person says I gave her ready I supported Torah I supported Torah the Biden which supported the our own are the symbol of the supporters Financial supporters of Dover those that actually support Torah don't ever say that I gave and I gave you should always remain never say I gave enough there's never giving enough when it comes to supporting Torah therefore the polls always remain there to teach you you're never done with supporting Torah therefore the hazal tell us that the badim remained always in the Arun okay now now I'm going to get to the crew him the crew Vim were actually two childlike Angels if you want to call them that that had wings that the face of children but they had wings and they were facing each other pretty much they were facing each other on the on the our own they were facing each other on the road so the famous question is that people asked and I saw it also in many different places why did they have to have the face of children what was the purpose of face of children so one of the answers I mentioned just two three of them one of the answers I saw was that we should always view ourselves when it comes to Torah that we are like children that we never just finished learning we're never done just like a child always is learning a child is always should be learning we are never finished with learning Torah and we always have to continuously learn always continuously learn another thing we should also view ourselves like like a child like a child humble like a child a child knows that there are people greater than him child hopefully knows that he's just you know he's learning from others right so we should always view ourselves like children that we could always learn from others and not just think we know it all so there's many that and you also have the concept of bentura you are the son of Torah which is you're a student because you're always a student you're always a son which means you have a father to learn from and you're always a tell me and you always see student and you're never just finished learning you should always view yourself that's the Lord student of of wisdom and also of Torah and also a son of Torah so that's the reason why the crew from had faces of children according to many different now it mentions that the wings of these proven were facing upward were up towards the sky yet they faced each other they always faced each other if they actually faced um the betamic dash when the base of English was built but we're not going to go into that now but most of our stream learned that avrity were always at some point at some point they were always facing each other when Clyde Phil was doing ratsun Hashem they were facing each other when they were at peace with each other they were facing even according to ashit and the gemara uh that says that they were facing toward the betamic dash there were times the gamar answers that they were facing each other for sure so either way they were both you know both right so it says the wings were up in the sky and the facing each other what's the what's the message why were the wings because the person should try to strive for for loftiness a person should strive for the for the heavens he should strive for it therefore the wings were upward the wings were upward to strive you're striving towards your mind I lift up my eyes I lift up my hands in prayer but solution are lifted up because you're striving for for the you know for the above for the heavens but yet understand that don't lose track of the road too don't lose track of that these two faces were facing each other which means there was peace among them and actually because I'll teach us that when the base of English was was about to get destroyed the the faces actually were not facing each other and after the base series was destroyed they were actually hugging each other to show that there will be a time when we will come back together as a nation that they were comforting each other but the concept of facing each other was teaching us that when you they faced each other it was a sign that there was peace among claw Israel there would be Abdullah so the wings to the heavens was teaching to that you should strive for the Heights and yet the facing each other of the cruvin was teaching you that what that there was that there was peace among Brothers they were peace among each other so you need both elements we discussed last week you need both elements to have the complete you know package to be that complete Jew to be that perfect kind of Jew you need the obviously so that's why they were facing each other now I do want to mention that it always bothered me something I never understood it but whatever Hanukkah would come my rabbis my Rebellion would always tell me how the menorah symbolizes Torah the Menorah symbolizes torque in Emirates of Torah are the notorious symbol always symbolizes Torah and then it would always creep up me but I always learned the r symbolize this Torah which one is it is it the orange symbolizing Torah is the manure symbolizing controller how is it both obviously it's both but how so during the course of working in this kaburra I I saw how it fits in the Aram symbolized the Tama because it goes on to explain how a person should become should be like The Arrow so the orange symbolized the menorah and therefore it was hidden and humble and put aside in the kodachim because the essence of atomic should be humble like the wood he should be humble he should be you know not in the public light as much as possible he should just focus on his avodha and his work and his learning obviously when he's needed he's needed of course but the biggest that I was close to that I looked up to all my life that has an issues and the stiplers and and all the iron diamonds of the world and rough shocks of the world for many reply kanesevsky's of the world for many many years they were they were hidden from the Limelight they shunned they shunned to be out there but when they had no choice when Clydesdale needed them they Rose to the occasion which was many years later I mean they would answer questions but politically to get involved to voice opinions really not really not because they were taught to be humble to stay in your dalaramot in a way and when Clyde Israel is calling when they need you then you cut you come out like a lion so the Arun symbolizes what did the manure symbolize is the Torah that he gives over therefore they have both elements you have Torah in both but one of them is the time which is the Aron and the menorah which is done publicly out in the open is the Torah that he he gives over that he gives out that is his Torah therefore it could be the menorah it's Torah and the other is Torah but two different types of elements one is focus on the Tam and the other one is focused on his learning and is giving over of Torah so that was one of the things that I actually wanted to bring down now I'm going to tell you an unbelievable thing I saw actually on I was okay to see it actually because I think it was two nights ago actually I was on a trip with a bunch of my students we went Upstate with like 12 public school kids and I want to tell you that it was such a kidish Hashem the way we bought a safetora and we had rosh Hoda's davening and for an hour UFC we had eight students actually nine students too much with him but everyone got an Aliyah and then a galila so everybody got a keyboard and they felt like it was their Bar Mitzvah I'm telling you now I took pictures of each one of them by his Aliyah by his Lila because they really felt unbelievable so it was just heartwarming just to go there just for the diving alone for the chakras and Arvid but for the chakras the Halal special so special how they connected so that was awesome anyways so I was over two nights ago I was actually sitting by the pool watching the kids and I was tired I spent the whole day there I said you know whatever I'm sitting around and when you're watching the pool they're not there's really no nothing going on maybe take a book you know I wasn't the main lifeguard but I I was also there besides the Lifeguard that we had I was I was sitting to make sure nobody gets into arguments or anything so I said you know what I'm from Utah but you know what open up a safe and learn something learn something you know prepare for the khaburra so I did and I was okay to see this actually this actually hidush that I'm going to tell you so basically the gomoran Shabbos the good morning Shabbos that says about the mishkan that it says sure is it it is let me see Islam and Olive Ahmed Bass here it is okay it talks about building the mishkan and it says like this Sovereign so we learned that the things that were done to build the mishkan you can't do on Shabbat so how do we have the 39 that was done to build the mishkano to prepare the mishkan actually is one is one of the 39 is one of the categories of the 39 and obviously the thousands of categories to each one and understanding it's not so easy obviously so it's more than just 39 but the 39 of us basic avos and they all learned from the mishkan one of them is called solsek Sosa means breaking destroying knocking down so Yoshi says like this that's so sir amanas live nose if somebody is so sick in order for it to be considered a malacha it has to be that you're breaking something down to build because breaking something down in itself is not doing anything that's that's productive so when you're not doing something productive it's hard to call it a malacha if you're not doing something productive therefore what's productive if you're so sabanas live knows bimkomo in its place if you build something right that you're going to dismantle but in the same place you're going to build then the destroying is not really destroying it's built it's part of the building in order to build you need to get rid of the other thing before so the destruction is actually part of the building and there's a sheet of those has to be bimkomo in the same place and where does he learn it out from learning that from the mishkan because in the Michigan that's what they did so rava rabba asked a question and he says but Michigan they didn't do that it was because they kept going from place to place they never just took down the mishkan to build something in the same place they only took it down to build someplace else wherever they're traveling so really the so samanas live knows is incorrect if it's supposed to be mimcomo and we learn it from the mishkan again it can't be so someone else to live in those bimkomo learned from the Michigan according to rabba because why because it was not been Como was not in the place you don't plan on putting it up over there you plan on traveling and doing it someplace else so so Oola answers I hear but he says there's an answer to that in the mishkan because he says this is what he says that through the mouth of Hashem they traveled and through the mouth of Hashem they they they they rested and therefore it was bimkomo in the same place so it's asked like this he says I don't understand he says where do you see from the words that would answer bimkomo how is that bimkomo so you can answer simply by looking at it that you're listening to the word of Hashem so it doesn't count that's not the answer because it's not been Como you want to learn halacha from it you want to learn an AB from it you want to learn malaka from it so it can't be in this that just because oh Hashem said it so that's okay because we're learning from it you know the question well learning equipments okay so he says an unbelievable thing and this is a famous little mashali always used to bring down he says if you go to a child in his mother's arms and you ask that child a one-year-old child two-year-old child his mother's eyes mother's carrying him where are you he's not going to say I'm in the department store he's not going to say I'm in Macy's he's not going to say I'm in the American dream wall I'm in my mother's arms that's what he knows where are you I'm in my mother's arms the mother goes let's say a half hour someplace else around the mall to a different store and you ask him where are you I'm in my mother's arms therefore the whole traveling that they did this is what Ula was saying the whole traveling was since they were in the arms of Hashem that it was always the same place it was always considered the same place because they were going with that spirituality with that and therefore that's what ulaman thought that not is just because it was the word of Hashem and therefore we have to do it no that word of Hashem was teaching us that they were in the arms of their mother their arms of Hashem through the whole 40 40 years in the desert and he says and he brings down an unbelievable somebody of both of us I think his name is he wrote the lack of toe for very balthus I think he was a Talman of the main Yeshiva he was a talmud in the Mirage and when you know my father actually also was in Shanghai and my grandfather was in Shanghai my uncle my whole father's side was there and there's many many stories from Shanghai but anyway when the miryashiva escaped from from Germany they went to Shanghai and then they were there for a few years and then they traveled to America when they were traveling to America with a few week trip it was a few weeks I don't know maybe a month three four weeks it was a very long trip that it took to get to America from Shanghai so when they were on the boat Robert Belfast who wrote The lechatov Who was the Talman of the main Yeshiva with Once standing next to her prime shulelevitt who was on the dock and on the dock on the on the front of the boat next to the railings you know the boat was going and they were he was learning he was writing so revolfus was looking over the railing at the ocean and they've been there for weeks already and he was getting tired a little bit from the whole trip so he asked him he has to come for leverage of who's enemy where are we where are we actually wrote a safer on that boat called country sasfina he wrote a safer on that boat based on the chef schmeitzer and it's called country sasfino my collections of writings on the boat so she asked him he asked him Rebels asked him repaying where are we because he meant where are we in the ocean so Prime says we're holding by to gimmel in other words he wasn't focused on where they were physically he was holding by shemal so he thought he was asking where you're holding because I'm holding the smite's a Gimbal and he wants to bring down this to this maimer from Abraham that you could be living in this world but if you're living out yes you're in a different world you're not in the same world you're you could be in one place but you're really not in that place you're in the hands of your mother you're in the hands of Hashem we must learn that we have to learn to throw our packages you don't have time I'll end with this it says he will sustain you don't understand your burdens and he will sustain you which means all your worries your concerns your fears things that bother you and Hashem will take care of you brings a martial he says you know in the olden days when people would travel from City to City not everybody had a horse and buggy or a house in Carriage so how do they get from City to City at times they would wait outside the city that they're in they're right on the road and if a horse and buggy horse carriage would pass by they would say where are you going can you give me a lift to so and so on the way so they'd get a lift this guy had like five six packages he's standing there with all the suitcases holding them on the guy says he sees this Carriage where you're going going Two Towns down I'm going to the next town the guy with the packages says can I get a lift sure gets on the on the on the on the horse you know the carriage and they're going 10 minutes into the ride the the driver turns around and he sees the guy still sitting there with all his box all the packages suitcases on him like you know he's trying to get onto a plane with five suitcases when you're only allowed two you know the look that you have you carry four different bags and five different small things all around you to make up for suitcases so so basically he saw this guy sitting with all these packages so he tells him says I don't understand you it's not costing you any more money I'm anyway taking you to destination put down your suitcases the dozens no extra charge to carry your suitcase it's not going to cost you more if you put them down so he says the same thing that Hashem is the one that leads us he's the balagola he's that horse driver he's the one that's taking on the road the path that we have to go why should we need to literally carry packages that we don't have to carry put down your burdens put down your sufferings put down your questions put that and just trust them trust the process trust Hashem trust the process Hashem is taking you where you need to go so I want to wish you all a um a good week a special week but learn from this parisha that every detail that was built that was made for the Michigan had obviously there's every little detail I had a husband why it had to be this why I have to be this why is this you know it says the Auburn was a miracle that didn't take up any space there's a lot to get a lot of rookness that you get when you learn about the building of the mishkan and the big day going why it was the way it is so take advantage take out a measure says take out a man lost take out a medrish take out a gemara that talks about all the marshabus talks about this a lot and learn about and learn about the the mishkan and we should be because of this to actually be an energy as well and build up build the third bit the Midas where we can bring the carbonara then we could serve Hashem the way we're meant to serve him exactly