Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston: God Raises the Meek and Humbles the Haughty

[Music] welcome to the urban abate Madras welcome to baka and welcome home to Tora so we are in parshat trauma that's you'll find an exodus chapter 25 verse will say two and three before we begin I do want to wish a refresh Elena and health for the whole planet because we are you know I don't know when you're watching this hopefully this will have all passed some point very soon but there is a interesting phenomenon going on called the corona virus kovat 2 9 2019 I don't know there's different names to it but we are praying especially for our friends in China so I know you're watching this my friends in China Hashem should bless you with a complete and quick recovery and give you strength to carry on and with that we're in partial treatment and we use the clear car by the way as the outline for our discussion and you can find that the Hebrew sheets on our website on Juba Netcom and if I'm not mistaken you go to where it says bateman's rosh and then you can find the the the clear car from Aaron Poston rabbi Poston that's who I am in case I never introduced myself there there it is it's aren't of it now you know who I am you can all clap now ok spare silent why why why ok so then you go through there's a there's five pages so you choose which book you know it's Genesis or Exodus or alright Leviticus numbers who are Deuteronomy and you can check and then you go down to the parsha and then you can click on whichever parsha usually if you're going to be looking at this soon as soon after it goes up online it'll probably be the top of that parsha also while I'm at it I always I always like to suggest that you subscribe to our YouTube channel because we have so many other great speakers besides myself I'm not saying I'm really a great speaker but there are so many other great speak besides myself as I mentioned and if you subscribe which is good for you right it's not doing anything for me it's gonna be good for you so that you will know when new new videos are uploaded okay so the first question I want to pose because the clear card is actually gonna give five questions but I just want to ask myself to the audience here how many times is the word Trula used in these first few verses guys I've tried to route and get you guys awake here 3 3 that's correct 3 ok so that means you've read the parsha great you know something about the parsha so let's go to Exodus chapter 25 verse 2 & 3 we read it in English and Hebrew speak the children of Israel right God had spoken to Moses saying that he should speak to the children of Israel and have them take from me and offering so the word trauma is the word translated is offering it really means a gift okay from every person whose heart inspires him generosity you shall take my offering that's the second time offering is used and this is the offering that you shall take from them and then there's a list of how many things it's not a trick question 13 okay according to one way of counting it there's 13 have you actually counted them and you only count the 13 so if you go to by the way just so I do have it here it's on the very bottom of page 2 and it goes onto page 3 and if you noticed I highlighted blue purple and crimson wool so in in Hebrew by the way we don't have the Ebru here but basically these are three colors of wool some who count count 15 because they count the stones at the end and they count these as three so anyway it comes out to a total of fifteen as opposed to just one type of wall why so 13 that's very significant 15 is also very significant because that's the name one of the names of God good and hey okay that's not we're gonna focus in on we're gonna focus in on the clear cards questions but before we do that I want to look at Rashi real quick the first two okay the first two times that God says the word Trula he associates something about him and his name to this gift that he's asking for for example so in Hebrew it says the Gilhooley God says take from me okay he says take from your Ummah and then later on in the verse it says tickle who s true my see take my tumor from me take my true MA right then you shall take my offering my Truman so the first two times it's used God's name is associated and it says the last time the the word Truman is used in this verse the offering you shall take from them so his name or his personality is not being associated with the word Truman is that clear I read in Hebrews the year - who Lee write the word Lee means me mine the schmears Rashi says look at Rashi Lee dish me to me okay fine then an offering which we said Truman means an offering it's a separate you're separating something as an offering for me so that's the second time now the last time it's you shall take from them now another thing to focus in on is that it says the year who which is third person they shall take from me the second and third time it's t cool you shall take so what's the difference right right now we're just seeing minute a right very fine details that don't really talk to us but I'm going to tell you there's some extremely deep things they're going on here that are from the mental and Judaism we always learn important lessons for life okay so we're starting with the details well I asked how many times is Truman mentioned three times so by the way the first one is a good is a mecca goggle it it is a head tax and it's exactly the same if you're a rich or poor it doesn't matter you give exactly the same amount okay and no the first Truman is gonna be used for the sockets you can speak louder because it can't hear you from here the sockets okay these the whole tabernacle was like a Lego building and I don't mean to put it down house to show them but it was made to be put together and at moment's notice taken apart and transported through the desert and then rebuilt exactly the way it was put each pole each socket everything went exactly back the way it went whatever was on the north side South Side East Side west side everything was put back exactly the way it was interesting me enough that's exactly why we also where I know that Chabad does not wear a coat or a headband on their talus but we do most of us do because whatever goes in the front should be in the front and whatever goes in the back should be in the back it should be exactly the same every time and maybe they have ways of telling their front from the back I have no idea of it if I didn't have a turret at aura then I might not put the front in the front in the back of the back also the building going holds that's why you don't need to gather off where corners or grime and it's ma because the ones in the back are meant to be in the back okay that's just a bit of information so the first of the offerings was what for the sockets these sockets were like would you have an umbrella the hob deal you have an umbrella knee of a table out in the yard so you know you want to keep the Sun from coming on you but at the same time it could be a windy day so there's a can anchor right the the pole goes into the pole of the umbrella goes into this if you have some kind of weight with a hole in it and it stays it sits stabilizes it so - these were stabilizers so to speak for the poles that were around the courtyard as well as for the tabernacle itself okay so that's the first of the three offerings the second one went for Rashi says the curb I note so the fiscal year always starts when in the Sun so during Aadhaar we have a tradition of reminding everybody that was always the way it was to remind people then that's why partial to Scully was was enacted so that we let people know this is the time during Aadhaar before Nisan the time to collect for the new fiscal year of criminal and what they took we're talking about the communal offerings so whether it was the twice daily offering or the Shabbat were the communal offerings and Mustapha for the holidays and whatnot that all came from that half shekel that we gave every year but that was the second offering the third offering was and I'm going to mention it now it's voluntarily a people can give more or less even though it said don't give more or less that was talking about the first two the third one I can give one thread or I can give a pound of gold or a ton of gold it didn't matter okay that's why the 13 or 15 items individual in building materials or sewing matured the materials that went into building not just the the tent the tabernacle itself but also the kaeleen also the vessels okay so those were freewill offerings that somebody could give from their heart more or less so once we have that clear you can see that clear in the Rashi just to back that statement up if you look in Exodus chapter 38 it mentions that the the it's a half shekel and it's chapter 38 verse 26 and 27 and mentioned specifically it was for the casting of the sockets and the sockets were used for the poles the that held up the tent and do I have Rashi twice no so you can see on page 2 already exactly how many there were and we're not going to go there right now now I want to go into the clear cars question because they are absolutely fascinating once you get the questions and won't go to sleep you're gonna say how can this be I need an answer I'm very interested right right now I've heard this as a rumor that many people feel that these necks these five party oak that were coming up to building the time unless you like an architect or a builder you found them extremely repetitive and so heavy on the details but I promise you if you can see the depth in just these two versions and we're gonna discuss I promise you there's depth in every single syllable in every single word and every single sentence in every single paragraph throughout the entire Torah okay so let's start the clear car begins by mentioning why do the first two truman's as I mentioned there are three have God's name attached as we mentioned via truly trauma or Teague at USC there's a direct relationship it's either mind the Shmi from my sake or it's called my Truman that's the first the third one is you shall take from them as if there's a distancing from Hashem it's somehow related to the giver okay the second that's the first question the second question is why do the first two portion state the language of kita before the language of Trula in other words look at the verse it says speak to the children of Israel do you colleague take from me and then the word Truman and the second time it's mentioned it's takuetsu I see take my trailer so they were take comes before the word Truman in the third case it says but true Masha took a fool this is the Truman you're gonna take okay you're not bothered yet but it's something that should arouse your attention and there is a perfectly legitimate reason why it is like that the third question and this is fascinating because as I mentioned already the first to true note were obligatory everyone had a gift and everyone I give the exact same amount by the third one it was fluctuating you can give as much or as little as you want it so why do the words from every person whose heart inspires him in generosity in Hebrew they act called each a shared viñoly bow appear between the first and the second it's really much more relatable in context if it was next to the third whether it was before after the third would have been more proper to put it smack in the middle we're talking about Hashem right God why'd you do this why did you place this statement which is so fundamental to these ideas over there between true moe one and Shula two when Truman one and Schumer two had nothing to do with any freewill offering you had to give in fact if you didn't give you were forced to give okay the third one that was like I said up to you how much the fourth question so why is the third portion in the language of taking if we already said that that's a real giving in fact you really can't ask about all of them but more so like a cow of homra how much more so about the third one taking means by force take from them take from me it's a language of as the clear card says about cork oh it's mama SH taking you can take it you can physically take it's only right so in the third one the third one it also uses the same language so that's very odd that's even there to begin with but let alone in the third the third rumor it's the most voluntary of all and the last question the very first portion mentioned the it's of who the second and third is typical now what's the difference to those who don't know Hebrew I will explain not that I'm a grammarian or any type of expert dictum but the yiq who is they and then third ticker who is you shall take so why is the we call it the person the these clothes from third person on the first runaround to second person on the second and third Trula but now we're going to start the second paragraph in the Hebrew and I'll just I'm doing this a little bit different so I'm going to just say it in English and hopefully not necessary go into the Hebrew because it's a really long partial and I've tried to bring it down into easy digestible bites so do you know that most authorities holds we don't count the Jews we don't count Jews rather what do we do we're counting the coins instead of the Jews so you need to make a census God says take a census so what's going to take place every Jew gives a coin an equal one you know the half shekel which itself is significant we're not going to go there but that's a very important lesson that someone should feel like they're not complete right the big half growth ahead of them there's somewhere to move forward and higher okay so that's a very important lesson but we're not going there that's not today the idea here is brought down is in order to save oneself in order to save the Jewish people for what they call I in Hara from an evil eye which is a very difficult concept to try to explain but I will attempt okay that's the first opinion so what is it evil eye so there's many ways to describe it let's use my metaphysical analogy as if there's everyone has energy and jealousy is not necessarily a positive energy and hatred is not a positive neither one of those are positive energies and when we look at something and we have either jealousy right or hatred so what there's you know there's resonating energy coming out of us which has negativity on to the other person and can affect someone else in that you know it's like prayer right it's okay we move our lips but not all prayer is necessary to move your lips right there's certain prayers that you need to move your lips and there's other energies so God forbid that we have this negative feeling and we're putting it on somebody right now does that mean someone has that power right isn't God in charge how can we affect somebody so it could be because they also let's say they were not perfect and they left an opening so they can be damaged we could hezekiah right there is such a thing we don't look in other people's yards right bilham said wow the Jewish people they have all these tents and not one of them has a doorway facing another doorway it's privacy right because there is such a thing as looking at somebody and this is probably why bilham himself was chosen not just because he was a good charlatan and speaker and he had the gift of gab which had to go up against the Jewish people who had the gift of gab you know what I mean by the gift of gab ready for this we had it says in Hebrew right like a double-edged sword how do you say it pithy oath it's like the word P twice and what is our pithy oath what is our double-edged sword it's the the ability to learn Torah which we use our mouth and prayer so this is our power and bow up to needed somebody counted us you've also looked for someone to get the gap but we know that he had an evil eye as mission as perky Ovilus tells us so what does it mean he had an evil eye Avram had a good eye and I think this is the way we can actually fight off any negativity that comes our way okay maybe I'm too altruistic about it but I believe that if you have a good eye meaning you look generously at people you judge people favorably this will boomerang back to you and you it's like a shield it sounds crazy anybody any ideas anybody agree disagree this is a way to shield that's thanks this is a way to shield the evil eye but we will see that there is such a thing okay we're gonna see it inside to the Tanakh itself now the barber Nell does not agree with this idea he says you're a lot of counters but you still to give sadaqa you still to give charity still to give a coin anyway as an atonement for the Soul I mean is this opposite of the other opinion or is just another way of describing it I'm not sure let's read the Hebrew Grove a lie low marbles and the clear car says it makes sense to me to say this video should be Indian Husker game the whole concept of giving the money is a schmuck locusts Boehner Farsi Atari there's actually a mock locusts some type of differing opinions th story some whole shallow namely a shroud lid go gelus that we don't count Jews heads we don't count them by who they are okay there's all kinds of ways you can count chairs you know you can count sure wrote lines on a paper right you have to can't take a census you have lines you have numbers you're just counting the lines on the paper there's all kinds of way we have sukham that have exactly ten words and we're looking for a minion to make sure the minions so you say that the verse and you can come out with ten words ten people based on that a la Hache golem nimnim so I'm not counting the people but you're counting the half shekel or whatever coin kadai lahat salam min ayan Hara okay so we just described what iron hurrah was I'm sure there's more than just the ping that I mentioned however the review taka barber now is highly liked how there is there he argues he has a different opinion he says Martian nunu mohnish we do count no problem count the Jews Mahakali knit new direct sadaqa but you must give sadaqa you must give a coin anyway now he says it doesn't matter whether you give it before or after as long as you give it so we mentioned before we started that sadaqa can save one from death right and this is another idea I know we've mentioned about the coronavirus how are we going to save the planet we have to do more guessing we have to be more loving and we have to learn more Torah so we know how to do it properly okö Dominion Oaxaca Rob it doesn't matter when you give the money as long as you give it either before or after the clear nefesh what does that mean like Ophir nefesh it's translated as and atonement for the Soul can the Barbossa free as it's mentioned in the madras ik in parshat keeps you safe fine so we're not going there but just keep that in mind because we will get back to it you see if I have any comments here yeah so if you look at Rashi on Exodus chapter 30 verse 12 when you take the sum of the children of Israel according to their numbers let each one give to the Lord and atonement for his soul when they are counted so you see where there barman L is getting this from then there will be no plague in other words there would be damage have you not done that so again maybe that's the evil eye now look at Rashi what does it mean there will be no plague among them so the evil eye will have power over numbered things when you count things now this is interesting because in gomorrah Bracco's it says if you don't count things you exactly you don't are you not precise you allow room or leave room for a Braja so for those who are there's different personality types I'm the personality type who can't or won't make my head blown my accounting in my bank exact I round things off and at the end of the year I find that I had extra money what a broker right Wow and it allows room for exactly what I need for some reason whatever I was missing through the year it's exactly what I need right so the idea is if you don't count exact then you can allow route in your room for a miracle a room for a bracha however you want to chance like that but when you're so precise and so exact it means very little room in fact it sounds like the evil eye has power over numbered things this is what Rashi is saying and pestilence comes upon them as we find in King David's time now what I did with chapter 24 of second Samuel I took just a few verses in other words I went through the whole chapter I suggest you read the whole chapter but I took the verse here verse there in order but not not in sequence so let's just read it you'll see and again the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel and he moved of it against them saying go count Israel and Yehuda and Yawk Yoav presented the sum of the number to the people of the people to the king and David's heart smote him after he counted the people he realized after he counted the people he did something wrong this is King David and David said to the Lord I have sinned greatly in what I have done his words not mine and now O Lord please put aside please the iniquity of your servant for I was very foolish and wherever I have three dots that's like I skipped okay and David said to God God was one of the prophets I'm greatly oppressed let us fall now into the hand of the Lord for His mercies are great but into the hands of man let me not fall which is interesting because we say this in talking another verse so the Lord sent a pestilence meaning a plague upon Israel from the morning until the appointed time and there died of the people from Dan in the Sheva 70,000 men you see there's something not good going on here and then an angel stretched forth out his hand towards Jerusalem to destroy it is this the evil eye what is an angel an angel is spiritual energy okay so we'll leave that for now it's the the real question is what are they okay we're not going to go there but this is what the text says an angel stretched out his hands with Jerusalem destroyed and the Lord regretted the evil and he said to the angel to destroy it among the people it's enough okay stop okay I think that's enough I think we get the point that there is something significantly wrong in counting Jews you see it can't go around it maybe should have given money after like he count it and he didn't give the money after and there was a plague okay okay then I want to know what's wrong with the word Yid then when we see the word every man whose heart motivates him it says call each I share did then newly bow what's the word you'd then knew so the assumption is like Rashi says it's the word knit in the Devon it's someone volunteers he's admit not death okay but there's no noon in the word now grammatically speaking I'm not a grammarian I repeated that once I'll say it again but the known is dropped for whatever reason and according to shot Rashi saying it means like look at Rashi and no I'm one number four on the sushi and Rashi says over there next is chapter 25 verse 2 russian dava is an expression of the devar with a nun which is an expression of good will and an old french if anybody wants to ever learn old french they can open up Arashi and occasionally quite occasionally he gives over and the word is present a presence a presence a gift a gift is usually given with goodwill correct so you'd then you give venue even though there's no none could it be explained according to the klique are the Kliq are in two ways one is like Rashi just explain it but according to the CLIA car it can be explained in an entirely different way not just entirely differently but exactly the opposite now this can get a little complicated but I think it'll like enlightening okay he says that the nun it's fine it's not there that's God he gave us how he gave Moshe exactly letter for letter how to write it if there's no nun it sounds like the word did the venue which is actually you then who our word is with a bat this give venue is with a love and that means painful right when you give money you can either give it the simcha with such joy and happiness and open generosity and willingness where you can give money in a painful way right in other words oh man do I have to write one of those it hurts me to part with my money all right there's two ways to give so now knowing that now how do we get to that point it never I said it's above in our in our parsha sorry it's with the bet in our parsha but the word you've ended with a love is means painful so I want you to look there's a Rashi on Leviticus I didn't write the word Leviticus in Leviticus 19 verse 16 and this is about don't go around as a gossiper right rough Heelys we call it rough kill what is a rough heal a merchant right huh a peddler okay thank you so I want you to skip down I'm not sure where and okay I'll say it outside but you can read this Rashi it's very interesting in your face in your whole wait to express and communicate there are five groups of letters each letter is going to fall into one of five categories it's going to either fall into what we call the lips or the tongue or the teeth or the palate or the throat right there called gutter off like there's different names that we use and it happens to be the bet when it's a soft sound as a vet has the same sound as above so the general rule and you'll see the Rashi is any letter that fits in the same category if it's tooth letter they're all interchangeable with each other if it's a guttural they're all interchangeable with each other and so on and so forth so here in our case it's a lip they say let me just read the clear card because he brings down the bat bats love mem pay those are the four letters he brings down here and he says they're all interchangeable so what does this teach us that someone is actually giving them there's two ways one is giving willingly as we translated it with an open heart and generous generous Lea but the other is Shelly bowed over the Co a vowel an Athena it's there's some kind of a pain or sorrow involved in that giving therefore what he wants to say is those first two true modes the first two true modes which we already said is obligatory right it's a fixed tax half shekel the third one is not it is a fixed tax and therefore each person is obligated to give exactly the same and if you didn't want to give the gabbai n' the tax collectors the ones responsible for collecting they can actually what force the person to give therefore remember the question we asked why does the word take come before the word true ma in the first two in the third one right the true ma comes before the word take so this is already beginning to answer a very fundamental concept here right kyoya de cheveux huggable acarbose me meant about clerk oh yeah Wolle Trump it's because the gabbai is coming that's why the person is given and therefore Kiki kata kabayan Lisa Babbitt a true ma it's actually the taking of the gab eye that is causing as the reason for the giving for the to the gift but when it came to the third gift which is the 13 as we said some countless 15 articles are ingredients it's coming bin near Dava exactly as a free will offering the law a shame Clary the plough it has no obligatory aspect at all you know the evil Lord year it's a litter on me your whole like Rico if you didn't want to give one thread who's gonna first and to give one threat arcane hickton bought Ramallah that's why the word Trula the gift comes before the taking but there's something still very interesting to know because what happens if someone makes a pledge right we have jewels we have these synagogues and either they have a yearly fundraising dinner for you Shiva or for some kind of the Mota or on Shabbat that they sell le oats okay so what happens when someone raises their hand in the auction or expressions is here like that and right and these now what it's as if he gave and once you open your mouth and make a pledge the good buoyant can actually forcibly take it from you also listen to the clear car Shaka shoe mid mid but libo after he had this generous heart the car ashamed and he made the announcement Vitara min min ma no clearance oh no and he was gonna give a gift according to at the time when he said it something nice as your floor good boy him the coup flow the Cockney men who bow cork Oh Masha Tom Kivar that the gabbai him can then forcibly take it from him what he had already pledged once you pledged it's no longer yours and make sure to fill your obligations as we speak this is how and this is how it comes down the pike Hema pear hame be dying so whether it was by verbally making a pledge or whether right with them whether you actually gave the pledge it doesn't matter it says those so true my shirt Akuma Tom this is the true Murr that you will take from them so that's what it's referring to meaning after you already made the pledge then they can take it from you or from the person forcibly if the person had regret after he made the pledge otherwise you'll just work up to the dough so now the verse the the paragraph begins by reminding us what it said in our verse dbl bnei yisrael speak to the children of Israel the yucca Coulee trauma and what they shall take from each rumor now notice it says this evolved and they shall take from each other we also said it's in third person the other two are in second person Teja who she am under goodbye him that this is what Moses and I are actually supposed to do they're supposed to appoint tax collectors she you took her true let me call evasion to receive to collect from everybody now what is an important lesson whether you're a judge whether you're a teacher whether you're a mentor whether you're rabbi any kind of leadership position but especially a tax collector or a judge code 'm Shibumi irene before you make any claim on anybody else whether you're a judge or with your tax collector and yet knew hey Mattel come those tax collectors needed to give first they needed to be clean they need like Nike and innocent and then as the concept is latashia tots mom tequila you must adorn yourself first if you want to give rebuke to somebody and tell them they need to get on the bandwagon and do something right or correct you better have done it yourself first then you could be an example and you can lead otherwise just complaining the optical mouse areum the first day had to give their half shekel then they had every right to go around and collect from everyone else and that's why there's a love above is hosi if it's adding from what had just been said of the word the year school but the ethical issue ich needs an ally boo libo we already said that word is referring to when someone is not so willing to get that hurts them to give Shelley will do that on a Tina so that's what it's talking about because the person isn't is miserly and he's not giving with a good he's a good with a good heart I mean route Sontag so there's to worry if the person is not willing to give so willingly one of the concerns is when these get volume come they're gonna get an argument they're coming to collect and I don't know if you have ever had a tax collector but you usually tell the person that the well he's not home right now I'll call you and you know and he said no no we'll call you but so maybe you're gonna get in an argument with the good boy him then oz tickle I 10 you know what now it's time to bring out the big guns who's that 10 Moses and I are on if you brought the president of the shul right or one of the higher people on the board who came to collect you're not gonna get in people are not gonna argue with them right they look good from this guy maybe I'll need a favor one day I don't know exactly the reason but in motion Islands case it's more kavod either you bring motion our own own this CA Israel or some type of princely authoritative person cavada Yasu Pan Am certainly they would want to show favor to them below your evil in my hand miles that and you're not going to want to get an argument them if the person is you do vanu as we mentioned Purusha come o ye in van hoose so everything up until this point might be the negative side but what about the person was willing to give Russian the d-wave Ozzy muta Musab assalam Allah then everything is going back to what we said earlier and therefore the you to hooli a good boy God was saying take from me they should take from me these good boy him what the trimmer from each and every person who's yet venue with who actually has a good heart so then we may learn is not it would ordinarily come out and make sense that they would hear shemesh our maraca took us to mercy that perhaps they would say afterwards you take my children which would Marsh my are ten the Artemis ham typical which would infer you Moses now yourselves you take it madhab ebony Shana Anna Devane we're only speaking about those who are not willing to give get the big guns out me and height option bar as we mentioned above so when you have a problem getting money out of the people bringing the big guns bringing the president of the shul bring the mayor whoever you have to bring that will work but when yet when people are willing to give you can go yourself I'm Nam however if you look what it says in parshas to yokel okay so we're going to and it's number five it actually says take front this is an exodus chapter 35 verse five take from yourselves an offering for the Lord every generous hearted person shall bring it namely the Lord's offering and then you have right there those 13 or 15 items so what's interesting about the Hebrew it says called natively bow it actually says with the nun anyone who's willingly giving an easy of elo he's actually bringing it so there's no there's do you don't see much need to take so this gives you the contrast someone who's not willing to give that you have to give that you have to take back or that you have to take some force but it's someone who's willing to give as it says right there and then thirty five five then he's gonna bring in himself who've the veal Osmo he's gonna bring in himself aim sorry flick oof oh you have no need to force the guy of a Russian ticker coup as we mentioned that in number two number three of the true moat its second person the first one was third so we understand that point the good buoyant but here ticker clue is talking about the third trauma the language tickler which is mentioned in the third trauma is coming as a purely willing offering eh the Varia mocks hair embargo it's teaching you a side point and that is that if the gabbai are coming our shoe being very important tax collectors to the midnight death to the guy who's willing to give the money lisa fake shinee cipinang have you eaten today vo tear me ohio boy a mile stomping a yard on the more important person you send the more they're likely to give this work this like psychologically all right you have a very important doctor or someone who's dedicated his life to the community and he's coming and asking for money for the community people are more likely to give than if you just send the local cop this the local guy by to come around and Kimmy comes then no hug you must so standard of the Bobby man this is why we make and I'm not saying it's a negative thing but it sounds crazy sometimes the people who are involved in fundraising they put people on the spot in public okay but let's say somebody wants to give anonymously many fundraisers will twist the person's arm not literally but try to convince them if people knew was you that gave they're gonna give to if it's just anonymous they think we're just fooling around and trying to raise money but the fact that you are invested in us the fact that everyone follows your advice right and people like you and they're they know that you're so dedicated to the community and you're an honest guy in business and in life that if you're the one who gave then more people would trust our organization so we want your name on our building so the person himself didn't really want the name on the building but guess what he gave in not because of his own glory he's not interested in his own glory you drive the Marion anonymous but he realizes that too that more people will give if my name is building I'll give in I'll do it so don't please don't be upset with people who put their names on buildings because it was the head fundraiser the probably convinced them and I'm usually was across the board in many cases that's the case ok not a hundred percent in most cases it really is the truth now it was very interesting it's monocular Yaakov you brought up the idea of the barb and Alan how does it make any sense so the next paragraph is gonna deal with that a little bit Kingham McCauley also regarding this half shekel Alpha Psi ukulele even though they were obligatory nevertheless how you connotes a duck of the kefir the koi sir nevertheless they were it was sadaqa it was charity and it served as an atonement he might Mar right it should have said Michael ish I shared viñoly bum-rushing the dove Amish right if it was gonna say that it actually meant a real true willingness then it's Mustafa Shalom Allah vishal Amata you can play the words back and forth both ways meaning that just like those to true most the to true most that were the first two that were totally sorry shegaon stateroom is a loo how you to live in the diva the lathe huh no tane that's the first - if that was the case about room Ashley she know who truck lahaska is that so in other words since the first two were not at all dependent on the willingness of the heart but we want the person to be willing so the third case where it's totally willing there's no need to mention it at all in other words if the lesson is you tried to get the person to give it willingly and that's why the first two which are not free will gifts but add the idea that it should be come from a willingness you certainly don't need to mention by the third which is a free will gift on its up he/she tushy he bought have been been a top of the look over its obviously as a free will gift or not as an obligation so you don't need to write it he Kivar near mozzie Ben Masha hick named Truman L kita and he says this answer's up why the word trauma came before in other words in the first two it says the year coca-cola or tea cuckoo chumma teeth so the word taking came before and we already explained why but in the third in the third case now we understand why it says true MA and then key huh the first idea is the giving and later on if the person regrets then we can come back and force him now according to the first two true mouth they are what we said was called for nefesh cofer nefesh means some kind of an atonement for the Soul and if you could find the Nexus chapter 30 verse 15 it actually says the rich shall give no more the poor shall give no less right in Hebrew how I shall or Yarber the dollar yah meat makutsi to shekel it ate at Truman hm the littke pair are now shall take em it actually says it's going to serve as an atonement for the Soul now look at Rashi and the table for your soul according to Rashi which again is it really that much different than their barber now and is it different than we saw in 2nd samuel chapter 24 what does it mean atonement for your souls they should not be struck by a plague is that what the evil eye is that he was talking about before some kind of plague because of the accounting another explanation what does it mean atonement for your soul this was hinted because this was written because God hinted to them that the Israelites here are we're talking about three offerings and we mentioned what they were for the first ones gonna represent what and then the sockets of the Mishkan and we saw that next is chapter 38 25 and the second one you'll find in num well you don't really find it here but it's about the communal sacrifices so there was another census in numbers chapter 1 verse 1 and we're reading this Rashi by the way in Exodus 30 verse 15 and we're almost to the bottom and so they were for what whether your wish report doesn't matter everyone had to offer this exact same amount for the first two when it came to the third it says whoever set aside an offering of silver copper on and on and on in this offering not everyone gave the same amount but each gave according to what his heart action heart actually inspired him to give so we're talking about this being as the verse said in again chapter 30 verse 15 as a clay Fair out enough shall take him it's a atonement for your soul so that's very interesting whether you're looking at the a bar banal or Rashi it's somehow gonna stop negative evil eye negative power or it's serving as an atonement for this for your soul as it said now what does that mean look in the Ezekiel chapter 18 verse 4 it says behold all souls are mine God says hang Kona fuckos Lee Haena everybody has a salt and they belong to me God says can F Ishod who can nefesh have been this is very interesting like the soul of the father like the soul of the son Lee Haena they're mine a nefesh yehudi heat a loot and the soul that sins it shall die okay so now what is that all about why is he bring this up listen to this it's a Hesed it's such a kindness of God that he gives us the ability to give this money as an atonement for our songs okay so in other words we cut from it somebody sins they're deserving not not every sin is deserving of death by the way right there's only 36 that have kharrus the worst type of punishment which is being cut off in the Jewish people who would ever want to be cut off from the Jewish people right and so many other sins either include lashes or sometimes positive minces don't carry any punishment at all the punishment for not fulfilling a positive mitzvot is the missed opportunity to come close to a Shem okay there are 36 of the most severe and there's many of the negative we call negative means the low say the doctors that fall in between it could be a canasa it could be a penalty right so this is a hassle of jaquel yes Barak look at Becca guru Ellis true Massa nefesh it's such a kindness that he's taking the money in place of our salt by the way even the word Myshkin which means the tabernacle it means collateral God took that as collateral and when we the Jewish people were deserving of complete destruction hey I am and death he instead took the collateral and destroyed the base of Mick - on two occasions okay and we know that if Moshe Abeyta would have come into the Land of Israel and built the temple that right that the that that which he built with his own hands could never have been destroyed so what a facet that even this is a peasant that motion did not come into the land to build that temple this is a mish gonna mr. Cohen means collateral that's what the Mishkan actually served us it served as an atonement alkane and robbery Shona that's why in the first tremor of the you Coulee and in the second is true mercy God's name is attached God's name is actually attached to shame a shame nicker alayan because the name of God is spoken on or called upon the soul we're told by the soul the Jewish people but why is the third one there is no relationship directly relationship that God has it's take from them right the first one lish me and true must see take it from me God's name is attached to number one number two but in the third it's not why because it's not a hope it was never an obligation therefore lower classes Jamie's Barack with law they meet not demean God did not relate himself and hang or depend on the giver those hot room I share tickler who meet Tom this is the Truman which you're gonna take from them he heats Lloyd behind the whole third gift was totally depend on the giver nothing do with Hashem and that's why it says me Tom from them not from Hashem low Mays Hashem highest azuz cover it was no obligation on a Shem to the people on the third gift but this is where it gets deep keymakr oldest law it really makes sense a timeout here Masha you taste a true most reshawna stylish Emmys rock Volare sheet why God's name is going to be attached or related to the first two and not to the third and this is because any place where you find get their air Bhuvana some type of how would you translate gather ever we're talking about humility and submission bein attacked oniy meaning amongst the people in this world us shame heavy on OSA that means that there will be the the hidden might of God revealed as shocking as Dhaka Vishakha Ruach that is where the canoe that's where the dwelling on through the meek the contrite of heart and the humble will be so in other words the third articles were the givers involved and therefore the egos involved and each person could say I gain more than the other guy even if he's not gonna embarrass the other person in his head he knows what he gave and he knows the other people gave less and this way can build himself up and building yourself up over someone else is not the way to go the first to everyone gave exactly the same here the third the third gift has to it this idea any place where there's a shame I'm sorry sharm get there another some type of restriction on haughtiness and it's limited to humility that's where a hellish bar whose strength shows fourth especially to those he'll dwell with the contrite of heart and the humble vow but any place that there is a tinge of haughtiness nude nude Gotha coach Bronco does not want to do the oxide Schmoe use brach shop he doesn't want to place his name or associated his name was such behavior or psychological motions therefore stay true mr. Shawn us therefore the very first to which God did associate his name with right shall I see God color them struggle men every single person gave equally as it says the rich did not give more and the poor and the poor did not give less that's in chapter 30 verse 15 a Macomber shune akava spire alpha vero there's no place for one person to be Hardy or prideful over the other friend other the other person true must see good Dola mature muscat dramatical for someone to say my gift was greater than yours no place for that oh it's a new console Chevy's rock that therefore God will relate himself to that but by the first where it says the you who leave the sh me remember give to me and Rashi says from my name key Kivar be Arnall Amala tequila precious me Cates this is a very interesting idea in it says the koma koma share ask here s me this is in chapter 20 verse 21 okay so you'll find this number eight on the source sheet an altar of earth you shall make for me and you shall slaughter beside that your burnt offerings and your peace offerings your sheep in your cattle wherever I allow my name to be mentioned I will come to you and bless you the koma koma share a skier h me voy a la nube rock tika okay socha coal oshio a shame huh God no Maria I'll gather another every letter in the name of God actually signifies such humility wait Lisa's gonna blow you away we all don't know the name of Hashem is you cave of K I want you to look at number 12 on page 7 I on the right side let's start with the left side the left side is all the different Komachi owns inside the kamacho you have Aleph is one that is to gimbals three and you know until 22 fine so all those letters then you actually have the final letters which even go beyond into the hundreds now look on the right side now on the right side is called the me Louie me Louie means like the word olive it's not just a letter anymore it's a word the word is spelled Aleph Lama da the way it sounds Aleph bet that you're tough guess what it's no longer a 1 or 2 it's now a hundred eleven because Aleph is 1 plus 30 plus 80 is 111 word bet there's no longer the number 2 that is bet which is number 2 you're this 10 and 400 tough you're 412 so out of all the letters in the entire alphabet which God created he spoken the world came into being his own name the one he chose for himself is the smallest of the entire look at look how significant is hey hey Alice its number 6 its value is number 6 liquor you a and above and hey so hey it's only 6 love it's only 22 look at the numbers they go from like 70s to 500s right there's nothing even close as low as 6 or 22 and what about you it it's only 20 so I mean it's it's absolutely fascinating we think about this idea wherever you find the greatness of God which is in his name is was will be we're talking about all time only turnit e all facets of this entire universe it is the smallest possible combination of any word that can ever exist ever blow and blow away huh okay so to the haina da varanasi minced a true love's a Ludo melt rumah Ozma so to that they basically what is coming out from the Truman the produce what is made from the gift it's very similar to the gift itself glutamine that just like all of them were equal right when it was given Chavez and when it was given it was all equal lawyer bus sure hit nah suit laconic aveiro there was no opportunity from one person to exalt himself over his friend everyone gave the half shekel in the first two nos a meat ruler ahaha Donny what do we call the sockets in Hebrew I done him the very interesting everything about the word what does it sound like I don't these are the sockets why he called hard on him how you shoving Akkad Kamaka vero it was cookie cutter they were all the sockets where exactly there was a mold they were exactly the same just like everyone gave the same amount so to what was produced from it was exactly the same how you talked Tony Nicole a beanie on chaos koopa honey dress it what were these like these sat at the bottom of every pole that held up the tent and the courtyard so you're talking about and it's a really interesting word like you're making yourself like a carpet that everyone's gonna tread on by the door right a welcome mat ok this just like we gave it wasn't like what we're talking about the sockets and it's called a dome which we'll get into in a second is used for the bottom mama she couldn't get lower than that ok and he calls it your so dose Nicole opinion it's the foundation of the entire building mo hey you oh say him now this is an interesting verse it's it appears twice in Psalms King David in chapter 115 verse 8 and chapter 135 verse 18 word for word letter for letter like them shall be those who make them come now Haim you oh say him ok now what does that mean just like how I seem hundred of I he shovin minutina just like they made the gift equally everyone gave the same lawyer dismiss soon the Shoom heheh am hit now suit alka vero there was no room there was no possibility for one person to have self aggrandizement or any type of haughtiness over another person so what does this again teach you it's my room I'll gather another it's referring to the concept of stay humble be humble because another is the soda Binion I share all of CO bassist Rihanna home this is actually not just the Binion of the temple or the tabernacle in this case but it's of our people with the arm Israel is built on humility this is what the structure of the the animal the people that of this concept called Israel nakooma shame add on him and they're called by the name are donning the sockets are add on him she a shameimaru to russian oddness loose lara which actually carries with it the inference of a language of mastery and authority right the lower you go I don't know I'm trying to think what the Democrats they and they messed up the phrase right they set me and have to go crazy try to remember it but basically when you bring yourself down God raises you up when you raise yourself up God brings you down you've heard this idea before so this is what it says yeah on he called Misha I say as Moe chaos Cooper hundred rushes Miller Mata NE one that makes themselves like this doormat down below in this world now say ah don miller mata hashem will make you the master in the world to come worth in the higher world he called hamas bill at smell anyone who brings himself down cut his bar who McBeal hashem will raise him up the ICOC you sewed notion the coal have begun and you're making yourself as the foundation the one who does that he's bracing he's the brace he's the keeping the whole bell in the whole building up done him a loo just as these sockets should you sewed notes of the code-behind just as the sockets kept the whole building structure stabilized kimi lot no see now the word nasi is the word for the prince what it means the leader parashu who knows ASI carried no said really means to carry in fact it also means to be married so my wife and I were used to look up words in the dictionary when we were newlyweds we were hanging out together a lot and one of the words we came across was no sense what it means marriage but you know what it really means to carry means to carry and now I understood why in tradition that the husband would take the life over the threshold carry her over right that's like a symbol of what's really going to be taking place for the next 120 years so you actually carrying out the Prince the leader carries others keep coulomb Nashawn Nuala as everyone will be relying on him or leaning on him okay now what about the second Truman we talked about the first one in being sockets the second one was for the cubanos for the Kerberos at sabor for the communal offerings they also Xiao Yue GaN came shoving the comb every single day they were the same in the morning you brought a sheep and in the late afternoon you brought a sheep okay every single day rain or shine right Kevin F Codd the boy gave the Shamy Boehner abhayam so in chapter 29 verse 39 which you'll find on number 9 on this or sheet and it's written over there into hill him in 51 verse 19 the sacrifices of God are a broken spirit o God you will not despise a broken and crushed heart ZIFT a elohim Ruach knees bara so the questions like this what is the cause of what you bring the Corbin and then you get a crushed spirit or the crushed spirit is the reason for bringing the Corbin let's see also in Isaiah 57 verse 15 God says with the lofty and hold and the Holy Ones I dwell and with the crushed and humble in spirit to revive the spirit of the humble and to revive the heart of the crush look at Rashi I dwell and thence I am with the crushed and the humble spirit upon whom I lower my present humble and crush means suffering from poverty and illness so now we're looking at this idea he says like this this is what the clear car says Tok Lita's bottom the goal the purpose the goal of bringing these offerings Isla javi essa Adam lead a ruinous Marah it's to bring a person to this point where he has a true sense of a broken spirit how came he has the gum cane all of his broth remember that's why God's name is gonna be attached Shuma see the second true my dear classroom I see the future true ma are suing me men of a Kimura as it says that the room itself the offering is and not only that not only is the offering but the result and everything that comes from it which is the Corbin is all about get there another SAR trying to teach you about humility Akeno mourners Kaddish Miroku zu he truancy God relates to it and he's involved with it because that is like we said God is the most the most hubless if that's could be said about true muscly she but the third treatment of the third gift remember it's not all equal she'll know how you a kosher vivo in fact how you how thin Paco Theo care there was an exchange right you can either give more you can give less so everyone who is rich certainly could give more and he there's a place if he does give more there's a place in his heart to hit now suits i'll honey to raise himself above a poor person to have a certain amount of pride Ashley Haley guzzled me be baked tell ok no yield to bonanni he could actually say oh I got more I don't know invested in the house of God than the other guy and that is not good the Hara her booty mate Mohammed on basically he's saying the abundance of my gifts is what they're created it alkane ostomy mana coke Lake o Hakodesh that's why all the vessels are made from these 15 gifts or 13 gifts ever of you count them right it's it's not for it's not for the the sockets it's not for the cubanos but it's for all the other kaeleen the other vessels come on our own like the Ark the menorah candelabra the shock on the the table the MS BAE off the yet Tara Kaylee and all the other vessels so there's no doubt there's true that some of these vessels have more importance than others there's a pecking order right we know that the island was certainly the most holy of all and special of all the vessels shiet are only awesome al qassam someone were important the others he's there our own on the holy ark there was an a a crown there was a little rim of gold that stuck above and that was parallel to what we call cat tortora right some people involved with just torah they they're really interested in torah was that and then what about theirs as air there's a crown on the MS bath can negate Cather kahuna parallel to let's say prayer or whatever the Kahuna do and there was as there on the show hun there was a crown on the table that's Connecticut thermophilus that is attributed to wealth and there are people who they made that their gift they call they I know what they call it used to be a term a golden thumbr and I guess if you're a plant you know you do plants you have called green thumb might the Midas touch that's what I was looking for right there's some people that just have it right the Midas touch Appa pshh the kedusha secondly hollow look the Kurdish Buraku the oxygen and ovens ooh a la Buse Brock now this is interesting I could see according to the virtue of the sanctity the holiness of these vessels what should have been right that God could have maybe been involved but the problem is the person is attributing to himself right macomb economy Akasha mid-side giveus an ad of a higher Sharm Saad Gaza there's a little bit of room for for pride the hit nah suit and haughtiness Marva al Hamadi to the fact that he gave more than the the the other person how came low year classical - Miroku Allah that's the reason God's name is not attaching itself to the third gift okay now the last paragraph togas re-eat illiterates who shot the clear car fields this is a perfect opportunity to answer one of the questions we asked earlier after we made after there's this whole you know in the third true MA it starts with gold and silver thing bronze or copper so everything is according to an order of value it's clearly it starts off with an order of value okay if that's the case the big question is why in chapter 25 verse 7 are those gems the stones why are they last now just read the words Lama kaha shave oddness shoham the odd name Elohim libous off he says Vani bliss afaik you Cardinals have maybe according to wait right there he says a more expensive than gold right diamonds are more expensive than gold I'm assuming we're talking about weight obviously a ton of gold is not cheaper than a small little dime right but a diamond that waives whatever how many grams if you had a gram of gold then the diamond would certainly be more expensive at least then this is written 400 years ago I'm assuming the same it applies today I could be wrong if anybody disagrees please write the comments and like to hear the truth alopecia no illiterate slumbers even though we're able to explain by saying latisha had Nasim hey V you Abney shown the Omni Malou imbecile even though they did bring them meaning who brought them the proud the princes and this is a very interesting situation that they got themselves into okay listen to this well let's look at the Rashi first and the story that came out of it look at Exodus chapter 35 verse 27 that's page 8 says the princes brought the shoham stones and filling stones for the ephod and for the ocean now look at let's see the Rashi the word and this same is missing a you it did you notice this sea was with a good and the CEO is without a urine Ruby now son says what prompted the princes to donate for the dedication of the altar first before the rest of the Israelites in the parsha that's dealing with the Nassim they were the ones who went a hand it was member our own lady didn't give it all and he felt bad about it parshas not so so you have this idea that they gave when it came to the Chanukah Sameach but over here they didn't seem to to be willing to give it first in fact what did they say they said let the community donate whatever they're going to donate and then whatever is missing will give now that as a fundraiser I have run into people let's say you know come back to me whatever you're missing I'll give and usually by the time I usually get the full amount so I don't really have to come back to them it's a little bit of a dissing you so they it says the so this is what they did since the entire community they completed everything as it says in exodus thirty six seven and the work was sufficient so the princess says oh my god we got lost we got left out what are we going to do so that's why they brought these very expensive stones therefore they brought these donations first for the dedication of the altar but the Rashi says since its first they were lazy they did not immediately donate a letter is missing from their names and on the same is written without the yurt now again the yurt is one of those letters that is in God's name so now keep it like putting this all together here listen to what he says [Applause] commotion maybe Rashi parshas the Yakka which we just read alkane his skin of atomic Rona that's why their gift is mentioned last nevertheless the gamma feed arcane inoculum are you're actually able to explain it as as we've already explained the cottage bar who wanted to show economy eat the economy whether you gave a lot or whether you gave a little how Co shoving the fun of his Brock everyone was gonna be equal and that's the main point that everyone is equal alkane his care hawkish rudaba so that's why the most important people are mentioned last shallow yet to ferret Asha oh honey that's so the rich person does not both boast about himself regarding the poor person need the Vaught Iguodala by saying oh I gave so much cockatoos mana barouche and that and and you know to think that he was listed in the beginning no and not only that his Canada Vuitton be a corona the reason why they're mentioned last the fee showroom the Vavoom hevene Lee de Zi Shi Lin le chien it table Luba so the whole reason they gave last was because of the haughtiness that they had by saying yet navoo hot zebra well what everyone else give and then whatever is lacking will complete this is considered get out of the gun this is a very hearty and prideful way to act by saying eh Allah al you Daniel omalo Smosh a mimic a stream you know what we have the power we have the ability we'll just fill in whatever's missing that's a foot spa alkane his skin devar Tom a corona that's why they mentioned last he called my Medea a toxin all this is the theme we said before maybe this will be the title of the sheer anyone who exalts themselves a cutter spark who mush pillow God will bring him down and not only there not only that now he mentions that the Nassim are missing a yard we only saw it in Rashi for now he's bringing it key rock osaka's finish em Haggadah Hakuba shamelessly ad the four letters none shinu and Aleph it's only the good which is part of the God's own name it's that one letter gods of God's name that has taken out the yurt alia they should not sue be the RAM because of the display of arrogance through their words Hashem took away his name from their name from the from the name of the machine I'm Moira cool I'll gather enough again to teach us how important it is to remain humble can move our purpose work there's we already read this verse in chapter 20 verse 21 that every place where my name is mentioned I will I will come and I will bless you there that's in chapter 20 verse 21 the dubbers a sudden the southern Satara this is the fundamental secret of the entire Torah to Taurus hired even the actual way the UT shaped teaches you about humility and smallness it is the smallest letter now I recently had a friend who thought that the word Yid is a negative connotation and I'm sure that it can be and has been used in a negative connotation but in most religious circles people joke around and call each other you did good what's up yet because it's like you know if there's a first of all it's a compliment that we are Jews you didn't and the idea of being a year is to be small and humble the good is the smallest and most humbles through all the letters so now I'm gonna end this with this and when I wish everyone we started off by blessing the people in China and all around the world they should have a refer shall aina and that this virus should die but I think that as a way to prevent this thing from getting further is for the Jews to do their job as the light to the nation's we should really fulfill our mission by what by being servants of a Shem doing what's right with Tony mitzvahs okay and being the light to the nation's and that light like in in medicine there's a thing called ultraviolet it can kill it can clean so that's right to share through the light of the Jew doing the mitzvahs and learning the Torah that we should spread the light that should be like a disinfectant with the bacteria and the viruses that are floating all over this planet and I wish you all shabbat shalom and a good life and welcome up the Torah [Music]