Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz: When Giving is Taking

[Music] everybody first a soda stove and even though it's a leap year and when we say mission if NASA arm are bimba simcha so technically it applies to other Shanee because that's the month of forum but you're allowed to be much mayor there's no answer of Balto Civ of adding to the torus so you can have simpler in the kodesh of other Rishon as well in fact there's actually mic locus in the Gemara which Aadhaar do you observe poram we pass kim ii that's our but there is indeed one opinion that says all of the observances would either be in the first hour or would be both - two poems and like I've mentioned a number of times the ROM bans comment that the book of schmoes is divided into three basic events there is it CS metrium which is the Exodus there is math on Torah and then there's the building of the Michigan so in this week we're actually beginning event number three we covered you'd see at Smith's ryeom Matson Torah and now the Jewish people are given a commandment to construct a tabernacle a dwelling place for the divine this is the commandment Vyasa li mikdash make for me a sanctified place official hunt ibrahim hashem says so i may dwell in them in their myths as i'll make the very very important observation that the torah does not save a shack on tip otoko it does not say God dwells in the building but rather God dwells within our hearts and within our soul and the building is simply a symbol of the hash rot arena that can potentially exist within ami Israel now in truth this is actually counted it's one of the 613 commandments of the Torah can build a sanctified area for God so that we could bring the carbon note and alike and obviously it took different forms in the desert it was in the form of the portable Michigan once we get to Eretz Israel for over 300 years it was in shyla there was a Michigan in Shiloh which was destroyed by the Philistines and then of course the permanent of atomic - is on the Temple Mount you shall I am and that will be of course the place where the third base on Mukesh will come and be rebuilt from here of you may know so so one very basic question is for you so li mikdash is actually counted as a commandment it is in the list of the 613 commandments so the question is why aren't we actively building the base emic - now there is of course there are groups that make this very arguments the people of the Temple Mount and the like they basically say it's a mitzvah si to build a beta Mukesh and therefore if we have to bomb the mosque or whatever it is some say the the architecture is such that the whole the whole Temple Mount may collapse anyway so in a sense natural weakness of the ground may facilitate the reconstruction of the beit hamikdash but let me just explain just from a technical halakhic standpoint in spite of the fact that there is a mitzvah to say you've been young beit hamikdash why do why do most religious jews even most rabbis most post-game do not actively pursue that particular agenda so really it's based on an interesting mark locas Rashi and the Rambam the Rambam at the end of the laws of kings of the end of hillock Moluccan where the Rambam describes the messianic era and the Rambam describes the role and the function of messiah right mashiac as a human being he will be a descendant of double hemella and his job is the kibbutz mitzvah israel to gather the dispersed of Israel bring them back to Eretz Israel if they haven't yet come and then the Rambam says that the ultimate proof that somebody is the musci F is if he successfully builds the bay thermic - now there's all question of what the source of the Rambam is but it's very very clear that the Rambam is a matter of halacha considers Binion beit hamikdash a function of mela HaMashiach because he says that will be the ultimate confirmation that this person whoever he is is the mela HaMashiach again I'm not going to get into the Chabad controversies and and the like I'm just the quoting what the Rambam says so consequently instead of taking the position we must build the base on Mick - because that will bring much yes the Rambam takes exactly the opposite position that first mushiya comes and then there is been young beta Mukesh that would be our halat ik answer or excuse if you want to call it call it that way the alternative view is even more dramatic more drastic and that is Rashi Rashi says in Messiah chivos that the third base hammock - is not going to be built by any human hands it will be your head Menasha maíam and consequently it's up to God there is nothing that we do architectural ewwww I'll talk about spiritually in a moment to build the beta mech - it's going to come from that now I remember saying I don't know if anyone else so I remember I know maybe five years ago over the Temple Mount there seemed to be some type of UFO that was moving at sounds crazy but I remember seeing it it was moving at a very very fast speed he's going all the way down and then it just went all the way up so it's almost as if Hashem was you know maybe sending the third victors and then decided now they're not ready yet went back up I don't know what it is I'm not sure if there ever was a positive identification of what that thing was but it certainly was reminiscent of the concept sramek - being your headman a shaman nevertheless what's important to understand is that even if it's true either because of the Rambam or because of Rashi that we don't have the whole lot ik obligation to be osek in the physical building of the beta mech - there is a deeper way in which we are involved in building the base hammock - and that is by simply looking at the pisaq in reverse order if we build a temple so that God will dwell within our heart and our soul then it may stand to reason as we prepare our heart and our soul to receive God's Shekinah we then become worthy of the beta Mukesh so essentially therefore AB is Manasa until the coming of the Messiah the mitzvah of Yasu lemic - is fulfilled not by architecture and not by physical building but by creating an environment within our own personalities where the divine presence is worthy of residing this is a very significant point because in truth if you look at the books of the new VM and particularly the book of your festival I think I mentioned this in the book of your Cesco who lived during the Horeb and Batum exact he was in bubble but he was a contemporary of your me Oh your me Oh was the prophet who witnessed the Corbin Ian Eric Israel proper the assess scale had already gone to Babylon with the first wave of exiles that were 11 years earlier but they are contemporaries and yes SQL was often given prophetic visions about yerushalayim again according to the narrative he was taken to usually I'm like a magic carpet but again it's not clear if that was a physical event or that was a prophetic vision but be it as it may there is a very very deeply moving scene that he describes of the Shekinah moving from place to place gradually that it starts off in the coda shock judgment and then it moves to the courtyards and then it moves to the altar then it moves to the outer courtyard and a Shem is waiting waiting waiting the Shekinah leaves in ten installments hoping and yearning for qwali so to do chuva and every time it's waiting till the final stop is on the Mount of Olives iris a tomb where it gazes back on the people hoping they will come back and bring the Selena back and then the Sheena Goss to show Mayan wherever is it there goes and that was the visualization that your testicle had of God leaving his house so to speak leaving his people because they were no longer worthy and the the mattress tells us when the Bukit nets are the king of babylon destroyed the first by Semak - he was very proud of himself because he thought he vanquished the supreme god of israel and that showed how powerful he was and a voice from heaven said to him you didn't destroy my house I wasn't living there anymore I moved out and therefore Kim's litter King uh to hunt you ground-up flower that was already ground up which actually means the actual Corbin beta Mukesh was not on teachable tsch above was the destruction of the building but the actual corbin occurred on some unknown day so to speak when a critical mass was achieved that we were no longer worthy of the Shekinah in our heart and in our soul and therefore this is our mitzvot of Bnei on basem ik - to make our hearts in our soul a place for god's presence to reside and then we are so glad to the besan Mukesh by the way it's an interesting point the Rambam makes the ROM bond in the hot dhamma - schmoes points out that the mitch gun and later the base our mech - is really a replica of the tent the home of Avraham and Sura if you remember when the Puttock says when the little rifka was only three years old according to one measures when rifka was brought into the tent of sarah the trucks mother so Yitzhak was comforted and Rashi explains there were three miracles that were connected to Sarah's home that departed when Sarah died and those miracles were restored when rifka came in so yes Kirk knew that this was a suitable successor to the righteousness of his mother and what were the three miracles there was a bra kabisa there was a blessing in her dough that if you ate Sarah's bread you were full and satiated it says her candle that was lit for Shabbat remains burning the entire week and there was a cloud of glory over the tent symbolizing the shereena and when sorry men who died all of these three sources of blessing left in spite of the greatness of Abraham but rifki brought them back now here is the point the Rambam makes is a fascinating comparison the three miracles of the tent of Sarah were mimicked in the Michigan and the basin mikdash itself the cloud of glory over its service tent was the cloud of glory over the Michigan the Michigan was covered by a divine cloud of glory the blessing in the bread was seeing in the mitzvah of left him upon him less up upon him were the showbread that was baked every Friday it was put on the gold table on Shabbos it would not be eaten till next Shabbos when it was replaced by the new bread and the bread that had been on a show cut for more than a week for eight days was still warm and fresh so the lesson upon him corresponds to the braava visa and the idea that the candle that she lit for Shabbat illuminated the whole week that of course was the near tenth of the menorah that all the people think only sonicate burn for a days and truth of the matter is there was one candle one out of the seven that perpetually burnt it never went out that's the source of the NER Tamid that we have in the beit knesset because in the michigan in the beit hamikdash there was a candle of them in northern everyone out now by the way that wasn't always the case it went when the Jewish people were not worthy we didn't have that miracle but in years when we were deemed worthy there was a miracle of an eternal ner that never went out so since the Rambam in effect the michigan and the base are mikdash is an imitation of the tent of sarah now that's a that's an important analogy because what that's basically saying is the real bass HaMikdash is the Jewish family and the relationship of husband and wife which the Olo of Avraham and Sarah is the prototype of them and really the bass on Mick - is just there to remind us of the holiness that we can create in our homes and that's why you know it's a cliche but it's true that's why this is a cliche that the holiest institution in Judaism is not the base Knesset or the Achieva it is the Jewish home the relationship of husband and wife and parent and child and that is why indeed the halacha is very clear that the first institution that a Jewish community must financially support is the building of a mikvah because it is a mikvah that enables the relationship of husband and wife and that has priority a mikvah has priority over even a base Knesset and a yeshiva a British am here in Eric Israel you have the rabbinate and the religious councils take care of it so it's very rare that you as an individual will have to kind of contribute to building a mikvah but you know in the United States it's still a major major issue community sometimes don't have mcfist and individuals have to realize that that is the single most important institution for people to support because after all it is the Jewish home that is the base of mikdash and the mahkum of hosh rosh hashanah and that is wife as i'll say each fish' Shekinah Sharia Bane ahem when there is a husband and a wife the God's divine presence is with them I'm sure you've heard this word either at your shower breakfast or the shower breakfast of your children or your grandchildren it's a very well-known Gomorrah just a Gomorrah that says each and Asia have two common letters Aleph and shin and the man has a yards and the woman has a hey ish Aisha and the yard and the hey spell God's name they are the first two letters of the Shaima flourish car so the concept is I'm sure you've heard the Gemara when there is God in the marriage and women are functioning as men in women in a proper way when you take Hashem out of the marriage then they become a selfish all-consuming fire which destroy themselves and destroy each other in their selfishness and their egotism and desire for self gratification but when you have God in the marriage then the ish and the Shah are both doing what they are supposed to be be doing as a little aside I'll digress for a moment why does the man get the Eurofighter M's name and the women get the hey up a chef's name I mean you didn't hear God's name but why does a man get that letter so here the morale says a very very fascinating explanation the morale says that the Gemara tells us that a Shem created the world to come through the kulluk of the letter U the letter yud represents the color of Olam haba and the letter hei represents olam hase and that's the meaning of the puzzle key becau with the letters car Jordan hey ash and Cyril mmm God created the world keep Akash M sir album in the world's our ovum has a and Olam haba ie iord is over my bar and hay is over Mirza so says to my route why is your Olam haba and hey llamas app because your it is the most spiritual of the letters because it has the least spatial it's the smallest letter it has the least of any material or physical quantity that represents the world to come that is the world of the soul the disembodied soul that is Minu tuk from devar - me from - me it's from Homer it's and and alike hey represents a composite of two letters Dalit represents its adalat and a yurt right here my route describes a hey as they dull it and a yurt like the Reg Oh on the left is a he says he I would have thought it said well but he he caused it again so dollar he says represents pure materialism because matter exists in four dimensions right there's length and there's height and there's width and there's time because time even before Einstein it was understood that time is an attribute of a space and matter and time is a part of a dimension of matter it is the fourth dimension you'd represent spirituality so if you'd represents pure spirituality what is hey the ability to spiritualize the physical bringing the goods into the hey so says the morale the following interesting idea the morale says that men tend to get adversely affected by their encounter with the physical world just like a person with emphysema may have to go with pure oxygen so men need the shoul need the achiever need the betameche they need to get away from the world because the world will bring out their negative tendencies of competitiveness ego competition and the like the morale says the woman's greatness again he's generalizing of course but the woman's greatness is the capacity to bring the goods into the dollars to physical to spiritual eyes even the physical and the material and that's a difficult to Rhoda because it's always easier in life to go to extremes and either/or type of mentality but the idea that even living in the real world can be a source of godliness kedusha holiness that is a nevada it is a the concept of a woman being a nazar to a man is that a woman can help a man understand that there is holiness in this world as well as disengagement from this world so that's why the morale says the woman gets the hey and the man gets the catch the hood but be it as it may the ROM bonds point is that the relationship of husband and wife is actually what the whole Michigan symbolizes the the Mishkan is a replication of the tenth of the three miracles of Avraham and Sarah okay so that's one point I wanted to share with you and therefore part of how we build a Miss gun is indeed by Sheldon bias and working on relationships working on our marriages and understanding that this is a source the primary source of holiness in our lives a second point I want to bring out is actually a interesting technical math locus between Rashi and the Ramban whether having a Michigan or a Mick - it was a good thing or a bad thing it's not so push it you know we have a Clow in huzzah called Ain Mook Tom maharba Torah the Torah does not always follow chronological order now this is a principle that is laid down in the Gemara itself but the question is how far do you want to run with it Rashi runs with it quite often Rashi is a big fan of this principle romvong on the other hand doesn't like to use it unless he has to so you'll find in a number of cases a number of my cloaks him throughout the flemish between Rashi and ron bond in which Rashi is quite quick to basically say something's out of order and the RAM bond is quite reluctant the RAM bond goes to great lengths to make everything in order unless there's an absolutely compelling reason that forces them sometimes there is sometimes even RAM bond doesn't have a choice but most of the time Ron bond tries to make things in order interestingly enough one of the areas in which you have this very much Lopez is when were the Jewish people commanded to build a mission let me first take one bond because run bond is the simpler pet in the Hamish Moshe Rabbeinu goes up to her c9 for forty days and that's the end of this Putnam he's on our semi for forty days and following that that person is truly building a Michigan which means the postures if I ask you when was Moshe of given the commandment to build a Michigan it was on the forty days that he's on our say night now it's true that we didn't get around to building it till after the Golden Calf because when Moshe comes down there's the golden calf but the Savoy of Malaysia that Michigan was in the mammy on memory shown him a Farsi night that's what the Commission says that's exactly what they're on bond learns the Rambam learns exactly as you would assume from a cursory reading of the Hamish that Moshe Rabbeinu was commanded to build the tutto bené Israel to build a Miss gun when he's up there in our scene Rashi says not Rashi but Africa says quite amazingly Rashi takes two and a half partyís partial stroma which is about building the Miss gun parts justice Sava which is about mainly the big day Kahuna and partial ski seesaw the beginning of it which is also about some details of the Michigan and Rashi says the whole thing is out of order the Jewish people were not commanded and Moshe was not commanded to build a Myshkin till after the faith or a go and the Mishkan was a response to the cato a go had there not been a fatal a gal there wouldn't have been a michigan that is how Rashi learns Rashi says the Mishkan was a divinely ordained response to the fate of a go but the one thing Rashi doesn't say is well why would that be so in what way is the Michigan correlated to the fate of egg on right so so here are a few points is let me just mention three three different three different explanations of how does Michigan correlate to say to a girl according to Rashi the first is based on a comment of the support no now the support no there's not quote Rossi the porno lived in the fifteen hundred's the sixteenth century he was in Italy pornos one of the great commentaries on the Commish the soprano himself was both a doctor a physician and he was a Hebrew tutor to a number of important Cardinals in the Catholic Church so his partner actually had quite quite a strong connection to many leaders of the church to which he used in good stead to help the Jewish people in various ways and his parish is one of the great the Purusha man the Hamish and here's what he says he says in an ideal world we would not need a betta Mick - or a Myshkin because God would be accessible everywhere a betta Mick - is already putting limits it's saying God is approached certain times certain places by certain people callin in certain rituals and as wonderful as this is and it is a wonderful thing but it does connote a certain amount of distancing a certain boundary the ideal world would be the whole world would be a betta McNish in which we glorify God so consequently the soprano actually asserts had there not been a fatal a cow Hashem Shekinah would not be limited to a particular designated place but it would be male caller Eretz komodo and therefore the Mishkan is a monument to our spiritual failure that required a certain limiting of our access to God in that particular way now that's a very interesting point meaning the soprano actually asserts that the ideal world would be a world where you don't need a betta Mick - now that does raise a theological problem because we believe that when Messiah comes etc and the world gets perfected there's going to be a betta Mick - why would that be the case and of course that's a similar analogous problem with according to the round BOMs view of Corbin Oates to wean us away from idolatry why will there be Corbin out when my fear comes it's a similar type of problem and by the way I believe I'm not an expert in this at all I came across it casually that in in novel in Christian theology there actually is I think in in the Book of Revelations a reference to the notion that there will not be a temple because either Jerusalem will be the whole Jerusalem will be the temple in the whole world will be the temple there actually is this idea that there will be no need for a temple because the entire world gets sanctified well Lahab do that is kind of the idea that the soprano is articulating so that's one understanding of Rashi again Rashi doesn't say what the connection of egill and Michigan is but one understanding might be the supporter the second understanding might be by an earlier contemporary of Rashi review who da Haleiwa although it appears that neither knew of each other and that's really what Lauren suggested maybe don't lately points out some interesting paradoxes that in spite of the fact that the Torah is so insistent that God you know God is without body God is without form and the Torah prohibits idolatry and image making and even owning idols and yet you walk into the Holy of Holies the holiest part of the holiest structure and what are you going to see right above the ark you see crew him you know statues human forms what's going on exactly so you know maybe explains that there is a concept that God gives human beings what they need in order to serve Him even though it's not always ideal meaning to say ideally one should serve God like the Rambam says without Corbin notes without physicality God is without body God is without physical need and the way I connect to a Shem should be by meditation contemplation reflection prayer good deeds study again the Rambam aid pretty much at the same point and yet once human beings demonstrate they have a need for physicality because they can't relate to a God than as no characteristics that they have in common so how color Sparkle will create a structure that will incorporate certain aspects of physicality that ideally should not have been necessary and therefore Vitale V says the fate of a gal was actually a desire for some type of physical representation of God their view the lady writes that they certainly did not think that the golden calf that they manufactured was in fact their God in fact you see very clearly from the text itself that the impetus for creating a golden calf or creating a statue was Moshe Robina wasn't here they said quote hace la new elohim let us make although the woman's translated as God but the early means let us make a power a share yell hula funny no that shall go before us as a leader kiesza moshe ish because moshe the man now that's a superfluous word but it's as if to say we know moshe is not God Moshe is only a man but that man Moshe we don't know where he is he didn't come down yet so it's very clear that the AYGO is not a substitute for God the AYGO is a substitute for Moshe and Moshe himself is not perceived as a God because Moshe is described as Moshe fish so the kuzuri explains Ruth Olivia explains that the Jewish people needed we don't really understand this process that well they needed some type of intermediary they needed a spiritual channeler they did not feel they could receive divine energy unless it came through a particular forest Moshe was that intermediary force they then thought the AYGO could somehow be a channeler of that divine energy in other words they needed some physical representation of their connection to the divine that was a spiritual and intellectual failing they shouldn't have needed it but they did need it they could not connect to God other than through that physicality so says review de la vie if that's what you need then a college bar who will give you that structure but it has to be subject to his regulation his rule he gives you the structure but he also distances it yes there are these statutes but they're put away in a place that nobody ever gets to see etc they're there they can be the placebo so to speak that gives you a sense that you're connecting to God through physicality and the like it's similar to what the Gemara makes the point even by trade food the Gemara says every tray food that God prohibited you there is something kosher that tastes just like it except it it identifies one fish that you can't you can't get as in a kosher variety but except for that one fish whatever that is says everything everything is going to have something that has a permissible analogy fact by the way that's very important in raising our children as well we can't just raise our children by giving them a bunch of nose for every no there has there should be a yes meaning to say everything we take away there should be something that we're able to give them in a good and positive way so Yiddish guys shouldn't be seen just as a bunch of burdens and a bunch of restrictions so according to view nilav so so again the support now said that the michigan represents God's decision that we are undeserving of unlimited access so he created boundaries and containments that's the support of the kuzuri looks at it as an act of kindness in God accommodating our limitations as people by giving us a physical way of connecting to him which had we not sinned and had we not shown that we needed that particular way ideally it wouldn't have existed there is a third way of looking at it which is maybe the simplest way and that is based on the Midrash raba that simply says the Mishkan was a tangible demonstration of God forgiving the sin of the golden calf in other words the Michigan is a gift to us representing the notion of forgiveness selecia Khepera and ant ant and alike right so these are three different implications of Rashi Sheeta that the Michigan is a response to the faith or a go one is it represents containment and withdrawal of the Shekinah which is kind of a punishment the other is an accommodation of our limitations and the third is a sign of divine forgiveness and grace of course that third explanation would would justify why we have it when Messiah comes and the like because it is a sign of divine of divine love but all of this the common denominator of all of these three explanations is that they are explaining why the Michigan comes in response to the a go now remember all of that is just Raj's opinion like the ROM bonds opinion there would have been a Michigan anyway so the Michigan is not a response to the acre right so this is a very important smoke locusts according to the ROM bond the Torah is going in order according to Rashi this is an example of Ain Mucca Mucca about Torah that yep to the truth well listen III don't you know I I don't decide between rushing and and RAM bond I don't I don't know you know it's it's hard to me to say what the truth is I do know that it seems that virtually every commentator that I know does assume that there will be a beta Mukesh when Michele come so the notion that the beta make josh is either an accommodation to our limitations or a sign of defying disfavor by withdrawal seems not to subnautica supported by that that much I think he's gonna have some some difficulty okay but be it is it matter whether we look at this as a post fatal eagle command or a pre-fader angle command and ultimately is a command and although as I indicated in the beginning of my words we are not commanded to physically build a base on McDuff but we are commanded to try to create a dwelling place for em in our heart in our soul and this is the source of the famous words which we are a beautiful Megan but they are they originate from the safer hooray them bill Vavi Myshkin evening I will build in my heart a Michigan for Hakata Sparkle and that is our job in life to make ourselves a dwelling place for the divine now if that's the case then obviously you can look at the prett in in terms of how they built the michigan and then try to extrapolate how it applies to how I build a make - freshen in my life so let me just mention a very nice hora from the or house I am a Kurdish actually last week I mentioned the RS I am in yes Ron and this week I'll mention in parsha stroma and that is when Moser Boehner was told to assemble materials for the Michigan so it mentions Zahav kesef necrosis gold silver copper meaning it seems to go from the most precious going down to say less wool etc then the very last thing that it mentions Arav initial hump precious onyx stones Fiat name Elohim and the jewels of the cow in goggles breastplate and they are the most precious of all so the Ark's I am raises the question if the Torah is listing the materials for the Michigan in order of more precious to less precious then why are the othe name Elohim which are the most precious why are they mentioned at the end of the list a technical question why are they at the end of the list so the ark I am a Kadesh gives three answers the first answer is a technical answer if it's a good shot the or FIM points out that although the of Namie louia are the most precious they are not used in the michigan proper they are used for the Cohen goggles garments and since the Cohen goggles garments have less holiness than actual materials that are used in the Michigan so it lists all the materials that will be used in the Michigan before it mentions the garments of the Kohen Gadol right so that's why the ugly me Louie amar at the end because they were not in the Michigan proper that's the answer number one but answer number number two is that in partial speak Uday when the people actually give the material it actually mentions that the of naming luanne were contributed by the Nassim in other words we know who the designated contributors were and these were the heads of the tribes now cuz I'll have an interesting pun on the word miss cm this cm actually has two meanings in Biblical Hebrew one is Annecy as a prince an officer the head of a tribe the other is in the cm is a word for unknown in it means clouds in Mishler you find Miss iam lioness as there are no clouds so because I'll play at this double meaning and they actually say that the Nasim got these jewels as a heavenly gift in the clouds that brought then the Munn in the morning so when it says the Nasim brought the jewels it has a double entendre the clouds brought the jewels to the Nasim and then I see him then brought the jewels to the Malaysia to Michigan so says the RS I am so it turns out that the Nasim got this wealth without effort without work without struggle as opposed to the gold and the silver that the Jewish people contributed which was from the Goldman silver they took out of mitzrayim but that was in compensation for their years of slavery so says the rsam how college bar who treasures the gift that we give with struggle and with difficulty and with work much more than even the more expensive and precious gift that we give without effort easy come easy go if I find a million dollars and I give the million dollars away that's a good thing it's a great thing but it's not as cherished as a million or as a thousand dollars or a hundred dollars or five dollars that I worked very hard and I struggled to earn Pirkei avos tells us the from Saira agra according to the pain and the difficulty is the reward that's why the poor man who gives a dollar might get more reward for his sadaqa than the very wealthy person who gives a thousand dollars because the thousand dollars for the wealthy person might be much less of a sacrifice than the one dollar of the rich person of the poor person yeah okay I well I know I understand I mean let me put it this way I understand I don't think it's a contradiction it may very well be that if you find a dollar you know God is smiling at you and that's a special sign of divine grace I understand but you're then giving the dollar is less valued by God precisely because it doesn't involve a struggle or a sacrifice in your part Mark Twain is focusing on getting the dollar I'm focusing on giving giving the dollar now this itself is an important lesson in a vote that's a sham because I always defend Mike know Mark Twain and I are kind of one ceman a little bit because although he did not grow up in Connecticut he spent his adult years in Hartford Connecticut and I am from Hartford Connecticut so we used to take may be used to make numerous trips to the Mark Twain House Inn in West Hartford so we have a Mark Twain and I have a have a connection but okay in any in any event this is an important lesson in our voters ahem generally and that is the idea that it's the effort that a Shem is moksha even more than the tangible accomplishment I'm not sure if I mentioned this forgive me if I'm repeating but years ago I was involved with NC sy and don't tell anybody and matzah Shabbos they have a comes it's and all of these kids make most of them from high school they get up and they tell their stories and it's kind of an emotional time it's you know it's dark in the room etc and you know people tell stories and they cry you know it's very very very very emotional so there was a 14 year old girl who got up I remember and she came from a non religious family public school students and not only were her parents not shomer Shabbos but her parents were very antagonistic to her doing anything religious and I didn't they just didn't allow her to do anything so she described the scene that was totally bizarre surrealistic she said that Friday night she waited till her parents were asleep at eleven o'clock she would go into the bathroom she would light Shabbos candles that she had hidden away 11 o'clock at night she would make a broccoli in the bathroom she would then blow out the candles and turn on the fan to blow away the smoke so it would not be detected no you could actually give this as a Sumiko test identify how many ha logic violations have been committed right and then you know you'll get credit based on you know the more you can identify that is wrong with this picture you know that the more learned you are and you know she did everything wrong I mean since Google Shabbos and broccoli in the bathroom and looks you know everything wrong and yes and yet and yet I can't help feeling I can't say I know that in shamayim a Kurdish bar who looks at this young lady in a very very special way because here you know she struggled to surf I show them in the best way that she could and she did the best that she could and no matter how hard it was as opposed let's say it could very well be that what she did with all of the syllabus might conceivably be in shamayim even greater than what we do with Brooklyn where usually we keep Sabbath's you know it's a struggle for everybody but you know brick a sham it's relatively easy convenience so who knows who knows what is a sham look at the action of course is important but it's also the struggle and the sacrifice the mysterious nefesh I mentioned earlier left him up on him I mentioned the showbread so this famous story is brought down in the Aries writings about a simple person who had heard about the showbread and he said well I want to do that too so every Friday he would bake twelve Carlos and he put them in the Aaronic adesh he figured this would be his carbon to God and the Shama she would clean up before Java he would open up the R in Dakota she would see the twelve Carlos he would just take him for himself so Shabbos morning when they opened the ark and the guy saw that the kalos were gone he said that sham took my carbon and he did it the next week and the next week in hugging and every week the shaman took 12 Carla so so the man is so excited so that sham loves my carbon it's beautiful so one day he's coming in Friday afternoon and the rebbe of the show happens to walk in and he sees a guy putting 12 loaves of bread in the Aaronic Otis he says what are you doing why are you putting the bread there because the person is so excited he says rabbee rabbee rabbee every Friday I bring a Corbin to Hashem welcome upon him and every shop is a sham takes it because I see the next morning it's not there so the Rebbe said are you crazy what do you think you're doing of course the Shah mistakes the bread I guess the revenue the shaman the Shan which takes the bread and dunno what are you doing there's no based on Nick - you're not a calling there's no there's no there there is no how logic value in what you're doing you're just doing a mishegoss here it counts for nothing so the man was was crestfallen that night this is in the Irish kiss faerie the man had a dream the Rob had a dream where a Malik told him from McCulloh Barco give your last will and testament to your family because mostly Shabbats are going to die because hashem did not have as much joy from the time of the corbett basa McNish as he had from this man's carbon and you stopped the naka through lack of the rabona Shalom ax and for that your car your Mesa and the story goes the rough diet etc but then the lesson of the story is yeah the rough was 100% right the guys Aveda had no illogic significance it meant nothing but because it came from his heart it meant everything well c'mon a Libra but now again one might say that this might be a maloca theoretically between casitas and non cocina so again if you compare the nefesh FIM of refined vulajin who always emphasizes the importance of doing the halacha CLE correct action and then we have Hasidic stories at least in the early years of casitas I'm sure you've heard the famous stories of the kid who didn't know how to Diamond and he comes in to show with the flutes again this is this is kind of the issue that we're dealing with but the truth of the matter is obviously it's both if you know the halacha but you think you'll serve Hashem by making up your own rituals then yeah that's not the right way of doing it but the person who does really does the best that they can who really tries one cannot it's impossible for me to believe that the ship does not look at that person in terms of their heart in terms of their motivation yes so so that's its this is similar to the not gonna be a problem the difference the difference was that neither of you were aware of a holistic structure and they chose to ignore it that that that's a different thing than the ignorant person who was doing the best that he can with what he knows not of anivia dealt it is really a variation of that problem of using my own religious subjectivity to to override a holistic structure that's a that's a more difficult problem and maybe a less justifiable type of response although you have that in some prosthetic thoughts as well that some look at actually another of anivia well it's not our subject tonight they look at it not as a punishment but as rather they had reached such a high level of holiness that their soul left the body I mean as opposed to a punishment for sin or whatever it is okay so that's the arc I'm stuck in the answer easy come easy go God treasures the effort and the the third answer he gives is also focusing on the Nassim that the metric describes that the Nassim waited to see what everyone else gave before they decided what to give meaning to say they waited to the end now the rsam says that is a see Sarah of spontaneous generosity that when there's a need you should want to be first even though you might want to see what other people give and therefore the fact that they were reacting to what everyone else did as opposed to being initiators is a key Sauron in the devote life and therefore it's put put at the bottom of the list so to speak even though it was the most valuable right so these are some chorus of the of the half of the orihime let me mention another famous thought while it learned here of the base la vie when the Jewish people are commanded to donate to the Michigan the pus success vehicle each rumor they shall take for me and all and all the mushrooms say they are being asked to give it should save I you know lead Fuma by they shall give the true mah the separation why vyak who they should take says the base lav when a person uses his resources for mitzvahs he should feel that he is getting and not taking and therefore everything you give you are really getting so much more that's the attitude the attitude is not I'm sacrificing for God the attitude is whenever I give I'm getting so much more they tell the story about the color man who was engaged to a a woman and he brought his collar over to meet Rashad and Rashad was talking to the camera a little bit and the caller said I will make every sacrifice so my husband will learn I will live on bread in water I will sleep on the floor I will you know sleep outside whatever is I will give up everything so my husband will learn Torah so after as she walked out of the room where shock said break up this immediately break it up what's the plot because if somebody goes in with the attitude that yes I want my husband to learn and I will live a life of sacrifice and deprivation in the long run that's not going to work because we can only be a martyr for so long eventually represented eventually we feel we're not getting something back rather a shock says the attitude has to be I'm not a martyr I'm not giving something up the pleasure and the joy is so much greater right so consequently the concept of giving up for Hashem doesn't really work in the long run it has to be I'm getting so much from my relationship to our College Baro they tell the story the altar of navarre dick the old man of Navarre Duke will be one of a resourceful and Rustam was a very very extreme in many many ways he was a hermit for two years they wanted to break down the house he locked him he literally bricked himself into a house he couldn't he couldn't get out and for two years people just fed him food through the holes in the and because he wanted just you know he could literally not leave the house he was very very extreme but after he left the house eventually they tore down the house he built 150 yeshiva so he was quite the you went from one extreme to the other but the story goes that's when he was collecting money for his hundreds of yeshiva he got money out of the biggest misers so another russia shiva said to him what's your secret you know i go to these guys and they just say no no no I'm not going to give you anything I'll give you a very small donation and you're able to get so much money out of them what's your success so the outer of the verdict said I'll tell you the difference you me and you you go to a rich guy's house and he has carpets and furniture and you carefully wipe your shoes and you carefully you don't sit down on the couches and you know you don't touch anything because your fingerprints will leave some whatever-it-is residue and you communicate to this guy that he has wealth that wealth is significant wealth is importance wealth is something to be treasured and protected and you then ask him to give it up he's gonna say no why should I give up something that's so precious and so important the outer of the verdict says when I come in I don't like my feet you know I tracked went into the house I sit where I want to sit I throw my jacket on his expensive table I throw my keys on there and the mahogany whatever it is I communicate to the person your wealth mean and I'm gonna tell you this is the way to do it but says this is the story your wealth means nothing it's garbage it's worthless but I will give you a way to make it mean something by the support datura so the algebra verdict said to the first Russia Shiva you're asking people to give I'm offering people an opportunity to take so people are willing to take they're less willing to give and that's why I am more successful in the collecting of money because I communicate the I'm doing the other favor as opposed to asking them to do a favor for for me again whether this would work in the real world of fundraising I'm not sure but nevertheless this is exactly what is marilla's in-vehicle eat rumah a person should feel I am taking rather than giving and this is what the Gemara sense the kumara says that the paradox of life is what you give is what you take when you leave this world and what you take is ba'd Africa what you give away by meaning all that I take when I die I give away it's not going to be mine anymore all that I give when I need this world is what I take is what I take with me and that's for year Calitri so I'll have a good Koda stove and we'll see you next week [Music]