Army of HaShem - Parashat Nasso

foreign something unique something that the rambam clarifies for us where the tuat tells us in chapter 4 about it that uh uh in uh verse number 30 chapter 4 verse number 30 uh from who talks about the different types of quanim who what when and how he says you shall count them everyone who comes to the legion to do the work of the oil moid says this is referring to everyone who comes to join the Legion of the Levine not just anyone that's coming to work at the oil mode at the beta mcdash of the Wilderness but this is referring to everyone that is coming to join the Levine the Legion of the levim and it's not a legion that is a army that's going to fight with uh with swords and knives and and bombs but this is the army of akados now a person reads this for the first time and he says okay this is wonderful I like to hear stories from 3000 years ago but how does this have anything to do with my life number one I'm not a levy number two I don't have a bet to me that's what I can work it number three why do I need to read this every single year okay I read it one time in my life what I need to read it the rambam writes chapter 13 number 12 and 13. why did the Levites not receive a portion of the inheritance of etsy slave and The Spoils of War like their Brethren because they were set aside to serve God and Minister unto him and to instruct people at large in his just path and righteous judgments as the Torah says in Deuteronomy chapter 33 verse 10. they will teach your judgments to yaakov and your Authority said and therefore they were set apart from all of the ways of the world they do not wage war like the remainder of the Jewish people nor do they receive an inheritance nor do they acquire for themselves through their physical power instead they are God's Legion as it states uh God has blessed his Legion and he provides for them in Numbers chapter 18 verse 20 and also I am your portion and your inheritance the rambam clarifies hey this Legion is not an army that is an army with weapons but rather it's an army of Hashem these are the rabbis these are these are the people that are going to not only learn Torah and cervical but also by teaching Torah so still the person says okay great I understand it's wonderful they're special people I'm still not a levy and it still don't have a better mcdash so therefore you have to continue reading number 13. not only is the tribe of Levy but any one of the inhabitants of the world whose Spirit generously motivates him and he understands with his wisdom to set himself aside and stand before God to serve him and minister to him and to know God proceeding justly as God made him removing from his neck the Yoke of the many reckonings which people seek he is Sanctified as holy of holies God will be his portion and Heritage forever and will provide what a sufficient fam in this world like he provides for the priests and for the Levites for the quanim and the levim and thus King David declares in Psalm chapter 16 verse 5 God is the light of my portion you are my cup you support my lot in so many words the rambam is in essence telling us who are the Levine that are being referenced here it's not just the tribe of Levi but in fact anyone today that is learning Torah and that is their primary vocation that is their primary concern that is their primary aspiration this is what they want to do and they're not just learning it for their own sake they're learning it for the sake of also teaching others these holy Abrahim we have in the color what our organization as a whole does doing cue of teaching people that don't know anything teaching people that do know a lot but need extra kizuk teaching people different things that to get them close to Dr Who this is in essence the what the rambam says this makes you just like the Levine a special Legion of academ so a person that is concerned about the protection instead of them following the Zionist mentality that tells people go and join some Army go in the uh invent a new weapon you don't need weapons to fight against akadushboo's enemies you need more Torah the more Torah you have in the world the less you'll actually need weapons and the Beautiful part is is that anyone can do it the more you commit the more you commit to the Torah as this is my primary focus in life this is all I want to do either Torah that you're learning and and teaching to either you're getting people to learn and to teach this is what makes a person part of that special unique Legion so again first we saw something that seems from the surface not really relevant to your average person now we see that it can be relevant if the person makes that choice in so many words you can be part of that special Legion if if you choose to be you don't need to have a special Merit you don't need to have special yehus as far as who your father is and how you were brought up and what Yeshiva you made simple it's a decision you make today now of course many times people they start watching the showim they like it they start observing certain mits what and they figured that okay I'm Gonna Learn Torah I'm gonna watch my shuim for a couple of hours a day I'm gonna go work uh you know at CVS and at Walmart and then go sell diamonds and go cut hair and go do all these different things I I I'm learning this is wonderful now can that person that's living a regular life that he can't study throughout all day he can't teach tala all day but he wants to be part of this special Legion he wants to be part of this special Legion but he knows he cannot abandon his career uh you know in some Factory uh because he doesn't have he doesn't have the tools can he be part of that Legion yes he can why just like the rambam explained a person that is is is is is committing himself to serving to bring this Torah outwards to bring it out there that's a person that is part of that Legion so what does the person do simply you may not be able to learn Tula all day surely you need to learn some you need to learn a few hours a day you need to learn as much as possible but you can turn what you're doing as far as your vocation your work into something that is connected to the Torah how simple you take a piece of the money that you make and you invest it in your number one investment in life and that's into the world of Torah you take on yourself to go and sponsor one or two or three Abrahim each month you take on on yourself to go and sponsor x amount of money into helping people to chuvan to helping people uh uh that are doing kiruv you go and you invest a good portion of your money on a regular basis not in some 401 1K or in some retirement that you may or may not ever see but rather you invest it into the world of Torah but of course Torah that works and this is one of the things that a person does need a special Merit to have where there are plenty of donations that are made but unfortunately very few of them end up in the right places that people think and we've talked about this many times we have even a cold sure about it that we did several months ago so we're not going to go over it again the point is that a person needs to find themselves a a a righteous Torah institution whether it's a collel or a care of organization or its name is Hashem whatever you want to call it the key is to make that your priority now of course a person can say listen can I dabble can I diversify sure if you are so smart and so uh uh uh uh uh fortunate that you know of multiple organizations that you really know are true to our organizations by all means you can diversify the problem is that people think is always a good thing and it's not necessarily so and the reason why is because you have to look at your stuck in the same way that academic who is structuring this week's parashah he's telling each one of place sale here that they have a specific job he tells much go and tell each one of the tribes and not only each one of the tribes each one of the families within the tribes that they have a specific job to do and only that job they can't go and help each other and somewhere else the one that's responsible for picking up let's say the uh the the takash skin that's covering the uh uh uh the the mishkan from the uh kiat family he can't just decide you know what I don't feel like doing this today I'm gonna go help my buddy over there that's taking care of the pulse and they want to take care of the Paul says you know what the polls uh it's not for me today no I'm gonna do I'm gonna go help some of the levims that are going inside the Kurdish kodashim over there with the table with the cool stuff over there the menorah I'm gonna go help them out looks like they need a hint you can't do that it's not there's no permission to do that in fact the only job you're allowed to do is the job that a kadushboo who gave you why because you have just like everyone understands logically that for a business to succeed everyone has to have a certain role yes if you're an entrepreneur you have a small business you at times have to wear multiple hats but everyone knows for that business to to succeed there has to be a primary hat there has to be one major role that only you can do and no one else can and it's the more successful a business is the more they have certain people that are not simply dispensable many employees and in fact most employees are disposable because their their their task could easily be replaced by somebody else not necessarily because the task is easy but simply because they themselves are doing just the minimum they're not adding any special thing to it that's their unique touch that makes them a a a a a really big uh success for the company they just do they just fulfill the minimum and therefore any times there's cutbacks or anytime there's a better opportunity for a company they look for all of the Disposable employees to cut first they're not gonna go cut the uh the major people that are the rainmakers of the company they're always going to look at the people that are disposable but needless say those key people either their Executives or managers or or rainmakers special salesmen people that are unique within a uh within a company they are tasked with that job now yes of course you're tasked with that job you're dealing with uh I don't know some type of chemicals and you have to be responsible for that chemical but of course if there's a little bit of garbage on the floor you can pick that up too if somebody forgot to lock the door you could do that too but that's not your primary task that's not your primary task and everyone understands that that type of uh uh uh process is necessary for a business to succeed big or small who says it's even more important in the world of Tua it's even more important in the world each one of the tribes and each one of the families within the tribes were tasked with specific unique tasks that only they can do no one else can help them they can cannot help anybody else you have to make all of your energy all of your focus on this one particular thing now if a person focuses their their their life today and not just their business but also their servitude of Hashem and how they contribute how they donate where they pray what they do in one particular praise that they're fortunate enough to find that's helping them that's inspiring them that's helping others and so on and they can make that their primary investment more times than not that's going to be much more successful then spreading themselves very thinly and the reason why is because again even though everybody means well and even though it seems like everybody is doing uh doing good things not everything is the same not all Investments are the same some Investments can only generate two or three or four percent a year some Investments have the potential to make forty or fifty percent some Investments can triple quadruple your money some Investments are you know not Investments but they guaranteed losses a person needs to look at their servitude of Hashem as what is going to yield me the biggest result where can I make the most amount of spiritual profit as as I invest this money because who doesn't care about what you like and what you don't like and what looks good for the community or what doesn't look good for the community because if something looks good for the community but it's bad for the world of Hashem then of course this is not the will of Hashem [Music]