Rabbi Michael Mansour - Time is the Real Commodity (Vayakhel Pekudei)

foreign there's going to be a little bit of a delay on te Fila this week is already extra temperature and then Hashem the introduction is the concept of the first should have started with yeah see in the beginning of says that the Torah should have started we know that the Jewish calendar is the most unique calendar in the world the there are two calendars that are the basic for the way people structure the year there's a solar calendar and there's the lunar calendar solar as 365 plus a little bit days a year and the lunar calendar goes by months which every month has about 29 and a half days to Total into 354 right what's interesting is that for example the Arabs that they keep the lunar they're starting ramadanos Nissan this Thursday and they go for a week the reason that they keep on changing with their Ramadan and their in the seasons of the year so they have a whole month from this till the end of the month they always go from North Dakota it's always so this time it's going to start usually sandwiches but when we we have a leap year they move a month back next year we're gonna have a leap year I think so that's going to be those who shot that a bit and every time we have a leap year they go back a month last year was Olympia but this year's not so that's why the same year the same way it's going to be those conditions here so their account the guys is only by ruler they have a lunar year other people other religions have solo here we're the only ones that have a solo year I would that have a lunar year but as to coincide with the solar year how does it coincide when is that decision made that's made by the rabbis it's fascinating how Hashem gave all holidays all Concepts all Yom Kippur is based on what the rabbis say s brings the case that if the hakamim decided that today should not be the first day of the month of China they could say that starts a day later remember we learned that together decided that the 18 came too late in the day and they said I should not start today the next day instead of first thing Yom Kippur one day Yom Kippur is going to be the next day because when it came to us goddess Hashem gave it over to the rabbis to decide the structure of the Year 100 wentzipur imagine they've decided this year should be a leap year so in three weeks we'll be eating hamets now they decided this year shouldn't be a leap year in three weeks we're gonna not be eating habits and if you comment subscribe you get death right who decided when past that is because they decided this week this year there's no leap year the first not only does it refer to time but it also shows who's in control of the time this is the first month of the year that means Hashem gave over time that it's the most important thing in the world I'll give you a an example I had a rabbi not a rabbi whatever my spear Rabanne cries he once went to a Yeshiva that was founded from new and he started speaking to the Yeshiva Boys and he told them all your responsibility to doing Yeshiva is enough thank you so he asked them so they asked them what does it mean about Torah yes the boys boys tell me what is a Ventura mean so one boy says he finished shies one boy said he was he works on this she Ood he doesn't miss class he says boys I'll tell you what the Ventura is don't waste time means don't waste time don't waste time don't waste time it's an unbelievable concept that Jews have a value for time don't have a value for time and I'll bring you one of the clearest proofs and I don't think I real this morning let's say a guy studies for the bar for four years goes to all the glances and then at the end he goes for the test and he fails what happens nothing at the bar can't become a lawyer but if a person went and sat and learned four years and he gets a 65 on the test does he get any less reward than the kid that they got a hundred if anything if the kid that got a hundred out of 32 hours and he's 34 hours when it comes upstairs in chairman he gets more rewarded by us time is a commodity by America they say time is money why because if you don't make money with the time it's waste of time they look as time as a mediator to get to a certain point you leave the time to study so you can get a degree I need the time to start I need the time to work to make money but time for itself has no value that's why we they could be on the phone for hours today and nobody feels guilty because time is nothing so if I'm not making money I'm doing nothing and nothing is being on the phone all day Hashem gave us Torah and the first Mitzvah she says should have started off with to teach us that the most important thing is time I'm giving over the leadership of time of how to schedule your time to the rabbis and when the Rabbi says it becomes a Scottish it says had a difficulty in understanding the significance of new the new month you could say Ben was had the difficulty understanding of Hashem saying to them you know what it's all up to you when you want Yom Kippur that's when Yom Kippur is going to be when you decide this is when you decide it's a leap year it's a leap year the calendar the Jewish calendar started only a few hundred years after the destruction of the Temple for those who know a little bit history because even after the destruction of the second temple there was the same head green foreign so the first lesson we learn over here is the time is of the most important and that should be the foundation of the Torah that should be the first one to have the Torah time but the purse says the only ones that start counting from Nissan is the Jewish people imara brings down that there's two opinions when we start counting the new month do we start counting the new month from the new the the new year from or do we start counting from Nissan why was the World created when the world was created that is considered the Teva that's the nature of when the new year should start because if because if the if the world was created then so when do you start Year One from then when do you cancel from then when you come from your Veil from that but that is the natural New Year but then we have a special New Year this is the new year for you that we count the months we count the months from Nissan and it could be an explanation is that we know that there's three holidays that the Jews celebrate is when Jews were born we were born as a nation we came out of its rhyme it's like they lay down like you were born right you're born means the beginning when were the Jewish people born when they become bar mitzvah this is mean you have to start keeping the rules the rules why did they get the rules that they had to start keeping it what's the third month Monumental time of a person's life his wedding his wedding what was the wedding is the wedding with our ship so a person has three stages in his life the Jewish people don't go by the new year of when the year was created when the world was created the way they go by the new year is when they were born when they became the Amman when they became the Jewish Nation when we became the Jewish united we started appreciating what time was what it means to serve Hashem if the new year would have been in Teva in Sukkot would have been okay we're like everybody else Hashem says this is a special month just for you it's a special first month just for you you know why because this is when you were born what happens in the world that's Teva that's nature Jewish people are above nature chose them that we should be ashamed gave us the Merit the love the caring that you are my nation you are not a regular Nation you're not like everybody else foreign calls together all the Jewish people and before he even commands them to build the mishkan he tells them you have to keep Shabbat if you think about it Shabbat is the most wasted day in theory of the whole week if you look at it that you have to use time for an accomplishment what are you doing Shabbat Shabbat says Don't drive don't go to class don't go to the beach don't go to a friend's house Shabbat says stay home you can't walk out of Tom Shabbat you know how to cook nothing Shabbat is teaching us the lesson of Shabbat is how important time is time for the sake of time quality time quality time to meditate with Hashem quality time to just collect ourselves during the week you gotta prepare the shield it's a lot of pressure Rabbi has to prepare Shabbat he doesn't have to prepare the shield the Shabbat class was prepared before all he has to do is connect that ship everybody has to connect Hashem on Shabbat it's time well spent today for example when you have Shalom people in their own families there's no such a thing as sitting together with your wife without talking always you have to come you have to feel that you're talking why you have to talk for always they want attention they need attention you want to know something if you sit down with a person and you don't go on your phone and you eat dinner nicely respectfully that's the biggest attention they can get they need attention is because you don't talk to them you're on the phone but could you ever just have a light conversation or sit in the car and drive and look at the beauty of nature why because we don't know what it means to spend quality time we think quality time means only doing something yes kids they go on a vacation some people go on a vacation they could sit and look at ourselves but yeah sit by the ocean and enjoy the water sit and see a beautiful view and that's vacation but some people they need to run around the whole time they always have to be an action that's why some people on the cell phone is shalom you know why it's actually because if they don't feel that they're doing something they go crazy read a book a Jewish book and think about right now that that's too much too too strenuous so what do they do on Shabbat sleep all day what are you showing about the time that Hashem gives you quality time no I have to sleep on Shabbat in order that I can run around with this about right why because by me if I can't run around then I have no benefit from the time that Shabbat is a waste of time you know peoples they sing all week comes to shabbat they don't sink why don't they sing or they need music to sing why any music to sing if you want to connect that Chef sing songs so that's a bad the family is talking you take out of the vet or ah you take up no so what is Shabbat will come to what is Shabbat meal happened I'm fighting and screaming everybody uh how many times you go to the tables Hashem Hashem gives you the holiest day of the week and sixty percent of the time there's a family fight over there family fight but ideology or some getting frustrated Shabbat is the time when a person is so the specialty of a Jewish person you know why because he doesn't have the value of time he's going to go crazy he's going to go crazy he can't keep shut back doing nothing you know why because he's going to kill somebody if not yeah you know why because if he does nothing for one day a week he's gonna kill somebody we have all these guys in the street over here that they don't have to work for a living what do they do steal and do that's the worst thing God has to work 24 7. we could handle Shabbat you know why because we appreciate the importance of time and if you appreciate the importance of time you appreciate the importance of life and if you appreciate life you could sit down and just appreciate life if you have if life is only for what do I get out of it that's not life we have Shabbat Shabbat we live in the same living we don't only live for what I can get out of life I'm not working on it I could buy a good pair of sneakers I could buy gloves for cake I could get a nice vacation we work because we get rewarded for the work you go work and you have a beautiful son that tell me how come you helped about so you could go get a big Mitzvah or you could say I'm working to make money I want to be rich or I'm going I'm supporting my children to go learn and he's a good boy so by you working like that every single time you go to the office you're making them as well every minute right you support beautiful family so all you could say I'm working to make money or I'm working to support my family good kids Sunday you could switch everything but draw a big drop you know why because by us time is of importance and if you're delegating your time that is what a Jewish person is doing he's using at his time he's benefiting from his time why not you read a biography of a gondola and Shabbat even ladies they can read pasta Shavuot as the medicine says they could say to elim whatever they understand they could accomplish a lot there's so many English books there used to be English books not the generations talks English there's so many English books that can teach you you're not your mind today it's better to get Harry Potter crazy people that's what you read on Shabbat Harry Potter to hear somebody's stupidity why the bathroom just those things too long with the bathroom it's really and before commanded the Jewish people to go build them is Khan he had to tell them about keeping Shabbat when Hashem told the Jewish people to keep somebody first told them about them is gone and then he told them you have to keep Shabbat this is the only time the Torah says Hashem took all the Jewish people took everybody together what was the purpose of the mishkan is we wanted Hashem to rest amongst us a guy wants Hashem to rest amongst you that's a spiritual connection with Hashem if you don't realize how special you are God's not coming to visit us Hashem people say why doesn't Hashem come to talk to me why did Hashem come to be close with me if you don't realize the Holiness of Shabbat is and we don't realize that Shabbat doesn't mean only love Shabbat means connecting to Hashem you're not interested in my connection Hashem gave us uh opportunity to connect with him Shabbat I'm told today I'm still impressed how our relief statement once I was okay to be by a yard and maybe to tell in the Ramada that is hosted by that good and came to speak there and what was he speaking can you imagine he's coming to a she was not going to a place where the people are irreligious they don't keep Shabbat every person there all his kids were in yeshiva's all his family was and what's he talking about keeping supper keeping Shabbat you know why because keeping Shabbat doesn't mean just shutting off the telephone a person that's me kabel Shabbat a little bit early and he doesn't run out of the shower when it's sunset he doesn't know what Shabbat is all about if somebody runs out of the shower two minutes before Sunset that means she doesn't know what Shabbat is they say that I've been brisk used to sit down half hour 45 minutes on his porch with a homage just waiting for Shabbat to come join my channel that's what you suppose that's Shabbat that Shabbat that's it don't get me started with that now 's there's too many people here this for time as sickness that's what shabbat's all about time yeah I know I know what time is with the meat boards those are the people that want to sleep on Chapman and they don't know what Shabbat is all about new phenomena people have catered parties before Shabbat of enjoying Shabbat food and then when it comes to the meal the falling asleep on their wives and they want to know why their kids don't have a value for religion you know why it didn't happen it doesn't happen in Queens that bad yet but you know we're a few years behind them other other communities or we'll get there I hope not told the Jewish people keep Shabbat you know keep Shabbat means after you realize how special you are then I said says I want to be amongst you because I'm not coming to a person that doesn't feel that he's special Hashem has the acquaintance with the Jewish people for one reason you are a unique Nation you live with uniqueness you live with specialty I come visit you you don't live with it I don't come visit you if I want to just add one other on this concept there's only one with singles out in this week when he discusses Shabbat Lord don't make a fire how many melakoda there 39 we learned them all out of the betamic dash Muskan why does the pursue single out bloated they shouldn't make a fire discusses it and Lance is it to say that you're only forbidden and you get lashes for for the fire or is it coming to say that if you did um each one individually all discussion and think about we're not going to get into it but then there's another concept is needs don't make a fire means a physical fire and a spiritual fire there's a lot of animosity that happens in families when they're sitting on a Shabbat table the most challenging time for anybody to keep the pieces when there's a lot of people around when you're going on your way during the day your wife is doing her things you're doing your thing the kids are away homework this that it's peaceful it's a blessing Shabbat otherwise your wife's nagging you Ruben get up you have to go to school take the kids you get frustrated uh I didn't sleep a whole week I work a whole week how you let it why you waking me up she says but you can't teach your kids like this what happens within 15 minutes now let God that's called Ash there's a fire there's a fire that's burning wish almost wherever you live in your house and your individual house don't make a fire but in truly you should make a fire when you're praying you should be with excitement Hashem made a person's nature to be on fire now it could be on fire and positive and it could be on fire on the negative everything Hashem created was for a benefit could you imagine people have that are very emotional listen to me I know what emotions mean a little bit take your emotions one week and read the schmatt with excitement and understand what you're saying yeah Joseph go say in the Schmidt this week with excitement before you had the lakaim and take that whole excitement of your personality and take them to schmuck yeah I'd say it like that [Music] you know what a person comes to that and smart and he has his fire his fire is lighting inside he's gonna get close attention he's going to get happier if his fire is going to be in stupidity at home then he's destroying it says not the actual type of ways don't make a five book almost in things that retain the houses and pretends to believe that you get into in the house and then you could have a machine in your house you want to have them scan in the house you want to have a place where Hashem could come and see the Shekinah Lotus Hashem doesn't come with this fire in the house if there's fire in the house if there's stress in the house that's not where Hashem comes on Shabbat it's a big challenge sometimes a person has a situation the two people are fighting mine in front of him or somebody's calling you out and you have to shut your mouth not easy somebody calls you out the natural instinct is response right you give it to me okay you could get back double I'm scared to start up with you plus it's not worth it but if a guy goes and that if you give double back they give triple back and then it's uh Big Bang session and then Hashem says I'm not interested in this house everybody lives everybody is Olam Catan everybody builds their own Muskan in their house if you wanted attempt to come and be a part of your miscon it has to be with tranquility Without fire without Allah without self-centered character ego ego causes the biggest wars in the thing and what do you get out of it the ghoulish Nadi Asa right teaches us the importance of time a gift a gift and what do we do with that gift wasted we sit and sleep and sleep and sleep and eat and sleep and waste them the only time you must come morning during the week my kids my wife everything Shabbat morning there's no school there's no buses there's no nothing come that's what they make shots where's ten o'clock shopping that's for the people that need to be out by 11 30. the people that start at night at the same time is the people that start at 10. the person has to know we have the Assad of this week it's the beginning of the month you know why to teach us that we live above we live with time we value time we know what time is all about we don't sit and waste time we have a Shabbat kodesh we don't waste the Shabbat and when we don't waste it with stupidity then a person feels that sense of worth it no when you have old suit you don't have a value for it because comes from the word of hadass no you get a new suit you're happier right you decide so you were for four years when you put it on you think about it even for the feet saying no they get that new suit you feel you feel sense of worth a person has to feel under those footage the sense of worth that he has the opportunity to boost himself should give us all the Coke and now that we're going in to pass out the holiday of pesach which that's the time when the Jewish nation was born that we should value what we are don't look at ourselves in the same way the Supreme Court by them we have Supreme Court by our Supreme Court is without any McGill or no personal gains no personal ideas it all comes from today it comes from Hashem is everybody together probably must keep Shabbat keep Shabbat is OT could you imagine you make a peace treaty you know what OT means we sleep on it what kind of Peace treat is that Hashem we have such a good connection to you every time you come visit me you know what I'm doing sleeping and eating God not now come later when's later five o'clock when will you get a film ha and then once we value time everything that we do has a benefit