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Rabbi David Kaplan - Weekly Torah Portion: Vayakhel-Pekudei - Part 1
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page 516.
okay
so bayakulumpikude i'm sure you enjoyed
the laning yesterday the uh longest
laning of the year
uh yeah yeah yeah
so i'll tell you a very very interesting
very deep very deep idea over here um
there let's just first start it and then
we'll show a very deep idea here first
of all it says vayaka moshe has called
that's what israel moshe gathers the
jewish people benjamin page 516. if you
want to grab a hosh there should be
homos uh
has commanded to do
now uh um
this is going to be the command earlier
hashem told moshe what the jewish people
have to bring now moshe has told you
what to bring for the meshgod but the
torah prefaces it with sheishas
again
shabbas is somehow inserted in there we
find the warning for shabbos i think 12
times in the torah and shabbos is
inserted the
the amount of times that you see it or
come across it is always an indication
of the obviously the importance of it
and
here it's a it inserts shabbos over here
again
do not light any fires
so the commentaries point out
that if you count from the first word
vayakel
until the last word hashabas in the sec
you get 39 words
which is uh obviously the 39 malefos of
shabbos so let's see how this count
works one two three four five six seven
eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen
four two five six seven eight nine two
twenty two twenty three two four ten
five three six seven
thirty
three one three two thirty three three
four three five thirty six three seven
thirty eight thirty nine and shabbos is
that's right that's a 39 total 39 till
shabbos and it's interesting they're
called 40 minus 1. so that's obviously a
a hint at the 39 you know what's called
aramis what um
right but the the assumption is the
assumption is you'll be you know in your
dwelling right it does the assumptions
that's why you light fires
right right and then there's a whole uh
uh there's a discussion in the gomorrah
whether that possibly is to teach you a
separate uh prohibition regarding fire
or not but you're right uh but
homozygous means anywhere where you're
any because that's normally where people
kindle fires you know people don't go
out to the people who don't get no fires
they're not going to make use of it but
uh yeah you're right you're right it's a
it's a valid point so um the uh um
so that's the the prohibition of shabbos
is inserted here because here we are
we're going into the melaka of the
mishkan and the michigan obviously again
we might think supersedes
the command of shabbos because we're
building we're building a mish gun the
torah says you know what just just keep
it in the proper perspective over here
keep it in proper perspective you're
building a mesh gun but you're building
a michigan to serve god
and never forget
that what you go there there is a a
syndrome that people sometimes suffer
from in yiddish kite and this is the
idea that i'd like to share with you
there was a movie
many years ago there's a movie called
the bridge over the river kwai
now if any of us consider one of the
all-time classic movies the bridge on
the river car bridge over the river
alec guinness who is english plays in
the starring role now what the theme of
the uh the theme he gets killed the
theme of the uh the theme of the movie
the the theme the theme of the movie is
the theme of the movie is a remarkable
theme and i've used this movie very
often as a muscle uh as a parable for
for for a certain syndrome that people
suffer from in torah the americans are
americans and the allies the americans
in english are captured by the japanese
in world war ii they're in a world war
two apparently it's a true story uh and
their bait were based on a true story
you know when television bases something
on a true story that means that there
probably none of it happened except that
there was once a man and that's it
that's about it everything else they
made up so it's based on a true story so
the allies the english and the americans
are are captured by the uh japanese
they're in a japanese intern internment
camp
and the japanese need to build a
strategic bridge in world war ii it's
built a strategic bridge over over
what's called the river kwai
and they assigned the highest ranking
allied officer which is ala guinness
he's a colonel they assign him to be in
charge of the project so he gets
involved in building this bridge now if
you're there's war going on so obviously
when you're building a bridge for a
strategic bridge for the enemy you drag
your feet and try to sabotage it as much
as you can and he gets involved in the
job of building the bridge and he starts
urging his men to build it well and
build it quickly and build this and they
keep trying to explain to them there's a
war going on and he's got total tunnel
vision because all that happens is he
loses sight of everything around him he
gets totally into the totally into this
building the bridge project you know the
men are trying to convince him i
remember i saw as a look at fantastic
movie really fantastic movie in yiddish
kite you probably sometimes get people
who get so caught up in the mitzva that
they're doing that they forget that the
mitzvah doesn't exist in a vacuum it's
not independent the mitzvah is part of a
bigger plan so the classic example is
somebody who the doctor tells he can't
fast on young kipper
if a guy can't fast on your cripper and
he does fast he's murdered himself he's
almost a suicide if he dies as a result
of fasting and a guy gets upset because
now i have to fast on young kipper what
do you mean fast i have to eat on your
kipper but you'll keep her but why do
you why do you fast on your kipper
you've asked in your career for one
reason one reason only because god said
so so if the same god said now you don't
fast what's the difference to you god
said don't fast so now you're serving
god by not fasting you understand so
sometimes people in yiddish guide get
caught up
with a given mitzvah
ignoring the fact that mitzvahs are
often mitzvahs are a result mitzvahs are
only there to help server code so you
could have probably the classic example
the on the most on the most common basis
is when two men are fighting in shul
over who's going to say kaddish
or who's going to dab in for the um but
they have a fight why do you want to say
kaddish it should be a merit for the
soul of the deceased you know it's a
bigger marriage for the soldiers it's
not to fight just give way that's also a
marriage for this all the disease you
know there's no merit there's no merit
that they're getting into fight and show
that there's certainly no merit for the
decease that people lose focus on what
really is important so here the torah
comes along says you got to build a
mishkan build a mishka yeah wow got to
build a mishka so you may lose total
focus and get totally involved
just remember it's the same god you're
not building a mishkan and you can get
caught up into all this spiritual stuff
it's holy in the arab kodash and
everything
stop it's god
the same god says keep shabbos
and shabbos supersedes the building of
the mishkan that's why the torah inserts
it over here this is a classic example
that's why you know the a guy pushing
people out of the way to kiss the safer
torah that's also one of the classics
you know elbow take a couple of people
out on the way to kids why are you why
are you kissing the torah gotta kiss the
torah why
why
yeah why oh no it's the torah yeah well
there's only one reason it's because i'm
said to ge it's because if you're trying
to show belovedest like
elbowing people on your way rebbi sir el
salanther in one of his profound
statements that a person could be a
person running to do a mitzvah
could sometimes destroy the entire world
on the way that's what also said it's
what i call a religious mr magu
do you remember mr magoo scott remember
mr virgo is it that you have religiously
guy somebody who leaves a trail of
disaster everywhere they go oh like a
woman driver that you don't know what's
going on behind you that's just a joke
scott you don't know a woman yeah you're
a joke
that's just you leave a trail you leave
a trail of disaster everywhere you go
all in your religious all in your
religious pursuit and therefore the
torah says keep it the proper respect
i've seen this in so many i'm probably
guilty of it myself in certain times but
you see it in so many different
capacities so many different
examples of where this bridge over the
river kwai syndrome that's what i call
it where that's at play where you've
taken total focus off of what you're
doing so if a guy if a guy i know a guy
who was uh
a guy was uh um a guest i think i
mentioned this to you first of all robby
jack of kaminetsky had a man in his
community
who fasted on him kipper after an old
elderly man who fasted on a christian
after a doctor said not to and rabbi
ayakov came in as he refused it and he
was nifter and rebecca
refused to do the the funeral because he
said this man is virtually a suicide
so he didn't pass him a suicide behavior
because man did the wrong thing they
went to a hassidish rabbit there's
what he called the uh um um the hasidis
rebbe was told that he they told his
children that the father the zeta the
the rabbit can't fast on young kipper
the doctor to
examine the father said the rabbit can't
fast on you and keep her so the kids are
like oh boy now they've got to tell them
so each one said you know shimon you
tell them i know it's all been utah you
don't know herschel you talking and
everybody don't know youtube so they
said we'll tell them together so they
walked in they said tati we have
you know we spoke to the doctor the
doctor said that you can't fast i am
kipper
so the rebbe said okay
so they said aren't you aren't you upset
so why should i be upset for 70 years
i've served the kurdish worker by
fasting on young kipper and now i'm
going to serve a guarded rock by eating
onion kipper what do i care how
cardboard wants me to serve because
we're going to serve like this that's
what i'm going to serve but what do i
care how coarse broccoli there's this
selective judaism
means that a person is losing sight of
what he's supposed to be doing had a guy
here in yeshua they'll tell me he was
once by somebody's house for shabbos i
think i've mentioned the story before
this is one of my one of my all-time
classics the guy gets up at five o'clock
in the morning shop this morning
he has to go to the bathroom he tries to
open the door to his room the door's
locked from the outside
starts trying to thumb if i thought
maybe the door was jammed door's locked
starts knocking quietly five o'clock
knocks nothing happens he knocks a
little louder nothing happens he waits
there six o'clock starts knocking in
nothing seven o'clock guys bursting
nothing happened if it was me i would
have broken down the door for sure guys
guys knocking down to think nothing
eight o'clock often he hears from the
outside click
door's unlocked
what happened he was staying by a couple
the husband who was exotic decided that
he's going to dive in nates
but the problem is if he dominates you
have a guess it's ighoot he's alone in
the house with your wife
so of course the logical thing is just
to incarcerate him in his room
that's the logical thing lock the door
from the outside and incarcerate him in
his room he understands i'm gonna say
that guy so i just picture this guy's in
there this guy's in show dobbing it just
saying this it's like one of those tv
split screen type of things like one of
these cartoons this guy said in niche
masks
you know you can just see the split
screen you know
you want guests don't incarcerate them
you don't you want to dominates don't
invite guests but don't invite guests
and then lock them into a room where
where's your brain you left your brain
somewhere on the highway you understand
yet that means you've lost total focus
so the torah comes along the door says
that
shabbos comes before travis comes before
the michigan okay now take a look so
mushroom gives them a list
of what to bring okay now take a look at
um
perrick lambert hey pasukeud
okay pirklamit hey prosecute which is on
page uh
it's on the same page uh sorry page five
sixteen
it's about uh six lines from the bottom
of the page six lines said bob page on
page five sixteen
every person of wise of heart
you've always
every wise person should come
and do as hashem command it means
anybody who wants to volunteer their
services in the designing of the mishkan
they should come along and do it now
uh you'll find you'll find that the
entire time
um uh uh the the torah repeats
ashirtseva hashem several times uh
um take a look
at the next page wyomertapa page 520.
and we'll go we'll put this all together
in a second
bashing basal binori
hashem is designated salal ben uri
from the tribe of yehuda by himalayas
very creative young man
who's 13 years old by the way
and and as they go through the parsha
over here and they design the mishkan
you'll see that everywhere
it says
yeah yeah i'm thinking of a part of this
pagoda and when it sums up everything on
page five thirty two it says
big day kodesh it's a uh right right
everywhere where there's a blank white
space on the on the page just look at
the posture before it the va yasuo is
big they are correct
and they made the
and look at the next uh the next blank
white white blank right before that it
says they did everything cashier siva
shmoshe and then the next one it says
they made the avengers from kashir siva
shem small everywhere you look you're
going to find it as hashem commanded
motion
everywhere you go how they made the
mishkan and the the clothing everything
is casualty by shamanism
so uh the commentaries talk about and it
really starts over here
a scholarship
now why are they doing it
this goes back to our previous thing
what theme why are they doing these are
all people who are good-hearted they
want to be involved in the michigan they
want to be creative they want to they
want to design but at the bottom line is
why are they doing it for one reason
siva hashem as hashem commanded you're
doing this to fulfill hashem's command
now this is particularly challenging
for these types of people i don't know
if any of you have any creative artistic
talent of anywhere you're artistic an
artist a musician try telling an artist
even interior designers i want my home
to look this way
they're always got their own angle and
their own to it yeah but i don't care if
it juts out an extra three inches i
don't want that yeah but it'll look good
and be i don't want that they've always
got something to a little canach and a
little twist get a musician
to sing shabbos miros exactly the way
your tune goes right they've always got
a little niche and a little they like
that creative energy that comes out
comes along the torah tour says listen
you want to build the big big dish you
want to help find casualty vasham you're
going to have to bend your will to god's
will
do it exactly that's part of the praise
over here that all these talented people
could do it the way hashem says so
this is not only in the mishkan this
extends to all areas of torah see in all
areas of torah we have a tradition it's
been going on for a couple thousand
years
we are not looking for innovations
we're not looking for novelty we're
looking for cooperation we're looking
for people to follow instructions in the
military you follow instructions
even if you've got a better idea you
don't say it unless you've been asked
for it and if you do say then you'll be
court-martialed we're not interested in
your opinion we're interested in you
following instructions now within torah
there is enough room for self-expression
but don't innovate a new way of serving
a kurdish worker we've done it all we
know it all been there around 2000 years
you're not going to think of anything
the rest of us missed
do it the way we're meant to be doing it
don't go rolling in the snow and don't
go putting on putting in different
colors on your tits you know just do it
just do it our way even if you like
rainbows better but do do it our way
that that's still we have a way of doing
it number one number two
do you ever hear the brisker rav
brisker rav was known in the briskers to
this day
are are known for their punctual their
their punctilious observance of
so much so that people often regard them
as being nervous about allah it's always
just you know somebody if you go into a
brisker a brisker matzah baking place
right you know i mean it it's everything
has got to be just so there to the to
the
letter of degree of hello which is very
admirable at one level it's very
admirable these are people who could go
looking for a lula of an asteroid for
two weeks till they find the right lula
vanessa by me it takes 15 minutes in an
air-conditioned living room they could
go to every shop in mayo sure i'm
looking for a little of it in an s-rogue
looking for what he call and i admire it
i admire because there are certain
people who are who are like that i
personally that's not my expression my i
do i do what i have to do
i haven't got the patience and the the
personality to to be that that as long
as i'm fulfilling the letter of the law
according to the accepted halacha i'm
i'm good but there are people who want
to take it to the degree to the
integrity
it's it's
by way of by way of analogy it's like a
husband who wants to surprise his wife
to do the dishes
so you're a national hero you did the
dishes without being asked okay so you
take soap and you take that scrubber and
you scrub the dishes you have the next
husband who says i'm really going to
make her happy and he and he just takes
a toothpick and goes through every every
little ridge and crevice in the in the
thing you got another husband but now he
takes a dude he uses a microscope to
make sure
what he calls a a magnifying glass to
make sure he's got it i don't knock it
that means he really is devoted to the
one he's serving he wants her to be
happy that's more or less the
relationship between us and god i've
done what i have to do if you wash it
with soap and a thing and scrub it off
you know that you've done it she'll be
happy right but i wanted to receive even
more devotion even more in other words
not in a veyra if you didn't do it but
it's a way of expressing universal so
that's how their approach to mitchus
so a man once came to the brisker of and
he said to the brisker of the original
brisker ever abused like zeb salvation
he said why are you so nervous about the
mitzvas
said riskier said tim i'm not nervous i
just you know trying to do it to the
best of my ability says yep you come
across as nervous
the guy said to the brisker i said to
the guy can i ask you a question
have you ever fallen out of bed at night
when you sleep
it's just no
so are you nervous about falling out of
bed at night
or no so you sleep well if you sleep
through tonight you never check to see
you're not close to the edge of the bed
there's no
because you never ever says no never
ever the bristol says good you know i
got an idea i'd like to put your bed on
the edge of a ten-story building
i'd like you to sleep in that bed
tonight
would you do it
no why not
is this i thought you're not nervous the
other you don't fall out of bed
he goes yeah but you know in the
unlikely scenario if it did happen you
know the dessert said the the results
it's a calamity so risk growth said
that's the way i feel about mitzvos
that's the way i feel about mitzvos i'm
not going to mess up but in the unlikely
scenario that i mess up
then it's a
a spiritual calamity and i don't want
that and therefore i try to be as
meticulous as possible that's
constructed siva hashem as well that's
hashem command as hashem commanded our
job is to follow the commands of gorjo
the attitude should be we want to do the
job properly and just get the mitzvah
out of the way that's the idea
okay
now take a look at um
peric lamid hey possible
now this is after moshe albedo gives the
command
and then page 518
it says it's about uh nine lines from
the top on page 518.
after moshe writer gives all the
commands
and then the torah says
all the jewish people leave from the
presence of moshe
okay now they're standing in front of
moshe mushroom is giving them the
commands he's giving them the charge of
how to build the bishken then the third
says and all the jewish people left from
the presence of moshe so usher here you
have a valid question
why the redundant words
democrat they went we know they were it
says like hell moshe it says they said
the departure starts and moshe gathered
the people
so why does it say over here that the
people left me leaf name osha anybody
got into you
they left from and from the presence of
moshe avenue
anybody got an idea
you're very he wasn't micromanaged
that's certainly true that's certainly
true because we're going to see that
each one he never gives them
instructions each one does each one does
it uh uh um they give well they're given
in somebody does not micromanage that's
for sure he does not he does not
micromanage um
what else what else why did it say they
left me with them it's a very
interesting idea by the way the the
that's indicated they left for before
moshe this is it much as job ended now
now it's up to us so one of the
commentaries actually says you see they
never asked permission
they didn't ask permission to to leave
from before moshe
because because
ashura when you love something
then it ruins your it it it clouds your
rational thinking in other words if you
were taking leave of the present united
states you wouldn't just turn around and
leave
the harvard office of the dollars if you
were standing in front of a president he
addressed you you wouldn't turn around
you wait till he dismisses you it
doesn't say the monster better dismiss
them here so commentaries point out
the first time we find this we find it
in two people in the torah
abramovino
gets up early in the morning and he
saddles his own donkey
when is that
at the weight of the akedah avram vino
is a very wealthy man why are you
settling your own donkey he got
attendance to do it for you
because
he was so much loved and wanted was
eager to perform god's will even
slaughtering his son
so avanvino saddles his own donkey he
settles his own donkey which is that
it's just not something you do it's like
the president pumping gas into his own
limousine
so we find that by billam when bilum is
going to curse the jewish people billam
gets up in the morning he saddles his
own donkey
why does he sell his donkey so the
opposite is true hasina
hatred also clouds rational thing i hate
them so much and the clarity the classic
example in history is hitler
when hitler was losing the war and still
insisted on continuing with the
annihilation process where all his
generals were telling you it's a very
bad idea you got to put all the
resources into the war effort we're
getting but he couldn't see past the
hatred so the hatred clouds it distorts
rational thinking so bilum goes and he
saddles and tony it's like the president
united states driving his own pulling
his own car out of the thing doing
something like that
doesn't happen that's the hatred so the
jewish people are they're so eager to
start working on the mishkan that they
turn and they leave for moshe urbana
without mushroom formally dismissing
them and that could be seen as a credit
to you because sometimes it just shows
you're so devoted you're so devoted that
they that you're you're skipping the
formalities number one number two
the uh uh the contemporary bali moussa
the contemporary muslim giants they say
that
you know i i could prove this to you
from your own experience
can you
sometimes you know they talk about body
language their body language body
language is a very very uh body language
is a very very uh precise or if you know
how to read it well body language is a
very strong indication
so they talk about body language now not
only there's body language there's
there's everything we look at a person
we form
we're constantly forming opinions based
on the way a person presents themselves
so if you go for a job interview and
you're leaning forward like this
you know like you know talking
that creates an impression they always
they tell you i think they teach you
don't they teach you when you went to i
never did this i never interviewed for a
job don't they teach you when your
interview how you're supposed to sit and
how you're supposed to how you're
supposed to what you call i once
answered my cats
wouldn't it make sense to interview by
just kind of leaning back you know
leaning back into showing confidence
like that he said to me i wouldn't try
it
that's what he said to me so the uh
we've had numerous we've had numerous
conversations like that where he's
gotten the last word so the uh uh the
the the you know you're supposed to show
confidence and again it really depends
what job you're interviewing for if
you're interviewing if they're looking
for a fast talking salesman
so they want to see something in your
body language or you're looking for a
guy who's going to manage the office
they want to see something else and they
can tell them the body language you can
tell what you're okay
so
i'm sure that you could tell with the
way a person walks
often just from the way a person walks
his gate you could tell a lot about the
person see a wise person is he a fool
is he a uh you know is he where is he
coming from is he coming out of a tavern
right now doesn't have to have to be a
genius to tell if somebody's coming out
of a tavern uh uh you know you got guys
wobbling side i still remember a guy
from camp when we were counselors so
they took us once a week we were at camp
moshovah
the the banana killer camp so once a
week they took us into the little town
in wisconsin because there was a bar in
a bowling alley so one of my friends had
been drinking beer so i just remember we
got back to camp and everybody kept
saying to me you know norm you're drunk
and he said i'm not drunk and i said
yeah and he said watch this i could walk
a straight line and he starts walking a
straight line he tripped over himself
fell all over the place it was one that
was the highlight of the summer you know
as he's trying to show us that he can
walk a straight line so so you could
tell by a person's gate
where they're coming from
where did the jewish people just come
from they so combination
a person who's coming from moshe rabbin
if you go to see raphaim can you ask you
shalita when you come out of rakhine
gaza i can see where you're coming
you're not coming from a ball game i
could tell you didn't come from a
ballgame just because you're usually
walking out like
like you know you walk out it's written
all over you where you just came from a
guy who was coming from a basement she
will tell he just came out of a basement
guy's coming out of a bar you could tell
he's coming out break that's coming from
a british soccer match
you should be able to always cover for a
bridge i usually got a big brick stuck
in the side of his head right he just
came from a bridge from a british soccer
match you know you know
if he's horizontal if he could carry
himself on his feet so so the taurus
like you've ain't saying maybe you've
been called that's why somebody leaves
them osha they came out from moshe
should be able to see where they're
coming from she will tell should be able
to tell where these people are coming
from and the way a person gets the way a
jew carries himself it says a jew
doesn't a jew doesn't walk around with
his head up in the air like this you
don't walk around and walk the streets
like this you walk in a humble
self-contained
manner without being all over the place
sometimes you see people guys are
walking in there they got their arms
always they got a blaster on their
shoulders it tells you something about
the person right there make judgments
all the time by the way that's the
problem with people use the word
judgmental
you're being very judgmental being very
judging
right so are you you judge first of all
you're judging my judgmentalness before
anything number one number two you pass
judgments hundreds of times a day
hundreds of times that you're passing
judgments
every time you see your children and
your wife and your parents every time
you meet somebody in a room you could
tell by one look at the guy said he's in
a good mood he's in a bad boat his room
i like him i don't like i mean you could
judge you could take a look at if you
walked into bed i want to ask you a
question you walk into a show
you're diving in shul
and uh
you forgot to say aloe vera
and there's one guy sitting in the
corner and he's wearing like a pullover
sweatshirt and he's got dirty blue jeans
and gym shoes
oh you know guys in his 40s 50s there's
another guy in the other corner he's
wearing a black cat a suit jacket got a
long beard and looks okay and and you
have to know if you should repeat your
schweinstei or not you don't know the
halacha which one of the two would you
approach
the guy in the sweats yeah yeah i'll bet
yeah because he'll give you the lediancy
he'll tell you he'll say well i skipped
it i didn't i'm not going back to say it
yeah yeah i'll bet yeah yeah i know
about it who are you going to approach
so aren't you being judgmental
you don't know anything about either
person aren't you being judgmental i'm
judging this guy looks like he knows
this guy this happened that my brother
and i we were up at a family
we were up at a family funeral but we
have nine religious relatives in the
north of the country who are absolutely
absolutely ignorant of anything jewish
and
and my brothers and i were standing
there we tried to keep a a a a keep a
connection to the family
so uh we were at the funeral one of the
older relatives and this elderly man
comes over and he's upset about
something in the in the ceremonies
that's something about the hover kadisha
with them burial sites so we just looked
and said you know why do you think why
why do you think we know any more than
you
you know what somebody do with religion
i said why do you think i know any more
knew this guy was an anti
they go oh i just i just thought maybe
you know you know i just thought he
didn't think maybe he's being judgmental
so you're the word you're judging and
you're being very judging you're darn
right you're judging also you're judging
all day long all day every day you're
judging we're always judging that's part
of being a human being therefore the
torah says let people see where you came
from they ate so called asteroids
that'll be if they much you came from
from moshe urbana that's how you should
carry yourself as a jew
okay
take a look at
paige pirrick lamin hey
uh
the next page okay now this is very very
interesting
so it says like this
but yomer moschel kobenes
okay this we read once before well let's
focus on the puzzle a little bit
more emotion
god he has called upon batsalo the son
of uri the son of god now we have
mentioned in the past that there's no
accident that but saul was chosen he's
the grandson of what happened to
the
he died at the at the golden calf
standing up to the people he stood up to
the crowd and he was killed therefore
it's his grandson who's going to be the
catalyst he's going to be the main
architect of the mishkan which is a an
atonement of sorts for the sin of the
golden calf and look what hashem does
and everything he's got he's got it all
never took a course in college in his
life
never took a training just decided i
want to do it and he's he's filled with
wisdom he knows how to uh what's it
called the craftsmanship in in in in in
what's good i was gonna say pastries uh
uh not pastries what are you called uh
they're the hanging things that you mean
tapestries tapestry i've got the word
pastries in it i got one track mine
here's well you know you know he knows
tapestry working craftsmanship working
gold and weaving and everything else at
tapestries that's what so so uh the
competitors point out like this a very
interesting idea
throughout jewish history
jews have died on kirish hashem isn't
that true jews have died there plenty of
jews are burnt into staking christian
europe they refused to worship the
worship
to bow to the cross and they died they
suffered the consequences
many argue
that
it's more the simple jews who've been
willing to give up their lives than the
sophisticated ones
the wiser a person is the smarter a
person is the more intellectual person
is often that works against you
when the decision is very simple
die
or
worship bow down to the crystal cross
it's not that complicated
die
but if you're
you know you can start fetching with the
thumb and you can start twisting and
then you rationalize a person wants to
give up their life it requires not to
overthink it if you overthink it you'll
think your way out of just about
anything
ramosha feinstein was once writing
there's a woman an elderly woman came to
her moshe feinstein
she had a sister living in russia russia
feinstein came from russia she was
american so she wanted to write letters
to her sister in russia she didn't know
russian
so she would ask for a bunch of fine she
would write letters in english and ask
her to translate it into russian so she
sent it there so every once a week once
every two weeks she'd come and rabosha
would sit there translate the letter for
her
so uh somebody once said to her maisha
you know you're the postdoor you're
judging cases of life and death
this is not the best use of your time
you know somebody else could translate
the letters for this old lady
moshe said when it comes to doing a
kasich for somebody don't think about it
first do the kassad then think
afterwards is it worth doing or not
because if you think about it you always
figure out a way why it's not worth your
time it's not worth your energy to
somebody else get you all because so
there there are times this is a very
very tricky thing there are times where
too much thinking isn't good too much
thinking isn't good when it comes to
saving a person's life
says you have to think somebody's
drowning are you going to die if you try
to save him if you are you're not
allowed to go in and save them
somebody's in the house is burning with
a fire and if you run in you're going to
lose your life you're not allowed to
save them at the exits of your life
but
what's that
not if you're going to die for sure not
if you're going to die for sure if it's
only if there's a chance a good chance
that you're going to survive then you do
it if the chances are strong that you're
going to die
you don't do it but the halaquah says
don't think about it too much
i never say i don't know that anywhere
else where alohu says that don't think
about it too much if you think about it
you'll figure out why not to go in
we had a fire in our neighborhood we had
a former israeli commando from who was
on the anteby raid
and this woman was outside hysterical
because one of her sons was in the it
was in the house or she wasn't sure like
an israeli commando had been in tubby
raid he wouldn't go in he said i can't
go in there i got a family i can't go in
there another guy came by who who
reminds me of of of what's his name from
from uh from andy of mayberry
i forgot not going with that governor
pal the other guy uh the little skinny
guy forgot don not she reminds me of don
knotts and he went in save the 10 year
old kid without thinking he just went in
and he went groping around he saved the
10 years a 10 year old kid sleeping
there shot this afternoon
and he went and he saved them so i don't
i can't blame the first guy but that's
what the holocaust says don't think
about it too much
gave up his life
he stood up against the people if you
would have thought about it you realize
it's not a real good thing to do
and he died hashem pays back
exactly what you deserve what does his
grandson get his grandson gets the
ultimate ability to think
the ultimate ability of wisdom core set
aside his thought process because that's
what it takes to stand up to
and therefore his grandson who's chosen
to build a budget is blessed with
everything that his grandfather set
aside see gentlemen what goes around
comes around nothing nothing's wasted
all right be continued
you