Be On Time - Rabbi Ephy Greene

imagine it's your best friend's birthday at the end of the week monday or tuesday you head over to the bakery and you pick out a delicious looking cake and you set it aside to bring it over on thursday for their birthday and you're so excited but wednesday comes along thursday comes along and it comes and goes and you totally forgot to bring the cake friday morning you schlep yourself over sheepishly embarrassed knocking on the door saying you know i'm sorry yesterday i forgot it was your birthday so you know i had planned but i got busy with things i forgot so it's i know it's friday but happy belated birthday would you like to sit down have some cake together it doesn't create the same kind of closeness as had you brought the cake on time imagine something worse imagine you are at the bakery and you are handing over the cash for the cake and while you're looking at the cake and while you look at the money you say to yourself i don't want to give them this cake i'm going to keep a cake for myself and instead of eating it you know with them at their birthday party you know they're coming over to my house friday night for dinner i'm just going to have a friday night anyway well what does that do how does that make them feel about their birthday how does that mean build a relationship well these two halachos are not just true about birthday parties and birthday cake but these halakhas are true when it comes to nosar and pigle the halachus of carbanos that are mentioned in pasha's kadoshan the torah tells us that when a jew brings a carbon hashem sets a certain time for each carbon and to eat the meat of that carbon after the time is no sigh it is forbidden it's awesome that meat needs to be burnt it can only be eaten on time and the same thing is true when a person is bringing the carbon if they have a makhshava if they have a thought that they're going to eat that that meat after the time that it's set aside for so then pickle it's it's a it's an invalid carbon it's it's uh it's it's it's inappropriate it's demeaning the very relationship the very closeness that we're trying to bring uh by bringing a carbon why is that because the cottage product was set up for us times to bring carbanos a window of time to get close to him through carbonos and we have to respect that time and just like we need to respect hashem's time this is a lesson for us to also respect other people's time as well there are windows of opportunity to get close to people there are windows of opportunity for us to do mitzvos there are windows of opportunity for us to grow and to become more self-conscious more more self-improved people but we need to take advantage we need to be conscientious of time everything in halacha this man of the day teach us that we need to be time-conscious people and that is what tells us in tehillim when you're just like in its time how good is that how beautiful is that imagine when you bring the birthday cake on time it's so beautiful the best friend feels so good about who they are about their relationship it's incredible when you do a mezzo on time it's the slaymos not a makeup afterwards not a touchscreen afterwards karish gave us opportunities to do things and the time is so crucial for us to do it on time there's a famous story about rohitner footner was once traveling with a baker from one place to another you had to get to a certain appointment at one o'clock at 12 30 they're leaving a certain place and the baker says to him rebbe i think if we if you want to make a quick stop just around the corner at this shiva house so then i think we can go in there for five ten minutes and it will only be about five ten minutes late to uh you know to the appointment so he said i'm sorry i have to go to the ship house another time i cannot be late he says rebbe it's five ten minutes see the russia shiva i'm sure they'll be understanding he says i cannot be late he says rebbe people are late sometimes what's the big deal he says you know who was late noah was late to feed the lion he had to feed the lion at a certain time and he was late and we know how that turned out noah got injured it was not pretty so reporter says we have a responsibility to be on time to be conscientious of how we treat other people's time so that the windows are opportunity that present themselves to us and make sure that we use our time well and that is all part of kedosham to you that's all part of this parsha that tells us about primarily miso spain animal javero what are nosa and people doing there because they teach us to be time conscious people and to be careful about how we treat and how we respect other people's times and look for the windows of opportunity to accomplish all we can at the right time have a wonderful job [Music]